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News.com.au
21-07-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Resources Top 5: Broken Hill Mines debut sees 120-year-old mining operation back on the ASX
BHM has the drill spinning in a bid to increase silver, lead and zinc resources at the Pinnacles mine What could be a very significant Channel Iron Deposit discovery has been made by PGD AIV has declared a maiden inferred resource of 8.5Mt at 1.13g/t gold for 310,000 ounces at Mt Hogan deposit Your standout small cap resources stocks for Monday, July 21, 2025 Broken Hill Mines (ASX:BHM) After 120 years of mining silver, lead and zinc, and being the birthplace of mining giant BHP, Broken Hill is again directly represented on the stock exchange after producer and explorer Broken Hill Mines made its debut. And it turned heads, opening at 47.5c and reaching 51.5c in early trade, a 454% increase on the previous close of predecessor Coolabah Metals with more than 8m shares exchanged. BHM has quickly got to work, with the drill spinning in a bid to increase silver, lead and zinc resources at the Pinnacles mine west of the mining stronghold of Broken Hill and its existing Rasp underground mine. A 4000m program is aimed at growing the size and grade of its current 6Mt resource at the Pinnacles, which runs at an impressive 10.9% ZnEq. As well as 4.7% zinc, the resource includes 153g/t silver, 3.3% lead and 0.5g/t gold. BHM also has another 3000m of earlier drill core from Pinnacles in the queue for assays, with first results expected in the next month or so. This new drilling follows results released earlier this year including 8.9m at 927g/t Ag, 12.2% Pb and 1.3% Zn from 11 metres. Broken Hill Mines (ASX:BHM) listed on the ASX after a reverse takeover of Coolabah Metals, which consolidated two of three mining companies that control the silver, lead and zinc operations at Broken Hill. The reverse float included the injection of $20m in fresh capital from investors. While Pinnacles is set to play a role in future growth, the Rasp underground mine with access and surface facilities on the town's Line of Lode is the flagship. The mine produces around 25,000tpa of zinc equivalent metal, but there are plenty of opportunities to improve the outlook. Despite the Rasp plant's 750,000tpa capacity, the project has been campaign milled since 2020 and ore feed grades are around 6% ZnEq. 'We bought an operating mine, a going concern, we've got 120 staff on day one and a hungry plant,' executive chairman Patrick Walta told Stockhead recently. 'The whole philosophy is about utilisation of sunk capital. We have this beautiful plant that's really had 500 million bucks spent on it over the years and it's only about 12 years old. ' It is only fed by one orebody and it's a relatively low-grade ore body by Broken Hill standards.' That source – Western Mineralisation – runs at around 8.2% ZnEq, including 4.8% zinc, 3.1% lead and 38g/t silver. Yet the Main Lode grades 17.7% ZnEq, including 870,000t of ore at 7.8% zinc, 7.6% lead and 151.7g/t silver. Walta said the mine made $20 million in operating cashflow last year with a plant running at around 40% of total capacity. When the Main Lode is online it will introduce not just more ore but ore running at 2.5x the grade. Peregrine Gold (ASX:PGD) While chasing gold in the Pilbara region of WA, Peregrine Gold has made what could be a very significant Channel Iron Deposit discovery just 2km from BHP's Western Ridge asset, close to the town of Newman. This has seen securities increase 70.28% to a 12-month high of 31.5c. Stream sediment sampling followed by further sampling and mapping by Peregrine geologists has resulted in the CID being mapped over a total strike length of 6.4km and widths of up to 200m with a further 1.3km of strike interpreted in magnetics. Peregrine Gold (ASX:PGD) believes the discovery was missed by previous exploration programs and GSWA mapping due to its low topographical position. Historical CID work focused on the mesas in the area to the northeast but PGD said the recent discovery represented a better preserved and far larger scale CID system than historical mesa-style CIDs and could represent a 'Valley Type' system. Geochemical data of the CID samples has shown the material is of a consistently high grade – peaking above 61% Fe – with all CID samples taken averaging ~57% Fe. Levels of deleterious elements are also low and considered within the parameters for high quality iron ore deposits. It is anticipated that subject to drill testing, the depth of the CID channel may be substantially thicker in the central parts of the channel which are up to 200m wide. Recent corporate movements have drawn attention to CZR Resources' (ASX:CZR) sale of its 85% holding in the Robe River Mesa Channel Iron Deposit for ~$75m. Positioned next to Rio Tinto's Robe Valley operations and near major infrastructure, Peregrine believes Robe Mesa provides a useful point of reference. Early indications suggest Peregrine's CID discovery has a scale that compares favourably to Robe Mesa. 