News Articles for St George Mining

St George Mining has kicked off a fresh lithium exploration campaign at its Mt Alexander project in Western Australia, with soil sampling, pegmatite mapping and outcrop sampling now underway at the operation. The program aims to test new lithium targets, in addition to an 8km-long zone around its Manta prospect where previous drilling by the company intersected a 121m-thick fractionated pegmatite.

Massive lithium battery maker Amperex Technology has picked up 10 per cent of St George Mining's seven hard rock lithium projects in WA with a $3m punt into a St George subsidiary. Amperex is the world's leading producer of lithium-ion batteries and is potentially a significant ally for St George as it looks to develop its suite of battery metals projects.

St George Mining has jumped into a new critical minerals exploration program for lithium, rare earths and copper at its district-scale Woolgangie project within the fertile Coolgardie Mineral Field in Western Australia. The site sits adjacent to operating lithium mines and where historical drilling previously identified rare earths and copper anomalism. It will be the company's first drilling program at Woolgangie.

Maiden drilling on two prospects at St George's Ajana project in Western Australia has turned up trumps, with significant widespread and shallow zinc-lead-silver mineralisation seen in an untested play concept for the area. The company is now planning more drilling through a vast crop of highly-prospective targets with a similar fingerprint of gravity and/or magnetic anomalies.

St George Mining has picked up seven new hard-rock lithium projects in Western Australia through its wholly-owned subsidiary Lithium Star, including five operations in the renowned southern Yilgarn Craton area. The company has secured a total of 14 licenses covering a significant 653 square kilometres, with exploration programs already planned this year across each of its projects.

Thick pegmatites, including one stretching more than 120m, have boosted St George Mining's lithium search at its Mt Alexander project in WA, as it attempts to define a bigger lithium system. Management says its project confidence is growing after assay results from its recent drilling program at its Jailbreak prospect also confirmed multiple lithium-bearing pegmatites, with a peak value of 1.28 per cent lithium.

St George Mining has fired up the drill rig in its maiden nickel-copper hunt at its Ajana project east of Geraldton in Western Australia's Mid West region. The company is plunging about 3000m into a duo of intriguing geophysical anomalies in the heart of the underexplored Northampton mineral field that is prospective for Julimar-style intrusive-related nickel-copper-platinum group mineralisation.

Latest assay results from St George Mining's lithium hunt at its Mt Alexander project in Western Australia have returned intersections going as high as 1.77 per cent as the company chases a bigger fractionated pegmatite system. Management says its headline hit was 1m going 1.77 per cent lithium from 96m, while another 2m intersection graded 1.49 percent from 109m.

St George Mining has seen its biggest volume of share trading in nearly two months after recording a continuous 121m pegmatite hit in a single diamond drill hole at its Mt Alexander project, 200km north of Kalgoorlie. The company has reported 225m of pegmatites intersected in the same hole as part of its investigation into a wider target identified by a large seismic reflector.

St George Mining has acquired seven hard rock lithium projects to beef up its impressive WA portfolio and further drive its strategic move into lithium exploration, in addition to its flagship Mt Alexander nickel project. Several of the new projects are located along strike from renowned high-grade spodumene lithium deposits and active mines in WA's Eastern Goldfields region.

St George Mining has kicked off a 20,000m drilling campaign at its Mount Alexander lithium project 200km north of Kalgoorlie. The target is a 15km lithium pegmatite belt with the company seeking to replicate Red Dirt Metal's nearby Mount Ida lithium resource of 12.7 million tonnes grading 1.2 per cent lithium. Results from St George's 2022 program include 14m at 0.32 per cent lithium from 69m and 1m at 1.8 per cent lithium from 70m.

St George Mining has recommenced lithium exploration at its emerging WA Mount Alexander lithium pegmatite field covering 15km by 5km. Latest rock chip assays to 2.8 per cent lithium oxide and 1.26 per cent rubidium oxide build excitement for the assays from its first 23 RC drill holes, due within weeks, lithium minerals were logged in 20 of the drill holes. More drilling is set to recommence later this month.

St George Mining has entered into a binding agreement for an option to pick up the Woolgangie critical metals project that covers around 1200 square kilometres in the Goldfields region of WA. The company says Woolgangie is prospective for lithium, nickel-copper sulphides and ionic clay-hosted rare earths mineralisation. The package includes nine granted or in application exploration licences and extends south-west of Coolgardie and west of Kambalda.

