Matt Birney

Galan Lithium has added further lithium brine potential to its Hombre Muerto West project in South America’s prolific ‘Lithium Triangle’ with a newly drilled bore hole revealing previously unrecognised brine bearing aquifers. The company says the discovery could provide a boost to future resource estimates for the project that already boasts 2.3 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent.

Barton Gold is eyeing the possibility of significant new discoveries, having identified a collection of shallow targets with its government co-funded ground penetrating radar survey over the Tarcoola Gold Project on the Gawler Craton in South Australia. The work is part of a systematic geophysical and drilling program with more refined target selection and follow-up drilling expected in coming months.

ASX-listed junior explorer Great Southern Mining has defined several large kilometre scale gold anomalies within its Duketon tenements in WA from regional soil sampling and will be drill testing at the Amy Clarke prospect by the end of the year. A geophysical magnetic low channel associated with the gold anomalies can be traced 3km north to Regis Resources’ 322,000-ounce Erlistoun deposit grading 1.9 grams per tonne gold.

ASX listed Emu NL has hit several stunning gold mineralised quartz vein intercepts from a reverse circulation drill program at its lode-gold style Gnows Nest project near Yalgoo in WA. Significant intersections include 2m at an impressive12.62 grams per tonne gold from 121m that hosted a 1m section grading an even more impressive18.57 grams per tonne gold.

Torian Resources has extended its Mount Stirling gold system a further 280m southeast beyond the previous resource boundary with mineralisation now intersected over 1,040m along strike. The company has now increased the known gold mineralisation at various prospects across multiple gold domains. The drilling campaign is in full swing and the company says it has negotiated faster turnaround times for new assays.

ASX-listed Horizon Minerals has released a new mineral resource estimate for its Kalpini project about 65 kilometres northeast of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in WA. The revised resource weighs in at 1.87 million tonnes grading 2.33 grams per tonne for 139,000 ounces of the precious yellow metal. Kalpini is one of six key satellite gold deposits that underpins Horizon’s proposed flagship Boorara gold production hub about 15km east of Kalgoorlie.

AVZ Minerals has locked down US$400 million in funding, a new off-take partner and Chinese backers with very deep pockets and an intimate understanding of lithium battery manufacturing. It looks like it’s game on now for AVZ’s extraordinary Manono lithium project in the DRC after Suzhou CATH Energy Technologies agreed to pick up 24 per cent of the project for US$240 million and also stump up its share of the project’s CAPEX.

Kairos Minerals has followed up recent stellar gold hits in drilling at its Mt York project in the Pilbara, including a cracking 32m at 3.79 g/t gold. A suite of high priority greenfield targets have also been identified from a geochemistry sampling program. Assays up to 5.38 g/t were returned in soil samples, with drill testing due to commence next month.

Venus Metals is collecting a lot of smoke as it searches for the fire under its Nickel-Copper-Platinum “Julimar look-a-like” targets at its Bridgetown East Project in WA’s fertile South West mineral terrane. The company reported polymetallic anomalies that are closely associated with a suite of prospective mafic-ultramafic rocks, some of which even coincide with an aeromagnetic high and a HEM anomaly.