Public Company News

Classic Minerals has narrowed its focus to the very prospective Forrestania gold project near Southern Cross in WA, which includes the emerging, high-grade Kat Gap project. The company is in discussions with regard to financing for an exploration program to better delineate and potentially increase the size of the Kat Gap project. It has also flagged its intention to divest its non-core assets.

Artemis Resources has defined three new gravity targets at its greenfields Armada prospect in the Paterson Range copper-gold province in the eastern Pilbara. The company now has 11 potential targets to act as a drawcard as it searches for a potential joint venture partner to undertake further exploration near Greatland Gold’s spectacular Havieron copper-gold discovery.

Spectrum Metals has returned a high-grade gold intersection 125m below a historical open pit at its Penny West gold prospect near Youanmi in WA. The intercept of 5 metres grading 28.9g/t gold from 203m down-hole was contained within a wider zone of 31m @ 5.5g/t gold from the same depth. The company said the result might represent a structurally thickened zone and that further drilling is planned.

Image Resources has outlined further evidence of a very high-grade core section in the eastern strand of its Boonanarring heavy minerals mine north of Perth after processing ore with an average grade about 2.5 times than the budgeted grade in March. The company has commenced a close-spaced drilling program to delineate the high-grade zone and update its ore reserve estimate.

MGC Pharmaceuticals continues to progress its strategy to commercialise its bio-pharma business with research partner RMIT receiving approval from the Australian Office of Drug Control to possess and handle phytocannabinoids for research purposes. The company has also been awarded a European Union licence to produce non-sterile schedule two medicines in that jurisdiction.

Canadian conglomerate gold specialist Novo Resources has increased minerals resources at its Beatons Creek gold project near Nullagine in the East Pilbara region of WA by 30% to 10.94 million tonnes grading 2.57g/t gold for 903,000 ounces. 85% of the company’s oxide resources that total 316,000 gold ounces are within the high-confidence indicated category subset, from which future ore reserves can be derived.

Coziron Resources has identified an electromagnetic conductor down-dip of the Martin prospect at its Croydon Top Camp multi-element project in WA’s Pilbara region as a priority target for its upcoming drilling program. Reprocessing of 2016 electromagnetic data is underway to determine if any additional anomalies are present. Any conductive targets with coincident geochemistry will be prioritised for drilling.

Artemis Resources has outlined a development drilling program for its flagship Carlow Castle gold-copper-cobalt project in the Pilbara of WA that is aimed at upgrading the current inferred mineral resource to the higher confidence indicated status. The drilling will close up the drill spacing over higher-grade sections of the existing mineral resources and allow the company to derive a maiden ore reserve for the project.

Aurora Labs has successfully printed a series of 10mm high, titanium parts in just 20 minutes, proving the ability of its proprietary multi-level 3D printing technology to manufacture complex shapes at high speed. This outcome is another step towards its goal of using additive manufacturing to produce parts in a whole range of application. The company has also successfully printed an aluminium part with a high density of around 99%.

Hammer Metals has delineated a number of prospective looking copper-gold and gold only anomalies from a soil geochemical survey program at its early-stage, Mt Philp breccia iron oxide-copper-gold project, near Mount Isa in Queensland. The company said that it is now field checking the new copper-gold anomalies and that a ground gravity survey is planned to investigate possible blind exploration targets.

Buru Energy has completed the acquisition of a further 22.5% interest in two exploration permits in the Canning hydrocarbon Basin in WA’s Kimberley from Mitsubishi Corporation for $720,000, taking its operating stake up to 60%. Permits EP 457 and EP 458 are considered to be prospective for conventional oil in a number of formations with the 2015 Victory-1 well recovering oil from the Laurel Formation.

Spectrum Metals has drilled a bonanza grade intercept at its new Penny North gold prospect near Youanmi in WA, returning a 4 metre wide intersection of mineralisation grading 105.2g/t gold from 151m down-hole. The company has expanded its drilling campaign to follow up the new find, which is along strike from a historical open pit that produced 85,000 ounces at 21.8g/t gold in the 1990s.