Australian coal port workers to strike Friday

Workers at Australia's Newcastle port, the world's largest thermal coal export facility, plan to stop work for eight hours on Friday to protest proposed changes to their work contract that could hit working conditions and jobs. The strike, in...

Mutiny doubles Deflector size

Gold developer Mutiny Gold has more than doubled the footprint of its Deflector gold-copper deposit, in Western Australia, following recent exploration activities. The ASX-listed company said that in addition, favourable structural settings for...

Tiger hunts for new funding sources

Copper developer Tiger Resources was on the hunt for new capital after Nedbank Capital decided not to participate in a $80-million debt financing facility to partly fund the development of the Stage 2 solvent extraction electrowinning plant at the...

Discovery Metals hangs up ‘for sale’ sign

ASX-listed Discovery Metals, which owns the Boseto copper project in Botswana, has launched a new search for a buyer, after Cathy Fortune Investment’s A$824-million offer was scrapped in February. Discovery said on Tuesday it signed a number of...

Waratah splits Africa, Aus assets into new divisions

Iron-ore junior Waratah Resources on Tuesday told shareholders that it would refocus its priorities and create two new divisions within the company. Waratah, which recently completed a A$1.7-million capital raising, said it would now have an...

Scoping study proves up Mansa for Kaboko

A scoping study for Kaboko Mining’s Mansa manganese project, in Zambia, has confirmed the project’s economics and mine plan. Kaboko said on Tuesday that the completion of the mine plan was critical to the operating programme and pit design,...

More resource at Zenith's Mount Alexander

ASX-listed junior Zenith Minerals has increased the resource at its Mount Alexander magnetite project, in Western Australia, by some 36%, to 535-million tons, grading 30% iron and 48% silicon dioxide. The new resource estimate incorporated...

Norton cuts the ribbon at Enterprise

ASX-listed Norton Gold Fields on Tuesday officially opened its Enterprise openpit mine in Kalgoorlie. The A$110-million Enterprise project was expected to deliver some 3.3-million ton of ore a year to the Paddington mill, once it reaches full...

Rum Jungle signs deal with Toro

Uranium developer Toro Energy and fellow-listed Rum Jungle Resources have signed a farm-in agreement over the potash and related evaporate mineral rights for Toro’s Lake Mackay project, in Western Australia. The Lake Mackay project consists of...

Apex cancels Wiluna sale

ASX-listed Apex Minerals on Monday announced that it had terminated the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ever Prosperity Investment for the sale of its Wiluna gold mine, in Western Australia. Apex had agreed to a 60-day extension of the due...

Minotaur looks at WA nickel

Minerals explorer Minotaur Exploration and its subsidiary Minotaur Gold Solutions on Monday entered into a sales and purchase agreement with fellow-listed Breakaway Resources to buy the Scotia project, in Western Australia (WA). The Scotia project...

Maiden resource declared at Hatch Point

ASX-listed junior Potash Minerals has declared a maiden Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (Jorc-) compliant resource of 902-million tons, grading 20% potassium chloride (KCI) at its Hatch Point project, in the US. The mineral resource estimate was...