Matt Birney

Altech Chemicals is tantalisingly close to building a high-purity alumina coating pilot plant in the German state of Saxony after signing a final construction contract with developer Kuttner GmbH. The company’s glazing process uses silicone particles and graphite to treat anode materials, boosting the endurance of lithium-ion batteries.

Junior explorer Godolphin Resources will soon test the limits of its newly acquired Narraburra rare earths project about 15km north of Temora in central west NSW after securing government approval to launch a four-hole diamond probe. According to the company, the looming campaign is intended to sniff out mineralisation across a suite of prospective zones.

Superior Resources has pulled the trigger on a fresh eight-hole drilling program for a minimum of 3700m. The campaign is following up on the huge 632m copper intersections the company reported earlier this month from a large interpreted copper-gold porphyry system at its Bottletree prospect, part of its larger, wholly owned Greenvale project near Townsville in Queensland.

Infinity Lithium continues to strengthen its green hydrogen credibility with the company’s wholly owned Spanish subsidiary, Extremadura New Energies, joining major regional energy transition group SOI H2-ALEX. The alliance is focused on the advancement of green hydrogen developments in the south-west Iberian Peninsula, specifically the Alentejo region in Portugal and the Extremadura region in Spain.

After a recent high-profile multi-metal discovery only 200m from its boundary, Conico Limited has quickly seized the bit by booking a multi-purpose diamond and reverse circulation drill rig for a maiden, 5000m program on its Mt Thirsty project in search of platinum group metals 16km north-northwest of Norseman in WA. The company will also kick off a geological review in the wake of its neighbour’s find.

Venus Metals Corporation has quickly moved onto the second phase of its lithium chasing reverse-circulation drilling campaign at its Henderson project near Menzies in the eastern Goldfields region of WA. The company recently hit returns of 5.8 and 3.6 per cent lithium dioxide at its Emerald SE prospect whilst results from 89 rock samples showed 29 had more than 100 parts-per-million lithium dioxide.

Cancer fighter Radiopharm Theranostics has inked a deal for the supply of a key component needed to develop its pipeline of radiopharmaceutical therapy products. Radiopharm says its agreement with Israeli company Isotopia Molecular Imaging for a high-quality radioisotope called Lutetium-177 will enable it to accelerate its diverse clinical pipeline of radiopharmaceutical products slated for the multi-billion-dollar oncology market.

Explorer Horizon Minerals has completed the restructure and demerger of its 25 per cent interest in the Richmond vanadium project in central north Queensland with joint venture partner Richmond Vanadium Technology. The move comes after the pair’s decision that Richmond will be the dedicated IPO vehicle to drive the 1.8 billion-tonne project into completion.

Indonesia-focused explorer Sihayo Gold has followed up its recent high- grade surface samples with strong diamond drilling assays from a 30-hole exploration program that has extended its Sihorbo South target and firmed up the modelling for its maiden mineral resource estimate. Sihorbo South is now shaping up as a satellite operation to the company’s main Sihayo Starter project.