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Thursday, 13 February, 2020 - 14:10

Image delivers record mineral sands production

Image Resources has reported a second consecutive month of record heavy mineral sands concentrate production at its 100% owned, high grade, zircon-rich Boonanarring mineral sands project north of Perth. Production for January 2020 was a record 35,300 tonnes of HMC and is a consequence of higher ore grades coming in from the mining of Block ‘B’ after relocating the equipment from the initial site at Block ‘C’.

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Thursday, 30 April, 2020 - 16:41

Image locks down more near mine mineral sands horizons

ASX-listed mineral sands miner, Image Resources, is not resting on its laurels, having successfully commissioned its Boonanarring mine north of Perth in December 2018. The ASX-listed company has been systematically banking more ore horizons within a 10km radius on the mine with a view to underpinning and turbo-charging its longevity. 15,825 drill metres have now confirmed northerly and southerly extensions.

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Wednesday, 20 May, 2020 - 12:32

Image pays down debt on back of strong mineral sands production

Just 18 months after start up at its Boonanarring mine north of Perth, ASX-listed mineral sands miner, Image Resources, continues to hit its milestones with a third scheduled debt repayment of US$7.7m now bowled over. Image has been delivering strong production numbers that routinely exceed the plant’s design specifications and it has systematically defined multiple new ore horizons around the mine.

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Tuesday, 7 July, 2020 - 15:32

Image offloads growing pile of heavy mineral concentrate

ASX-listed mineral sands miner, Image Resources, has managed to relieve itself of a previously unloved heavy mineral concentrate inventory that was mounting in the wake of uncertain economic conditions brought on by coronavirus restrictions. The company’s key Chinese offtake customers have now purchased 100,000 tonnes of HMC from the Boonanarring mineral sands operation 80km north of Perth.

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Monday, 27 July, 2020 - 17:34

Image attracts new offtake partners with premium zircon

Image Resources continues to revel in the current market conditions, pushing ahead with an accelerated development program and attracting new buyers for its inventory of zircon-rich, heavy mineral sands concentrates. The company has garnered increasing interest in its high-grade, heavy mineral sands concentrates and is pushing ahead with selective trial mining of the ‘ultra-high -grade’ core of the Boonanarring deposits.

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Monday, 26 October, 2020 - 15:15

Image onto more high-grade mineral sands at Boonanarring North

Image Resources' “MORE” program continues to pay dividends for the WA mineral sands producer with drilling at the Boonanarring Northern Extension Area pointing to high-grade mineralisation over more than 2,700m of strike. The drilling program has produced a raft of high-grade intercepts including 5m at an impressive 44.5 per cent heavy mineral sands from only 30m below surface.

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Thursday, 31 December, 2020 - 15:00

Image posts bumper mineral sands sales figures

Image Resources has posted a bumper year of sales from its mining operations in WA, with the mineral sands producer delivering over 310,000 tonnes of heavy mineral sands concentrates for the year. The solid production figures represent a 20 per cent jump in overall production from the previous year and an impressive $174 million in annual revenue.

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Wednesday, 17 February, 2021 - 13:48

Image powers up mineral sands production pipeline

Image Resources is set to power up its 2021 mineral sands production at its Boonanarring project with the Perth miner meeting its 2020 guidance and retiring its outstanding debt. The company has already advanced its new year’s development schedule which boasts a growing pipeline of mineral sands production targets across WA’s Mid West region, stretching from Cervantes in the north to Gingin in the south.

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Wednesday, 31 March, 2021 - 16:08

Image unveils 102 million tonne WA mineral sands deposit

Image Resources has revealed a raft of resource upgrades across its heavy mineral sands projects in WA’s Mid West region, including the delivery of a massive 102 million tonne resource for its Bidaminna project. The company also continues to process and export a wealth of high-grade zircon-rich ores from its Boonanarring mine whilst it eyes a move into mining at its Atlas deposits in the north of the basin.

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Friday, 30 April, 2021 - 21:07

Image achieves record mineral sands production in WA

ASX-listed Image Resources has chalked up record quarterly production numbers at its mineral sands mine about 80km north of Perth. The company says it churned out 85,200 tonnes of product for the March quarter at its zircon-rich Boonanarring mineral sands operation. The Perth-based company says the all-in sustaining costs of Boonanarring product sold also came in below the lower end of its guidance range for this year.

