Public Company News

Legend Mining is edging ever closer to the mother lode at its Mawson nickel discovery in WA’s Fraser Range, this week intersecting almost 13m of massive nickel-copper sulphides within more than 90m of sulphide mineralisation. The company said diamond drill hole RKDD023 successfully tested a strong downhole electromagnetic conductor, intersecting sulphides below 216m.

Great Southern Mining continues to turn up high-grade gold as it delves deeper into the lower extremities of its historic Cox’s Find gold project near Laverton in WA. Recent diamond drilling returned a notable assay of 3.6m at 8.03 g/t gold from 168.95m including 1.0m at 27.5 g/t in a hole drilled 30m down-plunge from the earlier bonanza intersection of 5.65m at 80.0 g/t from 160m including 1.1m at an extraordinary 404 g/t.

Aspiring uranium developer, Deep Yellow, has mobilised its drilling fleet in Namibia to produce samples for ongoing test work. Deep Yellow’s drills will complete 90 holes through the Tumas resource area to collect over a tonne of samples for metallurgical testing and technical analysis as part of its ongoing PFS program.

ASX-listed 3D metal printing technology player, Aurora Labs, has taken a significant step towards protecting its groundbreaking Multi-Layer Concurrent Printing, or "MCP" 3D printing technology after being granted a patent in China.

King River Resources is continuing to refine the feasibility study over its immense Speewah Dome high purity alumina project in the Kimberley region of WA, with recent developments including the streamlining of the HPA circuit to develop a product for use in technological applications.

Classic Minerals continues to go for gold at Kat Gap in WA with sampling pointing to an extensive gold anomaly west of the company’s high-grade discovery. Classic has recently completed a detailed auger program west of the Kat Gap resource area, identifying an extensive blind gold target covering more than 900 metres of strike – results from shallow auger holes tip the scales at up to 2,130 ppb gold.

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.

ASX-listed Hot Chili may be onto another significant discovery – at the Cortadera North target zone – which could even be a twin to its Cortadera copper-gold porphyry system. The potential for a new “look-alike” discovery about 2km north of Cortadera, which shows a geochemical footprint of 2km in length, comes just weeks ahead of the company’s plans to announce a maiden resource estimate for the Chilean project.

ASX-listed platinum group metals explorer, Podium Minerals, is aiming for an upgraded resource estimate next month for its Parks Reef PGM project in the Mid West region of WA following more encouraging results from rock chip sampling work. The company is targeting a near-surface resource of between 1.5 million ounces and 2.6Moz of PGMs.

Okapi Resources has nailed down a strategic position in the fertile Lake Johnston greenstone belt west of Norseman in southern WA. The company has entered into a farm-in agreement with dynamic market player, Lithium Australia to explore for gold and base metals across that company’s strategic tenement holdings in the same greenstone belt as the old Maggie Hayes and Emily Ann nickel mines.

Ardiden has sunk a golden hole in one with the maiden drill hole of its diamond drilling program at the Kasagiminnis project in Canada intersecting visible gold. The early hit bodes well for the current exploration program over the deposit and demonstrates that the company has a good handle on the controls of the gold mineralisation at depth. Drilling continues and is designed to significantly boost the current resource over the coming months.

Godolphin Resources has returned a couple of very encouraging gold hits from the first hole of a phase two RC drilling program at its Mount Aubrey gold project in the venerated copper-gold Lachlan Fold Belt province in NSW. Notable intersections from that hole were 3m going 7.41 grams per tonne gold from 99m including 1m at 21 g/t, and 7m at 1.52 g/t from 36m.