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We have received firm commitments for a placement to raise $5M through the issue of 47.6 million new shares at $0.105 per fully paid ordinary share. Larvotto is now well-funded to continue development and exploration at its flagship Hillgrove gold-antimony project. The Placement was strongly supported by the existing and new domestic and offshore sophisticated and institutional investors. In conjunction with the Placement, the Company will also be offering a Share Purchase Plan to raise up to $1M, offered to eligible shareholders at $0.105 per fully paid ordinary share. Managing Director, Ron Heeks commented,  "This equity raising positions the Company to rapidly complete the Pre-Feasibility Study which outlines how we will bring the Hillgrove project back into production to deliver gold and antimony at a time of favourable pricing for both of our two key commodities. Given the advanced nature of the Hillgrove project, with its existing plant, well-developed infrastructure and ready access to ore from existing declines, we intend to move rapidly from the published Pre-Feasibility Study to the Bankable Feasibility Study stage. We are also continuing our discussions with offtake partners for both our gold and antimony concentrates, which we expect to provide additional funding options for Larvotto. In the meantime, funds from this equity raising will be directed to ongoing drilling at the Hillgrove project. We have recently enjoyed great success with the drill-bit, notably at Bakers Creek, and are confident of adding materially to our high-grade resource base, giving investors exposure to potential mine life extensions and enhanced mine scheduling flexibility at Australia’s next gold-antimony mine.” Read the full ASX announcement: https://lnkd.in/gcCcPPce #LRV #Larvotto #gold #antimony #asxnews

FARMGATE PRICES? "Felix, why are the pricing the gold at world market price? They only dug the resource out of the land, they did not even refined it. They should be selling at farmgate price, probably at 15% discount" This was a statement made by a client expecting "cheap" prices for a spot deal. I understand buyers have taxes and other overheads to pay when they import #gold or other precious minerals into their respective countries, and in all this make some profits but have you stopped to think of the cost of operations of a small scale miner? With gold prices skyrocketing, unstable Forex, daily overhead costs such as labour, equipment rentals & maintenance, fuel, etc and amidst all these having to pay a quota of the daily production to some stakeholders, not to talk of paying for loans they took to work (another conversation altogether), the small scale miner has some tight profit margins that makes it difficult to satisfy huge discounts asked of them. This is not to condone premium pricing but a fair balance can always be reached. A sustainable solution that benefits both parties is to #finance the operations of the mines. Though it can get tricky sometimes, it is doable with the right measures in place. Have you tried this before, how did it go? Are you open to a fruitful long-term partnership with a mine? At Phoaks Minerals Consult we work with a wide range of miners offering different services. Based on your requirements we are able to qualify a miner for you and provide assurance services to ensure execution till contract completion. FRANCIS NANA OSEI Ruth Cudjoe Gerald O. Anil Kansara

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1911 Gold Corporation. C.AUMB Reimagining Rice Lake Shaun Heinrichs, 1911 Gold’s President and CEO, stated “We are encouraged with the results returned from the large step-outs drilled at the historical Central Manitoba Gold Mine. This structure spans over 2.6 km in length and our drill results, combined with historical data, indicate a potentially large, mineralized structure open at depth and to the southeast. Some of our best results were from large step outs into previously untested areas and extended known zones as well as identified new zones, all remaining open. These findings, along with our progress on validating and updating the existing mineral resource estimate for the True North mine, will significantly advance us towards a sustainable resource and production profile leveraging our existing infrastructure.” See Latest News: https://lnkd.in/gMcKNXs9 At a Glance Shares Issued 134,481,495 | Market Cap 8,069,000 Year High 0.145 | Year Low 0.06 | Today 0.065 For further information, please contact: Shaun Heinrichs President and CEO (604) 674-1293 sheinrichs@1911gold.com

The Lowell Resources Fund monthly report is hot off the press and packed full of news on top of the 15.2c distribution which is coming to unitholders at the end of July. Firstly, we have some movements in the fund. LRF invested in the upcoming IPO of Ordell Minerals, a WA focused gold explorer led by the former MD of Genesis Minerals Limited Michael Fowler. The Fund had previously invested in Ordell’s seed equity round. We also added to relisted #silver-#gold explorer Mithril Resources Ltd (ASX:MTH), focused on the 530koz Aueq #Copalquin resource in #Mexico. #Copper exposure was increased through additional investments in LSE-listed Great Southern Copper, TSXV-listed Hannan Metals Ltd and Rugby Resources Ltd, and ASX-listed developer Anax Metals Limited. Copper-nickel explorers Asian Battery Metals PLC Minerals (a new ASX IPO) and Terra Metals were other base metal investments during the month. The Fund exited Taruga Minerals. Stock of the month (among our 81 investee companies) was Mark Saxon's T2 Metals Corporation (TSXV: TWO)(Market Cap C$12.7m TWO.TSXV) that rose 19% in June as it announced grant funding from the Manitoba Mineral Development Fund to support ongoing exploration of the company’s Sherridon coppergold-zinc project in west-central Manitoba. Drill intersections in 2024 have included 23.5 m at 6.8 g/t Au.

