Alkane Resources eyes mine life extension with third new gold discovery at Tomingley
Drilling results have intersected significant gold mineralisation at the El Paso prospect.
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ASX:ALK
Alkane Resources (ASX:ALK; TSX:ALK; OTCQX:ALKEF) is an Australia-based gold and antimony producer. The company has three wholly owned producing mines across Australia and Sweden: Tomingley (gold, NSW), Costerfield (gold-antimony, Victoria) and Björkdal (gold, northern Sweden). Alkane also owns the large gold-copper porphyry Boda-Kaiser Project in NSW
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Drilling results have intersected significant gold mineralisation at the El Paso prospect.
Calidus is completing the pre-feasibility study on its Warrawoona Gold Project.
FY19 gold production guidance has been increased by 18.6% using the range midpoints.
Very promising drill results have been returned from the Roswell and San Antonio prospects.
Wesfarmers has put the cat amongst the rare earth pigeons
The company has cash, bullion and investments of $80.5 million with no corporate debt.
Potential offtake partners may have electric-vehicle market demand in mind.
Towards the end of last year the company purchased second-hand mining equipment and refurbished it to suit the operation’s needs.
Aim is to define additional resources that have the potential to be mined and fed to the Tomingley gold operations.
The gold producer and rare earths developer has acquired further shares with a total value exceeding $556,000.
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The follows acceptance by Explaurum’s board of an improved takeover offer from Ramelius Resources.
The Explaurum investment is part of Alkane’s strategy of investing in junior gold companies with projects that have passed due diligence review and Alkane’s investment criteria.
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A takeover bid for Explaurum has not been improved, prompting the gold explorer to focus on implementing the Alkane transaction.
The Dubbo project could deliver rare earths from the Central West of NSW to international markets.
The investment will represent a 12.2% interest in Explaurum, which can be increased to 19.96% upon the exercise of associated share options.
The company has been undertaking an extensive regional exploration program to find additional resources to be fed into its Tomingley Gold Operations.
The company is confident of defining further resources to provide additional feed for processing operations.
Alkane has identified the potential for Peak Hill Gold Mine to provide additional ore feed for its Tomingley Gold Operations.
The shareholding represents an 8.8% interest in Calidus, which can be increased to 10% upon the exercise of associated share options.
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