Public Company News

Venture Minerals could be gearing up for a cracking end of year after market darling and JV partner Chalice Mining revived a previously paused EM survey on its “Julimar lookalike” target at the duo’s South West nickel-copper-PGE project about 240 kilometres south of Perth. The survey will focus on Venture’s Thor target, a 20km long magnetic anomaly that has drawn comparisons with Chalice’s revered Julimar discovery.

Mining focused software-as-a-service provider, K2fly has extended a pre-existing contract for its ‘RCubed Resource & Reserves Solution’ platform with global mining giant, Glencore Canada by three years. The agreement is set to contribute A$443,000 in total contract value and A$130,00 in annual recurring revenue to K2fly’s coffers, with Glencore to use the product for its global zinc operations at 56 sites across seven countries.

Perth-based Comet Resources looks on track to carve itself a healthy-sized slice of the lucrative downstream graphite pie after inductively coupled plasma or “ICP” assay testing of its natural flake g

Aldoro Resources has planned a rock chip sampling program targeting high-interest lithium and rubidium pegmatites, following up some exciting previous rock chip samples at its Wyemandoo project approximately 80 kilometres southeast of Mount Magnet in WA. Previously reported grades included a rock chip grading a respectable 2.6 per cent lithium and 1.7 per cent rubidium.

Technology Metals Australia has delivered an impressive 32 per cent increase to its Yarrabubba vanadium pentoxide resource at its Murchison Technology Metals Project in WA, including a cracking 110 per cent lift in the indicated resource component. The company’s resource base at the project now clocks in at a whopping 146.2 million tonnes grading 0.8 per cent vanadium pentoxide.

ASX-listed Brightstar Resources continues to deliver stellar results with significant shallow gold intercepts in addition to unexpected nickel hits at its flagship Cork Tree Well prospect near Laverton in WA. The latest strikes include 12m going 4.25 g/t gold from 131m downhole and unexpected nickel sulphide hits including a 1m interval going 1.6 per cent nickel from 41m and 1.99 per cent nickel from 61m.

Si6 Metals has generated multiple high-priority drill targets from a geophysical AMT survey across the Dibete, Airstrip and Maibele North prospects at its Maibele base metals project in Botswana. Results delivered from the Dibete prospect pointed to numerous untested anomalies that lie along strike and underneath known mineralisation consistent with a “Messina Copper” style mineralisation.

CZR Resources has appointed experienced geologist Stefan Murphy as its new Managing Director. Murphy was most recently the CEO of Northern Territory iron ore developer Nathan River Resources.

ASX-listed precious and base metals explorer, Godolphin Resources could be in line for a busy end of year after receiving encouraging assay results from a recent Quarry Lode RC drilling program at its Lewis Ponds Project in NSW. The company says it has identified zones of gold, silver and base metals mineralisation in four holes.

Perth-based Okapi Resources has entered into an agreement with Canada’s ALX Resources to acquire a portfolio of six advanced exploration projects in the Athabasca Basin - the world’s premier uranium district. The projects include 75 granted mineral claims covering an impressive 55,000 hectares. Okapi will initially focus on the Cluff Lake and Newnham Lake projects where it will target high-grade unconformity-related uranium deposits.

Newfield Resources has locked in just shy of $25m from 71m shares issued as part of a rights issue at 35c to advance its Tongo diamond project in Sierra Leone. The company’s share price traded as high as 47c during intraday trading today and it will look to place the shortfall at the original price of 35c with a view to banking another $25m.

Junior explorer Kula Gold has locked onto a new gold prospect known as “G-Star” at its Marvel Loch-Airfield project in the prolific Southern Cross goldfields in Western Australia. First pass auger drilling has revealed a gold anomaly striking over 2.2km which remains open to the northwest. Follow up sampling was completed during October with samples awaiting assay.