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Meeka targets March for first gold from Murchison
Meeka Metals is gearing up for gold mining to begin in March with significant progress made with its processing infrastructure and accommodation village at the company’s Murchison gold project in WA. Its much larger “game-changing” processing plant equipment is on site and expected to dramatically increase its pre-feasibility numbers in the upcoming definitive-feasibility-study due in December.
Meeka swaps debt for $35m equity to fully fund WA gold mine
Meeka Metals has deftly rid itself of a proposed debt facility and 12,000 gold call options that would have encumbered its soon to be completed gold mine near Meekatharra as investors stump up $35m in equity. A DFS tabled in May that showed the project will spit out pre-tax free cash of $577m is set to be enhanced in December with updated modelling.
Meeka Metals WA mine construction running ahead of schedule
Meeka Metals' Murchison gold project, 50km north of Meekatharra, is ahead of schedule with its 136-man camp and haul road nearing completion, targeting a mid-2025 first gold pour. And with 88 of the 136 accommodation rooms now fully commissioned, Meeka has importantly, created the opportunity to save some valuable time by ensuring space for the expanding workforce on-site.
Meeka gets new ball mill rolling to Murchison gold play
Meeka Metals has confirmed its newly-acquired 750kW ball mill is now en route to its new home as a key component of the company’s expanded Murchison processing plant near Meekatharra in WA. The “Outokumpu” mill is slated to increase plant processing capacity to 640ktpa – a 30 per cent increase on the throughput of the 500kW mill that was included in a DFS in May.
Meeka reveals strong WA gold recovery at Meekatharra
Meeka Metals says recent metallurgical results from its Meekatharra project in Western Australia, including 95.5 per cent gold leach recovery, will allow the inclusion of its Turnberry underground resource into a looming DFS. The testwork explored conventional carbon-in-leach (CIL) recoveries at three grind sizes and gravity recovery at two grind sizes, reporting optimal recoveries at 106 microns for both methods.
Green light for WA mine as Meeka targets first gold by July
Meeka Metals has slotted in the final piece of the approvals puzzle from the Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DEMIRS), allowing it to launch full-scale development of its Murchison gold project in Western Australia. With the green light now shining brightly, Meeka has quickly moved from planning to construction and is targeting its first gold pour by July next year.
Meeka grabs $73m funding for expanded Murchison gold project
Meeka Metals has secured a $73 million funding war chest, paving the way to finalising the development and production ramp-up at its 100 per cent-owned Murchison gold project in Western Australia. The funding comprises a $26 million gold loan and a $12 million gold stream from Auramet International, in addition to a $35 million institutional placement that includes a $5 million equity investment from Auramet.
Huge gold drilling program to expand Meeka mining plans
Meeka Metals is set to plunge 22,500m worth of underground and grade-control drilling into its Murchison gold project in WA’s Mid West in a bid to unveil new mining areas to help fill its recently-expanded processing capacity. Management has also confirmed a new drill-for-equity deal with contractor Topdrill as it looks to assess high-grade plunging shoots beneath oxide open pits at its Turnberry mine.
Meeka reaps rebate for WA rare earths research
Meeka Metals has filled its pockets to the tune of nearly $360,000, after it was awarded a research-and-development Federal Government rebate for rare earths works undertaken at its Circle Valley project near Esperance in Western Australia. The company qualified for the rebate through its metallurgical studies, experimental set-up and leaching of clay-hosted rare earths from the Circle Valley operation.
Meeka hires gold gun to kickstart Murchison mine
Meeka Minerals has appointed top-gun mine site executive Matthew O’Hara to lead the construction phase for its 100 per cent-owned flagship Murchison gold project in Western Australia’s Mid West region. The company has today confirmed that funding is imminent, site environmental permits have been secured and a bigger-than-planned ball mill will be delivered by September, bringing the project another step closer to production.
Meeka grabs bigger mill to expand WA gold project
Meeka Metals has secured a greater-capacity ball mill than envisaged in its definitive feasibility study in May for its Murchison gold project in WA, paving the way for significantly enhanced economy of scale. The company says the $318,000 purchase reduces its DFS mill capex by 75 per cent, lifts processing capacity by 30 per cent to 640,000 tonnes per annum and increases ore processing options.
