NickelX (ASX: NKL) managing director Matt Gauci joins Small Caps to discuss the company's early success with its foray into Canada's rich uranium mining sector. The company recently announced it had identified significant uranium mineralisation at its new Elliot Lake project in Ontario. NickelX's exploration team has identified three priority target areas with a first pass geological review. Two of the areas have been historically proven to contain mineralisation over a combined 35 km strike of ...
Feb 25, 2024•9 min
Premier1 Lithium (ASX: PLC) chief operating officer Richard Taylor joins Small Caps to discuss the commencement of the company's drilling campaign at the Abbotts North Project in Western Australia. The company is following up on a machine learning generated target at Abbotts North Project, where a 2,000m RC program has been designed to test the depth and extent of the mineralised pegmatite field. At the Buttamiah prospect several parallel lithium bearing pegmatites have been mapped and sampled. ...
Feb 22, 2024•16 min
RareX (ASX: REE) chief executive officer James Durrant joins Small Caps to discuss plans to potentially fast-track the development of its Cummins Range rare earth element project in Western Australia. The company is focused on off-take opportunities at Australia’s largest undeveloped rare earths project. RareX is now preparing for the submission of project approvals and securing offtake agreements in the lead up to the conclusion of a pre-feasibility study. It is also preparing to test near-mine...
Feb 21, 2024•12 min
Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent drilling success at a number of historic gold projects in WA and the continuing potential of its lithium prospects. Tambourah recently completed 17 RC drill holes for 2,684m at the historic Tambourah King and World’s Fair gold prospects within its Pilbara projects. The company successfully returned to the site of a historic gold rush with the first ever RC drilling campaign at World’s Fair and su...
Feb 18, 2024•12 min
Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) managing director Alexander Scanlon joins Small Caps to discuss the recent drilling successes at the historic Tunkillia gold project in South Australia. The company obtained consistent high-grade gold hits, including the sighting of visible gold, in two areas where it is looking to add to the current 1.38 million ounce JORC resource. Earlier this month Barton obtained promising drilling results for the Area 51 gold zone, located around 4km northwest of the main 223 deposit...
Feb 15, 2024•19 min
Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the company's decision to commence metallurgical testing on sources of spodumene from around the globe. The company's strategic move is in response to what it describes is a “lithium conversion capacity gap” in the North American market. It is already bringing in samples from Australia and South America, featuring various lithium grades as part of its metallurgical laboratory processing in the company’s co...
Feb 14, 2024•13 min
West Cobar Metals (ASX: WC1) managing director Matt Szwedzicki joins Small Caps to discuss the company's plans for its promising Salazar rare earth element (REE) project in Western Australia. After a highly active year of exploration and acquisitions, West Cobar is preparing to undertake drilling and metallurgy studies to further confirm the potential of Salazar. A 2023 review of the asset produced an updated exploration of 800 to 1250 million tonnes at 1050 to 1350 parts per million total rare ...
Feb 12, 2024•15 min
Wide Open Agriculture’s (ASX: WOA) chief financial officer Matthew Skinner joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s expansion plans. The regenerative food and agriculture company recently signed a new distribution deal with Japanese trading house Nissei Kyoeki which will take Buntine Protein product into Asia. Wide Open and Nissei have initially agreed to collaborate to develop the market for lupin-based proteins in Japan, with the Australian firm initially supplying its Japanese partner with B...
Feb 08, 2024•15 min
Surefire Resources (ASX: SRN) managing director Paul Burton joins Small Caps to discuss the company's ground-breaking achievement in successfully extracting vanadium directly from magnetite concentrate from its 100% owned Victory Bore project in Western Australia. The test work process achieved a significant 91% extraction result on the vanadium ore after a 96-hour leach directly from magnetite concentrate using Surefire’s pre-leach treatment intellectual property. The company also obtained a bo...
Feb 05, 2024•13 min
Frontier Digital Ventures (ASX: FDV) founder and chief executive officer Shaun Di Gregorio joins Small Caps to discuss how the company’s Latin American business is helping to power its operations as it enters what looks to be another strong year of expansion. The performance of the Latin American operations was a standout when the leading online marketplace business recently reported its fourth consecutive quarter of positive operating cash flows. The total FDV group reported operating revenue o...
