Matt Birney

Si6 Metals has delivered a 154,000-ounce gold resource for its Korong and Waihi deposits that make up its 100 per cent owned Monument gold project near Laverton in the north-eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. The update has added more than 100,000 ounces of gold to the previous estimate as the company eyes further resource and exploration drilling at the project.

Bardoc Gold is striking promising returns on two fronts. The ASX-listed company is embarking on a major drilling program at its flagship Zoroastrian deposit north of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in a bid for a substantial expansion of its resource and it has been unearthing significant gold mineralisation in drilling at its North Kanowna Star project. The results are seen as important for the potential size of the reserve and mine life across Bardoc’s operation.

Todd River Resources is growing its suite of nickel-copper-PGE targets in Western Australia’s South West mineral field, with the explorer extending its Eastern trend in the Berkshire Valley to over seven kilometres of strike. Shallow auger drilling shows two distinct target areas along the mineralised trend, with platinum and palladium levels kicking at more than 10 times background levels associated with coincident copper and nickel anomalies.

Estrella Resources has continued to return broad intercepts of nickel sulphide mineralisation from its T5 discovery in Western Australia. The company’s latest results from the prospect include 14.14 metres at 1.05 per cent nickel and 0.58 per copper which includes an impressive 5.41m at 1.45 per cent nickel and 0.88 per cent copper from 408.34m down-hole.

ASX-listed gold producer Ora Banda Mining has rattled off a spate of impressive high-grade gold intersections from drilling at its Riverina underground deposit near its Davyhurst mining and processing operation about 120km north-west of Kalgoorlie in WA. Better assays include 1.3m grading 25.3 g/t gold from 217.8m, 2.8m at 21.2 g/t from 253.7m, 1.4m at 18.1 g/t from 281.6m and 5m at 16.7 g/t from 200m.

Horizon Minerals has kicked off this year’s Diggers & Dealers in Kalgoorlie with a couple of “stunning” thick, high-grade gold drill hits at one of the promising prospects within its Binduli gold project near Kalgoorlie. Best of the intersections from the company’s latest drilling at the Kestrel prospect was 18m grading 4.64 g/t gold from 49m including 1m at a bonanza 56.65 g/t from 64m.

Nine years ago, Hot Chili won the prestigious Emerging Company Award at Diggers & Dealers in Kalgoorlie and this week the company is presenting there again as one of only two companies worldwide to make a major copper discovery since 2016 which has now attracted the interest of mega resource house Glencore. Hot Chili’s rival in the major copper discovery space is Rio Tinto’s Winu discovery in WA.

ASX-listed Great Southern Mining has tabled multiple stellar gold intercepts at its 100 per cent owned Duketon gold project some 45km north of Laverton in the Goldfields of Western Australia. An outstanding 59m hit going 2.1 grams per tonne gold from 53m leads the pack and includes a 9m intersection going at 4.5 g/t and another 16m at 3.2 g/t gold.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have launched a major drilling offensive at their joint ventured “Youanmi Regional” project in WA. An array of gold prospects on the partners’ ground-holdings will be the subject of a serious 22,000m aircore drilling campaign consisting of 540 holes. The JV says the program will target high-grade gold mineralisation along an 18.5km greenstone corridor between the well-known Youanmi and Penny gold deposits.

ASX-listed gold producer Ora Banda Mining has picked up a smattering of gold sniffs from a regional first-pass aircore drilling program probing priority grassroots targets near its flagship multi-deposit Davyhurst gold mine 120km north-west of Kalgoorlie. The Perth-based company put down about 150 holes for an aggregate coverage of more than 16,000m across the stack of gold prospects that have not seen any drilling previously.

ASX-listed Conico Limited has hit more sulphides as its drilling campaign ramps up at the Ryberg project in Greenland. Matrix sulphide mineralisation was intersected over 2.9 metres from 96.8 metres in one drill hole and trace sulphides were encountered from 278 to 280 metres downhole in another. The drill rigs have started two new holes in search of a significant magnetic anomaly interpreted from a downhole survey.

Twenty Seven Co is set to fast-track a drilling campaign at its 100 per cent owned Rover gold project south-east of Sandstone in the Goldfields of Western Australia after COVID-19 has delayed its plans to get the rods spinning in NSW. The company is looking to have boots on the ground at Rover in September to follow-up on previous stellar hits including 14m at 4.05 grams per tonne gold from 49m at the Creasy North prospect, which also takes in a 1m interval at a bumper 51.2 g/t gold.

ASX listed health-tech player InteliCare Holdings continues to build momentum, completing another successful quarter and recording strong sales growth. The company recently turbo charged the marketing of its remote monitoring healthcare technology, leading to a leap in sales of some 69 per cent quarter on quarter.

Kingwest Resources has chalked up a cluster of encouraging gold intersections from a recent round of follow-up reverse circulation drilling at its promising Goongarrie gold project about 90km north of Kalgoorlie in WA. The stand-out composite assays were 20m grading a respectable 2.55 grams per tonne gold from 72m including 8m at 4.94 g/t from 72m, 4m going at 2.18 g/t from 64m and 8m at 1.43 g/t from 44m.

Anglo Australian Resources continues to intersect gold with extensional drilling at its Mandilla gold project in WA. Eye-catching widths and impressive grades include a staggering 64.57 metres grading 3.49 grams per tonne gold from 190m at Mandilla East. An update to the mineral resource estimate has commenced. The company believes recent results are likely to add significantly to the resource.

Ora Banda Mining has boosted its gold reserves by 10,000 ounces across the six key deposits at its flagship Davyhurst Gold Project in the Goldfields despite the fact that it mined 28,000 ounces of it during FY21. The company is ironing out teething problems at the reinvented mine as it looks to ramp the project up to its nameplate capacity of around 80,000 ounces of production a year.

