Rio Airstrip, More Drill Lines Fuel Talk Of Its Biggest Find In 25 Years
Rio Tinto’s hush-hush copper discovery in WA’s remote North Paterson region is to get its own airstrip.
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Imminent Reserve Update At Kirkland’s Rich Fosterville Mine
Barring an outbreak of some serious merger and acquisition activity, the biggest news in coming months for the ASX-listed gold space is likely to be a resource and reserve upgrade for the Fosterville gold mine near Bendigo.
Read MoreKumova’s Alderan Gives A Glimpse Of The Good Stuff As Copper-Gold Assays Beckon
Alderan went into a trading halt on Wednesday ahead of completing a placement, expected to raise $3m or so at 20c a share. So it is a case of back to the future for Alderan. It’s effectively starting again.
Read MoreGrowing Evidence White Rock May Have The Right Rock, As Sandfire Suspects
Get the feeling that Alaska has become something of a go-to destination for Aussie miners and explorers looking for opportunities away from the crowded space back home?
Read MoreSpring Air Brings A Whiff Of Takeover Fever To The Junior Gold Sector
Folks are wondering if Ramelius’ (RMS) switch to Pac-Man mode this week signals the start of a wave of merger and acquisition activity in the junior gold space.
Read MoreFast-growing gold explorers could provide an opportunity in an oversold space
The sell-off in local gold equities in the last two months – with the exception of Northern Star which has pogoed higher – has been remarkable stuff.
Read MoreZircon Looks Set To Give Investors Some Of The Best Days Of Their Lives
Like mineral sands through the hour glass, so zircon looks set to give investors some of the best days of their lives.
Read MoreNovo Chief Sets Tongues Wagging About Pilbara M&A
The East Pilbara is staking a claim to become a modern era gold province of scale thanks to the work of companies like Millennium (MOY) and Calidus (CAI).
Read MoreRecognition That Lithiums Ain’t Lithiums May Help Explain Price Volatility
Historic buying opportunity or head for the hills? It is a question being asked about the lithium sector where share prices in the last month alone are down 20-30 per cent.
Read MoreShow Us The Growth, Investors Tell Gold Miners – So Northern Star & Dacian Oblige
The gold producers were not quite the rock stars this week as they have been in previous years at the Diggers & Dealers bash in Kalgoorlie.
Read MoreMDL Takeover Shines Spotlight On Juniors
The French have had their way with Melbourne’s mineral sands group Mineral Deposits Ltd (MDL).
Read MoreSatellite Photo Shows Independence’s Real Deal With Creasy Is Still In The Making
Independence Group’s (IGO) recasting of itself as a battery materials specialist following the recent sale of its second-rate zinc/copper assets for $120 million requires the establishment of a supporting multi-decade nickel, copper and cobalt resource base.
Read MoreIndependence Circling Creasy’s Fraser Range Discovery
Our most successful “prospector”, Mark Creasy, has just notched up 50 years in the game and he is in a reflective mood.
Read MoreTolga & The Boys Await News From The Alderan Front
Tolga Kumova reckons he is “bloody excited’’ about what might come from the drilling program that has just kicked off at Alderan Resources’ (ASX: AL8) Frisco copper project in Utah.
Read MoreRio’s Hush-Hush Copper Find In WA
While Rio is yet to confirm the discovery in what is Lawrence of Arabia-type country, latest satellite imagery suggests it is indeed on to something that just might shape up as special.
Read MoreTodd River’s Copper Discovery Perfect Timing
For a little while there it looked as if copper was going to give up its US$3 handle on global trade fears, a stronger US dollar, and something to do with Italy.
Read MoreSunstone On The Cusp Of Major Discovery
Conferences can be memorable for any number of reasons. And so it was this week at the Resources Rising Stars conference on the Gold Coast.
Read MoreDacian Set For Share Price Re-Rating
The gold producers have a lost a bit of their shine in recent weeks as a result of the gold price sinking below $US1,300/oz for the first time this year because of US dollar strength and an easing of geo-political tensions.
Read MoreTesla Deal Shows Wall Of Demand Coming At Australian Lithium Producers
Doubts expressed by some big name investment banks and others that over-supply would kill off the lithium boom have been swept aside in fine fashion by Kidman (KDR) and the leading marque for electric vehicles and battery storage of renewable energy, Elon Musk’s Tesla.
Read MoreNew World Cobalt Aims To Meet Battery Makers’ Demands For Non-DRC Supplies
Elon Musk reckons ‘boring bonehead’ questions on Tesla’s massive cash burn rate are not cool.
