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Bulls N' Bears 03 Dec 2020

Blackstone lists on US OTC market

On the back of a recent $17.8m raising which welcomed new overseas institutions to the register, ASX-listed Blackstone Minerals has listed its stock on the USA-based OTCQB market. After tabling healthy scoping study numbers for its flagship Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGMs project west of Hanoi in Vietnam, Blackstone is looking to bolster investor support from both North American individuals and institutions.

Bulls N' Bears 24 Nov 2020

Blackstone flush with Vietnam nickel targets

ASX-listed Blackstone Minerals has whipped out yet another high-priority prospect from a seemingly endless production line of brownfields exploration targets at its historic Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGMs project about 160km west of Hanoi in Vietnam. The company says its internal geophysics work came up trumps again identifying the new King Snake prospect, located just 1.5km north-east of its flagship Ban Phuc disseminated sulphide deposit.

Bulls N' Bears 12 Nov 2020

Blackstone kicks off nickel drilling at Ban Khoa

Blackstone Minerals' aggressive drilling campaign continues across its Ta Khoa nickel-PGE project in northern Vietnam. The company has launched into diamond drilling at Ban Khoa, 1.5km north of its Ban Phuc operation, as it chases down new sulphide targets lit up by its geophysical team. Drilling also continues at King Cobra and Ban Chang in the wake of the company's recently tabled scoping study.

Bulls N' Bears 29 Oct 2020

Blackstone bolsters leadership group to develop Vietnam nickel project

Blackstone Minerals has moved quickly to put a mine-to-market management group in place to develop its Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGE project in Vietnam. The appointments come just a fortnight after the company tabled a scoping study with a tantalising set of numbers including a A$1 billion present-day valuation and net pre-tax cash flows in excess of US$1.2 billion over the projected 8.5-year life of mine.

Bulls N' Bears 14 Oct 2020

Blackstone delivers billion-dollar nickel baby

Blackstone Minerals has unveiled its much-anticipated scoping study for the Ta Khoa nickel project in Vietnam, delivering a tantalising set of numbers headlined by a AU$1 billion present-day valuation and net pre-tax cash flows in excess of US$1.2 billion over the projected 8.5-year life of mine. The financials clearly support the case for a revival of its mothballed nickel operation in Vietnam.

Bulls N' Bears 07 Sep 2020

Blackstone to drill new nickel sulphide target in Vietnam

ASX-listed Vietnam base metals hopeful, Blackstone Minerals, has fired up the drill bit again at its next nickel sulphide prospect at the historic Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGMs project, 160km west of Hanoi, as part of its aggressive exploration drive through a treasure chest of massive sulphide vein targets.

Bulls N' Bears 02 Sep 2020

Blackstone’s Ban Chang discovery delivers broad nickel intercepts

Blackstone Minerals has continued its successful delineation of the Ban Chang sulphide discovery with ongoing drilling intersecting broad zones of nickel mineralisation. The company's maiden drilling program across the prospect has outlined nickel mineralisation over more than 1.2km of strike with latest results including 9.60m at 0.84 per cent nickel and 14.65m at 0.74 per cent nickel.

Bulls N' Bears 19 Aug 2020

Blackstone charms out yet another nickel discovery in Vietnam

Blackstone has charmed yet another nickel discovery out of the jungle in Vietnam, with geophysics lighting up the Viper Discovery Zone, just 200 metres east of the current exploration focus, the Ban Chang prospect. The company's exploration and development program over the Ta Khoa nickel-copper project continues to gain pace with both a maiden resource and scoping study on the horizon.

Bulls N' Bears 13 Aug 2020

Blackstone beefs up drilling fleet in Vietnam nickel hunt

ASX-listed base metals developer, Blackstone Minerals, has further strengthened its drilling and geophysics armoury on the ground in Vietnam as it ramps up exploration at its 90 per cent-owned historic Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGM project 160km west of Hanoi. The company has added a second geophysics crew and three drill rigs to its fleet, effectively doubling its exploration capacity.

Bulls N' Bears 11 Aug 2020

Blackstone brings home the bacon at Ban Chang

Blackstone Minerals has continued its seemingly unstoppable run of success in Vietnam with all four drill holes from the company's maiden drilling program at Ban Chang intersecting high-grade massive nickel sulphides over more than 1,200 metres of strike. Infill drilling at the prospect is now being planned to delineate addition resources for the company's developing resource inventory and Blackstone's move into production.

