Matt Birney

ASX-listed Image Resources has extended its gold mineralisation at the company’s Erayinia-King project to the north after receiving solid assay results from its latest drill campaign at the site near Kalgoorlie. The explorer and minerals sands miner says the recent infill program recorded significant gold intercepts in the central section of the northern mineralised zone that had previously seen limited drilling exploration.

ABx Group’s 83 per cent owned subsidiary, Alcore has received an initial $3.3 million of an almost $7.6 million grant to support the development of an aluminium bath recycling plant at Bell Bay in Tasmania. The funding forms part of the Federal Government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative and will also be used to support the ongoing construction of a similar pilot plant on NSW’s Central Coast.

Askari Metals has recorded significant copper and gold results from a maiden drill program at its Horry project in the Kimberley region of WA and identified numerous follow up targets for a second phase of exploration. The company completed 29 RC drill holes for 2096m that confirmed multiple mineralised deposits at its Horry Horse gold target and Mt Dockrell copper prospect.

Assay results received by Greenland-focused Conico Limited from its 100 per cent owned Mestersvig project have confirmed the quartz veins in the Blyklippen-Sortebjerg, Holberg, and Nuldal faults all host high-grade lead, zinc and silver mineralisation. The results are from a 10-hole diamond drill campaign that targeted vein-hosted zinc-lead-copper-silver mineralisation adjacent to the Blyklippen Mine and 20 rock chip samples taken during 2022 fieldwork.

The final tranche of assay results from a recently completed RC drilling campaign at Surefire Resources’ Victory Bore project in WA’s Mid-West have dropped through the company’s letter box, confirming even more, massive mineralised widths of vanadium pentoxide to add to what is already an enormous resource. Surefire has also uncovered a new vanadium prospect it has called the Mystery Lode.

After completing a successful round of lithium brine pumping tests at its Hombre West project in Argentina, Galan Lithium has confirmed the high production capabilities at its Pila and Rana del Sal concessions. The program delivered a suite of robust extraction and production chemistry data that bodes well for the company’s soon-to-be-completed definitive feasibility study which aims to evaluate production at the site.

Venus Metals has confirmed the presence of rare earth elements at its Marvel Loch East project with results from rock chip samples returning grades of up to 4365 parts-per-million total rare earth oxides. The company recently collected a total of 38 rock chip samples and 93 historical drill spoil samples from the operation near Southern Cross in the Goldfields region of WA with one spoil sample recording a grade of more than 3000ppm TREO.

Everest Metals Corporation has paved the way for a new year battery metals hunt in WA’s Mid West region after announcing its intent to exercise an exclusive farm-in deal to earn a 51 per cent stake in the Mt Edon lithium, caesium and tantalum project. The deal follows a recent due diligence program that yielded encouraging RC drill results of up to 1220 parts per million lithium.

Coda Minerals has deployed cutting-edge technology at its Emmie Bluff iron oxide-copper-gold and copper-cobalt deposit as it aims to define thickness and structure of the mineralisation at the SA site. The company has commenced an Ambient Noise Tomography survey that is designed to use an advanced passive seismic technique to produce a detailed sub-surface velocity map to assist in the identification of IOCG mineralisation close to Emmie deposits.