White Cliff Minerals has identified a smattering of new drill targets at its Reedy South gold project in WA following a fruitful soil sampling program across key prospects. The company returned a maximum gold value of 137ppb after gathering 383 additional soil samples covering areas south and west of its previous sampling at the McCaskill’s Hill and Cracker Jack deposits and the southern portion of the Pegasus deposit.

ASX-listed aspiring gold developer Horizon Minerals has returned a swag of encouraging drill intersections of between one and three grams per tonne gold from a first-pass reverse circulation program at its flagship Boorara project near Kalgoorlie in WA. The drilling vectored in on several prospects lining a 10km corridor that takes in the company’s centrepiece 448,240-ounce Boorara deposit and smaller 30,720-ounce Golden Ridge deposit.

ASX-listed Aldoro Resources has substantially increased its exposure to the battery metals sector after it successfully completed due diligence on and settled the acquisition of two lithium-rich projects in Western Australia’s Mt Magnet region adjacent to its Narndee-Windimurra project. Aldoro will now pick up Meridian 120 Mining’s 100 per cent interest in tenements located in the Mt Magnet area of Western Australia.

Coda Minerals has backed up its high-profile Emmie Bluff IOCG discovery in South Australia’s revered Gawler Craton with recent drilling returning copper mineralisation over more than 35 metres width including an impressive 28.14m at 1.21 per cent copper, 0.37 grams per tonne gold and 2.3 g/t silver from 810.79m down-hole. The company says individual assays kick as high as 5.39 per cent copper within the sulphide zone.

Aurora Labs appears to have scored a major coup by entering into a collaboration agreement with Australian defence contractor, BAE Systems Maritime Australia to test its specialist 3D metal printing technology’s ability to “print” stainless steel components for the construction of Australian Navy frigates. The components to be tested are currently sourced via traditional manufacturing and wholesale channels.

ASX-listed gold miner Ora Banda Mining has chalked up a solid quarter of gold production at its recently revived flagship Davyhurst mining and processing operation in WA. The company achieved total gold output of 10,356 ounces for the three-month period ended June 30 from 201,817 tonnes of ore treated that went at an average head grade of 1.81 grams per tonne.

Aldoro Resources has added to its exploration target list in Western Australia, with recent geophysical surveying over its tenure on the Narndee Intrusion, east of Paynes Find, lighting up new drill targets. Moving loop electromagnetic surveys over the ground to the east of its VC1 prospect has highlighted two prospective sulphide conductors, with three-dimensional modelling providing additional targets for current drilling programs.

ASX-listed Ardiden Limited has secured a $500,000 improvement in the terms of its divestment of up to 80 per cent of its hard-rock lithium projects in north-west Ontario, Canada, to ASX hopeful Green Technology Metals. The duo will form a joint venture partnership that will see Green Technology buy the stake under a staged-payment structure for $9.2 million.

Perth-based explorer Venture Minerals has increased its footprint in Western Australia’s emerging western Yilgarn nickel-copper-PGE province, through the strategic earn-in acquisition of highly prospective tenure south of the company’s Kulin project. Kulin sits along strike of the Jimperding metamorphic belt that hosts Chalice Mining’s high-profile Julimar nickel-copper-PGE discovery.

ASX-listed Si6 Metals expects to wrap up its acquisition of the Monument gold project in Western Australia’s Laverton district before the end of next month after exercising a long-held option with DiscovEx Resources to purchase the large land package in one of the world’s most prolific gold producing areas.

Western Australia explorer Zuleika Gold has delivered a bevy of high-grade gold intercepts from its recent round of drilling at the Paradigm East discovery, north-west of Kalgoorlie. Deeper reverse circulation drilling has returned 10 metres at 2.53 grams per tonne gold from 51m and 4m at 4.93 g/t which includes an impressive 1m at 18.48 g/t from 72m down-hole.

Kairos Minerals could be set for some significant milestones with results pending from about 15,000m of gold drilling at its Mt York and Kangan projects in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The company is looking to grow Mt York’s existing 873,000-ounce resource base, whilst at Kangan it is seeking to uncover an intrusion-hosted gold deposit similar to the nearby 6.8-million-ounce Hemi gold discovery.

ASX-listed junior explorer Aruma Resources says it is finally “locked and loaded” and ready to set off an avalanche of drilling starting in August at its pipeline of key projects in Western Australia after securing a series of state regulatory approvals for its planned programs. The company plans to punch out an impressive total of about 9,000m of reverse circulation drilling across its quartet of assets.

King River Resources has delivered several batches of a 5N high-purity precursor compound used to produce 4N high-purity alumina through its innovative and proprietary ARC process. The company plans to become a producer of 4N high-purity alumina and has launched a definitive feasibility study into its proposed operation at Kwinana in Western Australia after tabling some stellar numbers in a recent pre-feasibility study.

ASX-listed Conico Limited saw its share price double in intra-day trading this week after the first drill hole at its 100 per cent owned Ryberg base and precious metals project in Greenland hit a 54.88m interval of significant sulphide mineralisation. Drilling is targeting three modelled electromagnetic plates said to be prospective for magmatic sulphides at the Miki prospect, where surface grab samples returned elevated copper, nickel, palladium, cobalt and gold.

Kingwest Resources has teased out tantalising gold intersections from drilling beyond the current pit shell limit for one of the key deposits at its multi-deposit flagship Menzies gold project in WA. The company’s extensional drilling at the Yunndaga deposit returned impressive assays of 7m grading 5 g/t gold from 163m including 3m at 10.6 g/t and 5m at 2.35 g/t from 100m including 1m at 7.55 g/t.