Public Company News

Brightstar Resources has locked in an air-core drill rig to test a grab bag of high-quality targets at its Brightstar South gold project located approximately 40 kilometres southeast of Laverton in WA. Although the target areas have shown significant anomalism, giving up over 5,000 ounces of gold historically, the prospects have inexplicably, never been run to ground with modern exploratory drilling.

Buru shareholders will be looking for some post-Christmas cheer from the Canning Basin with follow up testing of a newly interpreted zone at its recently upgraded Rafael discovery about to happen. The company also has another development well about to kick off aimed at lifting production and cash flows from its cash generating Ungani oilfield.

ASX-listed copper developer, Hot Chili has secured funding to the tune of C$30 million from major institutional investors and existing shareholders. The funds will underwrite 18-months of drilling and development works at its multi-deposit Costa Fuego copper-gold porphyry project in Chile. The company is also preparing to list on the Toronto Stock Exchange, which will then see its shares traded in both Australia and Canada.

Panther Metals commenced trading on the ASX today after raising $5 million through its initial public offering. Drilling at its flagship Coglia nickel laterite deposit is set to commence imminently with a 5,000m RC program aimed at following up some historical drill hits going 2.5 per cent nickel. The maiden drilling also aims to shore up the estimated 30-50 million tonne deposit grading at approximately 0.7 per cent nickel.

King River Resources has upped the ante in its quest to produce high purity aluminium precursor compounds to feed the flourishing lithium-ion battery industry. Using the company’s proprietary “ARC” processing technology, a second and third run of a newly commissioned laboratory scale pilot plant has now delivered a “Type 1” precursor aluminium salt going more than 99.999 per cent purity.

AVZ Minerals has locked in $75 million from tier 1 global institutions in a heavily oversubscribed capital raise. The company issued 150,000,000 shares at $0.50 per share to fund the commencement of site works. A definitive feasibility study for the monster Manono lithium and tin project turned out a robust set numbers with a final investment decision expected to follow the approval of a mining license.

Coda Minerals has snared its widest yet copper-sulphide intercept at its Emmie Bluff Deeps prospect that returned a whopping 83m of chalcopyrite dominated mineralisation. The width of the intercept along with the identification of the first material molybedenum mineralisation logged at Emmie Bluff Deeps suggests the company is on the brink of discovering the core of the deposit and its mineralising structure.

Gold explorer, BMG Resources is set to start the new year with a bang after securing a rig for a 12,000m drilling blitz at its high-grade Abercromby gold project near Wiluna in WA. The aircore drilling will test a series of newly identified structural targets similar to the company’s high-grade Capitol prospect where recent RC drilling returned a sensational 26m hit going 6.07 g/t gold.

ASX-listed Valor Resources is about to wheel in the rotary truth diviner at its Hook Lake uranium prospect deep in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Major Drilling has been contracted to run the 2500m drill program which will comprise of ten to fifteen 200-250m deep holes. The drill targets are within the “S Zone” target, where previous surface sampling returned assays of up to 59.2 per cent uranium oxide.

Interpretation of a seismic survey by nickel explorer, St George Mining has uncovered another high priority nickel, copper and platinum target near the mineral rich Cathedrals Belt at its Mt Alexander project in the north-eastern Goldfields of WA. The new target, named ‘S2’, stretches for more than 400 metres down dip and adds to another key target recently identified beneath the Cathedrals Belt, named ‘S1’.

Blackstone Minerals has recommenced mining at the company’s per cent owned Ta Khoa nickel project in northern Vietnam and has plans to complete around 1,000m of development through the Ban Phuc disseminated orebody. The company is also gearing up to recommission the Ban Phuc nickel concentrator to produce two batches of nickel concentrate for use in the Ta Khoa refinery piloting programs.

Memphasys is rapidly hurtling towards commercialising with its “Felix” bio-separation IVF technology with clinical trials set to commence to assess embryo fertilisation efficacy in patients at four Monash IVF Australian clinics. 104 couples are anticipated to commence IVF trials in March 2022 with results expected to support regulatory filings and international commercial sales.