ASX-listed Javelin Minerals has commenced air-core drilling at its Husky project near Fifield in New South Wales where the company is on the hunt for rare earths in addition to precious and battery metals. The explorer has received the necessary approvals to complete up to 23 drill holes at the site that is considered prospective for gold and platinum group elements.

St George Mining has welcomed Chinese lithium-ion battery maker Sunwoda Electronic onto its share registry via a $2m placement as it eagerly awaits results from a maiden drill campaign where visibl

St George Mining has signed a memorandum of understanding with battery giant SVOLT Energy Technology, marking its second major deal in the space of a week.

St George Mining has entered a memorandum of understanding with global battery giant SVOLT Energy Technology to collaborate on lithium projects including the explorer's Mt Alexander operation near Leonora in Western Australia. The agreement establishes a framework for St George and SVOLT to negotiate and consider entering a range of commercial transactions for investment and offtake opportunities relating to lithium projects in Australia.

St George Mining has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Shanghai Jayson New Energy Materials to pursue lithium business opportunities based on the potential of the explorer's Mt Alexander project. According to the agreement, the two companies will establish a strategic partnership to consider working together on investment and offtake opportunities at Mt Alexander where St George has discovered high-grade lithium-bearing pegmatites along a 15km corridor near Leonora.

St George Mining has secured financial support for a drill campaign at its Mt Alexander lithium project after a global battery minerals company provided a $2 million cornerstone commitment. The explorer's recent placement received commitments of more than $7 million including $2.04 million from Shanghai Jayson New Energy Materials – a significant supplier to the emerging clean energy sector and the world's leading producer of cathode precursor materials for lithium-ion batteries.

St George Mining has moved quickly to top up its landholding at its Mt Alexander project near Leonora following the discovery of lithium mineralisation during its maiden drill program adding an exploration licence to its portfolio and lodging an application for a prospecting licence. Both tenements are neighbouring St George's Jailbreak prospect where the company currently has an aggressive drilling program underway.

On-site analysis of assays from St George Mining's RC drill program at its Mt Alexander project near Leonora has identified visible lithium mineralisation from pegmatites at the company's Jailbreak prospect. The explorer has struck multiple pegmatite intervals up to 13m thick from surface with lithium-bearing minerals visually identified in drill chips from the current campaign.

Explorer St George Mining has moved quickly on its discovery of high-grade lithium-bearing rock chip samples at the company's Mt Alexander project near Leonora, launching its first lithium-focused drill campaign at the project. The 20-hole 2,000m program's initial focus is Mt Alexander's Jailbreak prospect where high-grade lithium in outcropping pegmatites has been confirmed by the rock chip assays.

St George Mining's share price leapt over 50 per cent in intraday trading today following news the typically nickel explorer had snared a raft of high-grade lithium bearing rock chips at its Mt Alexander project near Leonora in WA. Analysis of its first batch of 10 samples returned grades as high as 2.72 per cent lithium oxide and the boundary of the site's outcropping pegmatites has now grown by up to 1.7km.

St George Mining has unearthed a raft of nickel sulphide targets at its Mt Alexander project near Leonora including a large electromagnetic conductor that has been identified as a priority drilling prospect. The company is currently conducting fixed loop electromagnetic surveys combined with seismic data to pinpoint a series of anomalies identified earlier last month.

After further field work, mineral explorer St George Mining believes it has significantly expanded the lithium potential of its Mt Alexander nickel — and now lithium — project 95km west of Leonora in WA. Since first announcing it was on the lithium trail in early September, the explorer has identified an increasing number of pegmatite outcrops in its field mapping efforts across a 15km zone of pegmatite dykes at its project.

St George Mining shares shot up nearly 40 per cent at one point during intraday trading on news of significant lithium potential at the company's Mt Alexander project 95km west of Leonora in WA. Initial field mapping and rock chip sampling at the project has confirmed numerous outcropping pegmatite dykes occurring in swarms that extend over 15km within its ground.

