Kingsland Minerals (ASX: KNG) has just announced a maiden resource on its Leliyn Graphite Project in the Northern Territory. It now officially has the biggest graphite resource in Australia. This puts it in the box seat to become a key supplier of this essential battery material to European, American and Asian EV makers and battery producers. Managing Director Richard Maddocks, takes us through the resource and the outlook for this company, which has a market capitalization at the time of...

Talisman Mining (ASX: TLM) has made a substantial discovery at the Rip and Tear prospect in New South Wales. Wide intersections of lead and silver with some zinc have already been announced, further assays are pending. Mineralisation is being outlined over 2.6 kilometres and it remains open. The discovery is big, just a question of how big it is! Questions of continuity and grade will only be answered with ongoing drilling. Kerry Harmarnis of Jubilee fame is driving this company. There's...

Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) has a market capitalization of just $9 million, it also has a resource of more than 500,000-ounces at the Montague Project in WA. The company is drilling a host of new targets, it generated some great results from the first couple of holes, it also has a fascinating copper target - there is a big anomaly there and diamond drilling at that target is now underway. Drilling is ongoing, assays are pending, the company is in a very interesting space. ---- Produced by...

Spartan Resource (ASX: SPR) and it's Managing Director Simon Lawson, can lay claim to having one of the greatest turn around stories the WA gold industry has ever seen. The Never Never gold deposit in WA now has a resource of nearly 1,000,000 ounces. The results they put out this week suggests this is just the start. Mineralisation is being intersected 170 metres below the resource and in multiple places along strike. A new exploration target is set to be published within weeks and an...

This first episode for 2024 comes courtesy of Legacy Minerals (ASX: LGM). Managing Director, Chris Byrne is a young geologist who is looking to make a name for himself and his company. Legacy has three highly prospective land holdings in the Lachlan Fold Belt in NSW. It’s a very desirable residence for exploration and the company did very well to put its foot on these properties. It has drilling programmes planned in two places, assays pending in another and notably one of the porphyry...

Arrow Minerals (ASX: AMD) is a tiddler… The company’s share price at the time of recording this podcast was just .3 cents a share. Incoming Managing Director David Flanagan, is anything but a tiddler. He's got a big reputation, he was the founding Managing Director of Atlas Iron and he’s well known throughout the Australian business community as a mover and a shaker. Arrow Minerals has just raised money to explore the Simandou North iron ore project in the West African country of Guinea....

Mitre Mining (ASX: MMC) has just acquired the Cerro Bayo silver gold project in Chile, the project has an existing resource of almost 25-million ounces of silver equivalent. More importantly it has huge exploration upside. Mitre plans to start drilling in January, it has numerous walk up drill targets, the objective is to grow the resource substantially over the next 12 months. ---- Produced by Resource Media ---- The Hole Truth is a product of Read Corporate. Please note that Read Corporate...

Equinox Resource has just pegged a big lump of land in Brazil, they're searching for REEs. The project, Campo Grande is right next door to the big project held by Brazilian Rare Earths. Brazilian Rare Earths, features Gina Rinehart, as one of its big investors. Chief Executive, Zac Komur, tells us why they like Campo Grande, why REEs is so hot in Brazil and most importantly the active programme of exploration and drilling Equinox, has planned for their project in the new year. ---- Produced...

Spartan Resources has been one of the hottest gold stories on the ASX this year. Managing Director, Simon Lawson, has done an amazing job turning around what was a troubled asset into fantastic exploration story. The project already has resources of 721,000-ounces at more than five grammes per tonne. A resource update is scheduled for the next few weeks, the company's been putting out some amazing high grade drilling results and these will form part of the upcoming resource...

Auteco recently acquired the Green Bay copper and gold project in Newfoundland, Canada. The project already has a substantial resource and Manage Director Steve Parsons, who was the founding Managing Director of Bellevue Gold, is confident that they will quickly grow this resource by drilling. It already has one drill rig turning on site and others are booked to join it very shortly. Steve talks about strong coming news flow as they grow the inventory and prepare the project for a return to...

Eastern Metals (ASX: EMS) has three exploration projects in Australia, the flagship project is Browns Reef in the heart of the Cobar Basin in New South Wales. The company aims to put out a maiden JORC resource for Browns Reef next year. Ley Kingdom was recently appointed Chief Executive, she's a geologist who sees the upside in this company, particularly given that it has a market cap of just $2.5 million. Eastern Metals has a clear exploration plan, it has a strategy to deliver a maiden...

After listing on the ASX only a couple of months ago Executive Director Andrew Dornan, says James Bay Minerals has made what looks to be a very promising discovery of spodumene at its property in James Bay, Canada. Andrew and his team came out of Pilbara Minerals, they know the industry very well and know what they're looking for in terms of outcropping pegmatites. The results of what they’ve found at their Aero property are extremely promising and the company is now lining up permits to...

Greenvale Energy, is developing a torbanite project in Queensland, torbanite is the key ingredient in bitumen. Australia currently produces no bitumen, it imports all its requirements. Greenvale is promising to become Australia's first producer of bitumen by producing the torbanite. It also has a gas prospect in the NT where it believes it could become a vast producer of helium, among other gases helium is a gas used not just for fancy balloons but also in many cutting-edge...