'Our objective moving forward will be to advance the Coopers CID prospect as quickly as possible,' PGD technical director George Merhi said. ActivEX (ASX:AIV) A maiden JORC-compliant inferred resource of 8.5Mt at 1.13g/t gold for 310,000oz at Mt Hogan deposit resulted in ActivEX (ASX:AIV) soaring to a two-year high of 3.2c, a staggering 358% increase on the pre-trading halt close. The historic Mt Hogan mine forms part of the Gilberton gold joint venture with Gilberton Gold Pty Ltd. The project is in northeast Queensland, about 300km from Townsville. 'The journey towards our maiden gold resource commenced in 2022 when the company made the decision to focus exploration efforts in the vicinity of the Mt Hogan gold mine,' AIV MD Mark Derriman said. 'Three phases of RC/core drilling culminated with the most recent RC drilling program in November 2023. 'Incoming JV partner Gilberton Gold Pty Ltd have been crucial to funding the project and will take over management of operations going forward with the next round of drilling planned to commence late in Q3 2025 and will comprise both RC and core drilling.' Caprice Resources (ASX:CRS) An 11m intersection grading 17.3g/t gold from 170m at Vadrian's deposit of the Island gold project in WA's Murchison region has seen Caprice Resources (ASX:CRS) lift 37.5% to 6.6c with more than 45m shares changing hands. As well as this being the company's best intercept to date at Vadrian's, the first batch of assays from phase 3 drilling confirmed the recent discovery of the Evening Star high-grade lode. Other results include 10m at 11.7g/t Au from 175m and 9m at 8.3g/t from 94m. These have doubled the strike of the high-grade system to at least 350m and extended mineralisation at depth where it remains open in multiple directions. Drilling to follow-up the strike extent and grade potential of historical anomalous gold mineralisation about 80m west of the main New Orient lode has also returned notable intersections such as 21m at 1.3g/t gold from 29m. Tivan (ASX:TVN) A second collaboration between Tivan (ASX:TVN) and Sumitomo Corporation covering TVN's Australian fluorite projects has seen shares increase 31% to 11c. The leading Japanese trading house and Fortune Global 500 company has signed agreements for the Sandover Fluorite Project in the NT and Speewah Fluorite Project in WA. An MoU for Sandover, a high-grade fluorite project acquired by Tivan in November 2024, will see the companies discuss the collaborative development, financing and operation of the project to be formalised through negotiating commercial agreements following delivery of a pre-feasibility study. Tivan is working to define a deposit supportive of fluorite mining and processing at Sandover, focused on an expedited pathway to produce metspar and a traditional acid-grade fluorspar production pathway. At Speewah the parties have established an incorporated joint venture, including Japan Fluorite Corporation (JFC), a special purpose subsidiary incorporated by Sumitomo, making an initial $5.3m equity investment for a 7.5% interest. In parallel, Sumitomo has agreed to the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) becoming a partner in Speewah through acquiring a 49% equity interest in JFC. This article does not constitute financial product advice. You should consider obtaining independent financial advice before making any financial decisions. While Broken Hill Mines, Peregrine Gold and Caprice Resources are Stockhead advertisers, they did not sponsor this article.
Miami Herald
08-05-2025
- Health
- Miami Herald
Open letter to the United Nations: Haitians need help now
The simmering conflict between gangs and the Haitian police last month boiled over into the streets of Kenscoff, a mountainous town southeast of Port-au-Prince known for its cool climate, vibrant agriculture and close-knit communities. Long a peaceful, highland retreat, Kenscoff is now the latest front in Haiti's escalating crisis. Early on Sunday, April 20, gangs ambushed a police vehicle, killing four officers. Two wounded survivors were rushed to Fermathe Hospital, run by the Baptist Haiti Mission (BHM), which has served the region since 1955, providing not only medical care but a critical community lifeline. I currently serve as president of BHM, where I oversee the hospital and our scholarship program, which this year is educating 32,000 children — mostly from poor, rural families with few other options for formal schooling. By late Sunday morning, gunfire reached the BHM campus. I feared the gangs might set the facility on fire, as has happened at other hospitals. We are the only care center in the region and one of the few still functioning in the country. With no other recourse, I turned to social media. I posted an open letter on X addressed to the Transitional Presidential Council, Haiti's de facto government. The post was widely reshared and, remarkably, helped spur action. By Monday, the Haitian National Police had regained control of Fermathe and restored a fragile peace — at least for now. That same Monday, the United Nations Security Council held its