A successful geophysical survey program has highlighted a number of highly prospective nickel sulphide targets for St George Mining at the company's Mt Alexander project near Leonora in Western Australia. Using a combination of seismic and electromagnetic surveys St George has highlighted three anomalies consistent with massive sulphides with one specific target, named the Manta prospect, to be prioritised for drilling.

Multi-element explorer St George Mining has wrapped up its maiden drill campaign after completing its three final drill holes at the company's Paterson copper-gold project in WA's Pilbara region. St George will now shift focus to its Mt Alexander nickel and copper project west of Leonora as it looks to drill a set of nickel, copper and PGE targets and collect rock chip samples from a pegmatite outcrop.

St George Mining's maiden drilling program at its Paterson copper-gold project in WA's east Pilbara region is in full swing with three more drill holes returning encouraging signs. The explorer says the lithologies intersected in all three drill holes appear consistent with those known to host major copper-gold deposits in the Paterson province.

St George Mining has tabled a flurry of exploration results across its WA portfolio, including the sighting of visual copper sulphides at its Paterson copper-gold project. The company has also identified a suite of priority drill targets at its Ajana and Mt Alexander nickel-copper-PGE operations through geophysical surveys.

St George Mining has launched an 18-hole diamond core drill search for copper and gold at its Paterson project in Western Australia's East Pilbara region, aiming to prove up encouraging preliminary results from its maiden air core drill program last August. The company has already gone over the ground with airborne, electromagnetic and ground gravity surveys.

St George has announced a major expansion of exploration for its four WA based projects. Work at Mt Alexander will test new nickel-copper-PGE targets and extensions to existing high-grade shallow deposits. The hunt for Winu style deposits at its Paterson project is planned to start in May. Whilst at the company's Ajana and Broadview projects exploration will target Nova/Bollinger and Julimar style mafic intrusion hosted nickel-copper-PGE targets.

St George Mining has intersected nickel-copper sulphides in the second drillhole targeting an extension to its high-grade Stricklands deposit in WA. Nickel-copper sulphides were located from 102.7m to 106.3m downhole including 0.25m of massive sulphides abutting the granite contact from 106.05-106.3m. Drilling has confirmed a western extension of approximately 35m to the existing high-grade Stricklands deposit with mineralisation open down dip.

St George Mining has nailed 5.2m of nickel copper sulphides in its very first drill test of downhole electromagnetic conductor targets at its Mt Alexander project. The company said the new intersection extends the high-grade Stricklands deposit 35m further northwest and confirms the extension of mineralisation down dip. Similar looking conductors are also scheduled to feel the drill bit along the 5km strike of the company's Cathedrals Belt.

St George Mining has identified five new nickel copper targets at its Mt Alexander project. The company said the conceptual targets are large and compelling, with little or no previous drilling. Seismic surveys are to be expanded to cover the new zones. Infill and extensional diamond drilling is also aiming at known, high-grade mineralisation in a bid to expand the Investigators and Stricklands deposits.

St George Mining is understood to be conducting a $6.5 million equity raise to fund further nickel-copper exploration efforts at the Mt Alexander project in WA's Yilgarn Craton.

St George Mining has confirmed the potential to produce two commercially viable concentrates with metallurgical test work displaying nickel grades of 11.5 per cent with 3.32 grams per tonne palladium, 0.65 g/t platinum and 0.61 per cent cobalt and copper at 27.8 per cent with 12.4 g/t palladium, 1.9 g/t platinum and 2.6 g/t gold. Importantly no deleterious elements that could affect the saleability of the concentrates were identified.

Western Areas co-founder and former managing director Julian Hanna said he was excited to return to a promising nickel and base metals exploration story.

Junior nickel explorer St George Mining has identified a strong off-hole conductor through down hole electromagnetic surveying nearby another at its Mt Alexander nickel-copper project in WA it believes may be a potential 70m long conductive horizon. The company says the off-hole conductivity readings are interpreted to be consistent with massive nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation and could represent an exploration breakthrough at the project.

ASX-listed junior explorer Javelin Minerals has secured a further 72 sq kms of territory at its Mt Ida-Ida Valley project in a region currently under the microscope of other juniors for its multi-element mineralisation. The Mt Ida-Ida Valley project covers approximately 972 square kilometres in total of highly prospective ground about 100 kilometres west of Leonora in WA.