New permits bring Meeka closer to first gold at Murchison
Meeka Metals has secured mine dewatering and clearing permits to step closer to first gold at its Murchison project in Western Australia’s Mid West region, with the company now expecting mining permits early in September. Management has drawn down on $1.34 million of a $2.2 million secured bridging loan facility to purchase the camp and associated infrastructure at the operation.
Meeka shops for complete camp package at WA gold project
Meeka Metals has invested in a total camp and infrastructure package to accelerate the development of its flagship Murchison gold project in Western Australia – and at just 20 per cent of the cost predicted in its recent definitive feasibility study. The shopping cart includes camp accommodation, ablution blocks and offices for the Andy Well and Turnberry mining centres and a 110-kilolitre fuel storage tank.
Meeka sets gold production pathway with Murchison DFS
Meeka Metals has outlined its pathway to gold production, with plans to mine 400,000 ounces during an initial nine-year mine life at its Murchison project following the release of a definitive feasibility study. The operation, near Meekatharra in Western Australia, hosts a mineral resource of 1.2 million ounces at 3g/t gold, with an ore reserve of 2.5 million tonnes at 3.8g/t for 305,000 ounces.
Meeka infill drilling bolsters Turnberry gold pit resource
Meeka Metals has strengthened the indicated mineral resource for its optimised Turnberry open pit in WA’s Mid West, lifting it by 26 per cent to 290,000 ounces of gold. The revision follows infill drilling to December last year and retains a resource of 10.7 million tonnes at 2g/t gold for 690,000 ounces – but 85 per cent of the resource now sits in the indicated category.
Government cash injection fuels Meeka gold hunt
Meeka Metals says a $180,000 WA Government grant is a glowing endorsement for its 100 per cent-owned “kilometre-scale”, gold-rich Circle Valley project near Esperance in Western Australia’s deep south. Previous drilling at the project has thrown up impressive gold drill hits as high as 16m at 1.5g/t drilling is scheduled to begin in the second half of this year.
Rolled gold resource jump for Meeka in Murchison
Meeka Metals has unveiled a 60 per cent boost for its St Anne’s gold resource in Western Australia’s Mid West region, increasing to 40,000 ounces at more than 3 grams per tonne. The resource forms part of the company’s 1.23 million-ounce Murchison gold project that sits in the area bearing the same name, about 650km north of Perth.
Meeka hot on trail of new Murchison gold zone
Meeka Metals’ mapping and sampling has highlighted what it believes is an important gold-arsenic anomaly within a 2km-long shear zone at its Murchison gold project, about 28km north-east of Meekatharra in Western Australia. Management says its surface geochemistry picked up the anomalism, which mapping shows as correlating with en echelon splays where previous drilling intersected grades of up to 54g/t gold.
Meeka extends drilling success at Murchison gold project
Meeka Metals has extended its positive run of gold hits during the final seven infill holes drilled at its St Anne’s prospect with a 31m section grading 1.11grams per tonne gold from 31m including 4m at 4.66g/t gold. St Anne’s has an estimated mineral resource of about 277,000 tonnes at an average grade of 2.8g/t gold for a contained 25,000 ounces of gold and forms part of the company’s Murchison gold project about 30km north-east of Meekatharra.
Meeka Metals proves high-grade gold in Meekatharra
Meeka Metals says it has gathered high-grade gold results from 10 infill air-core drillholes at its St Anne’s resource target about 30km north-east of Meekatharra, including a 7m hit at a grade of 3.51g/t gold with 2m going 9.84g/t. The company says the results are supported by other high-grade intercepts in adjacent holes, including 1m at 13.45g/t gold.
More high-grade Murchison gold for Meeka
Meeka Metals has bolstered the 685,000-ounce resource at 2 grams per tonne gold at its Turnberry deposit in Western Australia’s Murchison region after delivering another round of high-grade oxide gold from 18 holes of infill drilling. The company is now pushing hard to finalise its development-ready status for next year in order to kick off mining.