Bulls N' Bears 30 Jul 2020

Blackstone strikes 47m of nickel at King Cobra

Blackstone Minerals looks to have awakened a sleeping giant in Vietnam, after posting a massive, 47-metre-wide, 1.04 per cent nickel hit at the King Cobra prospect within its Ta Khoa project. A maiden resource for the Ban Phuc and King Cobra deposits are due in the third quarter of 2020 and will be highly anticipated by the market given the significant successes Blackstone's latest drilling campaign has experienced.

Bulls N' Bears 22 Jul 2020

Blackstone notches up more Vietnam nickel hits

ASX-listed base metals hopeful, Blackstone Minerals, continues to put runs on the board in northern Vietnam as its company-owned drill rigs continue their run of success at the Ban Chang deposit within the Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGM project with more lucrative looking sulphide nickel mineralisation presenting in the samples. Blackstone is chasing massive sulphide veins similar to its nearby Ban Phuc deposit, where previous owners produced 20,700t of nickel, 10,100t of copper and 67,000t of cobalt between 2013 and 2016.

Bulls N' Bears 07 Jul 2020

Blackstone buys third rig to ramp up Vietnam nickel drilling

ASX-listed base metals hopeful, Blackstone Minerals, has purchased another diamond drill rig to accelerate its exploration at the emerging Ban Chang nickel prospect where it is looking to take the closed down Ta Khoa processing plant out of mothballs. The third rig in the company's armoury will pepper Ban Chang with new holes after its first round of drilling there encountered sulphide nickel mineralisation.

Bulls N' Bears 02 Jul 2020

Blackstone delivers impressive nickel-PGM assays in Vietnam

Blackstone Minerals' Ban Chang prospect has delivered another set of impressive numbers with a nearly 10 metre long drill intersection going 1.45 per cent nickel, 0.9 per cent copper, 0.08 per cent cobalt and 0.7 grams per tonne platinum, palladium plus gold, from 57m down hole. The new result is from a step-out hole at the company's Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGM project in Vietnam that was drilled over one kilometre away from Blackstone's maiden hole at Ban Chang.

Bulls N' Bears 23 Jun 2020

Blackstone hits 15.4 m of nickel sulphides in Vietnam

Blackstone Minerals has upped the ante at its Ban Chang prospect in Vietnam with drilling intersecting 15.4 m of nickel sulphide mineralisation. The intercept extends the strike length of the target to over 1,200 metres and hints at the potential of the nickel system at depth. Exploration will continue throughout the region with results expected to flow from the ongoing drilling campaign soon.

Bulls N' Bears 17 Jun 2020

3 per cent nickel result cements new discovery for Blackstone

Blackstone Minerals has hit a new massive sulphide zone at the Ban Chang West prospect at its Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGM project in Vietnam with its maiden diamond drilling returning 5m intersection grading 0.66% nickel from 58m down hole. The zone includes just over one metre going an impressive 2.98% nickel, 1.22% copper, 0.18% cobalt and 3.43g/t PGM.

Bulls N' Bears 11 Jun 2020

Blackstone extends massive nickel sulphide veins in Vietnam

ASX-listed Blackstone Minerals has now threaded three drill holes into a lucrative looking EM target at its Ban Chang prospect at its Ta Khoa nickel-PGE project in Vietnam, extending the known massive sulphide mineralisation to an impressive 1 km in strike length. The latest drill hole intersected a healthy 4.6 m of massive and semi-massive sulphide veins within a 9 m sulphide interval.

Bulls N' Bears 03 Jun 2020

Blackstone nails new massive sulphide nickel veins in Vietnam

Blackstone Minerals has vectored in on a new massive sulphide nickel vein at its Ban Chang prospect in Vietnam with two separate drill holes intersecting the vein 200m apart within metres of where its EM plate modelling says it should be. One hole intersected 1.05m of massive sulphides from 58.5m whilst the second hole hit 1.2m of massive sulphides from 87m down hole.

Bulls N' Bears 29 May 2020

Blackstone to hunt down more high-grade sulphides in Vietnam

Blackstone Minerals is once again headed into the jungle surrounding its Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGE project in Vietnam.

