Public Company News

Horizon Minerals has nailed its first drill hole at the Windanya project 45km north of Kalgoorlie. A discovery hole hit a head-turning 2 metres grading 26.68 g/t gold from just 35m at the project, setting it up as an immediate exploration priority for Horizon. Windanya sits within the Bardoc Tectonic Zone where over 100 tonnes of gold from a range of deposits have been mined.

ASX-listed Canada gold explorer, Ardiden has the drill rods spinning again in northwest Ontario, chasing the untested easterly strike of its Kasagiminnis gold deposit as it looks to build on the existing 110,000 ounces at 4.3 g/t gold already inferred. Ardiden’s latest suite of drill holes are vectoring in on an untested section of around 1.5km in strike length.

ASX-listed AVZ Minerals has nailed down a second offtake contract with a major Chinese lithium outfit – its second in less than three months. The aspiring central African lithium developer has struck a binding agreement with new offtake partner, Shenzhen Chengxin Lithium Group for the supply of spodumene concentrate from AVZ’s mammoth Manono lithium-tin project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Whilst it mulls over some positive nickel-copper assays from recent shallow metallurgical test holes at its Stricklands prospect, St George Mining has two sets of drill rods spinning simultaneously at its flagship high-grade Mt Alexander project in WA’s north-eastern Goldfields. Both rigs are vectoring in on strong EM conductors that are amongst the deepest tested along the western extension of the Cathedrals Belt prospect.

K2fly has added NYSE-listed precious metals mega-miner, Coeur Mining to its Software-as-a-Service customer base after Coeur inked a 5-year deal for the company’s industry-leading RCubed Resource Inventory software. The 5-year deal to be rolled out across Coeur’s five North American mine sites is worth A$718,000 over the period and has pushed K2fly’s total contract value for its software as a service offering to A$8.7m.

Kingwest Resources has expanded its global gold resource based on a cluster of deposits at its historic Menzies gold project about 130km north of Kalgoorlie by more than 125,000 ounces following its recent major resource definition drill out. The company increased the combined resource estimate for Menzies to 11 million tonnes of ore at an average grade of 1.26 grams per tonne for 446,200 ounces of gold.

Ora Banda Mining continues to kick goals as part of its ongoing resource drill out of its Davyhurst project in the goldfields of WA. Having poured the first gold bar at Davyhurst only in February, the company is now steaming ahead in its quest to grow the resources beneath the Riverina pit and at the Riverina South prospect.

Indiana Resources has upped the ante in its case against the Government of Tanzania, which relates to the alleged expropriation of the company’s Ntaka nickel project in southern Africa. The company is pursuing Tanzania through an arbitration process with the World Bank, with Indiana’s claim now topping an eye-watering US$95 million. The first hearing is now scheduled for the 22nd of April 2021.

High purity alumina developer, Altech Chemicals says the results from first-phase testing of batteries that contain graphite particles coated with its proprietary high purity alumina coating technology have been “positive and encouraging”. Test work will now proceed to the next stage involving further testing of battery charging and discharging with the aim of demonstrating repeatability and consistency.

The pieces are coming together for ASX-listed Middle Island Resources with positive developments from its ongoing feasibility study aimed at bringing the old Sandstone gold processing plant back to life. Final news on what could be a game-changer for the gold explorer is just a few short weeks away.

Construction of ASX-listed Lithium Australia’s planned pilot plant showcasing and testing its proprietary “LieNa” fine-spodumene conversion process has begun. Development of the pilot plant, a major component of the Perth-based company’s $3.6 million LieNA lithium recovery technology research and development program, was hampered last year by travel restrictions that came courtesy of COVID-19.

Neometals’ 50 per cent-owned joint venture company, Primobius has clinched a memorandum of understanding with Itochu Corporation that will see the Japanese giant weigh up the recycling potential of Primobius’ proprietary lithium-ion battery material processing technology.