Public Company News

Diamond drilling by gold producer in waiting, Calidus Resources, has threaded the eye of the needle, striking gold more than 600 metres below surface at its under-construction Warrawoona gold mine in WA’s East Pilbara region. According to the company, the narrow, high-grade gold drill hits provide it with plenty of encouragement for a potential longer-term underground mining proposition at Warrawoona.

Having made good on its promise to breathe new life into Eastern Goldfields Ltd’s Davyhurst gold project near Kalgoorlie after that company fell over a couple of years ago, Ora Banda Mining has moved to usher in a new management era with the appointment of Peter Nicholson as its new CEO. Mr Nicholson hails from global mining-focused private equity firm Resource Capital Funds.

ASX-listed Altech Chemicals’ 75 per cent-owned German subsidiary, Altech Industries Germany is set to begin a pre-feasibility study on the potential construction of a battery materials high purity alumina coating plant in Germany. The company says the PFS will assess the commercial viability of building the plant, which would coat anode-grade battery materials with HPA using its own alumina coating technology.

Ardiden has picked up an encouraging hint of gold-bearing mineralisation similar to that of an adjoining historical high-grade gold mine from drilling at one of its high-priority brownfields targets within its Pickle Lake gold project in north-west Ontario, Canada. The company’s South Limb prospect is located immediately along strike of the former Dona Lake mine, which produced 246,500 ounces of gold from ore grading 6.6 g/t before closing in 1993.

Terrain Minerals is hunting down a wealth of newly defined gold targets in WA’s Murchison Goldfield, with geophysical surveying at its Smokebush project highlighting key prospects for drill testing. The company recently completed detailed ground magnetic surveys across the Monza, Paradise City and Wildflower targets with each of the developing prospects having previously returned anomalous gold results.

Podium Minerals is drilling again at its Parks Reef platinum group element discovery in WA’s Mid West as it sets about filling in up to 6.5km of strike length along the mineralised trend which now totals around 15km. Drilling to date has delivered an inferred mineral resource containing almost 1.4Moz of combined platinum, palladium and gold, plus some base metal credits.

Legend Mining’s strategy at its Mawson nickel discovery in WA continues to pay dividends, with first-pass metallurgical test work knocking out high-grade nickel and copper concentrate samples. Recent test work produced two critical products, with the primary stream yielding a concentrate grading an impressive 13.1 per cent nickel, whilst the secondary stream delivered a copper concentrate weighing in at a stunning 31.8 per cent copper.

Element 25 has bounded over the final hurdle in its bid to become an international manganese concentrate producer, this week locking down a vital groundwater allocation from the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation at its Butcherbird Project in Western Australia’s southern Pilbara region. The allocation was the final domino to fall in the approvals process and the company says the project is now shovel ready.

Barton Gold has executed two Native Title Mining Agreements with the Gawler Ranges Aboriginal Corporation RNTB. The most important of the agreements involves three exploration tenements covering the entirety of the Tunkillia project. A second agreement was inked to cover a small portion of one lease over the Tarcoola project area 70km north of the 965,000-ounce Tunkillia gold deposit.

ASX-listed Infinity Lithium has become involved in a Spanish battery consortium led by one of its key strategic partners, EIT InnoEnergy that hopes to snare a whopping €1.2 billion in pandemic recovery funding from the Spanish Government. The company’s San Jose lithium project may be in line for a €256 million CAPEX injection if the consortium’s application is successful.

Horizon Minerals has decided to hang onto full ownership of the historic Nimbus silver-zinc project near Kalgoorlie adjacent to its flagship Boorara gold project after turning down several acquisition and farm-in proposals for the asset. Nimbus hosts high-grade lodes totalling 260,000 tonnes at the bonanza grades of 774 g/t silver and 12.8 per cent zinc for 6.4 million ounces of contained silver and 33,000 tonnes of zinc within a larger resource.

ASX-listed aspiring West African bauxite developer, Lindian Resources has continued to put potential infrastructure building blocks in place to help accelerate the development of its Lelouma, Gaoual and Woula bauxite projects in Guinea. Its subsidiary, Terminal Logistics and Holdings recently struck a memorandum of understanding with the Guinean Government to appraise the possible joint development of the Dobali port and an associated logistics corridor in Guinea.