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ASX-listed junior explorer Impact Minerals has unveiled a number of high priority targets following recently completed soil geochemical sampling work at its Arkun multi-metals project in Western Australia. The Perth-based company says it now has almost a dozen priority targets for nickel-copper-PGM mineralisation to follow up on and the same number of targets that are potentially prospective for lithium-caesium-tantalum pegmatites.

Impact Minerals looks to be sneaking up on a large copper system at Apsley in New South Wales. The company says its analysis of surface and drilling data indicates it may be touching on the margins of a porphyry copper-gold system not dissimilar to Newcrest's nearby Cadia-Ridgeway mine. Apsley's geochemical footprint extends over more than a kilometre along strike and up to a kilometre in width.

Impact Minerals is zeroing in on the source of nickel-PGE mineralisation at its Little Broken Hill Gabbro discovery in western New South Wales, with diamond drilling returning a 100m-thick intercept containing up to 5 per cent iron sulphides. Intriguingly, the intercept has a 50m-wide zone of anomalous copper mineralisation that looks similar in nature to the mineralised halo surrounding the massive Voisey's Bay deposit in Canada.

Impact Minerals is off and racing in its WA nickel hunt, with the company identifying a wealth of targets across the state's prospective South West Mineral Field and launching into an extensive program of surface sampling at its key projects. Impact controls over 1,900sq.km of ground between Northam and Corrigin, east of Perth, said to host a number of Julimar-style nickel-PGE targets.

Impact Minerals appears to be on target at its Broken Hill PGE project in New South Wales, with diamond drilling intersecting disseminated and vein sulphide mineralisation over significant widths in the basal units of the Little Broken Hill Gabbro and Red Hill chonolith. The deeper drilling campaign appears to have confirmed results of earlier exploration and hints at the significant PGE endowment of the region.

Impact Minerals has secured a shot at what it sees as a “walk-up drill target” at Doonia in Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields after being granted tenure over an area covering an impressive 3km-long porphyry target near Lefroy's promising Burns copper-gold discovery. The company is now planning first-pass exploration at the project and expects to kick off drilling in the second half of 2021.

Whilst Impact Minerals continues its tour-de-force in NSW where it is drilling both porphyry copper-gold and intrusive nickel-PGE targets across the resurgent mining state, the company is now keen to up the ante once again in its own backyard as it sizes up a swag of WA nickel, copper and gold targets. They include the Beau and Arkun projects along strike from the famed Julimar nickel-PGE discovery.

Impact Minerals' maiden drilling program over its Little Broken Hill Gabbro nickel and platinum group element project has validated the company's conceptual modelling, with three first-pass nickel-PGE targets confirmed in the north of the 6-kilometre-long mafic intrusion. Exploration shows the PGE mineralisation increasing in both thickness and grade with depth, with better results including 51 metres at 0.3 grams per tonne 3PGE from 140m.

Impact Minerals has cranked up the drill rig in NSW South Wales with the company poised to pepper its massive porphyry copper-gold target at Apsley in the Lachlan Fold Belt. Recent exploration has defined a massive 4 square kilometre copper-gold surface anomaly, with subsequent geophysical surveys confirming the prospectivity of a sub-surface porphyry and lighting up the emerging target.

ASX-listed Impact Minerals has racked up a bunch of fresh platinum group--copper-nickel drill hits across its shallow prospects which make up its aptly named Platinum Springs project, not far from the Broken Hill township in western NSW. Drilling at Plat Central returned one wide intercept of 32m at 0.7 g/t 3PGE from just 3m below surface, including 3m at a healthy 5.4 g/t PGE, below 76m.

Things are heating up for ASX-listed explorer, Impact Minerals across two projects in New South Wales. Government approvals have now been received for a highly-anticipated drilling campaign at the company's 100 per cent owned copper-gold Apsley prospect in the Lachlan Fold Belt. The results from final assays at the Broken Hill Project are also being assessed for follow-up drilling.

Impact Minerals has uncovered what it believes to be the most prospective targets in its entire portfolio at the Aspley copper-gold prospect in its Commonwealth project in NSW's Lachlan Fold Belt. The company has prioritised the new targets and believes it is drilling for jam in a zinc doughnut. The anomalies were uncovered following a geophysical survey and the company has fast-tracked its drilling program.

Impact Minerals has rung in the new year with an intriguing drill hit of 138m grading 0.3 g/t 3PGM from surface at its Broken Hill nickel-copper-3PGM project in NSW. The drill hit along the southern margin of its Red Hill prospect included 12m at 1.5 g/t 3PGM, 0.3 per cent nickel and 0.2 per cent copper from 103m down-hole.

Impact Minerals can revel in the festive season after earlier-than-anticipated results from drilling at its Rockwell prospect in NSW delivered a timely Christmas present, unwrapping encouraging sniffs of platinum group elements over at least 400m. Better assays include 61m at 0.4 g/t 3PGE from 31m including 12m at 1.4 g/t 3PGE from 73m, which in turn includes 1m at 2.3 g/t 3PGE from 73m and 1m at 2.6 g/t 3PGE from 79m.

