News Articles for Venus Metals Corporation

Venus Metals has commissioned a detailed heliborne EM survey over its Bellchambers gold project east of Sandstone in WA. The project already boasts a resource of 340,000 tonnes @ 1.5 grams per tonne gold with the company now seeking repetitions along the ‘Western Ridge Gold Trend'. Venus has also commenced negotiations with nearby producer, Adaman Resources, in relation to the potential development and processing of the Bellchambers deposit.

As the historic Youanmi goldfields gets a new lease on life courtesy of a modern rush of gold explorers, ASX-listed Venus Metals is ahead of the pack with its portfolio of assets surrounding the old Youanmi mine playing host to a range of projects from resource stage to first pass exploration drilling. Venus is about to kick off a geophysical survey across its Penny West Deep South gold target.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have defined an interesting new gold prospect from soil survey results just in. The new soil anomaly is located 4km south of and along strike from the historical Penny West gold mine that Spectrum Resources just offloaded to Ramelius for around $200m. It has a similar geochemical signature to that found in soils over the recent Sovereign gold discovery nearby.

Goldminer Ramelius Resources has lodged a $208 million takeover offer for Spectrum Metals, after Spectrum settled its disputes with Venus Metals Corporation in relation to the acquisition of the Penny West gold project in Western Australia.

The Grace prospect is holding up as potentially a stand-alone discovery for JV partners, Rox Resources and Venus Metals, with assay results hot off the press of 8m going 37.25g/t, including a 4m zone grading 73.81g/t gold from 48m. Rox and Venus recently identified Grace at their Youanmi South project in the Goldfields, a prospect that literally sits right between the historically mined Youanmi pit and the mothballed mill.

It's raining gold for Rox Resources and Venus Metals at their Youanmi South project after the partners made a spectacular 14m drill intersection going an ounce to the tonne gold from just 1m deep. The new drill hit also included 5m grading 77.03g/t gold and 3m grading an exceptional 123.66g/t gold. Youanmi has been the gift that keeps on giving this year for multiple parties.

Multi-commodity explorer, Venus Metals, has received a vote of confidence from Queensland multi-millionaire and veteran coal miner, Christopher Wallin, who has ploughed $4 million into the company at 20 cents a share. The investment gives Mr Wallin, one of Australia's top 50 richest people, a substantial 17.25% stake in the Perth based ASX-listed company as it attempts to unlock some riches in the Youanmi mineral province in WA.

Venus Metals is adding another chapter to its growing Youanmi story in WA with the first drilling results from its Vidure project encountering base metals and platinum group elements. Four RC holes partially testing previously identified electromagnetic targets near the historical Vidure prospect have discovered a significant extension of the Vidure West mineralisation towards the north, including 10 metres at 0.46% copper and 0.25% nickel.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have hit more gold in RC drilling at their Venus JV project in WA. The drilling is located north of the old Penny West gold mine and followed up on an exciting aircore discovery with the best recent numbers coming in at 3m grading 6.61g/t gold from 78m downhole. New aircore holes, 50m south from the now defined mineralisation, showed an 8m wide zone grading 1.92g/t gold.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have struck gold again at their Currans Find JV project in the Youanmi region of WA. Headline results from an RC drilling campaign at the Red White and Blue prospect include 9 meters grading 3.27 grams per tonne gold from 35m that also contains a higher grade 8g/t intercept over 2m. Gold numbers from the Currans North prospect continue to impress with 2m grading 5.6g/t from 163m downhole.

Spectrum Metals announced it has filed and served its defence to a claim from Venus Metals Corporation in relation to Spectrum's acquisition of DJ Carmichael's Penny West gold project in Western Australia.

Venus Metals Corporation has entered into an underwriting agreement with Ord Minnett to exercise $5.7 million worth of options to progress exploration activities at its base metal projects in Western Australia.

Rox Resources and Venus Metals' Youanmi South prospect in Western Australia doesn't look like being closed off anytime soon with more high-grade gold results continuing to roll off the drill bit, including 4m at 11.23g/t gold from 92m. Other solid numbers at the Plant Zone prospect, including 8m grading 2.62g/t gold from 60m, continue to underline the porospectivity of the project.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have hit high grade gold in aircore drilling at their Venus JV project near Youanmi in WA. The drilling is located north of the old Penny West gold mine and Spectrum Metals' recent much-heralded Penny North discovery. Best numbers came in at 4 meters grading just over 7 grams per tonne from 24m depth and 5m grading nearly 2.5 grams per tonne from 60m downhole.

