Announcements

Artemis Resources has reported a swathe of high grade gold, cobalt and copper drilling intersections from its Carlow Castle project east of Karratha in the Pilbara. Bets results were 22m @ 6.1g/t gold, 0.55% cobalt and 2.35% copper from 133m down-hole at the Carlow Castle South East prospect, whilst the Carlow Castle South prospect produced 31m @ 1.65g/t gold, 0.11% cobalt and 0.47% copper from just 37m.

ASX listed Bellevue Gold has made a bonanza hit of 4.3m @ 58.8g/t gold that is located between two previous high grade intersections at the Viago Lode discovery within its Bellevue gold project. The results have led the company to draw comparisons to the high-grade ore shoots at the historical Bellevue mine in terms of geology, grades and width.

Strike Energy has started pilot testing to confirm the commercial quality of the Jaws-1 deep coal seam gas reservoir at its Southern Cooper Basin Project in South Australia after finalising commissioning activities. The electric submersible pumps will be run at low rates to ensure they are in good working order before being ramped up based on the productivity of the stimulated reservoir.

Southern Gold has added the Deokon gold-silver mine to its growing portfolio of high-grade projects in South Korea. Recent work by Southern at the historic mine has produced some bonanza gold and silver grades grades, suggesting that it may be part of a much larger system that has previously been overlooked. Southern is already producing gold near Kalgoorlie which is funding its blue sky foray into Korea.

Coziron Resources will ramp up its exploration and development activities at the high priority Buddadoo vanadium project and Croydon Top Camp gold project in W.A, following the procurement of $1m from its largest shareholder, the Creasy Group. At Buddadoo, funds will be directed towards drilling and metallurgical studies to prove up a JORC mineral resource, whilst RC drilling will be used to test targets at Top Camp.

Geopacific Resources has discovered high grade gold anomalies from a detailed soil sampling program being undertaken at its Woodlark project in PNG. Samples of up to 6.28g/t gold in soils have defined a corridor over 1.4km long through the historical Watou area. The company also defined 3 clusters of anomalous gold results adjacent to its existing Woodlark King resource, with one anomaly having had no previous exploration.

ASX explorer Middle Island Resources’ diamond drilling campaign at the Two Mile Hill gold deposit in Western Australia has had a fantastic start with the first hole intersecting 8m @ 14.5g/t gold in the a banded iron formation. This style of mineralisation adds to the more substantial, but lower grade, adjacent tonalite-hosted style mineralisation in the deposit.

Anglo Australian Resources has identified a new 200m long zone of mineralisation parallel and to the west of the very prospective Ethereal Shear Zone at its Feysville Gold Project, just 14km south of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The best result from the drilling campaign was a 20m intersection grading 2.41g/t gold from 96m at the main Think Big prospect.

ASX listed Ironbark Zinc has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Byrnecut Offshore for the provision of underground contract mining services and underground mine cost modelling for the Citronen zinc project in Greenland. Byrnecut will also provide the underground mining fleet, hold the debt and security over the equipment and assist with the company’s training and employment obligations.

Galena Mining’s resource drilling of the “apron zone” at its Abra project near Meekatharra has delivered wider intersections than expected, with results up to 28.3m grading 8.9% lead and 52g/t silver from 346.9m down-hole, including 8.1m at an impressive 11.2% lead from 395.8m deep. The drilling campaign is shoring up mineral resources that are to be incorporated into the company’s ongoing PFS, due for release next month.

Preliminary drilling at Northern Minerals’ Browns Range heavy rare earths project in the Kimberley region of W.A. has intersected significant mineralisation in the Gardiner sandstone, which stretches over tens of kilometres. The Gardiner was previously considered to be less prospective than the underlying Browns Range Metamorphics that host the Wolverine and Gambit West deposits.

Volt Resources will sell 9,000 tonnes of graphite a year from the company’s Bunyu graphite project to major Chinese graphite processor and distributor, Qingdao Tiangshengda Graphite, for at least 5 years. Qingdao Tiangshengda is a global, vertically integrated graphite processor and distributor with substantial annual capacity to process graphite and produce value added products including expandable graphite, flake graphite and battery metals powders.

ASX listed Aquabotix has joined the “Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium” that enables members to deliver new technologies quicker and more efficiently than traditional US federal acquisition requirements would otherwise permit. This is made possible by the “Other Transaction Authority” agreement for Undersea Technology Innovation that the consortium reached with the US Naval Undersea Warfare Center in June.

BlackEarth Minerals has reported consistent high grade assays and wide ore thicknesses from a step out drilling campaign at its Razafy graphite prospect in southern Madagascar. Results of up to 35.7m @ 7.6% total graphitic carbon from 10.1m down-hole, included a 7m intersection @ 10.7% TGC from just 20m. Geological data and results are being collated ahead of a maiden resource estimate due in August.

Newly listed telco Vonex, has formed a marketing and partnership agreement with Canadian global communications software solutions provider CounterPath to jointly market a combined telco product offering to existing and potential customers. Vonex will also sell selected Counterpath products under its own brand.

TNG Limited has received in-principle approval for a landmark Native Title Mining Agreement covering its Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project located 230km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Once the agreement is executed, the company will have a clear runway to finalise financing and site-based construction activities. With the vanadium markets hotting up TNG appears to be in the right business at the right time.

