Public Company News

Junior explorer Valor Resources has met its first-year expenditure and cash payment commitments under a farm-in agreement where it is looking to take an 80 per cent stake in the Hook Lake uranium project located 60 kilometres east of the Key Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan in Canada. Expenditure by Valor has now exceeded the C$750,000 requirement set out in the farm-in agreement.

ASX-listed Wiluna Mining is ticking off milestones after confirming the first shipment of gold concentrate to its two off-take partners, Polymetal International and Trafigura. The company says the maiden supply forms part of an ongoing delivery that could significantly spike its revenue and assist in financing its transition towards becoming a top tier gold producer.

Venture Minerals is scrubbing up its Tasmanian tin-tungsten play in rapid fire after drilling at its Mount Lindsay project rattled off a clutch of exemplary results including a monster 119.2 metre intersection grading 0.8 per cent tin and 0.2 per cent tungsten from 75.8m. Remarkably, Venture says the hole is still open and that it is still awaiting additional assay results.

Image Resources’ major shareholder, Chinese backed Murray Zircon is looking to show the existing board and management the door despite three solid and profitable years at the mineral sands miner. Murray Zircon has lobbed a section 249D notice over the wall seeking to remove the directors and its largest beneficial shareholder, LB Group is working the phones looking for support for the 249D – the key question however is why?

Horizon Minerals has unearthed a mixed bag of geological goodies at its Yarmany project near Coolgardie. Initial drill results confirm gold, nickel-cobalt-copper, silver, lead, zinc and even lithium mineralisation to be present, opening up a grab bag of opportunities for the gold developer. The Yarmany project sits around 25 kilometres northwest of Coolgardie and takes in some 400km2 along the prospective Mt Ida Fault and Reptile shear zone.

Kairos Minerals has eked out an extensive lithium-in-soil anomaly at its Roe Hills project some 120km east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. With the white metal running red hot and the emerging discovery of Breaker Resources’ Manna Lithium deposit only 10km up the road, the company cast its eye back over the results of a 2020 soil sampling program and discovered the intriguing anomaly stretching over 2.7km.

Oar Resources is making headway at its wholly owned Crown project, about 70 kilometres north east of Perth, after finalising plans for an airborne geophysical mapping survey at the site. The project is considered highly prospective for nickel, copper and platinum group elements and is on the doorstep of Chalice Mining’s much-lauded Gonneville polymetallic discovery.

Meeka Gold Limited has discovered a new, shallow lying oxide gold lode amongst a slew of other high grade hits, adding to the company’s ongoing success with the drill bit at its Murchison gold project in WA. Excellent shallow intercepts from recent drilling include 16 metres grading 6.67 grams per tonne gold from just 20m downhole with a 4m internal section going 24.1g/t gold.

If billionaire “prospector” Mark Creasy has the Midas touch when it comes to divining lucrative mineral deposits, Paul Hopper just might be the man who wields the mythical rod of Asclepius - the Greek God of medicine - when it comes to the equally lucrative ASX-listed biotechnology space. By any measure Hopper has experienced success listing and developing biotech companies on the ASX – and the last year was a good one.

Classic Minerals has only one hurdle left to clear now to develop its Kat Gap gold mine near Southern Cross after being given a permit to clear native vegetation for its mine and processing plant in WA’s goldfields. The company only needs regulatory approval for its mining proposal now including the mine closure plan before it can kick its operation into gear.

Strickland Metals’ second-string Iroquois project in the northern goldfields is continuing to jostle attention away from its better addressed Yandal greenstone belt Strickland stablemates, the Horse Well and Millrose projects. Iroquois has been throwing up some impressive zinc hits to back up last year’s initial discovery and it appears that Strickland now has yet another serious project on its books.

ASX-listed explorer Zuleika Gold is set to embark on major expansionary drilling programs across its Kalgoorlie gold projects. After a significant effort in 2021, the company is gearing up to plough an additional 20,000 metres into the ground for what will ultimately be a serious 40,000m campaign over two years for the Mark Creasy backed junior.