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Twenty Seven Co’s gold and base metal strategy gains momentum following new discovery

Twenty Seven Co Ltd's (ASX:TSC) strategy of focusing on gold and base and metal exploration has gained momentum during the last reporting period with the discovery of shallow gold mineralisation at the Creasey-1 and Harmonic prospects as well as identifying volcanic massive sulphide (VMS) prospectivity at the Rover Gold Project in WA.

In September, the company entered into a transformative binding term sheet to acquire Oz Gold Group Pty Ltd and the rights over two highly prospective gold projects including the advanced Mt Dimer Gold Project in WA’s Goldfields and the Trident Gold-Copper Project in New South Wales.

TSC’s focus now remains on fast-tracking Mt Dimer, extending mineralisation at the Creasy-1 and Harmonic prospects and systematically generating, drill testing and defining high-quality targets at the Rover Project.

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During the first twelve months of the Rover Project's life, TSC discovered shallow high grade gold at Creasy 1 and Harmo..

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3 months ago

October 19, 2020

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Early mover advantage

During the first twelve months of the Rover Project's life, TSC discovered shallow high grade gold at Creasy 1 and Harmonic and has demonstrated the significant VMS prospectivity of the tenure.

Rover’s footprint has expanded form a single tenement to three, covering a total of 461 square kilometres and 140 kilometres of prospective greenstone belt.

The new tenements were acquired at application cost only as a result of the company being an early mover in the area.

Subsequent discoveries by Cobre (ASX:CBE) at its Perrinvale VMS project and exploration success by TSC have helped fan the resurgence in exploration of the area.

TSC has found that the better zones of gold mineralisation at both Creasy 1 and Harmonic appear to be in plunging shoots formed in association with fold structures along the sheared contact between the quartzite and overlying mafic schist/BIF package.

Future drilling and assessment will test this conceptual model to optimise drill results.

The geology team has been looking for evidence of similar fold structures further south along the Illara shear zone with the rationale being that these may be dilation zones and, hence, potential sites for significant gold accumulation.

While this work has only just begun, it has already identified two promising areas where surface mapping indicates significant folding with the interpreted associated dilation zones exhibiting anomalous gold in soils.

Harmonic discovery

Harmonic was discovered within three months of the tenement grant during the inaugural Creasy 1 drilling program in December 2019.

The discovery followed drill testing of a portable XRF coincident copper and arsenic anomaly in soils immediately along strike to the northwest of Creasy 1.

This cheap and effective technology is being deployed in other parts of the project, scanning for similar geochemical signatures.

Recent geochemical sampling at Harmonic has resulted in a tripling on the prospective target area to around 650 metres by the discovery of a 1.77g/t gold rock chip that is around 400 metres to the northwest of the nearest RC drill-holes.Read More – Source

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Covid: Brisbane to enter three-day lockdown over single infection

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2 weeks ago

January 9, 2021

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The Australian city of Brisbane has begun a snap three-day lockdown after a cleaner in its hotel quarantine system became infected with coronavirus.

Health officials said the cleaner had the highly transmissible UK variant and they were afraid it could spread.

Brisbane has seen very few cases of the virus beyond quarantined travellers since Australia’s first wave last year.

It is the first known instance of this variant entering the Australian community outside of hotel quarantine.

The lockdown is for five populous council areas in Queensland’s state capital.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the measure on Friday morning local time, about 16 hours after the woman tested positive.

Ms Palaszczuk said the lockdown aimed to halt the virus as rapidly as possible, adding: “Doing three days now could avoid doing 30 days in the future.”

“I think everybody in Queensland… knows what we are seeing in the UK and other places around the world is high rates of infection from this particular strain,” she said.

“And we do not want to see that happening here in our great state.”

Australia has reported 28,500 coronavirus infections and 909 deaths since the pandemic began. By contrast, the US, which is the hardest-hit country, has recorded more than 21 million infections while nearly 362,000 people have died of the disease.The lockdown will begin at 18:00 on Friday (08:00 GMT) in the Brisbane city, Logan and the Ipswich, Moreton and Redlands local government areas.

Residents will only be allowed to leave home for certain reasons, such as buying essential items and seeking medical care.

For the first time, residents in those areas will also be required to wear masks outside of their homes.

