Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

Reach Resources has anointed global mining technical services firm Mining Plus to independently review the expansion potential of its Murchison South gold project in WA and to prioritise targets for a new-year drilling campaign. It follows Reach’s own review that identified substantial potential and highlighted immediate drilling opportunities at the project, with plans now made for a 12-hole RC drill program at the site.

GreenTech Metals has launched high-powered electromagnetic surveys at its flagship Whundo project in WA’s Pilbara region to uncover deep copper-zinc-rich targets ahead of a major 4000m drilling campaign that kicks off this month. The fixed loop electromagnetic survey will cover 1.14 square kilometres and examine the northern down-plunge extensions of key known mineralised zones, including Whundo, Austin, Shelby, and Yannery.

Novo Resources has picked up a new gold and base metals exploration play in WA’s Pilbara region by locking up a 1520-square-kilometre land package near Onslow that is littered with evidence of historical mining. The two-part move involves pegging six new tenements together with securing an option on a 70 per cent interest in the nearby Cane River project held by a private company.

88 Energy has pinpointed no less than 10 independent hydrocarbon leads after doing the initial interpretation of newly acquired 2D seismic data across its PEL93 exploration licence in the Owambo Basin, Namibia. The findings, conducted by exploration program operator Monitor Exploration has reconfirmed substantial closed-in structures right across the southern area of the lease, previously picked up in geophysical survey.

With the critical minerals boom in full swing Lycaon Resources is eagerly awaiting a suite of niobium assay results from a drill campaign at its Stansmore niobium-rare earths project in Western Australia’s West Arunta region. The company is looking to identify anomalous pathfinder and trace elements that will demonstrate potential for its targeted 500m diameter magnetic intrusive feature to host critical metals mineralisation.

Horizon Minerals has dispatched its first load of gold-bearing ore from the company’s Boorara operation near Kalgoorlie for processing at the nearby Paddington mill, as part of its recently revealed tie-in with Hamptons Transport. The company says 54,380 tonnes of ore has been hauled to the mill and is expected to result in an estimated $5.78 million minus processing costs.

Novo Resources is set to ramp up activities across its next set of key projects in the Pilbara in 2025, including a maiden antimony and gold drill campaign at two projects showing good early geological signs. The company is set to drill test the ground around an historic antimony and gold mine in WA’s Pilbara region that was mined at uber-high grades between 1907 and 1916.

Suvo Strategic Minerals has entered a JV with an Indonesian management company to turn its nickel slag stockpile into low-carbon cement and concrete products

Strickland Metals’ Gradina prospect in Serbia is showing all the hallmarks of a company maker. One lode is now within 150m of surface where it is still open and mineralised to at least 603m. Single drill holes have intersected three separate lodes with seriously big widths and impressive grades and it looks like it still has more to give.

Terrain Minerals has wheeled in an RC drill rig to probe the potential bedrock source of gold discovered in the supergene zone during air core drilling at its Wildflower gold project in WA’s Mid West region. The 16-hole drill program is a follow up to the successful air core program that unveiled a potential new gold discovery, returning 9m grading 1.17 grams per tonne gold.

Latitude 66 will sell its Sylvania gold project in WA’s Pilbara region to gold producer Capricorn Metals for $1.5m worth of Capricorn shares, potentially two or more $750,000-milestone payments and a 1% royalty. The deal is designed to help Latitude 66 fund its promising Finnish gold-cobalt project by unlocking value from what it says is a “non-core” asset.

Aurumin is set to unleash the drill-bit again to try to replicate a previous stellar 18m drill hit grading 25.8g/t gold at its Central Sandstone project in WA about 520km northeast of Perth. The company plans to target extensional and infill drilling at its Shillington and Plum Pudding deposits and is hoping to breach the million-ounce milestone at the project soon.

Terrain Minerals has kicked-off a ground-based EM survey to better define four very curious, potentially nickel-copper conductors at its Lort River project that sits in the same geological belt as IGO’s huge nickel-copper discovery in the renowned Albany-Fraser Belt. Terrain believes a geophysical “eye” feature identified at Lort River shares strong similarities with IGO’s “eye” that was identified prior to its discovery of the large producing Nova-Bollinger operation in the region in 2012.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has picked up a key tenement that joins its western landholdings at its Pinjin gold project near Kalgoorlie with its eastern tenements, creating one contiguous holding. It will pay fellow ASX-listed company Solstice Minerals 2.8 million of its shares, with a deemed value of $70,000 for the tenement and Solstice will also pick up a 1 per cent royalty.

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears Runner of the Week is … Aldoro Resources. The Namibian explorer stacked on 201% after jagging continuous niobium from a trench chip-sampling program at its Kameelburg project. Other runners include Macro Metals which secured $4 million from an earthmoving company that joined its share register and began drilling for manganese in WA’s Pilbara region, while other movers and shakers this week were Invion and Petratherm.

Reach Resources has uncovered more thick rare earth hits at its 100 per cent-owned Wabli Creek project in WA’s Gascoyne region, hitting an impressive 76m grading 1677 parts per million total rare earth oxides. Assays from the remaining 22 drill-holes returned consistent zones of the valuable magnet rare earth oxides, returning up to 1809ppm with the potential for additional high-grade zones.

