Public Company News

Hot Chili is on fire at its Cortadera project in Chile, finishing off the year in style with a suite of impressive copper and gold hits for the second time in as many weeks. The Cupero 2 prospect has again delivered, with an 80m drill hit going 0.8% copper, 0.3g/t gold and 3.8g/t silver, right from surface. This includes 26m @ 1.7% copper and 0.7g/t gold from 54 metres depth.

Lindian’s Gaoual bauxite project in Guinea will soon be peppered with drill holes courtesy of an auger drill program that will target the Bouba and Mamaya prospects that are thought to be the more lucrative, conglomerate hosted deposits. Surface samples from Gaoual recently returned an impressive 53.57% alumina and a two-pronged drilling program is now being planned to assess the overall grade, thickness and scale of the deposit.

Listed mining software company K2fly has been racking and stacking a solid slew of major mining companies into its client base, inking yet another long-term contract, this one with serious mining player, Westgold. Westgold’s new contract with K2fly holds an initial total contract value of over $580,000 with the two companies also looking to collaborate on future working enhancements to the existing software system.

Blackstone Minerals’ drilling program in Vietnam has continued to churn out some impressive nickel and platinum group metal results from its Ta Khoa nickel project, located west of Hanoi in northern Vietnam, with a surprising new discovery at King Cobra. Assays are still pending for this new nickel discovery whilst broad intercepts at the Ban Phuc disseminated sulphide zone continue to entice with 106m @ 0.45% nickel.

As another old goldfield prepares to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, Terrain Minerals has hatched a plan to capture its value as the company elects to proceed with a farm-in agreement with a private vendor for the Smokebush gold project, an exploration play located about 65 kilometres west of Paynes Find in WA. Newly discovered historical numbers include 2 metres grading 11.3 grams per tonne gold from 70 metres downhole.

As Calidus Resources rolls on towards the end of a successful field season at its Warrawoona gold project in the East Pilbara of WA, a suite of exciting assays have come in that may provide a boost to its 1.25 million ounce resource. Drilling up to 200m below the base of the proposed open cut mine hit 1m @ 55.2g/t gold and 1.11m @ 31.2g/t gold – giving the company a hint that an underground operation just might fly.

Green energy innovator, ClearVue Technologies, has consolidated its position in the global sustainable energy sector after securing a lucrative supply agreement with Treasure Engineering Limited in Hong Kong, The deal, which will significantly boost ClearVue’s hopes of full commercialisation of its unique solar window glass technology, will see Treasure Engineering exclusively distribute its product in Hong Kong and Macau.

Neometals is embarking on a collaborative research and development project with the Queensland University of Technology to build a synthetic “zeolite” manufacturing plant that will take waste produced from the lithium refining process and turn it into a potentially lucrative material. The R&D project will be co-funded to the tune of $2.57 million courtesy of the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre.

MGC Pharmaceuticals has expanded the number of patients prescribing for or being processed to receive prescriptions for its medical cannabis-based pharmaceutical products in Australia, the UK, Brazil and Ireland with the company racking up over 1800 prescriptions to-date. Management said the milestone readily demonstrates its strengthening position and momentum in those key markets, with its sales graph continuing to climb month by month.

Bellevue Gold has set a cracking pace this year, turning its namesake project near Leinster in WA back into a living breathing thing after most technocrats had written it off as a mined out deposit. The company’s market cap rocketed to around $300m after catching the market’s attention in 2017 when it went looking for a parallel gold lode adjacent to the historically mined Bellevue mine.

K2fly has reinforced its emerging prominence in the resource’s software space with mining giant, Teck Resources, extending its annual “RCubed” software contract with K2Fly out to three-years. K2fly said it has now locked down total contract values of over $2 million from its RCubed software as a service, or “SaaS”, as clients sign onto three and five year terms. The latest numbers come only weeks after the ASX-listed company signed a five-year software contract with Rio Tinto.

Kingwest Resources’ has rounded out the year at its Menzies gold project with some nice hits including 2.48m @ 23.22g/t that included almost half a metre going a whopping 110g/t – or 3.5 ounces to the tonne gold from the First Hit prospect. First Hit produced the best intercept of the year for Kingwest at 57.6 gram metres from 121.52m downhole, followed by Pericles with 41.5 gram metres.