Despite a strong performance by miners, Australian banks and retailers were dragged down by a fall in consumer confidence with the benchmark S&P ASX200 down 14.7 points, or 0.3%, to 5,165.4. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index was up 0.22% to 2,305.11 points while the Dow Mini is up 7 points to 15,387.58.
The formation of a strategic partnership agreement with China Real Estate Association has the potential to improve ASG Group’s position in the property sector while increasing its exposure in China.
Peak Resources is on track to become the next major rare earth supplier from the Ngualla project in Tanzania. The company has produced two refined rare earth products at ANSTO Minerals - which importantly are in saleable form and available for evaluation by target customers.
The current resource at Hollandaire could add a copper, gold and silver concentrate revenue stream to the Murchison gold project, thereby reducing all-in-sustaining cash costs at the gold operation.
Since Mark Bouris and Ken Ting turned TZ Limited around in 2009, to today's teaming agreement with Fastway Couriers for TZ's parcel distribution and logistics network, has not been without a hard slog. With previous partnerships, it could now give TZ a 60% share of parcel deliveries in Australia for its agnostic A.D.A.M. locker system.
The completed Scoping Study for the Mansa manganese project has demonstrated positive project economics as the project moves closer to production in a matter of weeks. Budgeted costs of delivering a CIF product are between $190 and $210 per tonne, in line with its expectations.
The use of Sub-Audio Magnetics, or SAM technology survey has already more than doubled strike length of the mineralised host structure at Deflector, where data indicates a strike length of some 2,350 metres, previously 950 metres in length.
The award of WA-485-P locks in a potential extension of the M.australis horizon oil play that IPB Petroleum plans to test in mid-July. Success will add to the prospectivity and value of the new permit.
The start of the second phase drilling at Mt Forrest iron project puts Mindax on the path to potentially expand both the iron base as well as life of the mine. Importantly, it also has promise for the proposed partnership with Hong Kong-based Perpetual Mining, that could see the company invest $52 million.
A JORC compliant resource upgrade to 294 million tonnes at the Ntendeka Colliery in South Africa will potentially add to Ikwezi Mining's value upside as it is on the threshold of becoming a coal producer in the September quarter of this year.
With the completion of well in one of the thickest Lower Forest pay sections encountered to date, drilling of new wells and workovers of existing wells, Range Resources is making strides in ramping up oil production from its Trinidad operations.
The $5.1 million received is part of a planned $10 million investment by Owen Hegarty's EMR Capital in Highfield Resources to develop its advanced potash projects in Spain.
"With the Scoping Study confirming budgeted costs for its Mansa manganese project, Kaboko Mining has gained added assurance as it moves into trial mining over the coming weeks."
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"Range Resources is progressing its operations to increase oil production from its Trinidad assets with ongoing completion of wells, new drilling and workovers underway."
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