Metals X Limited is an ASX listed diversified base metals company exploring and developing minerals and metals in Australia. It is one of the world's top 10 and Australia's largest tin producer, a top 10 Australian copper producer and has a pipeline of assets from exploration to development that includes significant expansion projects in both its copper and tin businesses. Metals X's portfolio als...Read More

Being part of the SRK Group we are wholly owned by SRK employees and in addition we ensure our independence by holding no equity in any project. This enables us to provide multi-disciplinary conflict-free and objective recommendations on crucial judgement issues. Though based in the UK we work on projects all over the world. In conditions ranging from the tropics to the permafrost; and on pro...Read More

By Christian "Boo" Boucousis of Afterburner Australia If there's one thing every fighter pilot is acutely aware of it's the limitations of human beings in the complex environment they operate. At no point is a fighter pilot ever fully in control of "the full picture". They do however understand the importance of creating Situational Awareness or finding the right information at the right time to m...Read More

Making the right call on, say, the process flowsheet, or the development finance package can make investors serious money. The wrong decision normally has the opposite effect.This is why the most successful investors - those that understand the decade-long mining process - take a good hard look at the executives and directors before jumping onto the share registries of exploration and development...Read More

Unlike the recovery from most bear markets, today's commodity prices are a reflection of the industry being both supply constrained and restrained - not enough quality projects are coming through at the same time as projects are taking longer to move into development.  The damage was done several years ago when, in the face of falling commodity prices, miners and the investors backing th...Read More

OverviewPolarX is an advanced ASX-listed mineral exploration company. The recently formed PolarX brings together a suite of exciting copper and copper-gold assets in Alaska.  High grade existing resources and numerous large, unexplored advanced targets, within a 35km mineralised belt, are now under PolarX's control and direction.Exploration Highlights - Upside PotentialThe ~2,000m core drilli...Read More

With US$8 million banked after its latest non-brokered private placement, and completion of the Remo Resources reverse takeover that puts Chakana into the public market, the junior is set for a big year of drilling as it strives to put a significant maiden copper-gold-silver resource on two known breccia structures at Soledad, and prioritise assessment of a handful of other identified pipes.Read More

"The downturn hit us hard and we are about two years behind schedule," said IR manager, Igor Dutina.Atico spent recent years upgrading and expanding its plant to about 800 tonnes per day, upgrading the mine through the installation of a new decline, and exploring for new ore at the mine, such as the Zeus orebody that is now in production that hosts grades up to 6% copper and 6g/t gold.Its 2017 pro...Read More

South32 is attracted by the district potential of its Bornite property in Alaska, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, and is investing US$10 million a year over three years, with the possibility of forming a 50:50 joint venture in the future.Read More

West-Sells said the company is about half way through the permitting process and will enter the 15-month panel review stage towards year end, which means the project could be coming out of the permitting process as the copper price cycle is expected to ramp up.Read More

Having this year established the foundations for a systematic investigation of the potential of the 35km-long mineralised corridor covered by the company's 220sq.km Alaska Range landholding in central Alaska to yield large-scale copper-gold deposits, PolarX will hit the ground at full speed next year after a successful 2017 exploration season.Some smart corporate manoeuvring, more strong drill res...Read More

Mining Journal spoke to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence senior analyst Andrew Miller about the mine and what impact it has had on the graphite market since first production in late November.Read More

Good infrastructure, an easy-to-follow permitting regime, responsive government regulator and the odd tax break are all seen as positives.Read More

RESOURCEStocks: The ARG share price is at its highest level in five years, and well up on a year ago. Notwithstanding a 16.5% increase in the copper price YTD, is that a decent reflection of the progress you have made this year, or has ARG just turned the corner?Rob Henderson: I believe that investor awareness of Amerigo is improving and our recent Q3 earnings of US$7.9 million demonstrate that we...Read More

Copper Investor Hub: Firstly, you've accelerated the drilling programme at Kharmagtai, which already has a historical JORC resource of over 1,533 million pounds of copper and 2 million ounces of gold. Xanadu has used predictive 3D modelling to improve its understanding of the porphyry system under cover and at depth and identified large-scale targets - how is the exploration program ramping up?Read More

RESOURCEStocks: First, you've reported a series of strong results from RC drilling at Triumph in south-east Queensland over the past 12 months. You are drilling mostly shallow holes through sub-10m of alluvium/sediment cover and have had success so far at six key targets, plus you've identified the big Au-Cu-Mo anomalies through IP geophysics. So there has been plenty to show for the work you've b...Read More

RESOURCEStocks: MOD has just announced a two-tier prefeasibility study for T3 which outlines a robust base case based on reserves and an expansion case using existing resources. What do you believe are the standout features of the base case scenario?Julian Hanna: The base case PFS model, in its own right as a standalone nine-year opencut mine, is very robust not just commercially but tec...Read More

The company has started site works at the project in the state's renowned Goldfields and is already looking to achieve further resource growth, along with production and cashflow."Our number one message is growth - we're growing the business centred around an aggressive exploration campaign planned for 2018," chairman Trevor Dixon said."We have a 100%-owned gold project and our definitive feasibil...Read More

Copper Investor Hub: The T3 deposit (Metal Tiger 30%) was discovered in March last year and within six months you'd established a maiden resource of 28.36 million tonnes grading 1.24% copper and 15.7g/t silver. Is MOD still on track for a 2018 decision to mine the T3 openpit and how is the work on both a revised resource estimate and prefeasibility study progressing?Julian Hanna: The discovery int...Read More

RESOURCEStocks: Firstly to SolGold's 85%-owned Cascabel project: drilling at the Alpala copper-gold deposit is continuing to produce big intersections including a recent highlight of 695m at 1.37% copper equivalent. How is work progressing to establish a maiden resource and what timeframe are you aiming for? Nick Mather: We have seven rigs active, there are three more en route and should be o...Read More