Month: August 2020

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Morning News Bites – Aug 5

Todays morning news bites –

Gold is continuing to break records with a new high, it is now trading at over $2024US/oz. Virgin announce cuts to 3000 staff as they plan to adapt to “a new world”. The QLD borders officially close to NSW.

Loads of ore, like in the CAT 793 are potentially more attractive after the jump in gold overnight.
  • As uncertainty surrounding the global economy increases, so does the price of Gold, smashing it’s previous record that was made only last week of over $1954US/oz, it is now trading at over $2024US/oz ($2824AUD).
  • Meteoric Resources announce the mobilisation of the Palm Springs site. The 6,500m Stage 1 drilling program, which will consist of both RC and Diamond drilling, has been designed to confirm and extend the known high grade mineralisation associated with the plunging anticline to the south of the existing Butchers Creek open pit. Stage 1 will consist of approximately 23 RC holes (5,000m)  and 7 Diamond drill holes (1,500m) for a total of 6,500m of drilling.
  • Prodigy Gold report that drilling is underway at the Tulsa Prospect, situated within the North Arunta Project, a province scale gold opportunity with several multi-kilometre soil anomalies to be drilled in 2020. Tulsa is the first of five targets to be drilled this campaign and is located along strike from the high-grade Kroda Gold Prospect which returned 5m @ 15g/t Au and 9m @ 11.5 g/t Au from drilling in 2018. Managing Director, Matt Briggs said, “With a very robust exploration program mapped out for the remainder of this calendar year, I look forward to updating shareholders on exploration progress at regular intervals.”
  • Early construction works to start at Warrawoona gold project in WA, Calidus Resources reports. Managing Director Dave Reeves said: “The early works programme will ensure gold production starts as soon as possible at Warrawoona. Constructing access roads, the accommodation village and supplying communications to site paves the way for the main development works to kick off in earnest in the new year.
  • Another significant sulphide intersection at Golden Swan extends the new discovery until August 5th for Poseidon Nickel. Latest intersection is ~50m up-dip of discovery hole PBSD0029A which intersected 7.6m @ 8.8% Ni (true width = 4.3m) including 2.1m (1.2m TW) of massive sulphides grading 15.9% Ni. Managing Director and CEO Peter Harold commented, saying “With the installation of the underground loop nearing completion we hope to highlight further potential around the current Golden Swan intersections as our geological understanding of this area improves.“
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Morning News Bites – Aug 4

In today’s morning news bites:

Sharemarket has risen 6000 points at open. Wesfarmers announces Bunnings stores in Melbourne metro region will be closed for in-store retail, however trade will remain open while Target, Kmart and Officeworks will be unable to service customers in-store. The Reserve Bank meets today to discuss interest rates.

  • Saracen reports a record increases in reserves of 3.7Moz at 30 June 2020, up 12% from 3.3Moz at 30 June 2019 (an increase of 400,000oz despite 396,000oz depletion). The further increase in reserves strengthens Saracen’s position as a substantial, long-life, low-cost gold miner with 100% of its production from Western Australia. Managing Director Raleigh Finlayson said, “To grow Reserves by 400,000oz in a year despite depletion is a strong result. These ounces are made much more valuable by the fact that they are all in Western Australia and within very close proximity to existing processing facilities. These robust reserves ensure we have long-term, sustainable production in what is almost certainly the best place in the world to be a gold miner.”

  • Renascor has identified multiple drill-ready gold targets at its Carnding Project in South Australia’s Central Gawler Craton. Shallow Gold Drill Intercepts of up to 16 g/t in Central Gawler Craton Highlights, targets include the Soyuz Prospect, where previous drilling intersected shallow gold, with highlights including: 7m @ 5.14g/t Au from 26m to end of hole, including 2m @ 16.42 g/t Au from 30m1 and 6m @ 4.94g/t Au from 14m.
  • The 250-hole auger drilling program has been completed at its Twin Hills Gold Project in the Goldfields of Western Australia, according to eMetals. Drilling has tested almost 2 kilometres of strike of prospective shear zone south of the historical Twin Hills Gold Mine which has recorded historical production of 1,100 tonnes of ore at an average grade of 23.6 g/t and an historical resource of 17,541 tonnes at a grade of 20.86 g/t. Director Mathew Walker was pleased with the progress, saying “Twin Hills is an exciting exploration Project with over 5 kilometers of prospective strike length adjacent to two excised historical high grade gold mines. We are delighted that the recent auger geochemical program has validated our structural modelling and provide us with multiple ready to drill targets.”
  • According to Gladiator Resources, the previously delayed drilling program at the Marymia Gold Project has now been completed. A total of 31 AC holes for 1,922m have been completed, with composite samples to be couriered to Intertek Laboratories for gold analysis. Results are anticipated within the month and will be reported as soon as possible.
  • Apollo Consolidated provide an update on the progress of drilling at its Lake Rebecca Gold Project located 150km east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Exploration, infill, and extensional drilling at the Duchess deposit delivers strong true-width mineralisation zones, with highlights of: 5m @ 6.98g/t Au incl. 1m @ 31.48g/t Au and 7m @ 3.90g/t Au.
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Morning News Bites – Aug 3

In today’s morning news bites:

Neometals and Sms Group announced a joint venture to recycle lithium ion batteries, NSW COVID-19 clusters increase concern as Victoria move into stage 4 lockdown.

  • A formal agreement has been reached between Neometals and SMS group called Primobius, which will commercialise Neometals’ proprietary lithium-ion battery recycling technology. This offers a unique and sustainable method for recovering valuable lithium, nickel, cobalt and other materials from spent and scrap electric vehicle and consumer electronic LiB’s. Recovered and refined product materials will be in a form that can be reused in the battery supply chain. Neometals Managing Director Chris Reed said, “We have a clear path to commercialise this Australian technology, developed by our technical team in Perth, to meet the needs of the burgeoning European lithium battery and EV makers.”
  • Redstone Resources Limited has presented its report for Q4 and FY20. This includes the successful completion and interpretation of results from the 2019 exploration West Musgrave  Project, which has confirmed the significantly improved prospectivity for copper mineralisation across the project tenure.
  • Drilling has commenced at the Wild-viper Gold Project for Terrain Minerals Limited. This high-quality gold exploration tenement package located 76 km north of Leanora WA and is surrounded by historic gold deposits and is surprisingly under-explored and appears to be highly prospective. Negotiations are progressing, with plans to farm‐in up to 80% interest in privately owned Hannans South Gold Tailings Project,  a large scale tailings gold facility, located on the historic Hannans South Gold Mill site in Kalgoorlie, WA.
  • Jindalee Resources announces the appointment of Mrs Karen Wellman as CEO, effective 12 October 2020. Mrs Wellman is a geologist with almost 20 years’ experience covering all aspects of the mining cycle from early stage exploration, production and mine geology, through to resource definition and estimation. Jindalee’s Chairman Mr Justin Mannolini has welcomed this appointment, saying “We are delighted to welcome Karen as Jindalee’s CEO. Karen’s industry and development experience will be of great value to the Company as we advance our portfolio of gold and nickel assets in Western Australia to further develop and expand our significant lithium resource base in the US.”
  • Drilling contract awarded for the Mt Stirling Gold Project for Torian Resources. Phase 1 drilling has proven that the Mt Stirling Project is emerging as a potentially large  gold system with ore grade Au now intercepted over 100m below prior drilling and extends over 1,000m strike. This extends on assay results released in June of this year, which returned grades of up to: 4m @ 8.84 g/t (including 33.10 g/t over 1.0 m) and 24m @ 1.26 g/t (including 2.89 g/t over 7.0 m).