In the wake of the recent Chinese ban on the export of critical minerals such as gallium that is used for semi-conductor chip manufacturing, a state government research institute is about to kick off a study that will examine the metallurgy of Terrain Minerals' curious gallium discovery in WA's Mid West region. The study will be done by the Minerals Research Institute of WA that is tasked with addressing knowledge and technology needs in the minerals industry.
Terrain Minerals' recent drill success at its Wildflower gold project in WA's Midwest has caused it to create a new geological model which it will put to the test with the drill bit in a planned December drilling blitz. The company says it will plough another 2150m of drilling into the Wildflower discovery next month that is located 150km east of Dongara in WA.
Terrain Minerals has nailed what looks like a new gold discovery in WA's Mid-West region with its first pass drill campaign that followed up on historic arsenic soil anomalies. The maiden campaign at Terrain's Wildflower project hit 9m at 1.17g/t gold from 30m, including 3m at 2.61g/t gold. The 72-hole, 1710m reconnaissance air-core drilling program also picked up multiple broad zones of lower-grade but geochemically-significant shallow supergene gold.
Terrain Minerals has delivered an exploration target for its Larin's Lane prospect of between 25 and 33m tonnes at a total rare earths oxide grade between 880 and 980ppm TREO and from 19 to 21ppm gallium. The company says it expects to launch drilling next year to update that exploration target estimate once results from the program are to hand.
Terrain Minerals has leapt into a new drill campaign at its Wildflower gold project in Western Australia's Murchison province, with an air-core program of 41 holes for 2100m set to test its two high-priority targets – Wildflower and Cota. The AC drilling will target a significant 1000m-by-500m gold-in-soil geochemical anomaly consisting of a peak value of 246 parts per billion gold.
The race is still on for companies trying to crack the exploration code within Western Australia's rugged Albany-Fraser Orogen in the ongoing mission to reproduce the area's renowned – and only – Nova-Bollinger nickel-copper find. Despite some firms claiming to have defined the geological silver bullet they believed would shoot them to fame, the search for the elusive prize continues.
Legend Mining is preparing the diamond drill bit after identifying six important electromagnetic geophysical nickel-copper conductors at its Octagonal prospect within Western Australia's Fraser Range. The company believes its newly-discovered conductors relate to and potentially extend the mineralised eastern margin of the Octagonal intrusive – part of its Rockford project – where previous drilling has already delivered multiple nickel-copper sulphide intercepts.
Terrain Minerals' geophysics have identified five conductors at its Lort River project near Esperance in Western Australia that show the potential for sulphide mineralisation analogous to IGO's renowned Nova-Bollinger deposits in the same mineral belt. Two of the conductors lie on the western periphery of a prominent “eye-shaped” aeromagnetic imagery feature that may also signify a mineralised mafic intrusive.
Terrain Minerals plans to test its promising Wildflower gold project in Western Australia later this month, with an air-core drill program for 41 holes comprising about 2100m. Drilling will test the company's two priority targets, Wildflower and Cota, where previous drilling and soil sampling produced encouraging results that management is keen to pursue at the project that sits within WA's Murchison gold province.
Terrain Minerals is poised to launch a multi-mineral exploration mission at two projects in Western Australia after bolstering its bank balance with a timely $1.045 million raise from sophisticated and professional investors. The raise, including $102,000 from executive director Justin Virgin, smashed its original $750,000 target out of the park as investors scrambled to be involved in the company's upcoming exploration plans.
Terrain Minerals says the latest gallium and rare earths hits at its Larin's Lane project have provided more compelling evidence of an emerging mineralisation province in Western Australia's Mid West region. The company's air-core sample assays show total rare earth oxides (TREO) to a high of 3254ppm and surprisingly-elevated gallium signatures to a maximum of 53.74ppm gallium oxide.
Terrain Minerals will pocket $300,000 to fund its multi-mineral exploration focus after selling off its 100 per cent-owned Wildviper gold project in WA's Goldfields region to next door neighbour Northern Star. The company has entered into a binding sale and purchase agreement with the major miner to divest the project's exploration license that sits close to Northern Star's Bundarra gold deposit.
Terrain Minerals has launched a helicopter-borne electromagnetic survey at its Lort River project near Esperance in Western Australia to test a distinctive “eye” magnetic feature. Management says the feature bears stark similarities to IGO's renowned Nova-Bollinger nickel-copper deposit in WA's prospective Albany-Fraser belt. Importantly, the 640-square-kilometre Lort River operation sits along the interpreted strike of the Nova nickel-copper mine.