Novo Resources surged 60% to touch 14.5c in intraday trading after the market got a good look at the value of its shareholding in unlisted Canadian miner San Cristobal. Novo offloaded 38% of its holding in San Cristobal for $11.5m, valuing the remainder of its shareholding in the private company at $19m. Novo now has $16.7m in the bank.

GreenTech Metals has completed planning for up to 4000m of diamond drilling for its second phase program at the company’s Whundo volcanogenic massive sulphide–style copper-zinc project in WA’s West Pilbara. The campaign seeks to confirm the potential for and likely scale of one or more base metals resources lurking below the shallow historic Whundo and Ayshia open-pits and within the 2km-long zone separating them.

Octava Minerals has spotted visible signs of the critical mineral, antimony, in drill holes at the company’s Yallalong project that sits in the Mid West region of WA, with assays due early next year. Drilling is nearly complete at the company’s Discovery prospect with the rig then set to move to its Central antimony prospect for a maiden nine-hole program.

In the wake of the recent Chinese ban on the export of critical minerals such as gallium that is used for semi-conductor chip manufacturing, a state government research institute is about to kick off a study that will examine the metallurgy of Terrain Minerals’ curious gallium discovery in WA’s Mid West region. The study will be done by the Minerals Research Institute of WA that is tasked with addressing knowledge and technology needs in the minerals industry.

Larvotto Resources has scored $30 million from new and existing investors, ensuring it is well-funded to intensify exploration of its Hillgrove antimony-gold operation near Armidale in NSW. The placement will see 57.7 million shares issued at 52c apiece and follows on from the company recently banking a total of $14.2m from an offtake pre-payment and option conversions.

Octava Minerals has agreed to sell 100 per cent of its Talga gold, base metals and lithium project in WA’s Pilbara to Global Lithium for $200,000 in cash and a further $200,000 by way of Global Lithium stock. Global Lithium will acquire Octava’s seven Talga project tenements though a 100 per cent owned subsidiary with the share consideration based on its 5-day VWAP prior to completion.

BMG Resources has launched a round-the-clock diamond drilling campaign at its Abercromby gold project near Wiluna to expand the current 518,000 ounce resource. The drilling will probe high-grade gold zones at Abercromby and initially seek a resource expansion through extensional drilling of high-grade gold zones beyond the existing resource model.

Lithium Universe has inked a strategic chemical supply deal with Quebec-based logistics company Servitank which the company believes will improve the operational efficiency of its proposed Canadian Bécancour lithium refinery project. The partnership will bring much needed expertise in chemical logistics and supply chain optimisation to the project, positioning Servitank as a key partner of the company.

After months of preparation, Lycaon Resources has kicked off a highly anticipated maiden drilling campaign at the Stansmore prospect within its West Arunta project in WA. The program will target a high-priority magnetic anomaly, which the company says could be a niobium-rare earths carbonatite, an iron oxide copper-gold orebody or an intrusion-related gold deposit.

Larvotto Resources has unveiled some stunning drill results from the Clarks Gully deposit, part of its Hillgrove gold and antimony mine in New South Wales, including 20m grading 8.2 grams per tonne (g/t) gold equivalent and 6m at 17.2 g/t gold equivalent. The expanding deposit, which is rich in antimony, is rapidly promoting itself as a candidate for near-term feed to frontload early cash flows.

Amid a grand celebration of the WA ASX-listed small cap company community on Friday night, Larvotto Resources triumphed to take out the coveted Bulls N’ Bears “Peak Performer of the Year” award after achieving a peak share price hike of 993 per cent. Estrella Resources took out the other major award and is the Bulls N' Bears “Runner of the Year”, claiming a 240 per cent share price jump from January to November 2024.

King River Resources has received the final $2.4m cash payment owed by Darwin-based Tivan Limited for its acquisition of King River’s Speewah critical minerals project in WA’s Kimberley region, as part of a $20m consideration.

Aurum Resources has been buoyed by encouraging gold recoveries of up to 99.4 per cent from independent testwork on diamond drill core from two key targets within its BD tenement at Boundiali in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. The scoping metallurgical tests demonstrate excellent potential for high gold recoveries at a relatively coarse grind size of 80 per cent passing a screen size of 106 microns or 0.106 millimetres.

Suvo Strategic Minerals has been offered a chance to field trial its lower carbon cement in a project to replace Victoria’s dangerous level crossings. Suvo’s concrete mixes use cleaner cement made from kaolin amongst other things. The government agency leading the project will also help Suvo navigate the commercial and technical approval processes involved to introduce its cement mixes to the marketplace.

Larvotto has consummated an offtake deal with Wogen Resources for antimony from its NSW Hillgrove mine with a $6.1m prepayment that comes on the back of $8m worth of options being exercised to fast-track exploration and complete the project's DFS. Larvotto has been a market darling this year with its stock peaking during the year at a 1218 per cent premium to its low in February.

Aurum Resources has completed more than 24,000m of diamond core drilling at its Boundiali “BM” joint venture project in Côte d'Ivoire, earning it an 80 per cent interest in the 400 sq km project. The drilling was undertaken by Aurum’s 100 per cent-owned subsidiary Plusor Global in its Plusor-Minex JV tenement, the other 20 per cent of which currently resides with its JV partner Minex West Africa.