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November 4, 2022

What you missed in the news this week 4 Nov 2022

Rox Resources announced a 110% increase of production to 187koz Au since 2018.

The increase is at their Mt Fisher and Mt Eureka gold projects in the Eastern Goldfields.

Rio Tinto and BHP have joined forces to for research into technology to increase water recovery from mine tailings.

They are currently trialling a large-volume filter unit to remove up to 80% of water in the trailing stream before it is deposited in a storage facility.

Removing more water would reduce risks associated with moisture in storage facilities, reduce the foot print of these facilities and allow them to productively reuse tailings are raw material.

After unsuccessfully suing the Western Australian Government, Clive Palmer is trying again, planning to sue the Commonwealth for billions in damages over his stalled iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

Palmer plans to bring the claim under the international courts through his Singapore-based company Zeph International.

If Palmer is successful, tax payers can expect to foot the bill of upwards of $32B.

Classic Minerals has commenced construction on their new Kat Gap gold mine, south of Southern Cross.

Classic Minerals has begun building internal roads and clearing space for the camp but has yet to receive processing approval.

They are hoping to have stage 1 open-pit mining before the end of the year.

Swedish company, Epiroc, has agreed to acquire Kalgoorlie Boulder company, Remote Control Technologies Pty Ltd.

RCT was founded 50 years ago and provides automation solutions to mining companies.

RCT is the second Kalgoorlie Boulder company acquired by Epiroc this year, after their acquisition of JTMEC earlier in the year.

The acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

MLG celebrates 20 years this week. The Kalgoorlie Boulder based company started with founder and managing director Murray Leahy and his truck to a business that services 29 sites across Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

S&P/ASX 200 peaked this week on Wednesday at 7,009.00 points, before taking a sharp fall to 2,849 points on Thursday. The markets rounded out the week at 6,893 points.

All Ordinaries followed suit this week, peaking on Wednesday at 7,194 points before plummeting to 7,015 points. The All Ords finished the week at 7,089 points.

Gold is sitting at $2,600.28oz t today, making a solid comeback from Tuesday’s fall. Gold is sitting at a similar position to how October started the month, with $2,567.36oz t on 3^rd October.

Silver finished off at $31.48oz t, finishing a little lower than yesterday’s $31.05oz t.

October 21, 2022October 21, 2022

What You Missed In The News This Week

St Barbara’s share price plummeted to a 7 year low, dropping 35.18% after they released their quarterly report on Tuesday. The shares dropped from $0.68AUD to just $0.46AUD. Production was down almost 26% and costs up 34.8% from last quarter. Currently it costs St Barbara $4/oz more to produce gold than they receive from selling it.

IGO chief executive Peter Bradford has passed away at 64. Bradford began working in the mining industry in 1979 and has been a supporter of clean energy and climate change. He was an active mentor for the Women in Mining WA organisation and a committee member of CEOs for Gender Equity Inc.

St Ives has resumed operations after a worker was killed last week. The worker died at the Hamlet underground mine near Kambalda. The tragic incident was one of two mine site deaths last week, with a second occurring at a Pilbara mine site last Thursday.

Rox Resources has announced significant results from its Reverse Circulation drilling at their Mt Fisher Gold Project. Managing director Alex Passmore said these results continue to confirm the “strong prospectively of the highly under-explored Mount Fisher Gold Project.”

Raiden Resources’ Mt Sholl maiden diamond drilling to be completed over the next two days ahead of schedule. Of their completed holes, all have intersected visual Nickel and Copper mineralisation. The tenements are located 22km southeast of Karratha in the Pilbara region.

The S&P/ASX200 has finished the week at 6,676.80 points today, falling 0.80% from yesterday. The All Ordinaries finished much the same at 6,869,90, falling 0.71% from yesterday. Gold rounded out the week at $2,588.81oz t.

May 9, 2021May 9, 2021

Karora Posts Strong First Quarter

Canadian miner Karora Resources posted a positive start to the first quarter based on their Higginsville Mining Centre and Kambalda Beta Hunt operations. Announced to the market late Friday night Western Australia time, Karora posted gold production of 24,694 ounces and gold sales of 25,547 ounces. While Karora nickel production is currently limited to remnant nickel resources south of the Alpha Fault at Beta Hunt. However there has been positivity to future nickel production with 30C Nickel Trough discovery and Gamma Zone – 50C”, where 11.6% nickel over 4.6 metres, including 18.4% nickel over 2.2 metres was intersected

Chairman and CEO Paul Andre Huet who recently relocated to Australia from Canada said “I am pleased with Karora’s first quarter performance, which places us on a very strong footing to achieve our full year 2021 gold production guidance of between 105,000 and 115,000 ounces and AISC of US$985–$1,085 per ounce sold. First quarter gold production of just under 25,000 ounces was right on budget as we prepared new higher grade mining areas at Higginsville Central. Over the course of 2021, as we have previously stated, we expect quarterly grade improvements resulting from Spargos and Two Boys to drive increased production towards the second half of the year.” he said.