latest briefing on Haiti. Watching it felt like observing a roomful of doctors debate treatment options while a patient bleeds out on the table. According to the UN's top official in Haiti, the country is nearing 'total chaos.' Yet Security Council members fell back on familiar talking points: the United States' expressed concern about the 'significant financial burden' of intervention, while China criticized U.S. failures to properly enforce an arms embargo. It's striking how much the UN's past mistakes in Haiti — most notably the devastating cholera epidemic introduced by peacekeepers — have stifled its will to act. Rather than risk repeating errors, they've chosen to do nothing. So they debate while Haiti burns. Meanwhile, more people die. Sometimes I wonder whether the world simply doesn't understand how bad things have gotten, or if they've just stopped paying attention. In the absence of law, gang atrocities have escalated beyond words. The horrors I've seen and heard defy expression. Every day of inaction allows further collapse — and makes future solutions more difficult and far more costly. The time for discussion ended long ago. What Haiti needs now is action: The Security Council must authorize a new peacekeeping mission. At minimum, it should approve a UN Support Office to bolster the existing Multinational Security Support Mission. At other times, I wonder if people do understand — but feel too overwhelmed to care. Maybe we've lost sight of what we're actually fighting for. I'm calling for intervention because I want my students to go to school safely and to dream freely. Despite decades of instability and a collapsed state, many Haitian children still make it to class. We could get more of them to school tomorrow — if the police had the support to push the gangs back. Life continues, even in chaos. Parents still wash and press their kids' uniforms. Older siblings guide younger ones across war-torn neighborhoods. Students still line up at the bell. They still say grace. They still wipe down their lunch tables. They still smile. They still hope. They don't need a perfect UN mission. They don't need foreign saviors. They just need space to grow. What Haiti's youth need is enough security to go to school, to work, to vote. The United Nations was founded on a promise —to protect life despite conflict, to safeguard the vulnerable, to uphold human dignity. It was a promise to protect children. To protect the future. I still believe Haiti's children can rebuild their nation. The question is whether the world will help them do it. Can the UN keep its promise? Daniel Jean-Louis is president of the Baptist Haiti Mission.
Express Tribune
11-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Google Calendar gets backlash for removing Pride, Black History Month, and other cultural events
Google Calendar users are outraged after noticing the removal of several cultural events including Pride Month, Black History Month (BHM), Indigenous Peoples' Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish Heritage, and Hispanic Heritage from the platform's default settings. The backlash erupted when users accused Google of erasing key cultural observances due to political motives. However, Google denied this, instead claiming the decision was based on sustainability concerns. Google spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld explained: 'We received feedback that some events and countries were missing, and maintaining hundreds of moments manually wasn't scalable. So in mid-2024, we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances.' Google previously partnered with to display major holidays and observances, but began manually adding more cultural moments globally. The company now says this approach became unsustainable, prompting the rollback. Critics argue the removal disproportionately affects marginalized communities, as major national holidays remain untouched. One user highlighted how this was deliberate choice made by the platform, while others claimed it was a direct response to conservative pushback against diversity-focused celebrations. gotta love the pandering to the alt right bigots...... nice — ᴀʟᴇᴄ 🍃 (@alecsbutt) Just remember, this was not forced on them. Google chose to do this. — 🇺🇸🐻 David 🇲🇽🇬🇧 (@DaveSixFour) "blacks for trump" "gays for trump" "latino's for trump" where y'all at? — 𝓐𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵 ♡ (@thankUbardi) And we just removed Google services from our devices. You can remove holidays all you want, it won't make them go away. — 優木 せつ菜 🇯🇵 | Love Live Superstar S3 SZN (@Nljigakulive) While Google allows users to manually add events, many argue this change makes cultural moments less visible and accessible. The move comes in tandem with the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" on Google Maps after a formal decision by the Trump administration. Google's event removal decision aligns with growing tensions over inclusivity in tech, leaving many questioning whether this was a logistical necessity or a politically influenced move.