Nordic Nickel is exploring the Pulju Project in northern Finland, it's located within the central Lapland greenstone belt. The project already has a resource of 278,000 tonnes of contained nickel and more than 12,000 tonnes of cobalt, the aim is to continue growing this resource. A resource update is scheduled for the end of this calendar year. Drilling is ongoing, more assays pending. The company was also a participant in the inaugural BHP Xplor Program. In this episode, Paul speaks with...

Alicanto Minerals has just started drilling at the Falun Copper-Gold Project in Sweden. Falun is a historic world class mine, it produced mass quantities of high-grade mineralisation for many years, but it has never been subjected to modern exploration. The Alicanto team has identified a host of compelling targets in a 3.5-kilometre corridor stretching away from Falun and the drill rig is now turning. ---- Produced by Resource Media ---- The Hole Truth is a product of Read Corporate. Please...

Ausgold is a junior gold stock that has been flying under the radar in recent years. But that might all be about to change as it starts to ramp-up development of its 3Moz Katanning gold project, located in Wheatbelt country three hours’ drive south of Perth. Katanning ticks lots of boxes from an investor’s perspective and, fresh from a resource upgrade, Ausgold is now completing a Definitive Feasibility Study and advancing permitting. Ausgold Managing Director Dr Matt Greentree joins The Hole...

Canada is hot property when it comes to lithium exploration. Just ask Clinton Booth, the new CEO of Pioneer Lithium – which has made an impressive start to its life as a lithium explorer after making its ASX debut last week. Booth joined Pioneer from a senior position working for Andrew Forrest as Global Head of Integration at Fortescue Future Industries. Together with Pioneer’s Executive Chair, Rob Martin, he will be leading the charge with a clear vision to rapidly transform Pioneer into a...

Astral Resource has just released a scoping study on its Mandilla Gold Project in the eastern goldfields of WA, the study shows that Mandilla is set to generate strong cash flow from a big open pit. Managing Director Marc Ducler, tells us that the company’s valuations are relatively low compared to its peer group and it appears he has good reason to say that. With the scoping study complete, the drill rig still turning and more growth to come the question is - Will Astral become a takeover...

Triangle Energy must be one of the most leveraged resources stocks on the ASX. The company is preparing to drill three oil and gas exploration wells in the North Perth basin, with a market capitalization of just $30 million this company is highly leveraged to exploration success. Managing Director Conrad Todd, provides a fascinating insight into the company's prospects of success, why it likes the Mount Horner oilfield, where it's planning to drill and the ramifications for the company's...

Kingsland Minerals has a rapidly emerging graphite discovery in the Northern Territory, the Leliyn Project looks extremely promising with spectacular assays including 209m at 10% graphite. Mineralisation has been outlined over 5 kilometres and  this sits within a longer graphitic schist which measures 20 kilometres. Managing Director Richard Maddocks, says the company is on track to publish a maiden resource estimate for the project later this year. Drilling is ongoing, metallurgical tests...

Chalice Mining has had a bumpy ride since releasing the Scoping Study on its Gonneville Nickel-Copper-PGE Project in WA. The share price fell as the market grappled with a range of complex factors relating to both technical and financial aspects of the project. Managing Director Alex Dorsch addresses each of these issues in full and frank detail, explaining the implications of the study’s key findings and why he believes some elements have been misunderstood. He also provides some valuable...

Astute Metals has a fascinating lithium exploration story in Nevada. But you won’t hear the words pegmatite or spodumene once. That’s because the lithium Astute is looking for is in claystone, effectively meaning it is disseminated in a manner similar to a gold deposit. The key advantage is that all this rock can be dug up and placed in the processing plant with virtually pure lithium coming out the other end, ready for sale directly to lithium battery makers. No spodumene concentrate, no...

As well as being as simple a story as you could hope to come across in the exploration space, Critical Resources is bang in the investor sweetspot. With a maiden Resource already under its belt at the Mavis Lake lithium project in Ontario, Canada, Critical is drilling around the clock to continue growing the inventory. In this episode of The Hole Truth podcast, MD Alex Cheeseman talks about the Company’s plan to continue growing the resource, saying they have no idea how big it will get....

If the analysts, fund managers and just about everyone else who follows the uranium market are even half-right, then the price of the nuclear fuel is about to take off in a big way. They all cite lack of new supply and surging demand as reasons to believe that the next uranium bull market is almost upon us. If the price does meet these expectations, investors will be chasing leveraged exposure .. and lots of it. That's where 92 Energy (92E) fits into the scene. Managing Director Siobhan...

CZR Resources has an iron ore project at both the northern and southern ends of one of Rio Tinto’s Pilbara iron ore projects. The feasibility study on the CZR project, known as Robe Mesa, is almost finished, fuelling speculation about whether Rio will bid for it. CZR also owns the big Ashburton magnetite project in the Pilbara, where it has started a process aimed at finding a strategic partner, and has extensive gold exploration interests near De Grey. Managing Director Stefan Murphy talks...