Feb 05, 2024•28 min
International Graphite (ASX: IG6) chief executive officer and managing director Andrew Worland joins Small Caps to discuss the companies complimentary Springdale graphite mining project at Hopetoun and battery processing facility at Collie. The company is making strong progress at both projects which are been developed to fulfil growing demand in the global battery metal and electric vehicle markets. The Springdale project was named Australian Resource Discovery of the year in 2023 following a 2...
Feb 04, 2024•26 min
Imugene (ASX: IMU) chief executive officer and managing director Leslie Chong joins Small Caps to discuss the progress of the company’s phase 1 MAST trial of its novel cancer-killing virus CF33-hNIS – known as VAXINIA. The oncolytic virus in VAXINIA has been shown to shrink colon, lung, breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancer tumours in preclinical laboratory and animal models. After obtaining promising early results from trials, Imugene is now increasing its dosage rates for a trial which is comb...
Jan 28, 2024•19 min
Mitre Mining (ASX: MMC) executive director Ray Shorrocks joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent acquisition of the large Cerro Bayo silver-gold project in Chile. Supported by a successful capital raising, Mitre is looking to build on Cerro Bayo’s existing JORC inferred resource of 3.82 million tonnes at 206 grams per tonne for 24.7 million ounces silver equivalent. Mitre’s immediate focus is a program of rapid resource growth at a project which was in production for over 15 years. Clos...
Dec 20, 2023•17 min
CGN Resources (ASX: CGR) managing director Stan Wholley joins Small Caps to discuss the company's up-coming exploration activities in the "hot" West Arunta multi-element play in West Australia. CGN is preparing for an extensive 2024 exploration program at its flagship Webb project which is surrounded by significant activity at projects operated by companies such as WA1 Resources, the Rio Tinto Group, Encounter Resources and IGO. The company has recently wrapped up maiden drilling at the project’...
Dec 19, 2023•25 min
Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) exploration manager David Ward joins Small Caps to discuss the company's exploration activities at its prospective Mojave rare earth element project In California. The company has recently mobilised its exploration team to follow-up highly anomalous total rare earth oxide results previously identified at Mojave. A field program conducted in August identified multiple rare earth element targets within the North Block of the Mojave project, while a recent stream sedim...
Dec 18, 2023•16 min
Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) managing director Alexander Scanlon joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent exploration success at its historic Tunkillia and Tarcoola gold projects in South Australia. The company’s exploration activities at Tunkillia have led to a significant 20% increase in the gold project JORC Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) to 1.38 million ounces. That followed a 15,200m drilling campaign which has added around 224,000 ounces of gold at the main 223 Deposit and the 223 North...
Dec 15, 2023•21 min
Blackstone Minerals (ASX: BSX) managing director Scott Williamson joins Small Caps to discuss the strategy behind the company’s move to acquire a major Canadian nickel mining opportunity. Under an option agreement with CaNickel Mining, Blackstone has agreed to make a cash payment of $1.3 million and to exercise an option to acquire 100% of the Wabowden project by making up to four staged payments. Not only will the Wabowden nickel project in Manitoba provide a significant new mining venture, it ...
Dec 08, 2023•22 min
Surefire Resources (ASX: SRN) managing director Paul Burton joins Small Caps to discuss the robust results reported in a pre-feasibility study for its Victory Bore vanadium project in Western Australia. Company representatives will travel to the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh next month to continue discussions for potential processing opportunities in that country. Surefire has already signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Investment Saudi Arabia (MISA) for...
Dec 05, 2023•19 min
Wide Open Agriculture’s (ASX: WOA) chief executive officer Jay Albany joins Small Caps to discuss the company's milestone agreement to distribute its unique product in Europe. Under a non-binding term-sheet agreement, Ingå Group will become the exclusive distributor of Wide Open Agriculture’s portfolio of lupin-based proteins in Europe. Ingå is a subsidiary of leading Swedish family owned business Axel Johnson, which specialises in collaborating with partners in areas such as food, energy, healt...
Dec 04, 2023•29 min
Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) managing director Duncan Craib joins Small Caps to discuss the company's significant developments at the Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia. The company this week has passed another key milestone in the development of the project with start-up wells yielding production-grade uranium. That development confirmed Boss is on track to fill the Pregnant Leach Solution (PLS) processing ponds at Honeymoon by the end of this calendar year. The Honeymoon development goal i...
