Articles On Focus Minerals (ASX:FML)

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) announced the engagement of a professional environmental consultancy group, 360 Environmental, to facilitate environmental and health & safety approvals process for the mining of G...

The recovery in the gold price from its early March lows — ~$1,670s to over $1,825 currently — was mostly driven by the decline in real interest rates and, more recently a poor US jobs report and increasing inflation. US core inflation in A...

“When you stop growing you start dying,” is a saying the ASX’s largest gold miners have apparently taken to heart. While hopefully remaining cognisant of the expensive, value-destroying deals which occurred when gold last peaked in the 2010...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) provided its Quarterly Activities Report for the three-month period ended 31 March 2021. During the quarter, Focus completed 69 reverse circulation (RC) holes for 9,009m and eight dia...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has announced the latest round of exploration drilling results at its Laverton Gold Project (Laverton). HIGHLIGHTS Results from exploration drilling carried out at Focus Minerals’ La...

Moho (ASX:MOH) has strengthened its team with the appointment of veteran geologist Lyndal Money as technical manager to oversee its gold and nickel plays. Money is a highly regarded geologist with over 20 years’ experience in exploration an...

Highlights: Results from drilling carried out at Focus Minerals’ Coolgardie Gold Project have been received. Drilling comprised 9,147m of reverse circulation (RC) and 1,070m of diamond holes. Significant intersections1 at several deposits...

St George Mining has raised investor confidence that the WA explorer has made a long-awaited fifth nickel-copper sulphide discovery with news of exceptional high-grade hits at its Mt Alexander project in the Goldfields. News this week that...

The gold price traditionally thrives on geopolitical drama. Heightened tensions in eastern Ukraine, the recent incident at an Iranian nuclear site, and news of an unofficial US delegation visiting Taiwan are recent reminders that 2021 will...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) today announced progressive results from the Laverton Gold Project’s (Laverton) Stage 1 Open Pit Pre Feasibility Study (PFS). This first pass PFS scenario uses a selection of five open...

Gold continues to trend upwards on the back of US dollar’s ongoing weakness and concerns about inflation, so it’s unsurprising that the majority of gold plays on our watchlist have marked gains this week. The previous metal is currently tra...

The gold price may have languished slightly in 2021, but the number of gold IPOs certainly has not. Here’s what the newest ASX gold explorers are doing, where they are doing it, and why investors should care.   KINCORA COPPER (ASX:KCC) The...

Focus Minerals this morning published its 2020 Annual Report. A summary of Focus non-executive chairman Dianfei Pei’s Chairman’s Report is below: “I would like to reflect on our many achievements over the past year as we continued to advan...

Strange to think that it is a year since the world was turned upside down when the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic in mid-March 2020. In the week that followed the price of gold tumbled nearly $US200 to $US1...

A recent round of support for gold has seen the price consolidate above $US1,700 an ounce. However, with policy support from central banks, US stimulus and employment growth — underpinned by big infrastructure projects — you’d “expect gold...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has announced progressive results from the Laverton gold project’s Stage 1 Open Pit PreFeasibility Study (PFS). HIGHLIGHTS: Laverton Stage 1 scenario delivers JORC 2012 Probable Ore...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has appointed Mr Lingquan Kong as an additional director of the company, effective 14 January 2021. Mr Kong is the Company’s Principal Mining Engineer. Prior to joining Focus in Septe...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, the brilliant Charles Dickens wrote in 1859 in his novel A Tale of Two Cities before following up a year later with another eternal classic, Great Expectations. Of course, Dickens could n...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) today announced that the Company has terminated, by mutual consent, the Laverton Tenements Joint Venture (Laverton JV) held with Central Australian Rare Earth Pty Ltd (CARE), a subsidi...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) today announced a Mineral Resource update for the CNX deposit, part of the Coolgardie gold project in WA, and plans for imminent extension drilling. HIGHLIGHTS:  Open Pit Mineral Re...

South32 has agreed to sell its minerals royalties to gold-focussed royalty company Elemental Royalties for a total consideration of $US55 million ($75 million). This includes three gold royalties and a non-gold royalty of “immaterial value”...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) today announced it has appointed Fengfan Sun as chief financial officer of the company. Mr Sun has many years of invaluable experience in leading and developing successful finance tea...