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Tuesday, 20 July, 2021 - 15:45

Image seeks growth as WA mineral sands output, prices surge

ASX-listed Image Resources is on track to beat its 2021 heavy mineral concentrate production guidance after reporting record June quarter output from the wholly-owned Boonanarring operation, 80km north of Perth in Western Australia. The company says surging ilmenite, rutile and now zircon prices are set to boost its full-year heavy mineral concentrate sales and strengthen its pursuit of growth options.

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Monday, 26 July, 2021 - 17:32

Image turns out high-grade gold at WA prospect

Mineral sands producer Image Resources is turning its attention to gold exploration, with results from drilling at the company’s King prospect in Western Australia bringing home the bacon. The company’s recent exploration over the discovery has delineated high-grade mineralisation along more than 400m of strike, with results including 10m at an impressive 8.4 grams per tonne gold from only 47m down-hole.

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Monday, 29 November, 2021 - 12:47

Sheffield finds buyer for Eneabba

Mineral sands explorer Sheffield Resources is selling its wholly owned Eneabba project to West Perth-based Image Resources for $24 million in cash.

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Monday, 29 November, 2021 - 15:08

Image doubles total heavy minerals resource for $24m

Image Resources will pay $24m for Sheffield Resources’ 211 million tonnes of mineral resources grading 3.0 per cent total heavy minerals for 6.3 million tonnes of contained total heavy minerals. Image now has a binding agreement to pick up around eight exploration licences, three mining leases and one retention licence from Sheffield that will see the mineral sands miner effectively double its existing resource.

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Wednesday, 19 January, 2022 - 13:34

Image Resources secures Eneabba mineral sands deal

ASX-listed Image Resources has wrapped up most of the acreage in its deal to bolt a sought-after package of tenements into its Mid West WA minerals sands business. The deal adds further expansion opportunities to the company’s development plans for its Atlas and Bidaminna deposits. Under the agreement, Image is paying $24 million out of cash reserves to add more than 230 per cent to its total mineral resources.

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Monday, 31 January, 2022 - 16:58

Image drops $33m to bottom line after stellar quarter

Image Resources has produced an extraordinary set of quarterly numbers from its Boonanarring mineral sands mine 80kms north of Perth. Realised prices and production are up, costs are down, debt has been paid back early and the company’s coffers have swelled by nearly $30 million. Margins have more than doubled to $500 per tonne and $19 million in dividends was paid to shareholders during 2021.

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Thursday, 10 February, 2022 - 17:28

Image to dish out dividend

Image Resources has announced its intention to pay a 2 cent fully franked dividend after it receives the final results from the 2021 calendar year which it says are strong. The continued solid demand for Image’s heavy mineral sands from its Boonanarring project 80km north of Perth along with buoyed mineral sands prices and some cost control has resulted in a bumper calendar year for the Perth based company.

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Tuesday, 15 February, 2022 - 16:12

Image board makes case to reject Chinese takeover bid

Image Resources’ major shareholder, Chinese backed Murray Zircon is looking to show the existing board and management the door despite three solid and profitable years at the mineral sands miner. Murray Zircon has lobbed a section 249D notice over the wall seeking to remove the directors and its largest beneficial shareholder, LB Group is working the phones looking for support for the 249D – the key question however is why?

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Monday, 14 March, 2022 - 15:23

Image pays $12m for monster mineral sands play

ASX-listed Image Resources has picked up an astounding 84Mt of contained total heavy mineral sands and a staggering 75Mt of contained valuable “heavy” minerals in a $12 million cash deal with Sheffield. The new project comes gift wrapped with a massive 5.8Bt mineral resource going 1.4 per cent total heavy minerals and represents an incredible 20-fold increase in the overall tonnes accessible by dry mining for Image.

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Friday, 9 September, 2022 - 11:42

Image lands mining extension at WA mineral sands project

Mineral sands producer Image Resources has executed a land access agreement that will allow it to extend mining operations at its wholly-owned Boonanarring project near Perth in WA. The deal enables the miner to access raw material from the operation’s south thereby curtailing a production gap brought on by relocating processing equipment to its Atlas deposit that is next in line to be brought into production.

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Thursday, 27 October, 2022 - 15:34

Another quarter of solid financial results for Image

Image Resources has posted another successful quarter of operations at its Boonanarring mineral sands project just 80km north of Perth in WA, despite rising inflation and a tight labour market. The company generated $39 million in revenue and ended the financial quarter with a net cash position of $53.2 million up from $47.9 million last quarter.

