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Question timeCommentsPremiumFMG winds back online participation in annual meetings

Fortescue Metals Group and Austal are among a number of WA listed companies winding back online participation in their annual meetings, drawing criticism from shareholders unable to attend in person.

Sean Smith

High-grade WA goldVictory continues to make case for old Coogee pit extension

Victory Mines has continued to make the case for possible northern extensions to the gold lode that was mined some years ago in the old Coogee open pit at its Coogee gold project near Kalgoorlie. Latest assays include 4 metres going 9.34 grams per tonne gold from 175 metres that hosts a 2m intersection grading 16.15 g/t from 176m.

Matt Birney

Vietnam nickel productionBlackstone signs leading engineering firm to help deliver nickel DFS

Blackstone Minerals has locked in tier 1 engineering, mineral processing and metallurgical consultants, Wood and ALS to perform critical roles in the delivery of a definitive feasibility study at its proposed Ta Khoa nickel refinery in Vietnam.

Shannon Daniels

Lithium Battery TechnologyLithium Australia produces lithium battery anode material

Perth-based Lithium Australia’s wholly owned subsidiary, VSPC is now producing commercial quality lithium titanium oxide lithium battery anode powder. VSPC says its powder exceeds industry performance benchmarks and that further research and development, including work on niobium-based anode powders, is underway.

Matt Birney

WA Gold ExplorationVenus chases Youanmi gold lode 200m down-plunge

ASX-listed explorer, Venus Metals has substantially extended its high-grade mineralisation at the Link prospect within its Youanmi project. Latest drilling has intercepted high grade gold intercepts 200m down plunge of the existing resource, demonstrating strong continuity of mineralisation.

Matt Birney

Namibian Uranium ExplorationDeep Yellow closes in on second Namibian uranium discovery

Deep Yellow has completed the first phase of drilling at its Barking Gecko uranium discovery in Namibia with an impressive 13 out of 14 holes drilled intercepting significant uranium oxide. Mineralisation has been defined now over an area of 700 metres by 200 metres.

Matt Birney

WA Copper-Gold ExplorationFirst pass field work yields high grade copper-gold for Askari

Newly listed Askari Metals has nailed its first field campaign at the company’s Horry project in the mineral rich Kimberley region of WA with a series of high grade copper and gold rock chip samples that have allowed it to map initial copper mineralisation for 400m in one location.

Matt Birney

Australian gas explorationEmpire Energy NT gas flow rates soar 45 per cent

Empire Energy’s Carpentaria-1 well has secured an encouraging post shut in average flow rate of 0.364 million cubic feet of gas per day. The result is up 45 per cent from the pre-shut in results. The company says the results appear to underline the development potential of its Beetaloo Sub-basin acreage in the NT.

Matt Birney

US Uranium Okapi tables maiden USA uranium resource

Okapi Resources has wasted no time in producing a maiden uranium resource at its Tallahassee uranium project in Colorado, USA. The company only finalised the acquisition in August and has already announced a maiden resource of 25.4 million tonnes going at 490 ppm U3O8 for 27.6 million pounds of yellowcake.

Matt Birney

WA Gold Acquisition Horizon picks up more Kalgoorlie gold assets

Horizon Minerals has officially taken control of Aurenne Group’s Cannon, Glandore and Cowarna gold projects, comprised of 22 granted tenement licenses covering approximately 180 square kilometres within a short trucking distance from Horizon’s 100 per cent owned flagship Boorara gold project in Kalgoorlie.

Matt Birney

Medical imagingSingular and CSIRO enter medical 3D printing collaboration

Singular Health has partnered with Australian scientific research agency CSIRO, on a project that is looking to develop an artificial intelligence-based tool to automatically design replacement cranial implants for 3D printing. The company has also entered a collaboration with ASX-listed 3D medical printing company Osteopore to validate results of the project.

Matt Birney

ASX ListingKalgoorlie Gold Mining set to hit ASX with Ardea gold assets

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining is set to pocket up to $12 million following the closing date of its initial public offering on the 26th of October. Amongst other things, the company will use the money to follow up on some bonanza historical gold hits east of Kalgoorlie that inexplicably were never run to ground.