Dec 03, 2023•13 min
BPH Energy (ASX: BPH) managing director David Breeze joins Small Caps to discuss the recent news that a special committee has blocked a proposed ban on oil and gas exploration off the New South Wales coast. BPH has an interest in the large PEP-11 licence through its 35.8% investee company, Advent Energy. Advent, via its wholly-owned subsidiary Asset Energy, is currently in the process of furthering a PEP-11 joint venture applications to lift a suspension of its work program conditions and relate...
Nov 28, 2023•23 min
Ideon Technologies vice president of customer experience Kim Lawrence joins Small Caps to discuss its groundbreaking muon tomography technology. The Canadian based company uses cosmic rays to detect ore bodies deep beneath the Earth's surface without disturbing the environment. Ideon's non-invasive approach offers a wealth of benefits for the mining industry by reducing environmental impact by eliminating the need for extensive drilling, improved exploration efficiency providing a more comprehen...
Nov 26, 2023•19 min
Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company's highly active gold and lithium exploration campaigns in Western Australia. Within the last few days Tambourah has announced drilling success at its Tambourah King gold target and identified significant lithium exploration upside at the Russian Jack project. Tambourah's first assay results from an RC drill program at the Tambourah gold and lithium project in the Pilbara confirmed the historic goldfield h...
Nov 23, 2023•17 min
Galan Lithium (ASX: GLN) managing director Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega joins Small Caps to discuss to recent signing of significant offtake agreement with global mining giant Glencore for its Hombre Muerto West (HMW) project in Argentina. The binding offtake deal is for lithium chloride and/or lithium carbonate from Phase 1 production at HMW. Notably, Glencore has also offered to potential provide Galan with a $107 million to $151 million in support of a financing prepayment facility for the pr...
Nov 23, 2023•18 min
Frontier Digital Ventures (ASX: FDV) founder and chief executive officer Shaun Di Gregorio joins Small Caps to discuss the online classified marketplace specialist’s continuing run of revenue momentum. The company recently reported that for the fifth consecutive quarter each of its geographic regions achieved positive operating cashflows. Notably, the FDV Group also achieved its third consecutive quarter of positive operating cashflows, which included its holding company costs. The growing reven...
Nov 22, 2023•21 min
Peppermint Innovation (ASX: PIL) managing director and chief executive officer Chris Kain joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent of run of success as it continues to expand its innovative fintech business in the Philippines and globally. Amongst the numerous milestones achieved recently is the company’s signing of an exclusive five-year agreement with Visa to significantly expand its digital financial offering. The company will initially focus on its key markets in the Philippines, Sin...
Nov 20, 2023•22 min
Akora Resources (ASX: AKO) managing director Paul Bibby joins Small Caps to discuss the robust results obtained in a new low start-up cost examination of its proposed Bekisopa DSO iron ore project in Madagascar. The new scoping study has confirmed the project to be economically viable was an initial 2 million tonnes per annum direct shipping ore (DSO) operation. The results also highlighted the viability of a low capital expenditure (CAPEX) option based on an initial open pit mining operation ut...
Nov 19, 2023•15 min
Elevate Uranium (ASX: EL8) managing director and chief executive officer Murray Hill joins Small Caps to discuss the company's success in significantly increasing the mineral resource estimate (MRE) for its Koppies uranium development in Namibia. The recently released MRE update included a dramatic 136% increase in the Koppies resources to 48 million pounds and a 42% jump in Elevate's total Namibian numbers. The company is not resting on its laurels and is aggressively looking to add to those im...
Nov 13, 2023•20 min
Investigator Resources (ASX: IVR) managing director Andrew McIlwain joins Small Caps to discuss the significant progress the company is making at its Paris silver project in South Australia. The company has recently successfully progressed and completed a number of key studies as it continues to advance its proposed development of Paris - Australia's highest-grade silver project. Investigator is currently focused on a pre-feasibility study at Paris, with a number of key activities well advanced....
Oct 26, 2023•12 min
Blue Energy (ASX: BLU) managing director John Phillips joins Small Caps to discuss the company's gas developments in Queensland. The company recently revealed a 36% increase in the estimated total proved and probable (2P) reserves in its Sapphire Block gas development. The new independent assessment of the Sapphire project also provided a 16% increase in 3P+2C aggregate gas resource available to 543 pj of recoverable gas. The reserves and resources upgrade support the gas supply volume required ...
Oct 24, 2023•23 min