Bellevue Gold has announced a high grade mineral resource of 1.9 million tonnes grading 8.2g/t gold for 500,000 ounces at its namesake project, near Leinster in the Goldfields of W.A. The resources lie adjacent to existing underground workings from surface to a depth of 450m. The company says this is an interim resource that still has significant scope to increase with more drilling.

ASX listed Southern Gold’s partner Bluebird Merchant Ventures has delivered a positive report regarding the economics of re-opening the old Gubong gold mine in South Korea. The project could start gold production by late 2019. Pre-construction work has started that will lead to the completion of a full feasibility study for the processing plant and commencement of mining.

Volt Resources says it will generate an EBITDA of $126m from the small scale Stage 1 development of its Bunyu graphite project in Tanzania. Feasibility results have outlined a pre-tax NPV of around $25m on the back of a 21.0% IRR for the development. The company will produce an average of 23,700 tonnes of graphite annually from three open pits, over an initial 7 year mine life.

Reedy Lagoon shareholders will be eyeing recent developments in the feted lithium brine project region of south-western Nevada in the US, after a neighbour announced anomalous lithium and boron results in shallow aquifers only a short distance north of the company’s Columbus Salt Marsh project. The discovery is only 20km from Global Geoscience’s Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron project that boasts 460 million tonnes.

Phylogica has successfully delivered the Cre enzyme used in biological research into lung, liver and kidney cells during in vivo experiments, proving the ability of its original cell penetrating peptide to deliver intracellular drug cargos. The company is now preparing to test its current lead CPP that is about twice as effective as the original CPP in the same animal model.

Calidus Resources is enjoying success with its resource drill out program at the Warrawoona gold project in the Pilbara. Assay results from the high grade Copenhagen prospect have extended the mineralisation down plunge, returning results of up to 10m @ 5.38g/t gold from 63m. Drilling at Klondyke East has defined gold mineralisation over 600m of strike, returning 12m @ 2.15g/t gold and 8m @ 1.92g/t from surface.

Middle Island Resources has confirmed grade increases of between 155% and 213% from ore sorting test work at its Two Mile Hill underground gold deposit near Sandstone. The ore sorting results are a precursor to an updated mineral resource estimate which is expected this year. The sorting process uses a combination of colour and X-ray sensors to increase the ore grade by rejecting more than 50% of the waste.

Babylon Pump & Power’s strategy of adding broader maintenance works to its suite of pump rental services has led to it securing another $1m worth of contracts with work to start immediately. The company said customer engagement continues to be encouraging with a growing pipeline of diesel engine maintenance, pumping solutions and power generation work.

In vivo experiments have shown that Phylogica’s cell penetrating peptide vaccine can trigger the immune system in mice to create defensive CD8+ T-cells at much higher levels than the current best in class product, CPP TAT. The CD8+ T-cells were also able to recognise and kill the target cells which expressed the triggering antigen with a high degree of efficiency.

Northern Minerals processing plant for the Browns Range heavy rare earths project in the Kimberley region was officially opened last week. The company will now commence commercial production of heavy rare earth carbonate for export. The project is 100% owned by the Northern Minerals who has a dominant tenement position in the Browns Range region that still has significant exploration upside potential.

Peppermint Innovation has signed a partnership agreement with leading Philippines non-bank remittance payout provider, Direct Agent 5 that provides a windo of opportunity into the Filipino remittance market that is worth more than USD$1bn. Peppermint will tap Direct Agent 5’s extensive network in the Philippines, which covers more than 1000 locations, to payout remittances for its customers.

Altech Chemicals has reported that German engineering contractor SMS group has completed site works ahead of construction of its large HPA plant in Johor State, in southern Malaysia. When fully operational, the plant will produce up to 4,500 tonnes of HPA annually, with the product being used in high tech applications such as LED lighting, separators in lithium-ion batteries and advanced mobile phone technology.

CVCheck has posted record revenues of $3.4m for the fourth quarter of the 2018 financial year, up 25% from the previous corresponding quarter, whilst full year revenues were up 20% to $12.5m. This was due to 36% growth in the corporate and SME segments and a surge in New Zealand Children’s Worker Safety Checks.

Venus Metals has reached an agreement under which lithium company Lepidico can earn up to 80% of the lithium rights at the Youanmi project by completing a full Feasibility Study leading to a Decision to Mine. Venus will receive $170,000 in cash and Lepidico shares for a 12 month exploration option and a further $350,000 in cash and scrip on signing a joint venture deal.

Spectrum Rare Earths has reported success from its first underground diamond drill hole at the Washington gold project in northern California. Visible gold with base metal sulphides were identified from drill core intersecting the prized Dean vein, with assays pending. The short drilling campaign is part of a wider due diligence process at the decommissioned mine, where the company has secured a 3-month exclusive option.

Artemis Resources’ has hit a number of exciting multi-mineral drill intersections including 6.5m @ 23.44g/t gold, 2.32% cobalt and 10.35% copper from 47m down-hole at its Carlow Castle project in the Pilbara, W.A. The infill drilling campaign is designed to increase resource definition and has been expanded to further test the project, which remains open along strike and at depth.