Neil Watkinson

1 week ago | thewest.com.au | Neil Watkinson

A significantly expanded ore reserve at the King of the Hills open-pit gold mine north of Leonora will drive an increase in processing plant throughput and 18 more years of operations, its owner says. Vault Minerals told the Australian Securities Exchange this week it had boosted the mine’s ore reserve during the past year to 110 million tonnes at 0.62g/tonne for 2.2 million ounces of gold. The company said this was an increase of 33 per cent, before depletion of 97,065oz to April 30.

1 week ago | thewest.com.au | Neil Watkinson

A “traditional” steak sandwich served up at a Kalgoorlie-Boulder motel has made the final of a Statewide competition. The organisers of the Australian Hotels Association (WA) and Little Creatures WA’s Best Steak Sandwich contest named The Miners Rest as one of the four country WA finalists in this year’s event. The three others were Margaret River’s Settlers Tavern, Pinjarra’s Exchange Hotel, and Australind’s Treendale Farm Hotel — with Treendale winning last year.

1 week ago | thewest.com.au | Neil Watkinson

A company with a long-stalled uranium project in the northern Goldfields says changes to the State Government’s policy towards the nuclear fuel are “warranted” after a “more accurate” low-level study highlighted the “robust” economic potential of one of its deposits. West Perth-headquartered Toro Energy’s Wiluna uranium-vanadium project has three deposits, including Lake Maitland, which is 105km south-east of the northern Goldfields town.

1 week ago | thewest.com.au | Neil Watkinson

Sean Forman’s dominance of Goldfields second division eight ball continued at the weekend when he took out the closed singles, defeating Chris Hicks in the final. Forman’s victory made it three straight wins in the event, and four of the past five, to truly call the event his own. In only his first season of competitive eight ball, Hicks’ effort in finishing runner-up was full of merit and both players will be key ingredients within their teams at this weekend’s eight ball country week.

1 week ago | thewest.com.au | Neil Watkinson

Emerging mid-tier gold producer Horizon Minerals is raising $30 million to advance drilling and processing plant studies while it waits for cash to start flowing from mining operations at Boorara and Phillips Find. The Ashok Parekh-chaired Horizon told the Australian Securities Exchange on Monday it had received firm commitments for the two-tranche placement of 697,674,418 fully paid ordinary shares at 4.3¢ a share.