Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

Venus Metals’ farm in partner Lepidico has intersected lithium mineralisation during drilling at one of the company’s Youanmi project tenements in the Murchison region of W.A. Lepidico reported rock chip samples up to 1.71% lithium oxide from outcropping pegmatites on the ground and has secured an option to earn up to 80% of the lithium rights on the licence located 20km from Venus’ Youanmi gold operation in W.A.

ASX listed Hammer Metals has discovered a new high grade zone at its Perentie project in Mt Isa, Queensland, with rock chip samples returning up to 46% copper and 0.6g/t gold. The Susan prospect now takes the mineralised trend up to more than 3.4km. The company has also identified a fourth mineralised zone on a separate but parallel structure about 2.7km southeast of Paddy B.

Sky and Space Global has signed a binding MoU with South American internet service provider, Foundation Busie Suriname, that could lead to the provision of affordable internet and online connectivity services in that region. The agreement includes a commitment by FBS to utilise a minimum number of devices and services along with the option to scale the commitment up to meet its requirements.

Greenland Minerals has reached an important milestone, submitting its updated environmental impact assessment for the Kvanefjeld rare earth project. The assessment aims to mitigate, eliminate or minimise negative environmental impacts throughout the initial 37-year mine life at the project. The company plans to meet shortly with senior Government officials to discuss timing of the pubic consultation period.

Coolgardie Minerals has commenced open pit mining at its flagship Geko gold project near Coolgardie in the Goldfields region of W.A. The company listed on the ASX this week after it closed out an over-subscribed IPO in July, that put over $4m in its coffers. It will now look to create an early cash flow position from the mine by investigating toll treating options.

Adriatic Metals will increase its land holdings at the exciting Vares project in Bosnia after local municipal authorities approved the company’s request for major expansions to its existing concession agreement over the Veovaca and Rupice prospects at its 100% owned Vares base metals play. At the Rupice project, the expansion includes land immediately north of a 66m wide, high grade intersection of gold, silver and base metals reported by Adriatic in July.

ASX listed Ironbark Zinc has moved to prove up the viability of shipping ore from its Citronen zinc project in Greenland following the arrival of the contracted Nunavik icebreaking cargo ship at the site in the country’s north. The ease with which the Nunavik achieved this goal has increased the company’s confidence in being able to operate the project as a regular mine despite its relatively remote location.

CVCheck has added $5m in annual top line revenues in just two short years as regular and recurring demand for its CV and resume checking services from a stream of serious corporate clients starts to hit the company accounts. Revenues booked in FY18 were $12.5m , up from $7.1m in 2016. The tech company is now hurtling headlong towards that magical breakeven mark.

Galena Mining’s drilling of the “apron zone” at its Abra lead-silver project near Meekatharra continues to extend the known mineralisation, with results up to 5.5m @ 16% lead and 22g/t silver from 291.9m down-hole and 6.1m @ 8.1% lead and 11g/t silver from 327.9m reported in the same hole. The campaign is proving up mineral resources that will be incorporated into the company’s PFS, due for release late this quarter.

Hot Chili has reported more shallow, high grade copper drilling results from its RC drill program at the El Fuego project area in central Chile. Assays showed intersections up to 9m @ 2.0% copper from 132m down-hole and 16m @ 1.1% copper from 93m down-hole at the San Antonio copper mine prospect. The ore system strikes for almost 700m, to a depth of 200m and plunges shallowly southwards.

Aspire Mining has secured a $15m financing package that will support the early development of its flagship Ovoot coking coal project in Mongolia where Aspire is looking to truck coal from a starter pit to the existing rail head at Erdenet. Cash flows from the project could begin within 12 to 15 months once all approvals are received, funding is committed and a decision to mine is made.

ASX listed Lithium Australia has received approval from the W.A. state Government to recover material from mine dumps at its Lepidolite Hill project near Coolgardie for a proposed large scale lithium carbonate pilot plant. The company plans to use X-ray transmission ore-sorting to pre-concentrate lepidolite from the waste material before transporting it to the plant location.

The exciting drill hits have continued for Adriatic Metals in Bosnia with a 16m intersection going 1.6g/t gold, 136g/t silver, 1.1% copper, 4% lead, 6.5% zinc and 33% barite from 206m down-hole at the emerging Rupice prospect extending the ore footprint by 60m. Another 18m intersection that showed 2.6g/t gold, 201g/t silver, 0.5% copper, 4.5% lead, 9.2% zinc and 62% barite has extended the ore zone 50m up-dip.

Artemis Resources has hit a treasure trove of high grade gold, cobalt and copper drilling intersections from its Carlow Castle project east of Karratha in the Pilbara. Results include a knee trembling 132m intersection grading 4.89g/t gold, 0.25% cobalt and 1.11% copper from 98m down-hole at Carlow Castle South East. The company has now extended the mineralised footprint to a depth of nearly 250 metres below surface.

Reedy Lagoon has received positive results from a subsurface 3D geophysical survey at its Alkali Lake North project in Nevada, USA. Interpretation has shown a 1km long, 100m thick conductor starting from about 500m vertical depth, which the company says could represent multiple lithium-rich brine aquifers. The project is 30km northeast of Albemarle’s Silver Peak mine, which is currently North America’s only producing lithium brine operation.

Ironbark Zinc has received expressions of interests from financiers who are looking to move towards more formal discussions about possibly financing the company’s giant Citronen Zinc project. The expressions of interest came after Ironbark management wrapped up a series of site visits to Citronen with interested parties. The company has also started preliminary site works at the project in anticipation of a positive outcome.

