Public Company News

Southern Gold says that JV partner Bluebird Merchant Ventures has produced high recoveries of gold up to 80% and around 60% for silver, from simple gravity separation met test work at the Kochang project in South Korea. The company also said that a low CAPEX option for initial processing could result in early cash flows from the proposed Kochang operation, based on recoveries of precious metals via gravity techniques.

Calima Energy is now tantalisingly close to drilling its exciting oil and gas play in the revered Canadian Montney formation with the access road to the drill pad for its planned three well program now complete. Calima’s share price has held steadfast over the last year with only one brief foray below its floor price of 4.5c as investors choose to stay the course and await the moment of truth.

Affinity Energy and Health has signed a non-binding heads of agreement with St John of God Hospital Subiaco to identify and undertake medical cannabis research and development projects. St John has a strong focus on research and medical excellence that is expected to help Affinity underpin the commercialisation of its Australian medical cannabis strategy.

Ironbark Zinc has kicked off a helicopter-borne electromagnetic survey to gain a better understanding of the large-scale Jerangle prospect at its Captains Flat multi-element project in New South Wales. Earlier drilling by the company returned significant base metal intercepts such as 4.4m @ 12.05% zinc , which follows up on historic drill results.

Coziron Resources’ rock chip sampling program at the Croydon Top Camp project in WA’s Pilbara region has returned up to 12% copper, 2g/t gold and 0.34% cobalt at the newly named Martin prospect, which represents a drill-ready target. Sampling at the Top Camp prospect has also highlighted areas that are ready for an initial RC drilling program to delineate the subsurface rock-types and down-hole geochemistry.

Calidus Resources has confirmed that its existing 654,000 ounce Klondyke mineral resource still has legs, this week reporting significant depth extensions at the impressively mineralised gold deposit. All deep drill holes from the recent campaign returned mineralisation, peaking at 12.65 metres grading 3.25g/t gold from 253.3m down-hole. Others results were 6.97m @ 4.33g/t gold from 224m down-hole and 6.5m @ 3.43g/t from 207.8m down-hole - in separate holes.

Fraser Range explorer, Legend Mining, has unearthed two new targets from aircore drilling at its emerging Rockford project in the revered Fraser Range. The first new target defined at Rockford South returned encouraging results peaking at 3m @ 0.71% nickel and 0.04% cobalt from 40m down-hole. About 9.5km to the northeast, the company intersected anomalous copper-zinc-silver mineralisation at the Area S prospect above an electrically conductive geophysical anomaly.

Tyranna Resources has confirmed the presence of a high grade ore shoot beneath the existing pit at its Eureka gold project near Kalgoorlie, after drilling returned results including 1m @ 41.8g/t gold. Management will now complete an updated JORC mineral resource estimate before making a decision on whether to start a mining study into the feasibility of mining and toll treating at nearby mills.

UltraCharge has received further validation of its unique, cobalt-free, lithium-ion battery solution after signing a purchase agreement with Israel-based three wheel electric scooter manufacturer Roadix Urban Transportation. The company is contracted to provide a total of 16,500 batteries over a three-year period with the initial 2000 to be delivered in the first year.

Coolgardie Minerals’ first near-mine exploration hole has intersected a new gold mineralised zone at its operating Geko gold mine near Kalgoorlie, confirming the company’s new structural interpretation of the Geko project. The 10m intersection has a grade of 2.62g/t gold, which is higher than the average grade of 1.8g/t gold within the pit reserve. This indicates that the grade of the orebody may increase at depth and to the west.

Biotech company Phylogica has successfully used its first generation “peptides” to deliver a protein used for gene editing into the nucleus of a cell line that is normally difficult for genetic material to penetrate. The company will now determine the best conditions for peptide assisted delivery of the CRISPR/Cas9 protein before assessing its relative effectiveness and safety compared to other delivery methods.

Image Resources has completed wet commissioning of its flagship Boonanarring heavy mineral sands project just 80km north of Perth and the company has started to ramp up production. Management has set an aggressive schedule aimed at achieving the feasibility study target processing rate of 500 dry tonnes of ore per hour in just six months.