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Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) (OTCQB: BGDFF) managing director Alexander Scanlon joins Small Caps to discuss the latest mineral resource estimate upgrade at its Tunkillia project in South Australia.

The company recently unveiled its third Tunkillia JORC mineral resource estimate (MRE) in 12 months, with an aggressive drilling campaign lifting the project to 1.5 million ounces.

A key component to the increase was the inclusion of a new 115,216 ounce gold resource identified at Area 51.

Barton only announced the discovery of the approximately 500m long gold zone at Area 51 in September 2022.

Located to the northwest of the main 223 Deposit at Tunkillia, the Area 51 MRE has been identified through a 72 drill holes, including 6,058m of reverse circulation and 2,605.4m diamond drilling completed by Barton.

The Area 51 deposit is a satellite deposit approximately 4 km north of the Tunkillia Project, which in turn is located 530 km north-west of Adelaide in South Australia’s Gawler Craton.

Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/barton-gold-tunkillia-resource-estimate-surges/

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Chariot Corporation (ASX: CC9) managing director Shanthar Pathmanathan joins Small Caps to discuss developments at the company's Black Mountain lithium project located in Wyoming, United States.

The newly listed Chariot recently expanded the footprint of Black Mountain by 206% with the application for 218 contiguous claims taking the entire project to 352 claims covering 2,686 hectares of tenure.

The acquisition of the new claims comes after Chariot raced off to a fast exploration start at Black Mountain.

Chariot is off to a strong start at the project with the receipt of promising results from its maiden drilling program at project.

The early results from the first 3 holes in its maiden program have also identified the potential for a range of base metals including copper, zinc and lead.

Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/chariot-black-mountain-project-significant-lithium-base-metals-potential/
https://smallcaps.com.au/chariot-corporation-resume-next-phase-black-mountain-lithium-hunt

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https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/asx-cc9/

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VHM Limited (ASX: VHM) chief executive officer and executive director Ron Douglas joins Small Caps to discuss the company's continuing run of success as it progresses the high-class Goschen rare earths and mineral sands project in Victoria.

The company’s is progressing its plans to be a near-term producer with the completion of a number of project-critical milestones required to advance the Goschen rare earths and mineral sands project (Goschen) into Construction, including the assembly of a board of directors with major mine construction experience, and the placement of the Goschen Environment Effects Statement on public exhibition.

In its recent string of highlights in Goschen’s development trajectory, VHM has successfully wrapped up negotiations for its first binding offtake agreement for Goschen Phase 1 products and secured 100% of the land required for the operational footprint of the Goschen Project.

As the company continues its focus on taking Goschen into production, VHM has added to its company’s total ore reserves and mineral resource and maintained its contiguous tenement holdings in the in North West Victoria into 2028, during the half-year ending 31 December 2023.

Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/vhm-accelerates-transition-explorer-developer-progress-goschen/
https://smallcaps.com.au/vhm-strikes-milestone-offtake-deal-shenghe-goschen-prospects/

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PharmAust (ASX: PAA) chief executive officer Michael Thurn joins Small Caps to discuss the company's ongoing success with its investigation into its lead treatment candidate monepantel (MPL).

PharmAust is focused on repurposing MPL for the treatment of human neurodegenerative disorders such as motor neurone disease (MND) / amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

New top-line Phase 1 MEND study results have found that PharmAust has taken a significant step towards helping people diagnosed with this rare and incurable disease.

Notably, new tests have found that MPL displays a superior safety, tolerability to the leading FDA approved drug Relyvrio.

Preliminary efficacy data also found a 58% reduction in the rate of disease progression for high dose Cohort 2 patients using the FDA primary efficacy endpoint.

The result has demonstrated the potential to provide meaningful clinical benefit to people living with MND/ALS.

PharmAust also recently created a “dream team” of scientists including internationally renowned experts in MND/ALS drug discovery and clinical development who will provide PharmAust with strategic guidance in the development of MPL

Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/pharmaust-monepantel-study-shows-slowdown-mnd-progression/
https://smallcaps.com.au/pharmaust-world-class-scientific-advisory-board-fight-against-neurodegenerative-diseases/
https://smallcaps.com.au/pharmaust-monepantel-study-mnd-als-treatment-fast-track-fda-meeting/
https://smallcaps.com.au/pharmaust-begins-extended-study-mnd-treatment-successful-trial/

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Aurumin (ASX: AUN) managing director Brad Valiukas joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent strategic moves focussed on building a mining company around its flagship Sandstone gold project in Western Australia.

