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Exploration, mining and processing briefs

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Coal, Copper, Exploration, Gold, Processing / Manufacturing.

Updates from Centrex Metals, Zenith Minerals, Ausmex, Aeon Metals, Pure Hydrogen and State Gas in this week’s exploration, mining and processing briefs.

Mencel takes the helm at Centrex

The company behind the Ardmore phosphate project in North-West Queensland has a new chief executive officer.

Robert Mencel is an engineering and mining executive with more than 25 years’ experience developing andoperating a wide range of mining, mineral processing and engineering operations.

He has previously held the position of CEO for RONPHOS Corp., the Republic of Nauru's phosphate company, where he was responsible for production, marketing and. . .

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Copper gleam in Zenith eyes as exploration accelerates

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Copper, Energy, Exploration, Gold, Processing / Manufacturing.

Zenith Minerals executive chairman Peter Bird has described copper as the most underfunded input commodity in the green energy supply chain as the company steps up exploration at Develin Creek and Flanagans.

Outlining the work planned in coming weeks at the company's Queensland copper assets, Mr Bird highlighted the favourable supply-demand balance for red metal producers.

"Consumption has been growing at a compound level of approximately 2 per cent per annum for a number of years," he said.

“Copper is also the 'absolute green energy metal' and is projected to. . .

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Zenith delves deeper at Red Mountain

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Copper, Exploration, Gold.

Zenith Minerals has started a follow-up drill program to a depth of 400m at its Red Mountain gold project in Central Queensland.

It comes after the company intersected high-grade near-surface gold in the maiden and subsequent drill programs last year.

The results last year included 13m grading at 8g/t gold and 3.2g/t silver, and 15m at 3.5g/t gold including 2m grading at 22.4g/t gold.

“Should this round of much deeper drilling intersect. . .

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Zenith kicks off Snook drilling campaign

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Copper, Exploration, Gold.

Zenith Minerals has started maiden RC drill testing at the Snook copper prospect in Central Queensland.

The target is part of its Develin Creek copper-zinc project, which has an inferred mineral resource 2.57 million tonnes at 1.76 per cent copper, 2.01 per cent zinc, 0.24g/t gold and 9.6g/t silver.

Zenith said an initial program of six RC holes would be completed at Snook, with the deeper holes being cased for future downhole electromagnetic (EM) geophysical surveying.

"We have been systematically assessing the Develin Creek project for additional volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits. . .

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High-grade gold finds at Red Mountain

Written by dev on . Posted in All News, Exploration, Gold.

The maiden drill program has intersected significant high-grade, near-surface gold mineralisation at the Red Mountain project in Central Queensland.

The Zenith Minerals-owned project lies within about 100km of operating gold mines at Cracow and Mount Rawdon.

A 10-hole RC drill program completed returned results, including:

  • 14m at 5.5 g/t gold, including 6m at 12.3 g/t gold from surface;
  • 5m at 3.5 g/t gold including 2m at 8 g. . .

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