Meeka tweaks up Turnberry deposit with more high-grade gold
Meeka Metals has thrown-up stellar shallow, high-grade gold infill drill hits, including 19m at 8.75 grams per tonne, at its 685,000-ounce Turnberry development project in Western Australia’s Murchison province. With 1.2 million gold ounces already identified at its flagship Murchison gold project, the company is pressing ahead with its submission of development plans before year’s end and updating its grade-control block model.
Meeka uncovers shallow oxide gold at Turnberry
Meeka Metals has tabled a solid set of initial assays from shallow infill drilling at its Turnberry deposit within its flagship Murchison gold project in WA. Broad zones of oxide gold running up to an eye-catching 8.53g/t were unearthed from the first 19 holes, with assays expected soon from the remaining 32 holes, which are largely located around the periphery of the designed open pits.
Meeka looking to bolster existing Murchison ounces
Meeka Metals has revealed it has completed a gravity survey over its St Anne’s and Turnberry resource areas to better define their principal mafic gold hosts. It has also begun drilling to extend the Turnberry resource and to probe surrounding thinly tested areas for additional ounces to bolster existing resource numbers. Meeka Metals has revealed it has completed a gravity survey over 7km of strike of the Fairway shear zone which includes its St Anne’s and Turnberry prospects.
Meeka predicts $261m free cash after feasibility study
Meeka Metals has tabled a solid set of numbers from a project feasibility study into its Murchison gold play near Meekathara in Western Australia, forecasting the return of a post-tax free cash flow of $261 million from a mine life of more than nine years and with a payback period of just 22 months at a gold price of $2750 per ounce.
Meeka posts maiden Esperance rare earths resource
Meeka Metals has tabled an independent maiden resource of 98 million tonnes grading 890 parts per million total rare earths oxide (TREO) for 21,560 tonnes of neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) metal at its Circle Valley project in the Western Australian town of Esperance. The new resource, based on 12,401m of large-diameter air-core (AC) drilling, is contained within an optimised pit shell and above a 430ppm TREO minus cerium oxide cutoff.
Meeka reveals strong hand of high-grade WA rare earths
Meeka Metals has played its trump card, revealing its highest rare earths mineralisation to date from the final 32 drill holes from its 60-hole resource probe at its Circle Valley project near Esperance – Western Australia’s newest rare earths hotspot. The headline hit returned 4m coming in at an impressive 7475 parts per million total rare earths oxides (TREO), housed in a 12m intercept averaging 4276ppm TREO from just 19m.
New gold resource boosts Meeka project in Murchison
Meeka Metals has bumped its total Murchison gold project resource up to 12.7 million tonnes at 3 grams per tonne for 1.215 million ounces of gold after revealing an initial oxide gold resource from its St Anne’s deposit. The St Annes resource of 270,000 tonnes at 2.8g/t gold for 25,000 ounces is viewed by the company as conservative as it is entirely constrained by a price of $2600 per ounce of gold pit shells and all in the indicated resource category.
Meeka joins rare earths party with footprint expansion
Meeka Metals has added new impetus to Australia’s growing rare earths sector after unveiling 10 square kilometres of high-grade clay-hosted mineralisation at its Circle Valley project in WA. It will declare an initial resource in June after drilling gave grades up to 3084 parts per million total rare earth oxides with consistently high neodymium-praseodymium assays of up to 34 per cent of the TREO values. Drilling at Meeka Metals’ Circle Valley rare earth project near Esperance in WA. Credit: File.
Meeka targets historical areas with drilling at WA gold project
Meeka Metals is bringing modern techniques to historical areas at its Murchison gold project with high impact drilling targeting the 25km long greenstone hosted Fairway shear zone. The Fairway zone is a largely untested economically important zone of shearing and high strain in the Archean Gnaweeda greenstone belt hosting Meeka’s 700,000 ounce Turnberry gold deposit. The company’s St Anne’s gold deposit also lies in the zone and has a mineral resource estimate scheduled for release in April.
Solid gold hit for Meeka at Esperance rare earths play
Multi-commodity explorer Meeka Metals continues to rack up high-grade gold hits at its Circle Valley project near the WA town of Esperance, where it expects to soon deliver a maiden rare earths mineral resource. The intriguing intercepts appear to be evolving into a significant gold footprint covering several kilometres at the company’s underexplored tenure.
