Kristie Batten
Kristie Batten is an award-winning resources reporter, editor and columnist with 16 years of experience, covering the world's biggest mining stories, events and people. She is also a member of the steering committee of the prestigious Melbourne Mining Club.
Centaurus Metals is confident it can compete with Indonesian nickel
Centaurus Metals (ASX: CTM) managing director Darren Gordon says the company’s Jaguar nickel project is being undervalued by the market. Shares in Centaurus have fallen by nearly 40% this year as a slump in nickel prices hit Western producers and developers. In Australia this year, administrators of collapsed junior producer Panoramic Resources shut down the […]
Sun Silver eyes ASX debut with $10m IPO to advance Maverick Springs silver-gold project
Newcomer Sun Silver is planning to lodge a prospectus in the coming weeks with a view to list on the ASX. The company will seek to raise a minimum of $10 million at $0.20 per share in an initial public offering, with the potential to accept oversubscriptions up to $3m. Sun Silver is hoping to […]
Calidus Resources shines with record gold production at Warrawoona
Gold producer Calidus Resources (ASX: CAI) has just reported its best quarter of production from the Warrawoona mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Shares in the company jumped by as much as 16.6% on the news. Calidus today reported March quarter production of 15,118 ounces of gold, up from 11,980oz in the December quarter. That […]
Boss Energy’s Honeymoon uranium mine set for first production this month
Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) managing director Duncan Craib is heading to the company’s $105.4 million Honeymoon uranium mine in South Australia tomorrow as Boss looks to first production from the site. Yesterday, the company announced it had successfully commissioned the ion-exchange circuit at Honeymoon. “It is one of the biggest technical tests,” he told the […]
Astral Resources unveils promising economic outlook for Mandilla gold project
Astral Resources (ASX: AAR) managing director Marc Ducler says the economics for the Mandilla gold project in Western Australia have improved since a scoping study was released last year. Mandilla sits just 70km south of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia’s Goldfields. Mr Ducler told last week’s Resources Rising Stars Summer Series in Brisbane that Astral was […]
FireFly Metals targets copper boom with exciting finds at Green Bay project in Canada
FireFly Metals (ASX: FFM) has made a strong start to exploration at its newly acquired Green Bay copper-gold project in Newfoundland, Canada. The Green Bay project hosts resources of 39.2 million tonnes at 2.1% copper equivalent for 811,000t of copper equivalent. “The potential to grow this resource is significant,” FireFly chief executive officer Darren Cooke […]
Sunstone Metals sees potential for 10Moz at Bramaderos project in Ecuador
Sunstone Metals’ (ASX: STM) discovery hopes received a further boost this week with the announcement of high-grade results from the Bramaderos project in Ecuador. “Sunstone is very much a discovery opportunity,” managing director Malcolm Norris told the Resources Rising Stars Summer Series in Brisbane. The company has two “giant” projects, Bramaderos in the south and […]
Mitre Mining places 100Moz silver target on Cerro Bayo project
Shares in Mitre Mining (ASX: MMC) closed sharply higher on Thursday after investors heard from executive director Ray Shorrocks at the Resources Rising Stars Summer Series in Brisbane. Mitre shares closed 9% higher at $0.24 after reaching an intraday peak of $0.25. Mr Shorrocks presented the micro-cap’s story for the first time since the company […]
Nordic Nickel advancing Pulju project with key partnerships in Europe’s growing battery sector
Nordic Nickel (ASX: NNL) managing director Todd Ross says the company is in talks with multiple parties about its flagship Pulju project in Finland. Perth-based Nordic listed on the ASX in 2022 and just five months later was selected as one of the seven companies that made up the inaugural cohort of the BHP (ASX: […]
92 Energy believes uranium bull market is just getting started
92 Energy (ASX: 92E) managing director Siobhan Lancaster believes the stars are aligning for uranium. “I think we’re just at the beginning of this bull market,” she told the Resources Rising Stars Summer Series in Brisbane today. “The price outlook for uranium has never been better. Political support for nuclear has never been better.” Uranium […]