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It was a positive last week in March for
premier nickel sulfide district Head Office: Australia nickel players with multiple new
discoveries in Western Australia announced.
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Ta Khoa Project (Nickel-Coper-Cobalt-PGE), Vietnam mailbox@paydirt.com.au David Southam. Mark Andrews reports
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• Ban Phuc Mine operated from 2013 to 2016,
mining 975kt @ 2.4% Ni & 1.0% Cu for 20.7kt Ni & Editorial: There has never been a time quite like
10.1kt Cu; Editor: Dominic Piper what the world is experiencing right now.
Deputy editor: Mark Andrews COVID-19 has turned the world as it was
Journalist: Michael Washbourne known upside down and things may never 16
• Existing infrastructure built to Australian Standards Art director: Nick Brown be the same again. With most of the world
includes a modern mechanised underground mine Contributors: Brendan Ryan shutdown and confined to their homes for an
located within a premier nickel sulfide district; uncertain period of time, Dominic Piper looks
(Johannesburg)
at what impact the coronavirus will have on
• Alliance with Korea’s largest electric vehicle Advertising: the mining sector
battery cathode producer, Ecopro BM Co Ltd; Advertising manager: Richa Fuller
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• Drilling continues to intersect the new, near Facsimile: (+61 8) 9321 0426 It has been hard to ignore the performance
surface King Cobra discovery zone over 200m of of Australia’s gold sector over the past two
strike length; Pre-press and printing: years. From explorers to the heavyweight
Vanguard Press, 26 John St, gold producers, there has been no shortage
• Blackstone is continuing its aggressive drilling Northbridge WA 6003 of good stories to tell and despite the current
market malaise, Paydirt found that activity
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program at Ban Phuc with four drill rigs testing the continues in the sector, albeit some plans
disseminated mineralisation; have been tempered for the time being
• EM and IP surveys underway; 40 BATTERY MINERALS
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• Previously unrecognised PGE grades suggest a Paydirt Media Australia’s lithium sector was about to 18
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• Blackstone is fully funded to deliver a maiden Conferences: Melita Fogarty, minerals sector, particularly nickel
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