Public Company News

Rox Resources and Venus Metals have delivered high-grade drilling intersections from several regional and near-mine prospects at their emerging Youanmi gold project in the Murchison region of WA. The companies generated intercepts of 2m @ 23.67g/t gold from 76m and 4m @ 6.57g/t from 64m at the Commonwealth prospect and also discovered 8m @ 4.17g/t gold from 96m at Youanmi South.

Australian Potash has ticked off another box for its Lake Wells SOP project near Laverton, WA, signing an import-export agreement with the Port of Geraldton in the Mid West region, that underpins the FEED study underway for the project. The company’s recent DFS for Lake Wells was modelled on a road freight solution to the Geraldton port and export of its SOP product from that site.

PharmAust has kicked-off its much-anticipated Phase II clinical trials that will study the effectiveness of the new palatable and high dose tablet formulation of its Monepantel anti-cancer drug in dogs. The trial will determine the efficacy of the drug over a prolonged period of time in dogs with B cell lymphoma before testing progresses to low dose maintenance of progression free survival and efficacy in other cancers.

Buru Energy is a step closer to unlocking its tight gas portfolio in the Canning Basin after the Western Australian state government lifted the moratorium on fracture stimulation over existing petroleum titles. The company previously estimated that its Yulleroo gas field contained 2C contingent resources of about 714 petajoules of gas and 24.9 million barrels of associated liquids within the Laurel tight gas formation.

Strike Energy’s West Erregulla-2 exploration well in the Perth Basin, Western Australia has intersected 10 metres of net gas pay with average porosity of 10.3% in the High Cliff sandstone target. The company is currently undertaking additional advanced wireline logging at the well before running and cementing production casing ahead of carrying out flow tests for the Kingia and High Cliff zones.

Smart building materials trailblazer, ClearVue Technologies, has been recognised for its continued research and development with the company banking an Australian Government tax credit of about $602,000. The refund relates to work completed during the last year with the University of New South Wales on quantum dots and work with Edith Cowan University on the entrance atrium at the Warwick Grove Shopping Centre.

Surface trench sampling has commenced at Terrain Minerals’ Wild Viper gold project near Leonora, WA, where rock chip sampling unearthed up to 4.67g/t gold in stockwork quartz veining in March. The company will complete four long trenches for 640m across the 382-shear prospect, which will assist in siting future drilling locations, over a prospective 2.5km long structure that has not been targeted by exploration in the past.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have delivered more high-grade gold hits peaking at a metre grading 39.61 grams per tonne gold from 94m down-hole at the recently completed Stage 3 drilling campaign for the emerging Currans Find North discovery near Youanmi, WA. The results also confirmed the presence of two stacked gold lodes at the prospect and demonstrate that mineralisation remains open at depth and down-plunge.

Geopacific Resources has appointed Perth-based GR Engineering as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the processing plant at its Woodlark gold project in Papua New Guinea. The agreement covers the planned 2.4 million tonne per annum carbon in leach facility, tailings line and other supporting infrastructure with the potential for early works to procure tenders and pre-order long-lead items.

Classic Minerals has generated additional high-grade gold intersections from drilling at its Kat Gap project near Southern Cross, WA, extending the gold system by another 50m vertically at depth. The program targeted the ore body down-dip, producing exceptional new intercepts including 9m @ 20.94g/t from 123m down-hole, which also indicated the ore zone shallowing with depth.

Independent testing has indicated that graphite concentrate from BlackEarth Minerals’ Maniry project in southern Madagascar, meets the purity specification required by lithium-ion battery anode material manufacturers. The company is continuing discussions for potential offtake agreements and has entered into several confidentiality agreements with interested parties.

Northern Minerals has delivered its best-ever drilling result at the Browns Range project near Halls Creek, WA, with an exceptional 52-metre wide intercept grading 4.15% TREO recorded at the emerging Dazzler prospect. The company also discovered a new ore position just 350m to the southeast of Dazzler and will kick off further drilling in the region starting early next month.