Public Company News

Askari Metals has embarked on another round of field mapping and sampling at the company’s Barrow Creek lithium project located in the NT’s Arunta pegmatite province. The field program is designed to identify and sample outcropping pegmatites in the previously unexplored south-central portion of the project. Previous phases of exploration across the area identified fertile pegmatites with lithium oxide values of up to 817 ppm.

Estrella Resources will turn its attention to upgrading its resource after the final chapter of resource drilling at its Spargoville nickel project near Kambalda in WA delivered a raft of solid intercepts. Assay results from two diamond holes sunk beneath the Spargoville 5A deposit include 2.76m at 3.58 per cent nickel from 71.46m and 2.2m going 3.17 per cent nickel from 61m.

Altech Chemicals has expanded its research and development centre in WA in order to produce a new range of high-performance batteries using its innovative anode technology. The company is looking to integrate its battery boosting Silumina Anodes mixture into the batteries’ graphite anode to produce a more powerful end product.

Explorer Strickland Metals has uncovered a new significant oxide mineralisation zone with an initial pass of RC drilling at the company’s Millrose gold project 80km north-east of Wiluna in WA. Results from the drilling extend mineralisation 350m north of Millrose’s existing gold mineral resource of 346,000 ounces. Peak assay values included a 37m hit running 1.6 grams per tonne gold from 58m, containing a higher-grade interval of 9m at 5.6 g/t gold from 86m.

AVZ Minerals has completed eight more extensional diamond drill holes at the company’s Manono lithium project in Democratic Republic of the Congo as it looks to significantly increase its lithium resources and reserves. The eight holes constitute about a tenth of the total metres planned in the ongoing 15,000m program at the project’s Roche Dure deposit with 40 more holes at a minimum depth of 200m to follow.

Estrella Resources has received positive assay results showing multiple nickel intersections at the company’s T5 deposit, part of its wholly owned Carr Boyd project north-east of Kalgoorlie in WA’s Goldfields. The company says the results show mineralisation plunges down and to the south with a clear opportunity at depth where the deposit remains open.

Results from recent RC drill work by mineral explorer Aurumin indicate a continuity of gold between two deposits at the company’s 784,000-ounce Central Sandstone gold project near Leinster in Western Australia. The RC program included nine holes for 1245m drilled and returned significant assays including 7m going 5.78 g/t gold from 137m downhole and 8m at 4.99 g/t gold from 80m.

ASX-listed BMG Resources has outlined a suite of regional gold anomalies after running a follow-up air-core drilling program over underexplored areas of its Abercromby project near Wiluna in Western Australia. The campaign adds a pipeline of greenfield exploration targets to the project’s previously defined Capital South, Barrack and Archer prospects.

Fast-tracked results from rock chip samples have confirmed the presence of anomalous rare earths for White Cliff Minerals at its Yinnetharra project about 100km north-east of Gascoyne Junction in WA. The 13 returned sample results of up to 780 parts per million total rare earths oxides, along with nearby thorium anomalies, have given the company a greater understanding of potential exploration targets over the next few weeks.

DiscovEx Resources has kicked off a 10,000m air-core program at its Edjudina project about 250km north-east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia as it targets a compelling gold anomaly at the site. The company has been working up its Spartan target over the past few months conducting systematic soil sampling and geophysical survey work.

American West Metals has stretched the shallow mineralisation footprint at its Storm project in Canada after two holes plunged across a highly prospective zone known as “2750N” intersected broad intervals of visual copper. The explorer says its recent campaign has extended the strike length of the area’s copper to more than 200m.

Tambourah Metals’ maiden drill program at the company’s namesake gold project in the Pilbara region of WA has confirmed and extended its geological model for the goldfield in addition to highlighting new targets. The first campaign at the Tambourah gold and lithium project comprised 2527m of RC drilling at five of its gold prospects — Tambourah King, Western Chief, Western Chief south, Federal and Kushmattie.