Terrain Minerals is preparing to stare directly into a Nova-style “eye” magnetic feature at its Lort River project, with a detailed airborne electromagnetic survey slated to kick off early next month. The company identified the intriguing feature just eight weeks ago and is wasting no time in refining the target, which displays stark similarities to IGO's Nova-Bollinger nickel-copper-cobalt deposit in Western Australia's prospective Albany-Fraser Belt.
Terrain Minerals has unveiled what it believes are the early signs of a significant rare earths discovery, with high-grade gallium as an added bonus, at its Larin's Lane project in Western Australia's Mid West region. The company says the first results from its drilling at the project last December include gallium oxide grades of up to 57 grams per tonne.
Some old-fashioned detective work has set Terrain Minerals on a pathway to try and emulate Sirius Resources' 2012 discovery of the hulking Nova-Bollinger deposit in WA's Fraser Range. Terrain says its search through old geophysical records identified an intriguing “eye-shaped” feature near its ground similar to the one that led to the Nova-Bollinger base metals discovery – just 300km to the north on the same geological structure.
Terrain Minerals has identified traces of sulphides and alteration in samples in a maiden drilling program at the company's Larin's Lane deposit in Western Australia's Mid West region after plunging 101 drill holes for 6611m. The company says the campaign within its 100 per cent-owned Smokebush project was aimed at testing the bedrock under previously-defined copper, nickel and gold anomalies at the prospect.
Terrain Minerals has kicked off a maiden air-core drilling campaign at its Larins Lane base metals-gold-silver prospect to test for what it believes could be a deposit analogous to 29Metals' hulking Golden Grove operation in Western Australia's Mid West region. The company plans to drill 145 holes for 2500m in two priority categories on three separate main targets and a handful of unexplained anomalies.
Critical minerals company Terrain Minerals has unveiled high-grade gold hits of up to 6.22g/t from drilling at its 100 per cent-owned Smokebush project at Yalgoo, some 350km north of Perth in Western Australia. The high-grade assays were returned from recent reverse-circulation drilling at the company's new Lightning target – a highly-prospective area that runs parallel with its existing Monza prospect.
A raft of solid new gallium hits have backed up Terrain Minerals' claims in August that it wanted to unearth the silvery-white metal to complement the clay-hosted rare earths at its Lort River project near Esperance in Western Australia. The company says results from its recent AC drilling program included near-surface intersections of 38m at 34.1g/t gallium oxide and 27m at 35.6g/t.
Terrain Minerals has hit rare earths during a reconnaissance-scale air-core (AC) drill campaign at its Lort River project near Esperance, with high percentages of magnetic rare earth oxides up to 43 per cent. Assay highlights show a 3m intercept grading 919 parts per million total rare earth oxides (TREO) from 23m, including a peak 1m hit going 1878ppm TREO.
Terrain Minerals has set its sights on two priority polymetallic targets – which evoke the style of the giant nearby Golden Grove deposit – that have been defined from MMI geochemistry at its Smokebush project north of Perth in Western Australia. The company's geochemical sampling yielded a 1100m-long polymetallic anomaly in the north of the grid and a new 900m-long polymetallic anomaly at the grid's southern extent.
Terrain Minerals is eyeing the potential to unearth gallium and germanium to complement the rare earths at its Lort River project near Esperance, where an air-core program recently intersected clay hosts. The 16-hole proof-of-concept program through 300m was designed to test for clay-hosted rare earths and rare semi-conductor mineralisation, with all holes intercepting clay zones to a maximum vertical depth of 38m.
Terrain Minerals has joined the frenetic exploration and drilling fray in Western Australia's up-and-coming, clay-hosted rare earths province near Esperance. The company has joined the ever-growing rare earths search party in the area by launching a maiden proof-of-concept drilling program after securing heritage approval at its 100 per cent-owned, 320-square-kilometre Lort River project, just 50km north-west of the town.
Terrain Minerals has identified multiple zones of gallium mineralisation at its Smokebush project in Western Australia's Mid West region, less than a month after the metal sent another explorer's share price rocketing. Drill results at the company's Rabbit Warren and Paradise City prospects were of comparable grade to the Arizona assays that saw Gold 50's stock jump 146 per cent.