Bulls N' Bears 15 Apr 2020

Blackstone exercises option to acquire 90 per cent of nickel project

Blackstone Minerals has exercised its option to acquire a 90 per cent interest in the Ta Khoa nickel project in northern Vietnam from AMR Nickel Limited for AUD$1M Blackstone shares based on its 30-day VWAP. The Perth-based explorer picked up a binding option to acquire the project back in May 2019. The project includes the mothballed Ban Phuc underground nickel mine and 450,000 tonne per annum nickel concentrator built to Australian standards.

Bulls N' Bears 08 Apr 2020

Koreans plough $6.8m into Blackstone at 62% market premium

In an extraordinary move amid the Coronavirus inspired market carnage, Blackstone Minerals has managed to place $6.8m at a 62% premium to market to giant South Korean battery materials manufacturer, EcoPro. EcoPro owns the world's 2nd largest nickel-rich battery cathode manufacturer and the largest operation of its kind in Korea. EcoPro is looking to get exposure to Blackstone's Ta Khoa Nickel-Platinum project in Vietnam.

Bulls N' Bears 12 Mar 2020

Blackstone racks up more solid nickel sulphide hits in Vietnam

Blackstone Minerals has racked up more long nickel sulphide intercepts at its King Cobra discovery in Vietnam with two near surface results returning 39m at 1.1per cent nickel and 28m grading 1.2 per cent nickel from its Ta Khoa Nickel-PGE project. One drill hole at King Cobra also intersected a 0.55m thick massive sulphide vein within a broader 58m intersection of disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation.

Bulls N' Bears 20 Jan 2020

Good morning Vietnam – Blackstone hits 60m nickel zone

Blackstone Minerals has revealed the most impressive drill result to date at its Ta Khoa nickel project in Vietnam with 60m grading 1.3% nickel and another 11.9m at 1.09% nickel contained within another 142m intersection further down in the same drill hole at the King Cobra prospect. The 60m intersection also showed 0.22% copper and 0.29g/t PGM plus gold.

Bulls N' Bears 18 Dec 2019

Blackstone makes nickel sulphide discovery in Vietnam

Blackstone Minerals' drilling program in Vietnam has continued to churn out some impressive nickel and platinum group metal results from its Ta Khoa nickel project, located west of Hanoi in northern Vietnam, with a surprising new discovery at King Cobra. Assays are still pending for this new nickel discovery whilst broad intercepts at the Ban Phuc disseminated sulphide zone continue to entice with 106m @ 0.45% nickel.

Bulls N' Bears 02 Dec 2019

Blackstone wooed by South Korean EV battery giant

Blackstone Minerals has caught the eye of South Korea's largest electric vehicle battery cathode manufacturer, Ecopro BM Co, which has offered to help the Australian outfit expand the downstream processing capabilities of its re-emerging Ta Khoa nickel project in north Vietnam. The two companies have signed a non-binding MoU which could become a full-blown joint venture involving the production of nickel and cobalt for lithium-ion batteries.

Bulls N' Bears 16 Oct 2019

Blackstone nails broad nickel zones in Vietnam

Blackstone Minerals has revealed more impressive nickel and PGM mineralisation at its Ta Khoa nickel project in northern Vietnam. Broad zones of mineralisation were intersected during recent drilling with widths of up to 33m returned. The company is fully funded for the program, as it collates valuable data ahead of the estimation of a maiden mineral resource and scoping study.

Bulls N' Bears 17 Sep 2019

PGM credits to turbocharge Blackstone nickel play

Blackstone Minerals has unearthed a slew of platinum group metal credits amongst its nickel drill results that could redefine its Ta Khoa project. The company recently reported a 45.5m drill intersection grading 1.2% nickel with a surprising 0.35 grams per tonne platinum, palladium plus gold that could potentially redefine the economics of the company's nickel project in Vietnam.

Bulls N' Bears 19 Aug 2019

Blackstone unearths new nickel targets in Vietnam

Blackstone Minerals has nailed a plethora of new nickel sulphide exploration targets from its maiden geophysical survey program at the emerging Ta Khoa project, west of Hanoi, in northern Vietnam. The induced polarisation survey showed a strong correlation with existing positions of nickel mineralisation at the flagship Ban Phuc prospect and outlined new targets at the Ban Khoa and King Snake prospects nearby.

