Morning News Bites – October 26

Saturn Expands Apollo Hill Gold System.

Saturn Metals (STN) has released further strong results from ongoing RC drilling at the Apollo Hill deposit within its 100%-owned Apollo Hill Gold Project, 60km south-east of Leonora in the Western Australian goldfields. The project is on the Leonora – Wiluna belt and is on strike in the Keith Kilkenny Shear.

The deposit and the Apollo Hill project are 100% owned by Saturn Metals and are surrounded by good infrastructure and several significant gold deposits. The Apollo Hill Project has the potential to become a large tonnage, simple metallurgy, low strip open pit mining operation.

A further resource upgrade is targeted for late 2020, incorporating results from drilling conducted since October 2019 when the resource estimate was last updated. It is shaping up to be a shallow project with consistent grades and open to the south and east.

Saturn Managing Director Ian Bamborough said: “Results continue to extend gold mineralisation and improve continuity in shallow hanging-wall positions along the deposit’s strike length. Extensional drilling on the main lode is returning some excellent intersections. Assays remain pending for a further 60 holes and drilling continues to home in on key growth areas of the deposit. We look forward to receiving and reporting on the next batch shortly and to incorporating them into the next resource upgrade process planned for later this year.”

Catalyst Finds New Gold Mineralisation.

Catalyst Metals (CYL) has advised that new zones of gold mineralisation with values of up to 43.5g/t have been intersected east of the Boyd’s Dam trend which may represent the Eagle 5 structure. There is virtually no previous drilling in this area which is interpreted to potentially contain a mineralised structure at least 1.5 kilometres long. Further shallow high-grade gold mineralisation was intersected at Boyd North (8m @ 4.9g/t Au, 3m @ 19.4g/t Au, 7m @ 5.7g/t Au) and has potential to continue southward at greater depth beneath Boyd’s Dam.

Mr Bruce Kay, Catalyst’s Technical Director, stated, “The air core program in 2020 was partly disrupted by weather events and COVID-19 restrictions but generally was successful in testing many reconnaissance areas. It is very encouraging to see a new structure with high grade gold mineralisation emerging east of Boyd’s Dam as well as further high-grade zones in the Boyd North area.”

The Four Eagles Gold Project is situated along the Whitelaw Fault which is considered to be a major structural control of gold mineralisation at Bendigo in Victoria, and to the north. Catalyst manages the entire Whitelaw Gold Belt and has interests in fourteen Exploration Licences and two Retention Licences which extend for 75 kilometres along the Whitelaw and Tandarra Faults north of Bendigo and in other areas north of the Fosterville and Inglewood goldfields.

Navarre Finalises Agreement to Acquire Jubilee Gold Project.

Victorian gold exploration company, Navarre Minerals (NML) has finalised an agreement to acquire 100% of the Jubilee Gold Project following transfer of exploration licence EL6689 and a final cash payment of $20,000 to the vendor. The deal delivers the Company full control over a complementary and strategic high-grade gold exploration asset, 25km south-west of Ballarat, Victoria.

The 122Sqkm Jubilee Project includes the historical 619m deep Jubilee Gold Mine (mined 1887 – 1913) that produced approximately 130,000 ounces of gold at a recovered grade of around 12 g/t from a single east-west trending quartz reef. Since the mine closed, there have been no reported modern attempts at sustained exploration and no drilling.

The property occurs within a highly prospective and prolific mining district, in close proximity to a significant operating gold mine and processing facility located nearby within the historical 12 million-ounce Ballarat Goldfield.

Since gaining access to the property, Navarre geologists have uncovered three main target areas thought to be potential repetitions and extensions of the historical Jubilee quartz reefs (

Navarre’s Managing Director, Ian Holland, said: “This acquisition is an exciting expansion of the Company’s regional gold assets in Victoria.  The Jubilee mine workings have seen no real exploration in over a century despite having a history of delivering relatively uniform and continuous high-grade gold mineralisation from within quartz lode structures, all just 25 kilometres from an operating mine with significant processing capacity. The existence of transverse quartz reefs represents a rare opportunity for exploration as these structures have never been drill tested.”

Cyprium Metals Launches Share Purchase Plan and Raises $5M in Oversubscribed Placement.

Cyprium Metals (CYM) has secured $5.0 million through a highly oversubscribed placement from sophisticated, professional and institutional investors of 33,333,333 fully paid ordinary shares in the Company at $0.15 per Share. The Placement comprises:

Tranche 1: 11,505,120 Shares to be issued under the Company’s existing placement capacities (5,899,172 Shares under Listing Rule 7.1, and 5,605,948 Shares under Listing Rule 7.1A); and

Tranche 2: 21,828,213 Shares, which is subject to approval by the Company’s shareholders (Shareholders).

Additionally, in recognition of the support that has been received from the Company’s existing members, eligible Shareholders will be offered to participate in a Share Purchase Plan, which is aimed to raise a further $1 million, at the same issue price of $0.15 per Share.

Executive Director Barry Cahill commented: “We would like to thank the existing and incoming Cyprium shareholders for their support in this heavily over-subscribed capital raise. The Company is now well funded to advance the potential development of our Cue and Nanadie Well Copper-Gold Projects by commencing geophysics and drilling campaigns to target extensions to the existing resources whilst also testing other high priority targets. With the injection of new capital and strong copper fundamentals, we are excited for what is to come.”

