High-grade hits at Jundee

Northern Star has increased its exploration spend at Jundee mine by $10 million. Image: Northern Star Resources.  BY ELIZABETH FABRI  AUSTRALIA’S third-largest gold producer Northern Star...

Gold prospecting just got easier

FINDING valuable gold and mineral deposits can costs millions of dollars, but UniSA’s Future Industries Institute senior research fellow Dr Caroline Tiddy has come...

Exploration drilling on the rise

Exploration drilling has taken off since the COVID-19 pandemic.A raft of measures by the Federal and state governments to increase mineral exploration, along with...

Best ever grade gold for Marmota

Gold drilling was recently completed at Marmota’s Aurora Tank project. Image: Marmota.   BY AMY BLOM   MARMOTA has announced a significant high-grade gold intersection from drilling at...

Stavely hits 40pc Cu

STAVELY Minerals (ASX: SVY) has reported “outstanding” shallow, thick, high-grade copper-gold intercepts at its 100pc-owned Thursday Gossan prospect in Victoria, 250km west of Melbourne.The...

In the Spotlight: AGC president Bill Shaw

MORE than 2000 geoscientists will meet this October for the inaugural Australian Geoscience Council Convention in Adelaide. Elizabeth Fabri spoke with Australian Geoscience Council...

Environmental scoping study completed at Ark Mines’ Sandy Mitchell project

Environmental scoping study completed at Ark Mines’ Sandy Mitchell projectAn initial environmental scoping study (ESS) has been completed Ark Mines’ (ASX:ARK) Sandy Mitchell rare...

Pilbara resource rockets to 643,000oz

The upgraded 486,000oz Mt York deposit remains open in most directions, with potential to add further ounces both along strike and at depth. Image:...

Australia loses top spot

Australia has fallen to second place in the 2017 Fraser Institute’s survey of the world’s most attractive mining regions. Image: Fraser Institute.  BY ELIZABETH FABRI  AUSTRALIA...

True North Copper encounters visible copper sulphide zones at Cloncurry

True North Copper encounters visible copper sulphide zones at CloncurryRecently listed True North Copper (TNC) has encountered large zones of visible copper sulphide mineralisation...