Public Company News

Middle Island continues to pile more gold into its inventory at Sandstone, with the company tabling its maiden resources for both the Plum Pudding and Old Town Well discoveries increasing its resource book at the developing WA gold project to 692,000 ounces. The company’s updated feasibility study for Sandstone is scheduled for release in the coming months.

ASX-listed explorer, Victory Mines, has fired up the drill bit at its joint-ventured historic Coogee gold project about 55km south-east of Kalgoorlie as it looks to tease out high-grade extensions aiming to build on the resource left by its JV partner more than six years ago. That inferred and indicated resource estimate stands at 96,000 tonnes grading 3.4 grams per tonne for 10,600 ounces of contained gold.

Unlisted Barton Gold has confirmed the high-grade gold prospectivity of its Deliverance target below the historical Perseverance pit, with fresh ‘ounce-to-the-tonne’ drill results from its Tarcoola Phase 1 campaign. The best hit at its developing South Australian project was 3m going 33.7 g/t gold from 220m downhole, including 2m at a stellar 49.6 g/t gold.

ASX-listed Quantify Technology has entered into an equity partnership arrangement with 100-year-old unlisted Gerard Private Holdings, owner of GSM Innovations, or “GSM-I” which produces a range of internet-connected household devices as Quantify seeks to shore up a dominant position in the smart home technology sector.

ASX-listed Oakdale Resources has been granted new exploration ground covering its Gibraltar Halloysite-Kaolin project on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula where historical drilling uncovered shallow kaolinitic clays, adjacent to Andromeda Metals’ Mount Hope halloysite project. Confirmation of the news charged the company's share price more than 23 per cent higher in daily trade by Thursdays close.

Legend Mining is on a roll in the Fraser Range with recent exploration over its Rockford South tenure outlining a third electromagnetic, or “EM” target at the Hurley prospect. This is the fifth EM target the company has generated in its southern tenure, with the prospect area quickly shaping up as Legend’s newest nickel sulphide target.

ASX-listed explorer, Victory Mines, has moved to bolster its board and management as an RC drilling program gets underway at its joint-ventured high-grade Coogee gold project about 50km south-east of Kalgoorlie. Non‐Executive Director Matthew Blake has stepped up to the role of Executive Director of the Perth-based company taking on extra responsibilities, while Zaffer Soemya has been appointed as a Non‐Executive Director.

Venus Metals Corporation has joined the hunt for the next Julimar nickel-PGE discovery in WA with the company acquiring two new tenements at Bridgetown East. The tenure covers over 270 square kilometres of prospective stratigraphy and hosts a previously defined electromagnetic sulphide target in the southern portion of the project area. Geophysical and geochemical surveys over the target are expected to kick off in the coming weeks.

Eclipse Metals has extended the high-grade envelope of manganese mineralisation surrounding the historical mine workings at its Amamoor project in Queensland. The Stage 1 drilling program intersected manganese mineralisation from surface within the old mine area whilst the Stage Two drilling, proximal to the old workings, also continues to intersect high-grade ores – samples are being dispatched to the lab with results expected in the coming weeks.

AI-powered, home care service provider InteliCare has expanded its reach across the Australian healthcare sector entering into an agency agreement with Melbourne-based company, Rehab Hire, to distribute its technology in Victoria. The agreement will result in Rehab Hire receiving a commission on products sold and is not subject to sales targets or exclusivity: Rehab Hire intends to recruit a dedicated sales manager to market the InteliCare product line.

ASX-listed gold producer, Wiluna Mining, has increased the total resource base for the main Wiluna Mining Centre, or “WMC” at its historic Wiluna project in WA by nine per cent to 5.1 million ounces of contained gold – from 52.98 million tonnes of ore going 3 grams per tonne gold. With a global resource of 7.3Moz, Wiluna is now the seventh largest gold district in Australia.

Indiana Resources surprised investors this morning releasing details of a substantial compensation claim against the Tanzanian government following the expropriation of the company’s Ntaka Hill nickel project in 2019. Indiana’s claim to the World Bank, acting as arbitrator, is for a cool US$95 million and is expected to increase as the company develops its full ‘statement of claim’ in the coming months.