Fennix Executes Contract for Road Haulage at Iron Ridge Project.

Fenix Resources Limited (FEX) is pleased to announce that it has executed a contract for the road transport component of its Iron Ridge Project with Fenix Newhaul Pty Ltd. Fenix Newhaul is the incorporated joint venture company established to implement the strategic alliance between the Company and Craig Mitchell, the founder and former owner of Mitchell Corp, a major supplier of transport and logistics services to the Western Australian mining industry.

The contract is valued at around $360 million for the estimated 6-year life-of-mine, based on a terminal gate diesel price ex Geraldton of around $1.34 per litre (current diesel price is around $1.05). It is due to commence in December 2020, in line with the current project development timeline.

Fenix Managing Director Rob Brierley said: “Road transport was quickly identified as the largest cost component for the commercialisation of Iron Ridge. We took an innovative approach to optimise this aspect and we strongly believe that the joint venture concept with Craig Mitchell has been the right way to go. Fenix Newhaul plan to commence operations with a mix of sub-contract and owned fleet and they are actively recruiting for personnel, with most of their employees to be Geraldton-based”.

The Company’s 100% owned, flagship Iron Ridge Iron Ore Project is a premium DSO deposit which hosts a JORC 2012 compliant resource located around 490 km by road from Geraldton port.

 

Morning News Bites – September 25

Cricket world in shock over Dean Jones death in India yesterday. Gold drops to around $1850US/oz but sits at $1869us/oz as of time of publish and Home buyers set to be winners after lending laws placed around the GFC set to be dropped. 

Northern Star Resources has release details on its forward strategy yesterday. Highlights in the presentation included a World record in development metres at Millennium and Kanowna Belle record annual mill throughput from Kalgoorlie Operations. Jundee mining tonnage increased 38% and Processing Plant Expansion ~30%, Pogo Operations have been modernised and positioned for growth, now contributing strong cashflow and KCGM Long-life robust mine plan that delivers beyond FY2034 based on current Ore Reserves
of 9.7Moz.

An acquisition agreement has been reached by Pursuit Minerals to acquire the Gladiator Gold Project, comprising 4 exploration licences located 10km northwest of Laverton in Western Australia. CEO Mark Freeman said “The strategic acquisition of these Exploration Licences has come following our regional review and identification of priority area in this rapidly developing and highly prospective area northwest of Laverton. We look forward to commencing geological mapping, rock chip and soil geochemistry, along with planning for an initial drill program.” Previous drill highlights have included 11m @ 4.64g/t Au from 61m, including 1m @ 37.2g/t Au from 65m, in drill hole WGC89 and 11m @ 2.75g/t Au from 59m, including 1m @ 11.47g/t Au from 60m and 1m @ 4.06g/t
Au from 67m, in drill hole WGC98.

Strong Broga infill and extension drilling results have been announced by De Grey Mining. Highlights included 81m @ 1.7g/t Au from 37m in drill hole HERC192 and 9m @ 3.7g/t Au from 62m in HERC189. While follow up intrusion defined additional mineralisation drilling produced 7m @ 5.4g/t Au from 163m in HERC170 (Brolga South). According to De Grey Mining Technical Director Andy Beckwith the infill results give strong support and the intrusion at Brolga South appears to parallel the Falcon Extension “This first round of infill drilling to 80m x 40m spacing at Brolga provides strong support and confirms the consistency and continuity of gold mineralisation as expected. The infill drilling program will continue over the coming months at all the Hemi zones to enable a robust resource estimate targeting a high level of JORC 2012 Indicated category resources by the middle of 2021. The Brolga South intrusion is becoming a strong target as it narrows and remains open to the south. Overall, the intrusion appears to parallel the new Falcon intrusion making the southern extensions a prime aircore drilling target.”

Australian Potash via Twitter

As Australian Potash is set to make a final investment decision in Quarter 1 of 2021 on its Lake Wells Sulphate of Potash Project, an update to the market has been provided. The Project finance due diligence processes are under way and according to Managing Director and CEO Matt Shackelton the approvals and permits have been approved by the EPA “The various approvals and permits required for us to commence works under the Minor and Preliminary Works approval previously granted by the EPA are now being finalised, with site activities being scheduled for Q4 2020”. “Notwithstanding the operating restrictions caused by the COVID pandemic, it is very pleasing to report that APC remains on track to complete all of the above work programs and make a final
investment decision on developing the LSOP in early 2021.” he said.

Results from Resolution Lode drilling for Navarre Minerals has provided results of 5.0m @ 10.0 g/t Au from 273.9m in RD027
and 9.4m @ 5.3 g/t Au from 355.6m, including 3.4m @ 9.2 g/t Au in RD028.  Managing Director Ian Holland said “Resolution Lode continues to deliver consistently strong intersections of high-grade gold mineralisation from within a well-defined lode channel. We are becoming more confident that the geometry and style of gold mineralisation encountered to date has the potential to grow into a large deposit similar to Magdala.” The Resolution Lode prospect is located 20kmsouth of Stawell’s 4Moz Magdala Gold Mine in Victoria.