Venus Metals has wasted no time in getting a drill rig on top of its four new electromagnetic, or “EM” targets that were thrown up just last week at the company's Vidure copper-nickel prospect in the Youanmi region of WA. The new EM targets represent potentially un-discovered massive sulphide occurrences that may be hiding beneath the surface. With Youanmi a hot area right now, the results should be interesting.

Venus Metals has completed a high-powered, electromagnetic geophysical survey at its Vidure copper-nickel prospect that has thrown up at least four shiny new massive sulphide targets. The Vidure copper-nickel prospect is located near the Youanmi region of WA with Venus set to drill test its new targets in the area shortly. Two of the new targets have conductivities that are directly comparable to the existing Vidure discovery EM results.

Venus Metals has commenced a high-powered, EM geophysical survey at its Vidure copper-nickel prospect, located near the ever-popular Youanmi region in WA, where historical drilling by WMC and BHP outlined anomalous base metal and silver mineralisation. The survey will penetrate up to 500m, where the company previously interpreted poorly constrained, down-dip and down-plunge extensions to the defined mineralisation.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have revealed some anomalous gold, copper, zinc and lead assays from their initial aircore drilling program that is located adjacent to high-grade gold occurrences at Currans Find North and Spectrum Metals' recent revered gold find near Youanmi in WA. The shallow drilling identified several intersections worthy of follow up, with gold peaking at 0.73g/t, copper at 0.23%, zinc at 0.29% and lead at 0.15%.

Venus Metals has granted a $50,000 option to Ascan Capital for the possible purchase of one of its Nardoo Hill lithium project tenements in WA's Gascoyne region. If the 90-day option is exercised, a $350,000 purchase price will be payable via a future share issue and mining royalty to Venus. The company, along with JV partner Rox Resources, continues to focus on high-grade gold discoveries near Youanmi in the State's Murchison district.

Venus Metals Corporation has commenced proceedings in the Supreme Court of Western Australia against Davide Bosio, Paul Adams, DJ Carmichael and Spectrum Metals, in relation to Spectrum's acquisition of the Penny West gold project.

Rox Resources and Venus Metals have hit the highest gold grades seen to date at the Youanmi South prospect near Youanmi in Western Australia, with drilling returning a solid peak intersection of 12m @ 12.7 g/t gold from 80m down-hole. The companies have also been targeting the Plant Zone prospect, which is a potential bulk mining, open-pittable ore source, with gold mineralisation occurring right from the surface.

Rox Resources and Venus Metals have delivered high-grade drilling intersections from several regional and near-mine prospects at their emerging Youanmi gold project in the Murchison region of WA. The companies generated intercepts of 2m @ 23.67g/t gold from 76m and 4m @ 6.57g/t from 64m at the Commonwealth prospect and also discovered 8m @ 4.17g/t gold from 96m at Youanmi South.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have delivered more high-grade gold hits peaking at a metre grading 39.61 grams per tonne gold from 94m down-hole at the recently completed Stage 3 drilling campaign for the emerging Currans Find North discovery near Youanmi, WA. The results also confirmed the presence of two stacked gold lodes at the prospect and demonstrate that mineralisation remains open at depth and down-plunge.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have revealed that 1m interval drilling assays from their Currans Find North gold discovery near Youanmi, WA, have provided significant upgrades to the initial 4m composite samples tabled earlier this month. New high-grade results included 3m @ 32.58g/t gold from 115m and 4m @ 9.25g/t gold from 46m down-hole, which contained a 2-metre section at 16.05g/t gold from 48m.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have recommenced reverse circulation drilling to follow up on high-grade hits of more than two ounces to the tonne gold at the Currans Find North prospect, near Youanmi in Western Australia. The current drill program will explore the down-plunge and along-strike extensions of the high-grade gold mineralisation that was intersected in previous drilling.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have commenced a 5,000m aircore drill program at their Venus JV near the topical Penny West gold mine in the Youanmi region. The companies are targeting a prominent magnetic low identified by an airborne survey which includes the historical Penny West gold mine, the historical Magenta and Columbia prospects and Spectrum Metals' recent Penny North discovery.

