Public Company News

Azumah Resources has advised shareholders to ignore a 2.8c a share takeover bid from Ibaera Capital, its private equity partner in the Wa gold project in Ghana, saying the offer appears opportunistic given the recent strengthening in gold prices and it overlooks the upside potential of the recent Bepkong underground deposit discovery. Azumah says that Ibaera has paid up to 3.7c a share in the past for its stock.

Ironbark Zinc has appointed Michael Jardine to drive its zinc-lead project in Greenland from the Managing Director’s chair. Mr Jardine has a technical background in a range of industries including corporate development in mining and investment banking and looks well placed to take the helm at Ironbark. Former M.D and Ironbark prime mover Jonathon Downes will stay on as a Non-exec director.

Sovereign Metals has successfully extracted a high-quality graphite concentrate during its pilot plant test program in Africa. The processed graphite originated from the company’s Malingunde deposit in Malawi. Sovereign discovered Malingunde in 2015 where it has since delineated a total graphite resource of 65.1Mt @ 7.1% TGC. The company says Malingunde is the world’s largest saprolite-hosted graphite deposit.

Anglo Australian looks like it is well and truly onto something now at its Mandilla East project near Kambalda in Western Australia. Latest eye-catching drill intersections include a staggering 112m-wide zone going 1.5 g/t gold from just 41m down-hole and a 93m-wide hit going 3.11 g/t gold from 49m. Anglo is now working double time to unearth the full extent of this remarkable mineralised zone.

Altech Chemicals has been invited by the Saxony State Government in east Germany, to consider building a second HPA plant to lever off the burgeoning lithium-ion battery and EV manufacturing hub in that region. Saxony is one of the leading vehicle construction areas in Germany, with Volkswagen, BMW, Porsche and Daimler all operating plants in the State.

Lithium Australia has created an innovative new process that could potentially revolutionise the lithium battery recycling space. The company recently recovered lithium, nickel and cobalt from spent batteries during a trial. The process is able to salvage valuable metals normally sent to landfill and potentially “close the loop” for the lithium battery manufacturing industry.

Big River has cashed in its Meteoric shares for a cool $2.75m, issued as part of the sale consideration for its Juruena and Novo Astro projects in central Brazil in May. The company will now utilise the funds to progress exploration and resource development drilling at its Borborema gold project, where a DFS is underway.

Perth-based Horizon Minerals has completed its agreement with Kingswest Resources to fully divest its interest in the Menzies and Goongarrie gold projects, located north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Horizon will receive a total consideration of some AUD$8 million for Kingswest’s acquisition of 38 mining, prospecting and exploration licenses.

Adriatic Metals has brought in Paul Cronin, one of its founders, to run the company and progress its outstanding multi-metals project in Bosnia. As a founding shareholder, Cronin has intimate knowledge of the project and the jurisdiction and therefore well placed to take it to the next level. Cronin, Eric De-Mori and Miloš Bošnjakovic originally floated Adriatic.

MGC Pharmaceuticals has expanded the number of patients now prescribing for or being processed to receive prescriptions of its medical cannabis-based pharmaceutical products in Australia and the UK to beyond 200. The company said that the key milestone readily demonstrates its strengthening position in those markets to meet the demand for its proprietary standardised, affordable medicines on a global scale.

Spectrum Metals continues its run of solid drilling success at its Penny North gold prospect located 25km south of the Youanmi mining centre in Western Australia. New drilling showed that the mineralised zones at Penny North are harbouring ounce plus dirt with drill hits including 2m at 32.5 g/t gold from 322m within a wider 6 meter intercept grading 11.1 g/t.

ClearVue Technologies has doubled the area of its insulated glass units, significantly growing sales opportunities for the ClearVue PV product range, which should allow architects and façade engineers much greater flexibility in design work for aesthetic purposes. New batches of the panel are being readied for production, with the company aiming to generate over 60 Watts from a single panel in upcoming prototypes.