Matt Birney

Aluminium fluoride productionABx models up proprietary aluminium fluoride process

ABx Group’s chemical refining subsidiary, Alcore has modelled up a processing flowsheet designed to produce aluminium fluoride using cheap smelter waste as the feedstock. Alcore’s engineers have proposed a commercial 10,000 tonne per year aluminium fluoride plant using the new technology’s proprietary process.

Matt Birney

WA Gold ExplorationTorque surges on ounce plus gold drill hits in WA

Torque Metals has made a series of new high-grade gold finds below and adjacent to its historic Paris and HHH mined out pits near Kalgoorlie. The best intersection was 6 metres at an eye-watering 34.6 grams per tonne gold from 141m.

Matt Birney

Gascoyne Rare EarthsVenus bags up multiple samples at Gascoyne nickel-copper play

Venus Metals has bagged up 1500 soil samples and 58 rock chips that it will now lab test for nickel, copper, rare earths, gold, platinum, lithium and related minerals at its Managaroon north project in the Gascoyne region of WA.

Matt Birney

Smart building materialsClearVue beefs up board with industry heavyweight

ClearVue Technologies has appointed John Downes as Non-Executive Director. Downes operates as Global Head of Façade Supply Chain at multinational real estate construction giant, Lendlease UK.

Matt Birney

Predictive medical diagnosticsClinical study boosts Proteomics kidney test

Medical technology company, Proteomics International says a US clinical utility study on its PromarkerD predictive test for diabetic kidney disease has shown the test to be “more important” to a physician who is prescribing and monitoring a patient’s condition than the existing standard of care.

Matt Birney

SA Copper ExplorerRods are turning for Copper Search at Gawler Craton

ASX-listed Copper Search kicked off its maiden drill campaign at the underexplored Billa Kalina project on Saturday. The company is aiming to test 10 priority targets over two years in the well-endowed Gawler Craton in South Australia.

Matt Birney

WA mineral explorationSurefire onto new WA lead and silver targets

Surefire Resources has unearthed three new bedrock conductors at its Kooline lead-silver project in WA after modelling airborne electromagnetic data. The company says the conductors, that have never before been drilled, are linked to historic, high-grade lead-silver mines.

Matt Birney

WA nickel-copper explorationAldoro hits “right rocks” with first drill hole at new target

ASX-listed WA focused junior, Aldoro Resources has hit sulphides in its first two diamond drill holes into the VC11 target at its flagship Narndee nickel, copper and platinum group element project some 400 kilometres north-east of Perth.

Matt Birney

Greenland polymetallic explorationGreenland sample results pending for Conico

ASX-listed, multi-metals exploration company, Conico Limited is working hard on data acquisition and logistics after wrapping up a successful field season at its Ryberg base and precious metals project on the east coast of Greenland.

Matt Birney

Queensland Gold ExplorationSuperior hits 115 gram dirt at QLD gold play

Brisbane based miner, Superior Resources, enjoys a dominant position in North Queensland’s world-class mining region – the Carpentaria Province. The company’s latest drill campaign produced a best result of 5m at 24.9 g/t gold including a 1m intersection going 115 g/t gold.

Matt Birney

WA Nickel-PGE ExplorationEmu cements claim to Sunfire nickel-PGE project

Emu NL has completed the acquisition of the Sunfire nickel-copper-PGE prospect near Bridgetown in WA. The project hosts a suite of mafic-ultramafic intrusions similar to Chalice Mining’s coveted Julimar discovery and is adjacent to Venture Minerals and Chalice Mining’s evolving Thor JV.

Matt Birney

WA Nickel ExplorationMaximus probes WA nickel target

Maximus Resources has embarked on a 7,000 metre multi-target diamond drilling crusade at its Hilditch West nickel target in WA. The company will start the program with a 500m hole targeting strong magnetic anomalies along strike from previous nickel, copper and cobalt intersections.

Matt Birney