Public Company News

Hammer Metals’ recent farm in to the Mt Frosty copper-gold joint venture with Glencore in Queensland is looking like one of the deals of the year after turning out another batch of excellent assays from the maiden drill program. The Mt Isa-focused explorer this week reported a shallow, 5-metre interval assaying 7.34% copper and 3.75 g/t gold from the final hole in the program.

Reedy Lagoon Corporation has successfully raised $3.5 million to fund a drilling campaign to test some alluring conductors within salty underground aquifers in the United States. The ASX-listed company has also acquired Nevada Lithium, an American player that holds three lithium projects in strategically-located parts of America that are approximately 200km from Tesla’s Gigafactory.

Subsea drone company Aquabotix has added two new distributors to an expanding global network that has seen 10 new partners come onboard in the past four months. Just one week after the launch of its new Integra AUV/ROV drone, the ASX-listed company welcomed Japan to its portfolio as it casts the sales net for its products on a wider arc into Australasian and Asia Pacific markets.

MGC Pharma is aiming to hit a series of new highs in 2018 with a number of medicinal and cosmetic cannabis products hitting the shelves in the new year as the company shifts into production phase. The Perth-listed company is moving into the final countdown on the launchpad to the release of its first medical marijuana product to designed treat severe cases of epilepsy.

Legend Mining has taken another important step towards discovering a Nova lookalike at its Rockford project in the Fraser Range with news that last week’s highly anomalous nickel, copper and cobalt results were from the same host rocks as those at the revered Nova ore body nearby. New assays also showed significant nickel and copper 1.6 kms away, suggesting Legend could be on to something decent.

Hammer Metals’ maiden drill program at the Mt Frosty joint venture with Glencore has produced a series of impressive hits of copper and gold, including 6 metres at 2.55% copper. The results are an early reward for Hammer, who bought its way into Mt Frosty earlier this year on the basis that it could potentially define a resource with minimal drilling. This is the second time Hammer have done this.

Northern Minerals is racing towards the commencement of production at its Brown Range pilot plant and is set to become a rare, global producer of dysprosium outside of China. Located near Halls Creek in the north of Western Australia, the Browns Range pilot plant looks set to produce 60,000 tonnes of dysprosium a year for three years following a targeted start-up in the third quarter of 2018.

Six months after listing on the ASX, Calidus Resources has added 300,000 ounces of gold to their Pilbara gold project. The total mineral resource at the Warrawoona project expanded to 10.5 million tonnes at 2.11 g/t gold for 712,000 ounces, up 74% as Calidus closes in on its target of one million ounces.

Geopacific Resources has discovered a significant new gold zone at the Woodlark gold project in PNG, boosting hopes that in time it could grow into something more like its multitude of Tier 1 neighbours. The new Boscalo gold zone is only 300 metres from an existing deposit and could potentially be incorporated into an expanded pit design. The best result at Boscalo was 12m @ 7.45 g/t gold.

Altech Chemicals appear to have pulled off a major financial coup with their announcement that the German Government would provide a debt guarantee for their proposed Malaysian high purity alumina plant that will be fed with Kaolin, mined in Meckering, W.A. The project is now debt guaranteed, fixed price guaranteed , has a 10 year off-take guaranteed and the quality and throughput rate is also guaranteed.

St George Mining has ended 2017 with its share price on an upward trajectory on confirmation that its Mt Alexander project produced one of the most impressive base metals drill hits in the country this year. New assay results have revealed a 17 metre drill intersection grading 3.01% nickel, 1.31% copper, 0.13% cobalt and 1.68 g/t platinum group elements from a depth of just 37.45 metres.

Perth-based biotech company PharmAust has announced a set of tail wagging results from tests conducted on dogs with cancer who were given PharmAust’s promising development drug Monepantel, or MPL, which stabilised the spread of the disease in the animals. 6 of the 7 dogs tested experienced a reduction in tumour size over a two week period when administered with MPL.