Calidus Resources has entered into an agreement with TSX-V listed Pacton Gold Inc, to vend its non-core conglomerate gold rights at the Warrawoona gold project for a consideration of CAD$3.5m in Pacton shares. Calidus will retain all other gold rights to the ground. The deal covers 8 exploration licences and allows Pacton to explore and mine for conglomerate gold, with liability for rehabilitation and environmental obligations.

ASX listed Bellevue Gold’s infill drilling program has returned more high grade near surface gold hits including an impressive 2m @ 40.8g/t gold at the Tribune Lode within its Bellevue gold project in the W.A. Goldfields region. The company is also accelerating exploration at the its Viago Lode discovery with a view towards defining an initial resource that will upgrade the project’s current half a million ounce resource.

ASX listed medical marijuana player MGC Pharmaceuticals has received ethics approval to carry out phase two clinical trials into the benefits of its “CogniCann” product for dementia and Alzheimer’s patients in early 2019. CogniCann is a GMP certified, pharmaceutical grade, medicinal cannabis product specifically developed for the treatment of dementia symptoms to improve specific cognitive functions.

St George Mining has identified multiple nickel-copper sulphide targets from down hole electromagnetic survey programs at its Investigators prospect near Leonora in W.A. Recent drilling at the prospect identified sulphide mineralisation up to 7.55m thick, including nearly 1.3m of high grade massive sulphides. The company reported that a diamond rig has arrived at site to commence extensional and infill drilling on the new exploration targets.

Middle Island Resources has returned some serious diamond drilling results going nearly 2 ounces to the tonne gold near Sandstone. Higher grade results were returned from BIF and basalt units, including 2m @ 54g/t from 340m down-hole and 93m @ 2.57g/t from surface respectively. The target tonalite intrusion returned thick lower grade results including 165m @ 1.11g/t gold from 85m down-hole at the Two Mile Hill deeps deposit.

Strike Energy’s landmark Jaws-1, super-deep coal seam gas well in the Cooper Basin of South Australia, continues to demonstrate excellent productivity with water production rising 18% to 1300 barrels per day. The pumps are being run at less than 50% capacity while reservoir pressure is currently about of the original pressure prior to beginning depressurisation. Strike is managing the water drawdown to maximise gas recovery.

Underwater drone developer Aquabotix has joined the Information Warfare Research Project consortium which provides members with a fast tracked route to secure contracts offered by the US Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. The company will gain access to key partners and customers and gain the ability to be able to carry out rapid research and prototyping using nondilutive funding options available under the OTA.

Azumah Resources has outlined several new gold exploration targets from geophysical interpretations of a comprehensive VTEM survey at its emerging Wa East gold camp in northwest Ghana. The company says the 3km long Eve target has all the hallmarks of the Julie system nearby, which holds 834,000 gold ounces. The new target coincides with strongly anomalous gold geochemistry in surface sampling, but has not yet been drill tested.

Lithium Australia has announced consistent grades of lithium in three diamond drill holes completed at its emerging Sadisdorf project in eastern Germany. Results include 78.51m @ 0.51% lithium oxide from 78.49m and 68.76m @ 0.51% lithium oxide from 211.49m down-hole in the same hole. Other results of 19.74m @ 0.65% tin from 83.42m down-hole and 15.97m grading 0.5% tungsten were also recorded from the polymetallic deposit.

Hammer Metals’ diamond drilling has returned a near surface intercept of 14m @ 5.93g/t gold and 2.19% copper including 5.5m @14.5g/t gold and 6.87% copper at the Jubilee prospect within its Mt Frosty JV near Mt Isa in Queensland. Fresh sulphide mineralisation samples from the drilling will be used for preliminary metallurgical studies to determine copper, gold and cobalt recoveries with results expected soon.

ASX listed BlackEarth Minerals has made an exceptional near-surface intercept of 81.8 metres grading 6.1% total graphitic carbon at the Haja prospect in southern Madagascar that raises the likelihood of a resource upgrade. Further assays from the 26 hole program are expected to be received soon and the company expects to release a maiden JORC-compliant resource estimate for Haja soon.

Reedy Lagoon has received some very encouraging results from a subsurface 3D geophysical survey at its Clayton Valley project in Nevada, USA. The survey shows an intriguing, 200m thick, conductive mass, starting from about 250m vertical depth, which the company says could represent multiple lithium-rich brine aquifers. The project is directly adjacent to Albemarle’s Silver Peak mine, which is North America’s only producing lithium brine operation.

Drilling at Calidus Resources flagship Warrawoona gold project near Marble Bar in the east Pilbara has returned absolute surface gold hits including 8m @ 3.9g/t gold from 0m at the St George Shear prospect. St George has similar geology and gold mineralisation to the highest‐grade lodes across the Klondyke Main Shear and the company is carrying out infill drilling now.

Geopacific Resources has increased its effective interest in the promising Woodlark Island gold project in PNG to 93%. The company recently achieved its second tranche milestone with project JV partner Kula Gold Limited, of which Geopacific owns an 85% stake. On site, the company is continuing its extensive soil sampling program, which has outlined multiple targets and a DFS is also well underway.

ASX listed Pharmaust is preparing to carry out phase II clinical trials on dogs for its anti-cancer drug Monepantel, expected to kick off in quarter 4. Data from the canine phase II trial will be combined with lab tests to confirm Monepantel’s effectiveness at killing selected human tumour cells to form the basis for clinical trials in humans.

Hammer Metals is on a roll in QLD after the small cap explorer identified a second high grade copper zone with significant gold values at its new Judith prospect, part of the company’s emerging Perentie project, near Mount Isa in Queensland. Surface rock chip assay results up went to 25% copper and 7.23g/t gold at Judith and were located only 800m north of the Paddy B prospect.