Sizeable Landholding: Giving Earaheedy Attention it Deserves
Lodestar Minerals: stalking the billion-footed beast at Earaheedy
“The more information we get, the better the whole project looks.”
So says Ed Turner, Managing Director of Perth-based Lodestar Minerals (ASX:LSR), which owns — among a couple of others — the expansive Earaheedy Project in central Western Australia.
Spanning some 1,420km-square, Earaheedy is a sizeable landholding — a fact which presents both challenges and opportunities for Turner and his team. It’s for this reason Lodestar has been increasingly trimming its operations in order to give the project the attention it deserves, and although Turner acknowledges the company has no small amount of work to do, things appear to be taking shape.
Driving positive change: Building bridges through inclusivity
Women have been excluded from large parts of public, social, and political life in society, and while much progress has been made in the past 100 years, many areas in remain where?unequal treatment is still experienced.?
“Just because you are a female, doesn’t mean you can’t build a bridge,” says PRL (ASX:PRG) Company Secretary Elizabeth Lee.
With more than 20 years’ experience in corporate governance and company secretarial functions Lee has spent her career fostering relationships and building bridges in the figurative sense.
Lithium spotlight: Australia sizing up project pipeline?
Lithium is an integral part of the global transition towards net zero emissions and global decarbonisation.
While the lithium spot price is enduring a somewhat protracted lull, the silvery-white alkali metal is essential to producing virtually all batteries currently used in electric vehicles (EVs), as well as consumer electronics such as smartphones.?
The federal government’s latest 2024 ‘Australian Critical Minerals Prospectus’ puts a spotlight on lithium and details how lithium-ion batteries are widely used in many applications, from energy storage to air mobility.
OD6 having purple Patch at WA project
OD6 Metals (ASX:OD6) is pursuing additional phase two recognisance drilling at the Belgian, Circle Valley, and Scaddan prospects.?
The $9.22 million market capitalisation company is also conducting additional sighter bottle roll tests using selected phase two drill samples.
The company today (6 March 2024) reports it has achieved ‘excellent’ metallurgical recoveries up to 86% magnet rare earth elements (MagREE) in multiple prospect areas as part of the Grass Patch Project in Western Australia.?
Viking begins Canegrass sighter roasting testwork?
Viking Mines (ASX:VKA) has begun sighter roasting testwork to determine the key parameters and reagents to be used ahead of producing a greater than 99% vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) flake product.?
The $10.25 million market capitalisation company says this work has begun after posting today (6 March 2024) ‘excellent’ results for low intensity magnetic separation (LIMS) testwork.?
Testwork is being conducted on bulk concentrate produced as part of stage two metallurgical testwork at the Canegrass Battery Minerals Project in Western Australia.?
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In its Top 10 Themes for 2024, Sprott Asset Management says amid the Federal Reserve’s aggressive action to tame inflation throughout the past few years, the gold price reached all-time highs after breaching the US$2,000 mark multiple times throughout 2023.
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Brisbane Mining Conference: same location, shift in focus
With the mining conference circuit well underway, some 500-plus investors will next week descend onto the 2024 Brisbane Mining and Investors Conference in Queensland for what is touted to be “a bloody good day”.?
The conference, held at the Royal on the Park Hotel and Suites on 13 March 2024, is an investor event launched in 2018 to provide investors, brokers, and fund managers a better understanding of investment opportunities in Australia’s mining, energy, and exploration sectors.
Showcasing a mix of ASX-listed micro to mid-market cap minerals and energy companies – including Critical Minerals Group (ASX:CMG), Iltani Resources (ASX:ILT), Prospech (ASX:PRS), and QMines (ASX:QML) – the conference allows mining executives to promote their company’s investment credentials via a formal exhibition and presentation program.
Aruma enters next phase at Salmon Gums?
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The $3.15 million market capitalisation company says this next phase of drilling seeks to uncover multiple zones of ‘high-grade’ ionic clay REEs from recently completed first-pass drilling.???
Surface sampling of exposed ionic clays has also returned the highest REE result in the area to date; 8,700 parts per million total rare earth oxide (TREO), with high-value neodymium plus praseodymium oxides representing 22.5% of TREO grade.
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Helix Resources Limited (ASX:HLX) Executive Chair Mike Rosenstreich discusses the recent discovery within the 30km long Rochford Copper Trend, where Helix houses its various copper assets. Listen on to find out what these results mean for the 'all in on copper' company ahead of its major drilling program in March.