Beta Hunt production is to be increased with a staged fleet replacement and upgrade program, including the addition of a CAT R2900 underground loader and two CAT AD60 trucks into the mining fleet. With expansion planned for 2021.The first of these two new trucks recently hauled its first load of ore at Beta Hunt in May.

At Higginsville, The Two Boys mine dewatering and exploratory work was significantly advanced during the first quarter of 2021. Mining is on track to commence as planned in the second quarter of 2021. Alongside this there are further developments at Baloo in terms of optimisation and mining focus directed towards Hidden Secret.

Mr Huet also elaborated on expansion at Higginsville “I am extremely happy to announce that our Phase I mill expansion is proceeding well ahead of schedule. We have already achieved an annualised production rate of 1.5 million tonnes per annum. Once completed, as previously announced, the Phase I expansion will increase production capacity at our Higginsville mill in 2021 by approximately 15%, or 550 tonnes per day, to 1.6 million tonnes per annum from the prior capacity of 1.4 million tonnes per annum.”

Karora closed the day down $3.82 from an open of $4.08 on trade on the TSX.

April 21, 2021

Northern Star Set for May Reserve Resource Upgrade

ASX 100 Miner Northern Star Resources has delivered its March 21 quarterly activities report noting strong progress to a May Reserve resource upgrade – Which Managing Director Raleigh Finlayson mentioned on a conference call to “watch this space”. Whilst reporting that factors such as a 14 day mill shutdown at KCGM modernising mill control systems, Unplanned maintenance at Thunderbox on the mill motor and lower head grades at Pogo.

Northern Star reported underlying free cash flow of A$97 million at an average realised price of A$2,222 per ounce.

Highlights from operations included

Yandal – Jundee – Development advance was especially strong in March with a new monthly record for jumbo advance of +2,000m.

Yandal – Thunderbox – Investment continues in a large, shallow single-stage cutback adjacent to the mill.

Kalgoorlie – KCGM – The new underground portal was successfully cut in the “Super Pit” with development currently advancing. This is located in the Western Wall and is the first new underground activity on the Golden Mile in decades.

A CAT 793 hauls up a ramp at the KCGM Super Pit

Kalgoorlie – Kanowna – District milling optimisation has commenced, with 24kt of Mt Charlotte ore successfully treated at Kanowna Belle, resulting in a >3% recovery improvement to 87.5%.

Kalgoorlie – Carosue Dam – The mill delivered record quarterly throughput of 887kt.

Pogo – The ongoing focus is accelerated decline advance to enable access to additional stoping horizons and set up diamond drill platforms to further grow the Pogo Resource.

A new strategic road map will be presented in July. Executive Chair Bill Beament said “We have overcome a few one-off events to ensure we remain on track to meet our annual guidance This is a huge credit to our team and also reflects the underlying quality of the assets. “

“In addition to this achievement, there has been enormous progress made behind the scenes on several fronts. This includes the extensive exploration campaign, which will feed into the May Reserve and Resource update. This will in turn be a central plank of our Strategy Day in July.” he said

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021

Drilling Commences At Ravensthorpe

Drilling commenced yesterday at the Medallion Metals Ravensthorpe Gold Project, between Hopetoun and Ravensthorpe in the South East of Western Australia. The 32,000m drill program will include around 26,000m at the Kundip Mining Centre which according to 2012 JORC gold Mineral Estimates entails around 674,000oz. Further targets at Kundip centre on known deposits of Flag, Harbour View and Kaolin, while also looking at near mine potential sites of Gem Restored and Gift South.

Drilling Commences at Medallion Metals Ravensthorpe Gold Project

The Managing Director Paul Bennett commended the team for the swift approach and earmarked the first results “It’s a credit to the Project team to get up and running safely and within this short timeframe. With drilling now underway, we’re looking forward to reporting the first drill results in May and the pace of that reporting increasing as the second rig to site next week.” he said.

Medallion Metals has opened on the markets at $0.250.

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021

New Nickel Discovery At Kambalda’s Beta Hunt Mine

A new high grade nickel discovery has occurred at Karora Resources Beta Hunt Mine at Kambalda in Western Australia. Named the 50C Nickel Trough, the discovery is the second new nickel discovery at the mine in the last six months and compliments an increasing gold system at the mine.

With a key nickel intersection of 11.6% Ni over 4.6 metres, including 18.4% Ni over 2.2 metres, the 50C Nickel Trough has the potential to repeat the Beta zone which has delivered over 32,000 tonnes of nickel to date. While the results for nickel have been quite promising, the drilling for nickel also intersected gold. In the key nickel intersection above, a gold intersection included 5.2 g/t Au over 3.2 metres. However the highlight of gold intersects included 2.7g/t Au over 12.0 meters, including 10.1g/t Au over 1.4 metre. The recent gold drilling has also indicated extensions to the known gold mineralised system at Beta Hunt to be over 3.5km along strike.

