Venture identifies second tin prospect

Venture Minerals has identified a second tin prospect six kilometres from its flagship Mt Lindsay project in north-west Tasmania. The first hole drilled at the Big Wilson prospect intersected 47 metres of mineralisation with grades ranging from 1.0% to 5.6% tin. The...

Renison production starts to revive

The Renison mine in Tasmania reported a significant improvement in operating performance in the quarter ending 30 June, with tin-in-concentrate production rising 19% from the previous quarter to 1,395 tonnes. Ore processed at the Renison mill increased by 14% with an...

Exploration and development updates

Three ASX-listed companies have recently announced progress in bringing new projects into production, with one, Gippsland Limited, reporting a first shipment of concentrate from a small project in Egypt. Meanwhile Stellar Resources and Consolidated Tin Mines, both...

Metals X boosts Renison tin resources and reserves

Metals X, which operates and has a 50% stake in the Renison mine in Australia, announced that it had completed a highly successful year of exploration, giving it a total resource of 260,900 tonnes of contained tin as at 31 March. The bulk of the resource is accounted...

Metals X diversifies as Renison tin production set to expand

Metals X, which has a 50% stake in the Renison tin mine, is planning to diversify its portfolio by merging with Westgold Resources. Renison is Australia’s only significant tin mine, and is poised to expand production to 7,000 – 8,000 tpy of tin-in-concentrate....

Consolidated Tin Mines agrees project financing plan

Australian tin exploration and development company Consolidated Tin Mines (CSD) has announced an agreement with its major shareholder, Hong Kong-based Snow Peak International, to fund the final stages of a pre-feasibility study of its Mt Garnet project in Queensland....

Australian exploration updates

Stellar Resources has commenced a new one year, 10,000 metres drilling programme at its now 100%-owned Heemskirk project in Tasmania. The project contains three orebodies (Queen Hill, Montana and Severn) and is adjacent to the Renison mine. Indicated and inferred...

Renison produces more ore, less tin

The Renison joint venture operation between Metals X and Yunnan Tin Group and other Chinese investors reported record ore throughput but reduced contained tin production in the September quarter. The Renison mine produced nearly 131,000 tonnes of ore in the three...

Venture makes mining application for Mt Lindsay

ASX-listed Venture Minerals Limited announced the submission of a Mining Lease Application for the Company’s flagship Mt Lindsay Tin/Tungsten Project in northwest Tasmania. The MLA was submitted to the Registrar of Mines, Mineral Resources Tasmania on 15...

Hong Kong group takes stake in Mt Garnet project

Consolidated Tin Mines has secured a Hong Kong-based cornerstone investor for its Mt Garnet tin project in Queensland following an initial A$1.6 million placement in the emerging miner. Snow Peak International Investment took up the placement, the first tranche in a...