Octava Minerals is putting boots on the ground at its Yallalong nickel-gold project, 220km north-east of Geraldton – and the CSIRO has jumped in with funding to help lessen the impact of the imprint. The “green energy” metals explorer has snared exploration funding from the CSIRO's Kick-Start program and will employ the agency's leading-edge technology to optimise sample collection, while simultaneously reducing on-ground activity.
Venture Minerals is keen to get its drill bits spinning in search of rare earths elements in WA after adding two new Mid West projects to its portfolio and identifying two new targets at its existing Kulin deposit, south-east of Perth. The diversified minerals explorer has developed a strategy to expand its exposure in the rare earths space with a bias for clay-hosted mineralisation.
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The explorer has tabled a 50 per cent increase to its Gonneville mineral resource, touting the deposit as the second largest undeveloped nickel sulphide resource in Australia.
Venture Minerals believes the identification of two new priority nickel-copper-PGE targets by its JV partner Chalice Mining will enhance the prospectivity of its South West project, 240km south of Perth. Two previously-identified soil anomalies have been extended and better-defined during a phase-two program at the project Venture describes as a look-alike to Chalice's Julimar discovery.
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Shares in Julimar explorer Chalice Mining have sunk after investors were told they would need to wait another quarter to see a scoping study for the project.
After locking onto two new nickel-copper-PGE targets in WA's South West the JV between Chalice Mining and Venture Minerals is ready to take its exploration to the next stage with surveys and a sampling program. The duo's South West project hosts the Thor prospect, a 20km long magnetic anomaly containing multiple electro-magnetic targets which is giving Chalice a sense of deja vu.
Chalice Mining shares have risen on the prospect of a material increase to its Gonneville asset this morning, but the market darling has conceded its share price underperformed this year.
Market darling Chalice Mining says it is mulling some form of joint venture arrangement to develop a potential mine at Gonneville after receiving a stream of inbound interest.
Metal Hawk and farm-in partner Falcon Metals are set to follow up historical results at the duo's Viking gold project in WA's highly prospective Albany Fraser Province with a 1600m RC drilling campaign in coming weeks. Falcon listed on the ASX last December and is the spin-off of heavyweight mineral explorer Chalice Mining's gold interests with an earn-in stake in the Viking project that is located 30km southeast of Norseman.
Chalice Mining's Julimar discovery is tipped to herald a new metals province in WA, but its location within a state forest could put the social licence of ‘green metals' to the test.
After nailing down a brace of new targets at Venture Minerals' South West nickel-copper-PGE project about 240km south of Perth, Chalice Mining has decided to commit to the second phase of the duo's joint venture agreement. As part of the deal, Chalice will spend an additional $2.5 million on exploration over the next two years to claim a 70 per cent stake in the operation.
Venture Minerals' JV earn-in with Chalice Mining received a boost after Chalice defined two new nickel-copper-PGE targets through a recently completed auger soil geochemistry campaign at the duo's South West project about 240km south of Perth in WA. The anomalies are associated with the company's previously defined Thor target that has drawn comparisons to Chalice's revered Julimar discovery.
Octava Minerals is preparing for its ASX debut next month as it seeks to exploit some early lithium shows just 10kms from Global Lithium's revered Pilbara lithium discovery. Octava has also pulled together a package of Kimberley and Mid West tenements in solidly mineralised terranes that are already jostling with battery metals big hitters and the company's Pilbara ground also has some intriguing historical gold drill holes that are begging for follow up.
The Australian sharemarket fell as much as 5.3 per cent at the opening on Tuesday after big sell-offs on overseas markets, with the benchmark US indice down 21 per cent from its peak.
Chalice Mining has laid plans for a considerable capital raising effort to bankroll the next year and a half of exploration activities across its Julimar and West Yilgarn prospects.
Chalice Mining has been granted final approvals needed to undertake exploration drilling within its famed Julimar project despite concerns from the community over a surrounding forest.
Multi-mineral explorer Kula Gold has flicked the switch on an electromagnetic survey across a number of key targets at its Brunswick nickel-platinum group elements project in the well-addressed West Yilgarn province in WA. The West Yilgarn is host to the world-class Boddington gold mine and Julimar Gonneville copper-nickel-platinum group elements discovery.
Fresh from discovering its own 330m tonne ore body, sharemarket darling Chalice Mining is set to get the rods spinning again – this time to test farm-in partner Venture Minerals' conductors in the same geological province. Previous work at Venture Minerals' South West project revealed multiple EM anomalies scattered across the 20km long Thor magnetic anomaly target area.
Petrology studies have confirmed primary nickel sulphides at Emu's Sunfire nickel-copper-PGE project near Bridgetown in the southwest of WA. Historical reports accompanying two diamond drill holes from 1970 identified the presence of the nickel-bearing minerals “pentlandite” and “millerite” from relatively shallow depths of 65 metres to 140m with the revelation to drive an aggressive exploration programme later this year.
Surefire Resources may be poised to unwrap a parcel of polymetallic treasures after a high−resolution aeromagnetic survey and first-pass exploration work at its Kadji Project in the West Yilgarn region of WA confirmed the presence of nickeliferous ultramafic lithologies. The project is considered highly prospective for nickel, copper and platinum group elements and is in the same province as Chalice Mining's Julimar Gonneville discovery.
Venture Minerals' JV earn-in with market darling Chalice Mining is off to a flyer after the latter generated seven new electromagnetic, or “EM” targets from a ground-based survey at the duo's South West Nickel-Copper-PGE Project 240 kilometres south of Perth. The company's latest work is focused on Venture's Thor target, a 20km-long magnetic anomaly that has drawn comparisons to Chalice's revered Julimar discovery.
Pacific Bauxite is hoping to ride Chalice Mining's spectacular success, but instead of the usual ‘nearology' play, it is buying into the same commodities and taking the name of Chalice's main project.
Oar Resources has expanded its footprint at its nickel, copper and platinum group elements Crown project in the Julimar district, about 70 kilometres north east of Perth in the vicinity of Chalice Mining's amazing Gonneville deposit. A new land access agreement has opened up a raft of new potential targets that will form the focus of Oar's ongoing soil sampling and mapping in the area.
Tambourah Metals has swooped on additional land near Chalice Mining's spectacular Julimar nickel-copper-PGE discovery in WA to become the second largest landholder in the Julimar region with a sizeable 1,127 square kilometres. The company has picked up two new exploration licences that it says are prospective for nickel, copper and platinum group elements in the region.
Shares in Chalice Mining were up 28.5 per cent today after the company reported its Gonneville deposit would be one of the largest nickel discoveries in decades, and a substantial platinum group elements find.