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Castile Resources | Mark Hepburn | Stockhead TV 📺 Market Talk | Investor Relations and Media Collaborations is an investor event series that brought together seven ASX-listed resource developers and producers for an afternoon of presentations on 6 May at Sydney’s Hubert Theatre Royale. 🗞️ Read the editorial feature here: https://lnkd.in/g9Gzw4Nm -- Hosted by Perth-based ResolveIR and Investability IR and in partnership with Australia's leading news website, covering emerging stories Stockhead, the one-day investor event showcased carefully selected, high growth companies at various levels of development in the resources sector. Watch the interview with Castile Resources, Mark Hepburn and Stockhead TV 📺👇🏽 https://loom.ly/EiPbGNE -- While Castile Resources is like any other junior miner in its focus to bring its Rover 1 mine in the Northern Territory into production, it sets itself apart by being a downstream processor developing a processing pathway that will enable it produce gold, copper, cobalt and a high-grade magnetite product. This means that rather than just digging up the ore and shipping it to a smelter, the company is looking to produce end user metals in the NT. Rover 1 is expected to produce for about nine years, generating between $240m and $250m in revenue per year and delivering IRR of 46% according to the pre-feasibility study. Hepburn told Stockhead that these numbers were based on where gold and copper prices were at prior to their large runs in the last two to three months. -- Nara Kassam Dannika Warburton Evy Litopoulos #resources #gold #copper #cobalt #investing #stocks #stockstowatch #watchlist #asx #CST

**Hot Chili announces $16.5m placement to support Costa Fuego project** - Hot Chili Ltd IR (ASX/TSXV: HCH) (OTCQX: HHLKF), an ASX-listed mineral #exploration firm, announced a private placement of 24.9 million new shares to raise A$24.9 million ($16.5 million) for the #CostaFuego pre-feasibility study and environmental impact assessment. - Priced at A$1.00 each, the shares were offered at roughly a 20% discount to the last closing price and approximately 18.6% below the ten-day volume weighted average price. - Veritas Securities Limited are joint lead managers, with BMO Capital Markets and Beacon Securities Limited as co-managers. - The placement saw strong demand from Australian, Canadian, and overseas investors, including existing shareholders, reflecting confidence in the company's strategic funding and assets. - Hot Chili will also offer eligible shareholders the chance to join a share purchase plan (SPP) to raise up to A$5 million at the same offer price, with funds allocated to operational and strategic objectives, including key studies and exploration. #mines #mining #rawmaterials #decarbonisation #mineralexploration

Now this is a financial model that I would love to dive in to. A feedstock cost of $19,000/tonne, a market value of $5,000/tonne, $71MM in financing costs plus G&A and what appears to be undefined secondary commodities create a lot of room that a sensitivity analysis needs to make up. It is a worthy endeavor to resolve the techno-economic problems for rare earth mineral extraction but I feel like we skipped a step in our critical minerals roadmap. Until we have secured our feedstock with mines that can deliver sufficient low cost feedstock, Sask's dreams of being a critical mineral hub will struggle to secure commercial term sheets.

GRANGEX: Anglo American deal marks crucial step in transforming GRANGEX into leader in sustainable iron ore Hours before the Christmas weekend, GRANGEX AB(publ.) announced a Royalty and off-take agreement with Anglo American of USD 5m + 12.5m for the part-funding and development of the Sydvaranger Mine, along with a rights issue of SEK 81m. This is an important step forward for the venture into Sydvaranger, as evidenced by the 23% surge in the share price on the news. The capital injection will cover the first installment for Sydvaranger of USD 20m due on March 31st, 2024, but GRANGEX will need to raise additional capital to meet the price tag of USD 33m and the subsequent development expenses. While the case in Dannemora already offers good potential for shareholders, we await the updated Feasibility study to include Sydvaranger into our NPV, but note that the first data points from Sydvaranger indicate an even greater potential than in the previous DFS (i.e. an NPV well above USD 550m) when raising the output from blast furnace concentrate to direct reduction iron ore, and accounting for significantly higher iron ore prices. Interestingly, the separate funding of subsidiary Sydvaranger will provide a fresh data point on valuation of Sydvaranger already in Q1’24, most likely exceeding parent company GRANGEX’ current market cap of SEK 200m. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dkhdEpah #greenmining #ironore #angloamerican #dannemora #sydvaranger