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Friday, 28 April, 2023 - 16:31

Image production jumps 18 per cent at mineral sands project

Image Resources has lifted the heavy mineral content production from its Boonanarring mineral sands project north of Perth by 18 per cent during the March quarter, compared to the previous three-month period. According to the company’s latest quarterly report, the production increase is due to higher ore grades, despite a decrease in the amount of ore tonnes processed.

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Monday, 31 July, 2023 - 13:58

Image Resources bumps up bottom line by $12.5 million

Higher zircon grades and increasing demand for heavy mineral concentrate (HMC) has had Image Resources ringing its till, with a bottom-line boost of nearly $12.5 million revealed in its quarterly report today. The company also increased HMC production quarter on quarter by six per cent at its Boonanarring minerals sands project near the Western Australian town of Gingin.

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Wednesday, 9 August, 2023 - 13:34

Ilmenite conversion boosts Bidaminna potential for Image

Hard on the heels of a recently-completed prefeasibility study, Image Resources has reported positive results from beneficiation testwork involving the conversion of ilmenite from its Bidaminna mineral sands project to synthetic rutile. The company believes it could offer an opportunity to enhance the processing, economic, marketing and ore utilisation considerations of its project in Western Australia’s North Perth Basin.

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Tuesday, 28 November, 2023 - 18:23

Mineral sands sales boost Image coffers by $22m

Image Resources is cashed-up and charging towards the next phase of its life as a mining company after today pocketing $22 million from the final shipment of mineral sands from its Boonanarring project in Western Australia. The company says its coffers have been boosted to about $50 million and it is preparing to use the funds on a basket of highly-prospective projects.

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Tuesday, 30 January, 2024 - 15:01

Image flexes muscles for Atlas mineral sands move

A cashed-up Image Resources is focused on relocating its mining and ore processing operations to its wholly-owned Atlas project in Western Australia’s North Perth Basin after making significant progress with approvals. Atlas is a high-grade mineral sands mine containing 5.5 million tonnes of ore reserves at 9.2 per cent total heavy minerals (HM) and 96 per cent contained HM in the proven category.

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Thursday, 14 March, 2024 - 17:07

Image gets EPA green light for WA mineral sands project

The Environmental Protection Authority has given Image Resources conditional approval to push ahead with the development proposal for its Atlas mineral sands project in Western Australia’s North Perth Basin. The company says that while the recommendation for its 100 per cent-owned project will now undergo a three-week review period, it believes it is now a matter of “when”, not “if” Atlas will proceed.

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Monday, 8 April, 2024 - 15:45

Image edges closer to development of WA mineral sands project

Image Resources has taken a key step towards the development of its Atlas mineral sands project in Western Australia after no formal objections were lodged for the implementation of the company’s development proposal. The outcome could speed up the group’s return to mining by several months, with the process now moving towards final ministerial approval.

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Friday, 19 April, 2024 - 14:24

Image to spit out $277m EBITDA a year with WA mineral sands

Image Resources has revealed a compelling prefeasibility study for its 100 per cent-owned Yandanooka mineral sands project north of Perth in Western Australia, showing an annual EBITDA of $277 million for more than eight years and a capital payback of just 15 months. The project is modelled to produce 1.04 million tonnes of heavy mineral concentrate during its 8.2-year mine life.

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Thursday, 23 May, 2024 - 11:00

Ministerial approval for Atlas project

West Perth-based Image Resources remains focused on beginning construction at its Atlas mineral sands project later this year, following news the site has received ministerial approval.

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Thursday, 23 May, 2024 - 16:50

Image gets environment thumbs-up for mineral sands project

Image Resources has edged a step closer to its mining plans at its high-grade Atlas mineral sands project 90km north of Boonanarring in Western Australia after securing environmental approval for the proposed development. Atlas’ 18 million-tonne resource features a heavy mineral grade of 6 per cent, including 9.3 per cent zircon, 46 per cent ilmenite, 4 per cent leucoxene and 6.5 per cent rutile.

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Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 - 16:45

Image flexes muscle to prepare new Atlas mineral sands play

Image Resources has launched the on-ground construction activity for its Atlas heavy mineral sands project in Western Australia’s North Perth Basin as management ramps up the operation’s proposed development. The company plans to soon start building a new accommodation camp at Atlas and will also dismantle and transfer the wet concentrator from its now-completed Boonanarring mining project.

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Wednesday, 31 July, 2024 - 13:02

New approval strengthens Image plans for Atlas sands

Image Resources is continuing its push towards the construction of its Atlas heavy mineral sands project in Western Australia’s North Perth Basin after sealing State Government approval for its mining proposal. The approval from the WA Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety is another step forward along the development path for the project located 170km north of Perth.