Meeka lands high-grade gold at WA project as resource looms
Meeka Metals’ latest diamond drilling has confirmed high-grade gold at its St Anne’s deposit as part of the company’s flagship Murchison gold project. Headline results include 12.8m at 5.21 grams per tonne gold from 54.3m. The company says it remains on target to release a maiden mineral resource for the deposit later this month with further drilling also to kick off in coming weeks. Meeka Metals is drilling its way to a resource upgrade at the company's Murchison gold project.
Meeka adds high-grade gold to Esperance rare earths project
Meeka Metals has confirmed the presence of high-grade gold at its Circle Valley project near Esperance after assays from a diamond drilling campaign produced impressive results and hit gold in every hole. Late last year the company completed a five-hole diamond drilling program aiming to gather data and test a 1200m by 400m gold anomaly that was detected during a previous RC campaign.
Meeka kicks off infill drilling at Esperance rare earths project
Meeka Metals has begun infill drilling at its Circle Valley rare earths project near Esperance as the company looks toward delivering an initial mineral resource for the site in the June quarter of this year. Last year the explorer produced some impressive results from its maiden drill program at the operation with highlights including one assay that went 12m at 2690 parts per million total rare earth oxides, or “TREO” from 20m including 4m at a mammoth 6894ppm TREO from 24m.
Meeka Metals boosts Murchison gold project resource
WA explorer Meeka Metals has swelled the mineral resource at its Murchison gold project to 1.2 million ounces due to a 12 per cent increase at the company’s Turnberry deposit to 10.6 million tonnes going 2 g/t gold for 685,000 ounces. The boost means the Murchison project now boasts a 12.4Mt resource going 3 g/t gold, most of which comes from the 1.7km strike length Turnberry deposit which remains open to the north, south and at depth.
Meeka test work points to high gold recovery
Meeka Metals has confirmed gold recoveries up to 99.4 per cent from metallurgical test work on ore from the company’s St Anne’s deposit that forms part of its greater Murchison gold project. The program assessed conventional carbon-in-leach gold recovery for St Anne’s mineralisation at 150 micrometre grind size with results ranging from 97 per cent to 99.4 per cent for an average of 97.9 per cent.
Meeka turns up more shallow gold hits at Murchison project
Meeka Metals has recorded more shallow gold hits outside the defined mineral resource on the western flank of the company’s Turnberry deposit that forms part of its greater Murchison gold project. Turnberry currently has a resource of 11.3 million tonnes grading 1.7g/t for 610,000 ounces of gold with an update scheduled before the end of the year. Assay highlights from the latest air-core drilling campaign show a 12m intercept going 2.01 grams per tonne gold from 20m including 4m at 5.23 g/t.
Positive rare earths test work buoys Meeka
Meeka Metals has received positive results from test work at its Cascade Valley rare earths project near Esperance with up to 90.4 per cent of the elements recovered in the less than 20 micrometre fraction. The company says cheap and simple screening and hydro-cyclone classification can be applied to discard the coarse fraction greater than 20 micrometres and remove up to 65.5 per cent of the mass whilst retaining up to 90.4 per cent of the rare earth elements.
Murchison delivers more gold for Meeka
Drill testing at Meeka Metals’ Murchison gold project has intersected a new zone of shallow high-grade oxide gold at the St Anne’s deposit, prompting the company to defer its planned release of St Anne’s initial mineral resource until the March quarter next year. Headline figures from the new assays include 12 metres at 2.33 grams per tonne gold from 44m, including 4m grading 3.96g/t gold and 4m going 1.99g/t gold from 52m.
Conference to focus on the next big ASX discovery
The next big discovery will be the focus of this week’s RIU Resurgence Conference where a host of ASX-listed companies will promote their activities to an investor audience across a two-day event in Perth. Hosted by Vertical Events, this year’s presentations include a diverse group of ASX-listed companies with a variety of portfolios from emerging battery technologies to the latest in resources exploration around the world including lithium, gold, rare earth elements and more.
