Matt Birney

Barton Gold has added to its management credentials with the key appointment of an experienced corporate executive as the Gawler Craton gold hopeful gears up for a possible IPO next year. Shannon Coates joins the Perth-based gold junior as Company Secretary with more than 25 years of experience under her belt in corporate law and compliance services to publicly listed companies across multiple jurisdictions.

Wiluna Mining continues full steam ahead in the expansion of its namesake operation in WA with the world-class gold deposit continuing to produce outstanding results from underground development drilling which has returned 5.96m at 112.98 g/t gold including 0.65m at an incredible 880 g/t gold. The company is poised to deliver more good news in coming weeks with an updated resource set to be tabled before the end of the month.

ASX-listed gold explorer, Great Southern Mining, has taken a giant stride towards developing its historic Cox’s Find gold project about 65km north of Laverton in WA, appointing seasoned mining industry geologist and executive Sean Gregory as its new Chief Executive Officer.

Adriatic Metals continues to rattle the cage in the Balkans, posting a 32 per cent increase in the tonnage of its emerging world-class Rupice silver deposit in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The resource for Rupice weighs in at an impressive 12 million tonnes with 149 g/t silver, 1.4 g/t gold, 4.1 per cent zinc, 2.6 per cent lead, 0.5 per cent copper and 25 per cent barite.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have struck high-grade gold again in granite rock at the exciting Grace discovery at their historic joint-ventured Youanmi project in WA. The latest bonanza gold hits add to mounting evidence that a style of gold mineralisation not recognised at Youanmi previously has been discovered by the dynamic duo. The spectacular drill intercepts included 13m at 60.49 g/t gold from 177m including 4m at a cracking 191.56 g/t.

Heavy rare earth explorer and developer Northern Minerals is gearing up to hunt for Dazzler lookalikes having set aside $5 million for exploration and development drilling at the company’s Browns Range project in the Kimberley. Drill rigs are expected onsite in October and results will feed into an updated feasibility study. The resulting document could well be the precursor to Northern Minerals emerging as the first supplier of heavy rare earths outside China.

ASX-listed Lithium Australia has just received formal accreditation for its three-phase lithium battery-based solar energy storage devices from the Clean Energy Council. The devices will be marketed by Soluna Australia, which is 50 per cent owned by Lithium Australia and 50 per cent owned by manufacturer DLG Energy (Shanghai) Co. Soluna’s three-phase 15K Pack HV will now be added to the CEC’s Battery Assurance Program guide.

Element 25 continues to pick off mine development milestones as the company fast-tracks its way towards first manganese concentrate production at its incredibly low proposed CAPEX Butcherbird operation in the Pilbara. The company has set itself a rapid project development schedule, which it says is tracking on time and on budget, with first manganese concentrate production expected in the first quarter of calendar 2021.

St George Mining’s deep drilling program at Mt Alexander in WA has fattened up its Investigators target with the latest intersection in drill hole MAD181 hitting 48.7m of the nickel-copper sulphide-bearing mafic-ultramafic host rock unit below 503m downhole. The hole also hit a second 6m interval of mineralised ultramafics from 282.6m downhole.