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Friday, 9 August, 2024 - 11:00

Project construction nears for Atlas

West Perth-based junior Image Resources has announced construction will begin at its Atlas mineral sands project imminently, as it aims to capitalise on the site’s impressive ore reserves.

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Friday, 9 August, 2024 - 15:34

Image gets nod to launch into onsite Atlas construction

Image Resources has confirmed it has received the final approvals it needs to kick off the long-awaited onsite construction of its Atlas heavy mineral sands project in Western Australia’s Perth Basin. The company says it has now secured the vital go-ahead from the Federal Government after it satisfied proposed conditions relating to the Atlas development under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

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Friday, 18 October, 2024 - 14:45

Image fires starting gun on new WA mineral sands play

Image Resources has targeted a mid-2025 start to heavy mineral concentrate production at its Atlas project, 170km north of Perth, after securing essential water licences to accelerate construction. The milestone has now offered a clear timeline for renewed cash flows - expected to be $62m pre-tax over two years - almost two years after shutting down the successful Boonanarring project, located 100km south of Atlas.

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Thursday, 24 October, 2024 - 10:38

Image attains $30m offtake deal

Mineral sands-focused junior Image Resources has secured a $US20 million ($30.1 million) binding offtake agreement with China-based Shantou Natfort Zirconium and Titaniam Corporation.

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Thursday, 24 October, 2024 - 16:41

Image banks US$20m for offtake at new WA mineral sands mine

Image Resources has locked in a US$20 million offtake pre-payment from Shantou Natfort Zirconium and Titanium Co, its key Chinese heavy minerals concentrate partner. The deal will provide funding to support the construction of the company’s 100%-owned Atlas mineral sands project, 170 kilometres north of Perth. Drawdown should occur in two tranches of US$10 million each in November and January.

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Wednesday, 8 January, 2025 - 15:53

Image remains optimistic about Atlas

West Perth-based junior Image Resources remains optimistic about achieving its first production of heavy mineral concentrate by the end of March at its Atlas mineral sands project.

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Thursday, 20 February, 2025 - 14:12

Image lands first production at WA Atlas heavy minerals project

Image Resources has landed first production of heavy mineral concentrate at its Atlas project, 170 km north of Perth, marking a key step in the company’s plan to expand its mineral sands footprint and achieve planned revenue growth by mid-2025. The mine achieved its first production during early-stage commissioning this month. Despite bushfire evacuations last year, accelerated construction has since kept the project on schedule with initial forecasts.

 
Image remains optimistic about Atlas
Wednesday, 8 January, 2025 - 15:53

Image delivers record mineral sands production

Image locks down more near mine mineral sands horizons

Image pays down debt on back of strong mineral sands production

Image offloads growing pile of heavy mineral concentrate

Image attracts new offtake partners with premium zircon

Image onto more high-grade mineral sands at Boonanarring North

Image posts bumper mineral sands sales figures

Image powers up mineral sands production pipeline

Image unveils 102 million tonne WA mineral sands deposit

Image achieves record mineral sands production in WA

Image seeks growth as WA mineral sands output, prices surge

Image turns out high-grade gold at WA prospect

Sheffield finds buyer for Eneabba

Image doubles total heavy minerals resource for $24m

Image Resources secures Eneabba mineral sands deal

Image drops $33m to bottom line after stellar quarter

Image to dish out dividend

Image board makes case to reject Chinese takeover bid

Image pays $12m for monster mineral sands play

Image lands mining extension at WA mineral sands project

Another quarter of solid financial results for Image

Image production jumps 18 per cent at mineral sands project

Image Resources bumps up bottom line by $12.5 million

Ilmenite conversion boosts Bidaminna potential for Image

Mineral sands sales boost Image coffers by $22m

Image flexes muscles for Atlas mineral sands move

Image gets EPA green light for WA mineral sands project

Image edges closer to development of WA mineral sands project

Image to spit out $277m EBITDA a year with WA mineral sands

Ministerial approval for Atlas project

Image gets environment thumbs-up for mineral sands project

Image flexes muscle to prepare new Atlas mineral sands play

New approval strengthens Image plans for Atlas sands

Project construction nears for Atlas

Image gets nod to launch into onsite Atlas construction

Image fires starting gun on new WA mineral sands play

Image attains $30m offtake deal

Image banks US$20m for offtake at new WA mineral sands mine

Image remains optimistic about Atlas

Image lands first production at WA Atlas heavy minerals project

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