"How did WA1 get to this point? As first movers in the region,...

"How did WA1 get to this point? As first movers in the region, the company’s 2022 drill program followed several years of targeting and testing of large gravity anomalies for their potential to host significant iron oxide-copper-gold deposits. But as mining geologists and company directors will tell you, there’s no recipe when it comes to exploration; in fact, it’s rare to find what you’re looking for straight off the bat and the aim of the game changes depending on the minerals you uncover. It was almost seven years, a series of reconnaissance airborne geophysics, ground geophysical surveys, surface sampling and some $600,000 later, before the company began its first program of deep drilling, eventually stumbling upon what they call a ‘once in a generation niobium discover"’. sample of the report...