A summary of last week's smaller deals that did not get included in our daily news coverage.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have extended high-grade gold mineralisation at the Currans Find North prospect near Youanmi, WA, with drilling returning a top intersection of 1m @ 57.2g/t gold from 110m down-hole. The results extend high‐grade gold mineralisation at depth and demonstrate the potential for the discovery “blind” high‐grade gold lodes along strike and down‐plunge from known mineralisation.

Rox Resources and Venus Metals have commenced a 14,000 metre reverse circulation drilling program aimed at newly developed high-grade targets and extensions to known mineralisation at their Youanmi gold project. The Commonwealth prospect, where historical drilling posted a top intersection of 18m @ 12.9g/t gold from 39m down-hole, crowns the joint venture's hit list.

Multi-commodity explorer Venus Metals has received a vote of confidence from Queensland multi-millionaire and veteran coal miner, Christopher Wallin, who injected $1.2 million into the company through a placement of shares priced at 20 cents each. The investment gives Mr Wallin, one of Australia's top 50 richest people, a substantial 5.03% stake in the company.

Stuart Carmichael has been appointed independent non-executive director of Swick Mining Services.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources have kicked off an RC drilling campaign targeting down-plunge and along-strike extensions of high-grade gold mineralisation intersected in previous drilling at their Youanmi gold projects in WA. Drilling at the Currans Find North prospect has returned a metre result of 72.67g/t gold from 39m down-hole, within a wider zone of 3m @ 27.5g/t gold.

Venus Metals and Rox Resources may be sitting on a high-grade gold deposit at their Currans Find JV gold project near Youanmi, WA, after re-sampling of recent holes turned up a spectacular intersection of 1m @ 72.67g/t gold from 39m within a wider zone of 3m @ 27.5g/t gold. This is significantly higher than the initial assays, which returned 6m @ 9.82g/t gold from 36m.

Venus Metals has this week pocketed $2.55m and a swag of shares in fellow ASX-listed company Rox Resources after the companies established a 50/50 joint venture agreement for the prospective Youanmi gold mine leases in WA. Several other JV agreements have now also commenced, which focus more on near-mine and regional exploration activities in the underexplored Youanmi greenstone belt.

Venus Metals has struck wide, continuous intercepts of gold mineralisation at its Bell Chambers project near Sandstone, WA, which confirmed historical assay results and the geological interpretation for the current 17,000-ounce resource. Better results included 27m @ 2.72g/t from 27m down-hole and 64m @ 1.7g/t gold from 10m down-hole in separate drill holes.

Venus Metals has contracted Murdoch University Associate Professor Aleks Nikoloski to carry out a metallurgical research study into vanadium, iron and titanium recoveries from its Youanmi project near Sandstone, WA. The research is co-funded by the Australian Government and test combined pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical process to recover all three metals from Youanmi oxide ores.

JV partners Venus Metals and Rox Resources have discovered high-grade intersections from their maiden drilling program at the Currans Find JV gold project, located near Youanmi, WA. At Currans Find North, spectacular new intercepts of potentially shoot-controlled and shallow quartz veining included 6m @ 9.82g/t gold from 36m down-hole and 4m @ 5.72g/t gold from 60m down-hole in separate drill holes.

Cazaly Resources has signed an agreement to sell its Parker Range iron ore project in the Yilgarn region to private explorer Gold Valley Iron for up to $13.35 million plus royalties.

Krakatoa Resources has announced a capital raising $275,000 by way of a placement at 2.2 cents a share.

Venus Metals has divested its 50% stake in the Yalgoo magnetite project near Geraldton, WA, to Iranian-based EPC contractor FIJV Pty Ltd for $2.5m and will use the funds to evaluate its gold, vanadium and base metal assets elsewhere in the State. The company will retain exposure to FIJV's plans to develop open cut magnetite mines in the Yalgoo district via a 0.625% royalty on future iron ore concentrate sales.