With a history of production, Sandstone's current resource of 946,000 ounces of gold provides an ideal opportunity to take advantage of high gold prices.

Aurumin has identified a number of shallow, nearby targets to follow up as part of its plans to grow the known resource with an initial focus on compiling critical mass for early production.

Looking to take advantage of the significant legacy infrastructure and permitting in place, the future strategy is to grow an open pit inventory in the short term, allowing for a fast-track production start-up.

The already identified open pit resources include 307,000 ounces at Central Sandstone and 65,000 ounces at Johnson Range.

Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/aurumin-sets-stage-strong-2024-western-australian-gold-ventures/
https://smallcaps.com.au/aurumin-builds-sandstone-footprint-new-high-grade-gold-tenement/

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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 prospective tenure.

NickelX staked areas covering 4 highly prospective uranium targets at Elliot Lake in mid-February.

The new project lies in the Elliot Lake Uranium district which historically produced around 360 million pounds of uranium from 13 underground mines.

Back in WA, NickelX recently commenced an RC drilling program at the Dalwallinu nickel project.

Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/nickelx-targets-uranium-riches-canada-historic-elliot-lake-district/

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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.

The drilling campaign will help provide Premier1 with a deeper understanding of Abbotts North, where it has an option to acquire 100% of the project from a private vendor.

The innovative explorer is at the forefront with the use of the latest AI and machine learning technology to help it identify and secure a portfolio of rights in a premier hard rock lithium jurisdiction.

Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/premier1-lithium-commences-drilling-lithium-pegmatite-targets-abbotts-north/

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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 anomalies with the potential to add material value to the project.

Elsewhere, RareX has allocated business development capacity to Canada where it has identified advanced rare earth deposits as being attractive complementary acquisition opportunities.

RareX remains bullish on the longer-term outlook for rare earths, which are expected to see over 6% compound annual growth rates year-on-year for the foreseeable future.

Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/rarex-advances-cummins-range-explores-new-global-rare-earths-opportunities/
https://smallcaps.com.au/rarex-advances-rare-earth-deposit-wa-cummins-range/

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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 subsequently received exciting initial assay results from the program.

Drilling at Tambourah King and World’s Fair was designed to test the grade and continuity of mineralisation in accordance with previous drilling interpretations and intersected mineralisation within two parallel gold lodes approximately 8m apart.

On the critical minerals side, Tambourah recently obtained rock chip samples up to 3,660 parts per million lithium, 4,251 parts per million tin and 129 parts per million tantalum at the Shaw River project.

In late January, the company obtained promising first-pass rock samples at the Haystack Well project of up to 7,910 parts per million lithium with associated elevated caesium and tantalum from pegmatite, pegmatite reaction zones and pegmatite float.

Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/tambourah-metals-lithium-exploration-stellar-results-wa-shaw-river/
https://smallcaps.com.au/tambourah-metals-promising-lithium-anomalies-initial-sampling-haystack-well/

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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 area.

New work at Area 51, the fifth new gold zone Barton had confirmed within this radius during the past 2 years, has extended mineralisation to over 700m, with a significant ‘core zone’ identified.

At Area 191 Barton is unveiling an emerging high-grade resource target with the highest-grade assays yet obtained at Tunkillia.

Notably the potential high-grade system is located just to the northeast of the current JORC resource.

Previously drilled by Barton in August 2021, the Area 191 gold zone currently extends around 250m to 300m in width and approximately 650m in strike length.

Barton is now undertaking an infill drilling campaign at Area 191 to further validate the results from previous campaigns.

Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/barton-gold-tunkillia-resource-upgrade-exceptional-drilling-area-191/
https://smallcaps.com.au/barton-gold-high-grade-area-51-expanding-tunkillia-project-potential/

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https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/asx-bgd/

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