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Donald Trump's Anti-DEI Order Plans To 'Downplay' Black History Month: Report
The State Department's stance on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) initiatives has shifted under President Donald Trump's administration, with his latest directive affecting Black History Month. According to an internal email obtained by the Wall Street Journal, the State Department has advised its staff to acknowledge BHM by highlighting the 'valuable contributions of individual Americans throughout U.S. history,' but to do so in a manner that keeps the 'spirit' of anti-DEI orders alive. An undisclosed official told the WSJ that many staff members interpreted the directive as a prohibition against throwing public events or issuing messages about the month and its historic Black figures. 'That's how we're reading it,' the official stated. 'The diplomats I spoke to today, with decades of experience, couldn't remember a time we failed to mark the occasion.' When asked about the administration's position, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Journal that the White House 'certainly still intends to celebrate,' emphasizing that it would do so while simultaneously honoring 'American history and the contributions that all Americans, regardless of race, religion, or creed have made.' Trump's move to eliminate DEI programs aligns with his campaign promise to diminish such initiatives, that he believes are a 'waste of resources' and are 'illegal and immoral.' Despite his beliefs, many stand by the benefits of prioritizing diversity in workplaces, educational institutions, and organizations—as an inclusive environment can foster collaboration, new ideas and overall success. His recent executive order has revoked multiple long-standing diversity programs, shut down DEI offices and placed many DEI employees on leave. More from Morgan Freeman Says 'Black History Month Is An Insult' Donald Trump Likens His Capitol Riots Speech To This Classic Eminem Song Snoop Dogg Loses Over 500K Followers After Performing At Trump's Crypto Ball
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Fact check: Did President Donald Trump ‘cancel' Black History Month?
A lawyer's social media post has led to much public commentary and follows Trump's sweeping anti-DEI executive orders. After President Donald Trump signed executive orders in his first week in office ending federal programs related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and reversing executive enforcement of civil rights laws, public statements made on social media have suggested that the 47th president of the United States also moved to end the official observance of Black History Month. 'While someone has tried to cancel Black history month… that is NOT happening in our office,' wrote U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, on X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday. Claims that Trump or the Executive Office of the President has canceled Black History Month appear to stem from a post from Mark Zaid, a prominent lawyer in Washington, D.C., who has represented federal government employees and whistleblowers. In an X post on Jan. 23, Zaid claimed that CIA employees were told that 'all resource & affinity groups are canceled.' He continued, 'No black history month or MLK celebration, or any other ethnic recognition months.' A day earlier, the Trump administration ordered that all federal employees in DEI roles be placed on paid leave and eventually laid off. While it's plausible Trump's executive orders may lead to a chilling effect on the celebration of Black History Month around the nation, despite Zaid's claim, there is currently no official order or directive to literally 'cancel' Black History Month from President Trump. Neither of Trump's anti-DEI orders — 'Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing' or 'Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity' — explicitly mentions Black History Month. TheGrio did not receive an official response from the White House after inquiring about whether or not the administration had moved to end the observance of Black History Month; however, an official acknowledged President Trump's previous recognition of BHM and pointed to misinformation on social media related to growing public concerns. During his first term as president, Trump signed proclamations every year observing 'National African American History Month' and held official White House events, which recognized the month and paid homage to Black Americans' contributions to the United States. 'From the earliest days of this nation, African-American leaders, pioneers, and visionaries have uplifted and inspired our country in art, science, literature, law, film, politics, business, and every arena of national life,' Trump said at a White House reception for BHM in 2019. 'The depth and glory of these contributions are beyond measure. You know it, I know it, and everybody knows it.' At the time, Trump said it was important for the country to 'remember the heroic legacy of African Americans who bravely battled oppression to usher in a bright new dawn of freedom.' Despite President Trump's past official recognition of Black History Month and the question of whether it will continue in his second term, civil rights leaders and policy advocates believe Trump's gutting of DEI across the federal government undermines and even reverses the progress Black Americans have achieved since the abolishment of slavery and racial segregation. The National Urban League convened an emergency 'Demand Diversity' roundtable on Jan. 22 with civil rights leaders to talk through ways to resist Trump's actions and shield Black and other vulnerable communities from what they see as imminent policy harm. 'It's not about DEI; it's an attack on civil rights. It's an attack on the infrastructure inside the government that promoted equal opportunity, and it's stripping away the protections against race and gender and religious discrimination,' Marc Morial, president of National Urban League, told theGrio. 'All these offices were designed to promote equal opportunity. There's a distortion campaign that he's running and that they're running, which is an old campaign, that somehow these offices promoted some kind of preferential treatment.' Civil rights groups have vowed to take the Trump administration to court over some of its actions related to enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits racial, gender, and religious discrimination. 'The Donald Trump and Republican Party stance on a democracy that includes all of us is pretty clear,' said Democratic strategist Joel Payne. 'If you're opposed to the things that they are claiming that they're opposed to, what you're essentially saying is the idea that folks who come from nontraditional backgrounds can't possibly be qualified to do the things that people who come from traditional backgrounds are qualified to do.' He told theGrio, 'I do not think the American people voted to make our democracy more homogenous [and] to make it less diverse.' More must-reads: US Air Force reverses course after removing Tuskegee Airmen video amid Trump DEI ban backlash Democrats are splintered on immigration and how to respond to Trump Kamala Harris makes subtle move that could signal her political future