Meeka adds new lode to St Anne’s gold deposit at Murchison
Meeka Metals has reported strong oxide gold mineralisation from shallow drilling of a new area of its St Anne’s deposit of the company’s Murchison gold project, north-east of Meekatharra. The campaign’s highlights include 16 metres at 3.48 grams per tonne from 48m, including 8m going 6.17 g/t gold and 12m at 2.48 g/t gold from 76m including 8m grading 3.55 g/t gold. Meeka has decided to continue the golfing theme calling the new lode, about 100m to the east of Driver, the Wood lode.
Meeka hits visible gold mineralisation at Murchison project
Meeka Metals has continued its run of solid hits at its Murchison gold project including a 4m intercept returning high-grade results of more than two ounces to the tonne at the company’s St Anne’s prospect. The 4m section recorded an outstanding 87.5 grams per tonne from 172m and was intercepted 100m below gold oxide results that Meeka reported in August this year. Meeka Metals has seen positive results from RC and diamond drilling at its St Anne’s prospect.
Visible gold boosts prospects for pending Meeka PFS
Meeka Metals’ pending declaration of a maiden resource at its St Anne’s discovery in the Murchison region of WA has received a serious shot in the arm after RC drilling churned out visible gold in chips acquired beneath a parcel of high-grade mineralisation.
Meeka scores record high grades from WA rare earths
Meeka Metals’ latest assay results from its Circle Valley project near Esperance have uncovered record grades of rare earth elements mineralisation almost tripling the project’s previous highs. One assay went 12m at 2,690 parts per million total rare earth oxides, or “TREO” including 4m at 6,894ppm TREO. The latest results set an impressive benchmark after assays released in July had previously set a new high for Circle Valley with air-core drilling then returning a then-high of 2,245ppm TREO.
Murchison project delivers more WA gold for Meeka
Meeka Metals has unveiled a solid set of shallow high-grade gold results from air-core drilling at its St Anne’s discovery that sits in the company’s larger Murchison project in Western Australia. Some of the eye-catching hits include 8m at 11.78 grams per tonne gold inside of a larger 24m parcel running 4.73 g/t gold from 52m and a further 8m at 11.07g/t gold within a 36m interval going 3.61 g/t gold from 44m.
Turnberry gives up more high-grade, visible gold for Meeka
Meeka Metals’ Turnberry prospect has given up more high-grade gold with a raft of assay results from seven diamond drill holes including 1 metre at 28.23 grams per tonne gold, including 0.09m running at a staggering 190.85g/t. That same drill hole also revealed nuggety visible gold within chlorite-pyrite altered dolerite.
Meeka lights up with more high-grade WA gold
Meeka Metals has delivered a string of high-grade shallow gold hits at its emerging St Anne’s discovery in the prolific Murchison region of Western Australia. The ongoing air-core campaign is designed to test the fertile gold shear corridor extending south from the company’s Turnberry deposit, with the latest hits including a stunning 32 metres running at 16.07 grams per tonne gold from 48m downhole that contained 16m at 28.59 g/t of the precious yellow metal.
Meeka focuses on WA gold, rare earths after project sale
Following ongoing success across its reinvigorated gold and rare earths-focused portfolio, Meeka Metals has offloaded its Gecko North project in WA to private explorer LithGold Minerals. The deal will see the company pocket $130,000 now, $100,000 in February and claim a slice of the operation’s future riches thanks to a 1.5 per cent net smelter royalty. Funds are likely to end up in the exploration kitty for some of Meeka’s existing projects.
Meeka lands project-best grades at WA rare earths play
Meeka Metals has scored its highest rare earth assays so far at its Circle Valley project near Esperance in WA’s south with results running up to 2245 parts per million total rare earths oxides, or “TREO”. The banner hit stretched 8m and took in a 44 per cent magnet rare earths oxides with 61 grams per tonne scandium from a depth of just 12m. Importantly, the results have swelled the mineralised footprint at the operation and highlighted its larger-scale, higher-grade potential.
Test results buoy Meeka on WA rare earths play
West Perth-based Meeka Metals has been buoyed by initial metallurgical testing at its Circle Valley project that show high extraction rates of high-value magnet rare earths as it presses to commercialise its discoveries in WA’s south. The tests reveal total rare earths extraction averaged 76 per cent and the magnet rare earths leached up to 86 per cent extraction with a mean of 82 per cent. Meeka Gold has received positive assays from drilling at its Circle Valley rare earth project.
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