Nickel play Auroch Minerals (ASX: AOU) is having quite a day with news that it has picked up a historic project near Coolgardie as well as intersecting massive sulphides at part of its Leinster project in Western Australia. Auroch has signe...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has provided its quarterly activities report for the period ended 30 September 2020, where activity was focused on the company’s Laverton and Coolgardie gold projects. HIGHLIGHTS:  M...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) today announced an update of the Burtville Open Pit Mineral Resource to support the pre-feasibility study (PFS) into a Stage 1 mining operation at the Laverton gold project. HIGHLIGHT...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) today announced that the company and its major shareholder, Shandong Gold Group Co. Ltd (SD-Gold), have executed a loan facility agreement. SD-Gold will provide an unsecured loan of A...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) today announced that director, chief financial officer and company secretary Zaiqian Zhang has resigned to pursue another career opportunity. Shandong Gold is in the process of finali...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) today announced a significant Mineral Resource increase for the Karridale gold deposit (Karridale) to support the Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) into a Stage 1 mining operation at the Lav...

Focus Minerals has flagged the potential awakening of two open pit gold mines at the Coolgardie project in Western Australia. According to the Coolgardie pre-feasibility study (PFS), the mines could deliver an average of 63,000 ounces a yea...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) today announced the results of the Coolgardie Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) refresh and Ore Reserve upgrade. HIGHLIGHTS:  6 years, mostly open pit production for average 63,000oz per y...

Gold, base metals and platinum group elements (PGE) have joined Lithium Australia’s (ASX: LIT) project portfolio as it streamlines land holdings at minimal cost. The company has entered into agreements with Okapi Resources (ASX: OKR), Metal...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) today announced that Focus and Lithium Australia NL (ASX: LIT) have agreed to formally terminate the Coolgardie Rare Metals Venture, which entitled Lithium Australia to earn an 80% int...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has appointed highly experienced metallurgist and mining executive Rod Johns as a non-executive independent director of the company, effective from 4 September 2020. Mr Johns, a gradu...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has announced a Mineral Resource update for the Brilliant South gold deposit to support the upcoming pre-feasibility study (PFS) into a resumption of mining at the company’s Coolgardie...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has announced the update of the Bonnie Vale Quarry Lode resource to support the upcoming pre-feasibility study at the company's Coolgardie project in the goldfields of WA. HIGHLIGHTS:...

Major Chinese gold producer Shandong Gold Mining has secured the key Australian Foreign Investment Review Board approval to proceed with its $395m takeover of Cardinal Resources (ASX:CDV). The all-cash 70c offer, which trumped a rival 66c p...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) announced that the recent drilling campaign at the Beasley Creek deposit delivered significant, shallow-depth resource growth at the Company’s 100%-owned Laverton gold project in WA....

The sudden drop in spot gold prices and reintroduction of COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand have hit the relevant ASX small caps this morning. After 100 days of being virus-free, four COVID-19 cases were detected in the country. New Zeal...

Investors have stepped up their rush into high-reward gold exploration stocks as the precious metal smashed through to the $US2000/oz barrier to hit an all-time high of US$2,062.03/oz this week. The latest WA-focused explorer to be embrace...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has provided investors with its latest corporate presentation ahead of the company's annual general meeting....

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has provided its quarterly activities report for the period ending 30 June 2020. HIGHLIGHTS:  Pre-feasibility Study for Laverton Stage 1 is now underway. Drilling at Beasley Creek a...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has provided an update on its Coolgardie gold project which covers 175km2 of highly prospective tenements and the 1.2Mtpa Three Mill Hill processing plant (on care and maintenance) on...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has provided an update on its Laverton gold project in WA. HIGHLIGHTS: Beasley Creek Area continues to deliver high-grade intersections, including: 20BSRD005 – 10.05m @ 9.13g/t Au fr...

Emerging lithium producer Core Lithium (ASX: CXO) has found itself in good company after this week joining Albermarle and Rio Tinto in the European Battery Alliance (EBA250), an organisation focused on establishing a sustainable battery cel...

Australian unemployment figures and a surge of COVID-19 infections in Victoria have sent jitters through gold players. The Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that Australian unemployment rose by 0.3 per cent to 7.4 per cent in June, the...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has announced that the recent diamond drilling campaigns at its Beasley Creek South deposit have delivered a major increase in the shallow, high grade gold mineral resource. HIGHLIGHT...

Zenith Minerals has continued a stellar run after investors flooded its capital raising to leave this gold explorer cashed up to turbocharge its exploration efforts in Queensland and WA. The Perth-based explorer (ASX: ZNC) had intended to...

Gold prices have galloped past the $US1,800 an ounce mark again after last week’s brief foray, with spot gold now joining the party. Spot prices for the precious metal are currently at $US1,810.10 an ounce, up from Tuesday’s close of $US1,7...

West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has announced an 81% increase to the JORC 2012 Mineral Resource for the Greenfields gold deposit as a result of a comprehensive review of the historical resource model that was used in...

The June 2020 quarter will go down in corporate folklore as the three months when COVID-19 caused havoc across the globe. But there was an unexpected silver lining at the junior end of the Australian resources sector, with a portfolio of ex...