Public Company News

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears Runner of the Week is … MC Mining. The South African-focused coal producer inked a US$90 million cash injection into its coal operations. Also, Actinogen Medical received renewed support upon revealing analysis showing its Xanamem therapeutic to effectively treat depression, while other movers and shakers this week were Kalina Power and Felix Gold.

In the high-stakes world of high-tech, Atomos had not so long ago lost its way. But with a new product suite and a new-old boss, the company appears to be surging back towards a healthy financial future. It comes on the back of returned managing director Jeromy Young’s restructuring of the company and its share price is now riding high on the promise of elevated sales.

Buxton Resources has revealed a 54m graphite zone, with 20m estimated to be grading more than 10 per cent total graphitic carbon (TGC), in a maiden drillhole at its Ranger prospect in Western Australia’s Murchison region. Sitting within the company’s Narryer project, the discovery has bolstered its efforts to expand its graphite footprint, complementing the promising nearby Graphite Bull project.

Horizon Minerals has kicked off mining activities at its recently-approved Boorara gold development operation that sits adjacent to Northern Star’s massive Super Pit mine in the regional WA city of Kalgoorlie. Management last month gave approval for the mining of four open pits containing 1.24 million tonnes of ore grading 1.24g/t gold for 49,500 ounces and says it has already kicked the plan into action.

Carnaby Resources has jagged 3m at 3.2 per cent copper and 2.2 grams per tonne gold – including 1m at 7.6 per cent copper and 3.8g/t gold – at the Lady Fanny prospect within the Greater Duchess joint venture (JV) with Latitude 66 near Mt Isa in Queensland underlining the prospectivity of the deposit to host a greater resource than its 46,500 tonnes of copper equivalent.

Reach Resources has identified new high-priority targets rich in niobium and rare earths after nailing down a comprehensive mapping and sampling campaign at its Wabli Creek project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region. The company plans to use the results gleaned from its latest work to plan a drilling program that it expects to roll out towards the end of this year.

Surefire Resources has executed a joint co-operation agreement with WA’s Mid West Ports Authority to define the best pathway forward for exporting magnetite product from the company’s Victory Bore operation. Management’s aim is to secure port access for 1.25 million tonnes per annum to be shipped to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), where the ore will be processed into a suite of valuable products.

Higher silver and zinc prices have led Horizon Minerals to dust off the mothballed Nimbus project that sits adjacent to its flagship Boorara gold operation, some 17km from Kalgoorlie in WA’s Eastern Goldfields region. The company has set a big exploration target to chase in a drilling campaign planned for next year as it looks to ramp up its resources for an upcoming feasibility study.

Dateline Resources drilling has reeled in two giant hits going 1g/t gold, including a richer zone of 10.7m of 8.17g/t, as it works to bring its Colosseum project in California back into production. The company says its first two diamond drillholes show 203.6m grading 1.03g/t gold and 192m running at 1g/t, confirming the potential for expanded mineralisation at the site.

Galan Lithium has signed a memorandum of understanding with China-based Chengdu Chemphys Chemical Industry Co., paving the way for a US$40 million funding and offtake package at its Hombre Muerto West lithium brine project in Argentina. The package, subject to due diligence, will be in exchange for a five-year purchase agreement for Galan to deliver a total of 23,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent material.

St George Mining has added yet another highly-credentialled local advisor for its new niobium-rich Araxá rare earths project in Brazil by locking in the country’s former Minister of Mines, Adolfo Sachsida. The well-known business leader will join two other recent in-country niobium industry expert additions as St George completes its acquisition of the Araxá project that sits in the State of Minas Gerais.

White Cliff Minerals has unveiled extraordinary silver grades in rock-chip samples from its Great Bear Lake project in northern Canada, with assays reaching as high as a lab-shaking 75,439 grams per tonne – or 7.54 per cent. The company’s managing director Troy Whittaker probably put it best when he said, “Well, this is not something you see every day”.