Last week in Broken Hill, an Australian mining town for the last 128 years, a band of dedicated miners and explorers got together for the inaugural Resources and Energy Symposium, a conference and seminar showcasing Australia's mining talent, new and old. As the demand for commodities ramps up, new mines and exploration projects are presented for a wide range of commodities including Iron Ore, Cobalt and Tungsten.
Kimberley Metals Limited (ASX:KBL) is pleased to report on progress for production start up at the Mineral Hill Mine, located 65 kilometres north of Condobolin in centralwestern New South Wales.
Venus Metals Corporation Limited (ASX:VMC) are pleased to report an Additional JORC Compliant Inferred Magnetite Mineral Resource of 201.7 Million Tonnes surrounding Bilberatha Hill. The resource model has been updated with newly interpreted mineralised zones to the North-East, North-West and South of the main Bilberatha JORC Inferred Magnetite Mineral Resource.
Archer Exploration Limited (ASX:AXE) is pleased to announce that previous detailed petrology by Pontifex and Associates in Adelaide on a sample of graphitic schist taken from the collar of a historic shaft within the Sugarloaf graphite deposit revealed the presence of fine, medium and coarse flake sized graphite. The presence of crystalline flake graphite greatly increases both the marketability and price of graphite.
Artemis Resources Limited (ASX:ARV) is pleased to release the following announcement regarding exercise of listed options and news update.
Asian Activities Report for May 30, 2011 includes: White Energy Company Limited (ASX:WEC) is proceeding to upgrade certain aspects of its binderless coal briquette plant in Indonesia; Hastings Rare Metals Limited (ASX:HAS) reported high grade rare metals at Hastings Project in Western Australia; Hot Chili Limited (ASX:HCH) has completed a A$3.65 million private placement to fund additional resource drilling at the Productora multi-commodity copper project in Chile; Globe Metals & Mining (ASX:GBE) has identified multiple, wide rare earth mineralisation in Mozambique.
Celamin Limited has advised Celamin Holdings NL (ASX:CNL) that Celamin Limited and its new wholly owned subsidiary Celamin Algeria WLL signed the Earn-In agreement with Faïenceries Algériennes on 24th April 2011 in Algiers.