Paul Huet, Chairman and CEO of Karora said, “I am very excited with the latest set of drill results from Beta Hunt, which continues to return outstanding intersections and now a second new nickel discovery, all within close proximity to existing mine development. While we are focused on gold production as our core strategy, the potential by-product credits from these nickel grades, as high as 18%, are undoubtedly substantial. While our drilling in the 50C discovery area was aimed at nickel targets, our efforts also returned some meaningful gold assays including 5.2 g/t over 3.2 metres in hole G50-22-005E. These gold results demonstrate yet another potential area to add to the growing gold resource at Beta Hunt in the near term and have extended the strike extent of Beta Hunt gold mineralisation to 3.5 kilometres from 3.1 kilometres previously.”

February 24, 2021

Top Story – Bill Beament Leaves Northern Star In July.

Northern Star Resources Limited has provided an update. In their efforts to initiate a global search for an Independent NonExecutive Chair, Bill Beament will retire from the Northern Star Board, effective July 1, 2021. Mr Beament has agreed to take up an Executive Director role with Venturex Resources from July 1. Mr Beament said he fully appreciated the opportunity to help Northern Star generate exceptional results for all stakeholders. “I share the view that now is the right time for Northern Star to begin the search for an Independent Chair,” he said. “The Company is in an extremely strong position, with an outstanding team and some of the best gold assets in the world.”

Northern Star Non-Executive Director John Fitzgerald thanked Mr Beament for his outstanding contribution. “Bill has guided Northern Star through a period of exceptional growth, building a globally-significant gold company which generates substantial returns for Shareholders,” Mr Fitzgerald said.

The Northern Star Board has decided that Independent Non-Executive Director John Fitzgerald will perform the role of Independent Non-Executive Chair from then until the appointment of the new Chair.

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021

Diggers & Dealers Keynote Speaker Announced for 2021

A former advisor to President Nelson Mandela, a key author of twenty one books and a previous Principal Economist at the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) has been announced as the Diggers and Dealers key note speaker for 2021. Professor Ian Goldin.

Professor Goldin specialises in economics and has numerous credentials on the world economic stage. After a start in Africa, Professor Goldin lectures at Oxford, Harvard and Tsinghua Universities as well as providing advisory and consultancy services to thirty leading companies. His recent speaking engagements include the opening keynote at Google Zeitgeist, the Microsoft CEO Forum and TED. For the past twenty one years he has provided keynotes at the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos. Adding to an impressive list of achievements, Professor Goldin also was a previous Vice President of the World Bank. His address at Diggers and Dealers this year is sure to be thought provoking and insightful.

February 19, 2021

What You Missed This Week

There has been plenty on the views of Facebook and news outlets, sadly they can’t post their news… but we can!

Here are seven things you missed this week

1 – WesTrac continue to be part of the KCGM Super Pit with a new contract worth over $250 Million!

2 – Goldfields gold miners, Beacon Minerals and Horizon Minerals had a good week – Beacon announcing a 0.007c Dividend and Horizon announced excellent drill results at Jaques Find near Kalgoorlie.

3 – Drilling firm Top Drill celebrate their 15 years in operation. The Western Australia driller has a new/late model fleet of 25 Schramm and Sandvik rigs now since beginning in Boulder in 2006

4 – The First Gold Pour has taken place for Novo Resources at Beaton`s Creek in the WA Pilbara.

5 – Former WMC Exploration Chief Dr Roy Woodall passed away at the age of 90. Dr Woodall is credited with assisting in the discovery of nickel around Kambalda in WA

6 – Rio Tinto announced $12.4 bn in underlying earnings for the 2020 financial results. While BHP had the best production half at Olympic Dam in five years.

7 – Northern Star and Saracen’s marriage became official as of this week. Norther Star’s share price closed the week at $10.38.

If you have any news or upcoming events that should feature as part of our wrap of the week, get in touch news@industrylinkmedia.com

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

BREAKING: KCGM Owners Make Joint Announcement

KCGM Super Pit Owners Northern Star Resources and Saracen Minerals have released information to the market this morning about their respective operations based on the lockdown imposed in Western Australia.

Saracen Mineral Holdings Limited and Northern Star Resources advises that it does not expect production and exploration at its West Australian operations to be impacted by the five-day lockdown measures announced yesterday by WA Premier Mark McGowan. All the Company’s operations are located outside the lockdown boundaries set by the Government. The Company will advise the market should these circumstances change. Saracen’s top priority at all times is the health and safety of its staff, business partners and the communities in which we operate and this is the basis of all its strategies for managing COVID-19.