Read MoreGrowing NTM Gold Offers Cheap Gold Exposure
NTM Gold (NTM) is a case in point. It is trading at 4.5c for a market cap of all of $15 million, which is pretty much the value of your average gold explorer nowadays without any resource ounces in the bank.
Read MoreOZ Minerals Chief Talks Up West Musgrave JV With Cassini
OZ Minerals’ managing director Andrew Cole had some positive things to say about the group’s West Musgrave nickel-copper-cobalt joint venture in Western Australia with Cassini Resources (CZI) at OZ’s annual meeting last week.
Read MoreOrion Minerals’ Project Rises From The Ashes
Orion Minerals’ counter-cyclical gamble on the abandoned Prieska zinc-copper mine in South Africa’s remote Northern Cape province back in 2015 has come up trumps on three fronts.
Read MoreHeron Looks To Share Price Re-Rating
Zinc prices have come off a touch from the 10-year highs seen in the opening months of the year. But at the current price of $US1.47/lb – more than twice its low in 2016 – there can be no complaints about the metal’s performance.
Read MoreTalk Of Major Rio Copper Find Set To Reignite Interest In The Paterson
It is not often that this column kicks off with an item on Rio Tinto, or any mining company from the big end of town for that matter.
Read MoreAeon’s Copper-Cobalt Deposit Could Become Too Much For Majors To Resist
The imminent drilling program to expand existing Walford Creek resource will be keenly watched by growth-hungry mid-tiers.
Read MoreLucapa Set For Double Dose Of Diamond Action
Exploration is poised to resume at the spectacular Little Spring Creek find in WA and gem production is on track for later this year at the Mothae project.
Read MoreDormant Gateway Set For Rejuvenation
Northern Star Resources and Dacian Gold are prime examples of the rewards to be had from showering some love and attention on mature gold projects.
Read MoreRumours About Aruma’s ‘Large-Scale Gold System’ Gain Credence
There is a bit of a buzz surrounding a little thing called Aruma Resources (AAJ), a hardy gold explorer with a technical bent.
Read MoreGlencore Chief Feeds Copper Bulls
Glasenberg was his adroit self when running through the commodity outlook at Glencore’s profit result call this week. The highlight had to be his thoughts on copper.
Read MoreNot One, Not Two, But Three For Dacian As First Gold Production Looms
What do you do if you’re within seven weeks or so of producing your first gold from a shiny new 200,000 ounce-a-year treatment plant to be fed by both underground and open-cut mines where you’ve proved up an initial 1.2m ounce mining reserve?
Read MoreHill End Set To Join High-Purity Alumina Party
A diary entry shows that the misnamed Hill End Gold (HEG) must be close to releasing a maiden resource estimate for its Yendon high-purity alumina (HPA) project some 25km south-east of Ballarat.
Read MoreUpside In Zinc Developers
New Century Zinc and Venturex among those in the cold, with share prices lagging analysts’ forecasts The 10-year high in zinc prices has not amounted to much in the local market for the near-term developers.
Read MoreDacian Tipped As Pick Of The Bunch
Gold’s against-the-odds push through $US1,300 an ounce fuelled a massive re-rating of the gold producers in the past couple of months.
Read MoreCash-Rich Gold Miners Turn To Explorers, Developers For Growth
On face value, last week’s acquisition by Bill Beament’s Northern Star juggernaught of a 16.4 per cent stake in Echo Resources (80 million shares at an average price of 29c each) was no big deal.
Read MoreBreaker’s ‘Colonel’ On Being Dirt Cheap
Breaker Resources’ (BRB) executive chairman Tom Sanders reckons that the 50c stock is dirt cheap.
Read MoreRed River Chief Will Cry A River If Zinc Miner Is Snapped Up ‘On The Cheap’
A re-rating of the stock is clearly in the offing. Zinc prices are at 10-year highs, the Aussie dollar is amplifying the bumper prices and the company is now banking proceeds from first concentrate sales from its restarted Thalanga operation.
Read MoreVenturex’s Time Has Come
Finding some upside in the ASX-listed zinc stocks has become a big ask of late.
Read MoreHighlands To Ride High On Back Of Cobalt Boom
Cobalt is a key metal in the dominant lithium-ion battery chemistries, meaning demand for the stuff is being swept along by the biggest disruptive industrial event since Henry Ford’s Model T hit the roads in the early 1900s – the electric vehicle revolution.
Read MoreMarket Smells Big Resource Increase Coming At West African
It’s no big deal to find a couple of million ounces of low grade gold in West Africa. But it’s another thing altogether if the resource base comes with seriously high-grade shoots that can sweeten head grades to make a project a real money spinner.
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