ASX-listed explorer, Impact Minerals looks to be on the money with its first reconnaissance drill program at its Rockwell prospect encountering widespread occurrences of copper-nickel-PGE anomalies over about 1.5 kilometres. The drilling included an RC hole the Perth-based company described as a breakthrough hole that intersected elevated copper over a 25m-wide sulphide zone.

ASX-listed explorer, Impact Minerals, has returned high-grade, near-surface platinum group elements and base metals drill results from the Plat Central prospect at its Broken Hill project in NSW. The stand-out intercept was 1m going a scintillating 22.7 grams per tonne 7PGE, 3.3 per cent nickel, one per cent copper, 23 g/t silver and 755 g/t cobalt from 62m.

Impact Minerals has continued to build its portfolio of projects in Western Australia with its latest addition being an intriguing gold project to the east of the world-class St Ives gold mining centre near Kambalda. The Doonia project covers what appears to be a mafic intrusive with a similar geochemical and geophysical signature to the ground-breaking Hemi gold discovery in the Pilbara region.

ASX-listed explorer, Impact Minerals, has discovered zones of visual copper-nickel sulphides at the Plat Central prospect within its Broken Hill project in NSW. The company was again guided by its proprietary geochemical ratio exploration tool that it says can vector in on higher-grade base and platinum group metals mineralisation.

Impact Minerals has jumped back into drilling at its high-profile Broken Hill nickel-platinum group element project in New South Wales. The current program of RC drilling will follow up on previous high-grade palladium drill results and geochemical surveying across the project area, with work set to focus on the company's Platinum Springs and Little Broken Hill Gabbro prospects in addition to the stunning Red Hill discovery.

Impact Minerals looks to be tugging on the tail of a tiger with recent geochemical sampling at Apsley in NSW outlining a sizeable anomaly that flaunts all the hallmarks of a classic ‘text-book' porphyry copper-gold deposit according to the company. Sampling at the company's Apsley project has highlighted three priority targets for immediate testing with geophysical surveying expected to commence later this month.

Impact Minerals now has around $5.5m in its war chest after raising $3.24m in a heavily oversubscribed placement to follow up on past drilling that unearthed possibly the best platinum group result ever produced in Australia near Broken Hill in NSW. The project boasts a smorgasbord of mixed metals headlined by platinum, palladium, gold, nickel and copper.

Impact Minerals has been exploring its ground in the prolific Lachlan Fold Belt of New South Wales and the company's efforts have unearthed some exciting results with rock chips from the Greenobbys prospect returning up to 9.5 g/t gold, 215g/t silver and 745ppm bismuth. Rock chip samples from the Boda South prospect also returned up to 0.1 per cent copper, 2g/t silver and 40ppm bismuth.

Impact Minerals has doubled down on its ground position in the emerging Southwest nickel province of Western Australia with the company applying for an additional 1,050 square kilometres of ground surrounding its already extensive Arkun Nickel-Copper-PGE project southeast of Perth. Arkun now covers over 1,900 square kilometres, with the company looking to hunt down a look-alike of the spectacular Julimar Nickel-PGE discovery to the northwest.

Impact Minerals has picked up an interesting suite of five tenements that it believes are prospective for nickel-copper-PGM in the south-west of WA's Yilgarn Craton. The tenements will be known as the Arkun project. The Yilgarn craton is revered for its gold, nickel and copper deposits. However, more recently, interest has turned to the rare suite of platinum group elements in the area.

Impact Minerals has added Apsley and Spicers Creek to its inventory of Boda copper-gold porphyry look-alike prospects near Dubbo in NSW. The new targets are contained within Image's Commonwealth project that lies south of Alkane's revered Boda and Kaiser porphyry copper-gold discovery in the Lachlan Fold Belt. The company has received assays from its recent reconnaissance rock chip sampling and the results confirm copper-gold mineralisation.

Impact Minerals has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the New South Wales Government in a nod to the company's technical accomplishments at its Broken Hill project. The windfall was awarded by the New Frontiers Cooperative Drilling grants programme and Impact will use the money to explore its NSW play for nickel-copper-platinum group metal deposits.

In a potentially transformative move, Impact Minerals has formed a strategic “Broken Hill Alliance” with fellow ASX-listed companies, Castillo Copper and private group, Squadron Resources, to amalgamate what will be the largest landholding that surrounds the world-class Broken Hill zinc-lead-silver mine in NSW. Importantly, Impact will retain the rights to explore for all platinum group metals, nickel, copper and other precious metals across its tenements.

Perth-based ASX listed Impact Minerals is cashed up with over $3m now in its war chest to throw at its exciting Broken Hill PGM project just as palladium and rhodium prices touch record highs. Impact locked away a $2.1m capital raise this week on the back of palladium prices hitting USD$2500 an ounce and rhodium prices bursting through the USD$10,000 an ounce mark.

Impact Minerals is gearing up to get back onto its ground in NSW to explore for look-alikes to Alkane's recent revered Boda porphyry copper-gold discovery that lies just 5km north of Impact's ground in the Lachlan Fold Belt. The company is now waiting on assays from recent reconnaissance rock chip sampling to hone the next round of soil geochemistry and geophysics exploration surveys at its Commonwealth Project near Dubbo.