Public Company News

Aurum Resources has expanded the golden footprint at its Boundiali gold project in the West African country of Côte D’Ivoire after snapping up an adjoining tenement that features an advanced exploration permit area. The 167.34sq km Boundiali South ground, now formerly owned by Turaco Gold, has previously thrown up solid gold hits including 20m at 10.45g/t from 38m.

The fight over AVZ Minerals’ mega-lithium deposit in the DRC conjures up images of the whacky Cantina bar scene in Star Wars where all the characters have two heads or three arms and an armoury of weapons to wield. A recent court ruling, however, has reset the playing field in AVZ’s favour as the dominoes start to fall against the dark forces seeking to spirit away its extraordinary lithium deposit.

With the till topped up to the tune of $3.2 million, courtesy of a sweet, new JV deal with budding producer Delta Lithium, Reach Resources has landed boots on ground at its Wabli Creek niobium-rare earths project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region. The company has at least 16 compelling anomalies to ground-truth, with recent soil geochemical surveys indicating niobium, rare earths and lithium mineral systems.

Toro Energy is poised to launch drilling at its Wiluna uranium-vanadium play in Western Australia in a bid to provide sufficient ore samples to feed its upcoming pilot plant that is expected to begin operating in the next quarter. The company’s aim is to generate sufficient drill-core to provide a bulk sample of 20 tonnes to the pilot plant that is being designed in Perth.

Metallurgical testwork on samples from Surefire Resources’ Yidby gold project in Western Australia’s Murchison region alludes to almost 70 per cent more gold than previously reported by the company. And it is a timely finding for Surefire as the gold price continues to glitter, trading last week at a stunning all-time Australian high of $3308 per ounce.

Larvotto Resources says it has turned up abundant coarse grains of visible gold in its first diamond-core drilling at the Hillside gold-antimony project in New South Wales, with assays expected next month. The 2036m of drilling at the historic Bakers Creek Mine at Hillside chased extensions of previously-reported high-grade gold-antimony mineralisation of up to 525g/t gold from the project’s Little Reef lode.

Tests conducted by rare earths metallurgical specialists ANSTO Minerals have validated Red Metal’s breakthrough leach results using chip samples from its new Sybella discovery near Mt Isa in North Queensland. Red Metal says ANSTO’s supplementary findings back up its phase-one testwork that showed high recoveries and low impurities using low levels of acid consumption for both valuable magnet and heavy rare earth oxides.

The potential for one of Radiopharm Theranostics’ treatments to fight cancer while protecting a patient’s kidneys from excessive radiation has been showcased to the world’s leading image science specialists in Portugal. A symposium was told that adding a succinylated gelatin to radiotherapeutics, such as the company’s “RAD 301” and “RAD 302” treatments, could better protect kidneys against the negative effects of accumulated radioactivity.

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears top ASX runner is… Resource Mining Corporation. Its share price rose more than 213 per cent to join fellow movers and shakers LBT Innovations, Task Group Holdings and Arafura Rare Earths.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining says a review of its Kirgella Gift and Providence gold prospects has revealed similarities to Ramelius Resources’ 1.4-million-ounce Rebecca project, suggesting shallow open pit potential. The project analogy has led to the modified modelling of potential ore zones to distinguish lower-grade, but important gold envelopes enclosing shallow, high-grade zones, with the goal of adding ounces and enabling simpler bulk mining.

The Environmental Protection Authority has given Image Resources conditional approval to push ahead with the development proposal for its Atlas mineral sands project in Western Australia’s North Perth Basin. The company says that while the recommendation for its 100 per cent-owned project will now undergo a three-week review period, it believes it is now a matter of “when”, not “if” Atlas will proceed.

Infinity Lithium has secured a new 35-year lease on land that now expands the footprint of its San José project in Spain, following a new deal struck by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Extremadura New Energies. The company says its second major acquisition of rights and access to land that will be home to its processing facility is a milestone that provides long-term leasehold over 11 hectares.