Terrain Minerals has been given the all clear for a maiden drill campaign this month to target clay-hosted rare earths at its Lort River project near Esperance, after receiving heritage clearance. Last year, a review of soil samples from historical gold exploration at the site returned positive results, including 580ppm TREO, with 25 per cent of the total grade magnet rare earths.
Terrain Minerals believes its latest drilling campaign has revealed hallmarks of the typical gold-bearing systems in Western Australia's Mid West region that is home to its Smokebush gold and pegmatite project. Six holes from a second round of reverse-circulation (RC) drilling confirmed sulphides relating to IP anomalies, while another five intercepted pegmatites and samples will be analysed for lithium.
Terrain Minerals has kicked off a second round of reverse-circulation (RC) drilling for gold and lithium at its 100 per cent-owned Smokebush project in Western Australia. Management says its project features many promising exploration targets that it is testing in a rapid, methodical and systemic manner in its mission to make a company-defining discovery.
Terrain Minerals has added a Queensland operation to its raft of WA projects after lodging tenement applications for about 2500 square kilometres of highly-prospective ground near the Cracow gold mine. It says its extensive “Biloela” package includes at least two known historic copper mines, in addition to copper and gold targets first identified by mining giants Rio Tinto, Gold Fields and Newcrest Mining.
Terrain Minerals has successfully wrapped up the first phase of drilling at its Smokebush project in Western Australia's Mid West region, with 10 of the 11 holes drilled intersecting multiple zones of pegmatites. The reverse-circulation program prioritised seven of the 11 pegmatites identified, ranging from about 10m to 15m in width and 200m in length, before shifting undercover in about a 4km area.
Terrain Minerals has unleashed the drill rigs at its Smokebush project in WA's Mid West region as it tests for lithium in pegmatites at the operation with an 11-hole reverse-circulation campaign over 900m. The company has prioritised seven of the 11 pegmatites identified, which range from about 10m to 15m in width and 200m in length, before shifting undercover in about a 4km area.
WA-based minerals explorer Terrain Minerals has uncovered a 600m-long induced polarisation anomaly at its Smokebush gold-lithium project in WA's Mid West. The company had already planned to start an RC campaign to search for gold and lithium at the project next month, but reviews of historic drilling has presented new targets – including the newly-discovered anomaly.
Western Australian-based minerals explorer Terrain Minerals is priming its drills at its Smokebush project in the State's Mid West region after gold and copper-nickel anomalies were discovered in a “highly-successful” field program. The discoveries were made at the company's Larin's Lane target where a maiden exploration program unearthed a new 700m-by-250m gold anomaly that management says is ready for air-core drilling.
WA explorer Terrain Minerals has extended an induced polarisation survey at its Smokebush project in the State's Mid West region after its initial scrutiny picked up a third hidden target that has more than whetted its interest. Key permits have already been granted, with drill rig quotes also received, and Terrain hopes to get the drill bit spinning by the end of next month.
Terrain Minerals has used an induced polarisation survey to help lock in two priority gold-drilling targets under shallow cover and near existing gold prospects at its Smokebush project in the Yalgoo mineral field, 350km north of Perth. The company found a 400m IP anomaly near existing drilling where results include a 5m hit at 6.1 g/t gold from 55m.
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West Perth-based and WA-focused explorer Terrain Minerals has started what the company expects to be a very busy year with boots on the ground at its Smokebush gold project in WA's Yalgoo minerals field. Two programs at Smokebush spearhead a major exploration and drilling campaign across its portfolio of projects with the ultimate objective a maiden mineral resource within 12 months.
With an ever-increasing spotlight shining on rare earths, a former sleepy tourist town on the WA south coast could be on the cusp of becoming the next epicentre of a rare earths mineral boom. One of the major attractions of the area is the discovery of “clay-hosted” rare earths which, unlike their hard rock counterparts, can be considerably easier to mine – and they can exist in vast quantities.
West Perth-based minerals explorer Terrain Minerals has added a new commodity of interest to its Smokebush gold exploration project in Western Australia's Mid West – lithium. Terrain has identified up to 20 pegmatite structures to date in a so-called “Goldilocks zone” for potential lithium mineralisation. Rock chip samples have been sent to a laboratory and results are expected in February.
Terrain Minerals is now the sole owner of the Smokebush tenements in WA's Mid West after mopping up the remaining 20 per cent interest of the gold-bearing ground from a private vendor. The company has been systematically exploring the zone since entering a farm-in and joint-venture deal in 2019 posting several solid intersections since then including 3m at 4.86 grams per tonne gold.