Australia has faced sporadic outbreaks over the past year, with the most severe one in Melbourne triggering a lockdown for almost four months.

A pre-Christmas outbreak in Sydney caused fresh alarm, but aggressive testing and contact-tracing has kept infection numbers low. The city recorded four local cases on Friday.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government has pledged to start mass vaccinations in February instead of March as was planned.

Lockdown interrupts ‘near normal’ life in Brisbane

Simon Atkinson, BBC News in Brisbane

At 8:00 today I popped to the local supermarket for some bread, milk – and because it’s summer here – a mango. I was pretty much the only customer.

When I went past the same shop a couple of hours later it was a different story – 50 people standing in the drizzle – queuing to get inside as others emerged with bulging shopping bags. “Heaps busier than Christmas,” a cheery trolley attendant told me. “It’s off the scale”.

Despite the “don’t panic” messages from authorities, pictures on social media show it’s a pattern being repeated across the city.

While shutdowns are common around the world, the tough and sudden stay-at-home order for Brisbane has caught people on the hop here after months of near normality.

But while such a rapid, hard lockdown off the back of just a single case of Covid-19 will seem crazy in some parts of the world, I’ve not come across too many people complaining.

And I don’t think that’s just because Aussies love to follow a rule. This is the first time the UK variant of the virus has been detected in the community in Australia.

And nobody here wants Brisbane to go through what Melbourne suffered last year. Even if it means going without mangoes.

Read from source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55582836

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Australia v India: Five touring players in isolation after restaurant visit

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3 weeks ago

January 3, 2021

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Five India players are isolating as a precaution after a video on social media showed them eating indoors at a Melbourne restaurant.

Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Prithvi Shaw and Navdeep Saini – all part of India’s Test squad to play Australia – will be isolated from other players but are still able to train.

Both teams are investigating to determine whether bio-secure protocols for the tour have been breached.

The third Test begins on 6 January.

The tour is being played with restrictions to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.

While in Melbourne, where the recent second Test was played, players and staff are allowed to leave their hotel but if they attend a restaurant they must remain outdoors.

An India supporter posted a video on social media of the five players eating indoors at a restaurant on New Year’s Day.

“The BCCI [Board of Control for Cricket in India] and CA [Cricket Australia] are investigating the matter and seeking to determine whether the outing constitutes a breach of biosecurity protocols,” a Cricket Australia statement said.

“In the interim, on the advice of the Australian and Indian medical teams, the aforementioned players have been placed in isolation as a precaution.

“This will include separating the group of players from the broader Indian and Australian squads when traveling and at the training venue.”

On Monday the teams are due to travel from Melbourne to Sydney for the third Test which will be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

No details were given on whether the five players would be able to play in Sydney.

Pant and Gill both played in the second Test, which India won to level the four-Test series, while vice-captain Rohit was expected to play in the third, having recently quarantined for 14 days to join the squad late after injury.

Read from source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/55514593

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Covid: Sydney announces new restrictions ahead of New Year

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3 weeks ago

December 30, 2020

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Australia has announced new restrictions for Sydney ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations.

The city is battling a worsening outbreak after months of next to no local cases. Officials reported it had grown to 147 cases on Wednesday.

The news comes amid anger over footage of young revellers seen on Sydney’s Bronte Beach on Christmas Day.

Immigration minister Alex Hawke said tourists caught flouting public health restrictions could be deported.

The virus’s re-appearance in Sydney a week before Christmas sparked a swift re-introduction of restrictions in the city, including clampdowns on holiday gatherings and a lockdown of the worst-affected region, the Northern Beaches.

On Wednesday, the New South Wales (NSW) state government announced further restrictions for New Year’s Eve following the discovery of a new cluster in a separate part of the city – believed to have spread during Christmas gatherings.

“We don’t want New Year’s Eve to be the cause of a super-spreader [event],” said NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.

Households will now be restricted to only five guests from Thursday, down from the previous 10-person limit. Outdoor gathering numbers have also been cut to 30 from 50.

Every other state and territory in Australia maintains a travel ban on people from Sydney.

Sydney’s traditional New Year’s Eve fireworks celebrations will still go ahead but authorities have already banned group gatherings at vantage points around the harbour.

Australia has recorded 909 deaths and about 28,300 cases since the pandemic began – a number far lower than many other rich nations.

Read from source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55481851