Bulls N' Bears 06 Aug 2019

Blackstone intersects wide nickel zones in Vietnam

Blackstone Minerals' targeting appears spot on with its maiden drilling program at the Ta Khoa nickel project in northern Vietnam intersecting substantial disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation. The first three holes at the Ban Phuc prospect returned wide intervals including 45.5m @ 1.2% nickel from 56.5m down-hole, 17.8m @ 1% nickel from 106.6m and 22m @ 0.8% nickel from 138m respectively.

Bulls N' Bears 08 Jul 2019

Rods turning at Blackstone’s Vietnamese nickel project

Blackstone Minerals has kicked off drilling at its Ta Khoa nickel project located in northern Vietnam and is initially targeting disseminated sulphide mineralisation at the Ban Phuc prospect, following geophysical surveys that showed chargeable anomalies were present. According to the company, the initial IP survey test line run through the area showed a strong correlation with the known massive and disseminated sulphide occurrences.

Bulls N' Bears 08 May 2019

Blackstone to acquire Vietnamese nickel project

Blackstone Minerals is set to acquire a 90% interest in the advanced Ta Khoa nickel project in northern Vietnam from AMR Nickel Limited over a 12-month period costing AUD$1.6m in cash and scrip. The project includes an existing 450,000 tonne per annum concentrator and is located in a prospective, underexplored district that contains numerous massive and disseminated sulphide occurrences with nickel, copper, cobalt and PGEs.

Bulls N' Bears 16 Oct 2018

Blackstone identifies priority target in Canada

Blackstone Minerals has identified the Jewel copper-gold-cobalt prospect in British Columbia as its highest priority drill target after soil sampling identified a 1.5km long copper-gold-cobalt target that sits over a recently identified IP anomaly, that was interpreted to be a potentially large sulphide bearing body. New surface rock chip samples at the Jewel prospect have also returned results of up to 5.6% copper.

Bulls N' Bears 09 Oct 2018

Serious cobalt-gold grades for Blackstone in Canada

Blackstone Minerals has confirmed a significant new discovery of high grade cobalt and gold mineralisation at its Erebor prospect in British Columbia, Canada. It is the first new find of cobalt in the district since the 1930s with rock chip samples going up to 2.3% cobalt and just over an ounce to the tonne gold, with some highly anomalous copper and nickel results thrown in for good measure.

Bulls N' Bears 03 Oct 2018

Blackstone onto more cobalt targets in Canada

ASX listed Blackstone Minerals' phase two IP survey has identified new large-scale cobalt targets at its Little Gem project in British Columbia that are bigger and stronger than the anomalies found during the first phase. The new targets, which are more than 1km long, are associated with the previously producing “Jewel” gold-silver-copper mine located 1.1km northeast of Little Gem.

Bulls N' Bears 06 Sep 2018

Blackstone onto new cobalt targets in Canada

Blackstone Minerals has identified two new targets that could unlock the potential for its Little Gem cobalt project in Canada to host multiple deposits akin to the Bou-Azzer primary cobalt mineralised area in Morocco. A detailed soil sampling program over multiple prospects adjacent to Little Gem and regional targets over 335 km2 of tenure is also nearing completion.

Bulls N' Bears 16 Aug 2018

Blackstone in new cobalt find in Canada

Blackstone Minerals has discovered new cobalt and gold mineralisation at its Erebor prospect, located less than a kilometre from the company's flagship, Little Gem project area in British Columbia, Canada. It is the first new find of cobalt in the district since the 1930's. The company is also awaiting results from a geophysical survey and assays from regional soil, rock chip and stream sediment sampling programs.

Bulls N' Bears 31 May 2018

Solid cobalt/gold grades in new drill hole for Blackstone

Blackstone Minerals has announced more encouraging results from its maiden drilling program at the Little Gem cobalt-gold play in British Columbia, Canada. High grade results include 3.2m @ 0.8% cobalt and 4g/t gold and were accompanied by extensive alteration zones, indicating a major system may feed the hydrothermal mineralisation being sought.

Bulls N' Bears 22 Mar 2018

Blackstone to resume drilling at Little Gem cobalt play

ASX listed Blackstone Minerals has announced it will recommence drilling at its high grade Little Gem cobalt-gold project in British Columbia shortly, using a specialist local contractor. The company also released anomalous gold assay results from a multi-element stream sediment geochemical sampling program at the project, extending the limits of the target zone out to 1.8km.

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