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West Australian
27-05-2025
- Business
- West Australian
Askari set for polymetallic field program alongside Namibian tin mine
Askari Metals is set to launch a phase one exploration campaign at the company's prospective EPL 7626 area, one of three exploration licences within the company's Namibian polymetallic Uis project. The licence is contiguous with and about 4 kilometres northeast along strike from Andrada Mining's operating Uis tin mine, which hosts a JORC-compliant estimated mineral resource of 77.51 million tonnes averaging 0.79 per cent lithium oxide, 0.15 per cent tin and 82 parts per million tantalum. Askari's planned field work includes mapping, rock chip sampling and tenement-wide soil geochemical sampling. The proposed work will be undertaken by Askari's African exploration crew under the guidance of the company's chief exploration and project manager, Clifford Fitzhenry. Fitzhenry, a geologist with 21 years' experience, joined Askari two years ago in a then-new role of chief exploration and project manager in Africa. His appointment was a key part of Askari's exploration strategy to accelerate its drilling and development program at its flagship Uis lithium project. Askari says soil sampling is the company's preferred means of conducting low-cost, effective exploration for buried lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites in the EPL 7626 licence area. An LCT pegmatite target is a specific type of granitic pegmatites, which have geological and geochemical characteristics that help exploration companies identify lithium-caesium-tantalum-style pegmatites. The pegmatites may also include tin, niobium and rubidium. Following the soil geochemistry, the company can follow up and refine its priority targets with trench sampling. A previous in-house remote sensing study across EPL 7626 identified zones with spectral tin-tantalite signatures characteristic of mica schists, which were also mapped on another of Askari's nearby licence area, EPL 7345. The company believes mica schists in this second licence area continue northeast beneath Andrada's Uis tin mine and into the EPL 7626 area, most likely beneath cover. Askari based the remote sensing study on Sentinel-2 multispectral satellite imagery, which can differentiate rock types, map regolith units, and identify surface mineralogy. The company is now setting up for a licence-wide soil sampling program on an initial 200 metre by 200m sampling grid to pick up any geochemical anomalies associated with buried pegmatites. The program will comprise about 54 square kilometres and will collect about 1407 samples. The company will determine any next work from the results of the first phase soil geochemical program on EPL 7626 and will design a follow-up infill sampling program to further test any anomalies encountered. Askari also expects to receive assay results from its first phase trenching program at EPL7345 over the next few months. This means that further work on the greater Uis project will comprise a second phase of infill soil geochemical sampling, followed by first phase trenching program at EPL 7626, and then a first phase trenching program on a third licence area. In other work, Askari is progressing its Ethiopian gold strategy and its Tanzanian uranium strategy and is currently reviewing some prospective projects for potential acquisition. Is your ASX-listed company doing something interesting? Contact:
Time of India
09-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
National Lok Adalat on 10 May: You can settle traffic challans, drink and drive case, select property dispute and more
National Legal Services Authority will organize a nationwide Lok Adalat tomorrow i.e. on May 10, 2025. People can settle traffic challans and property disputes in a speedy fashion. Family issues (except divorce matters), motor vehicle claims, and electricity bill cases can also be resolved. Lok Adalats offer a quick resolution for most cases which would otherwise be facing long litigation timelines in regular courts. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Courts where you can go for settlement in Delhi Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Kind of cases that you can try settling in a National Lok Adalat Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Long-standing property dispute settled in Mumbai in the Lok Adalat Are rulings delivered by Lok Adalats final and binding? If you have long pending traffic challan or are stuck in a long-standing legal dispute, now's your chance! NALSA National Legal Services Authority ) is organising a nationwide Lok Adalat on May 10, 2025. This means people in Delhi, Mumbai, and other parts of the country can settle their traffic challans, and also sort out other disputes related to property, family (except divorce) and even other cases such as settling motor vehicle-related claims, money recovery, electricity and water bill cases in a speedy, quick National Lok Adalat held on March 8 this year was a very successful one. As per twitter handle of NALSA 1.57 cases were disposed in a single day and settlement amount was Rs 5473. 27 on to know more about some of the cases in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, and other parts of India, which have been resolved through Lok Adalats , and how you can get back your money stuck in cases related to property, traffic challans, and other Delhi, National Lok Adalat sessions will take place in Dwarka, Karkardooma, Patiala House, Rohini, Rouse Avenue, Saket, and Tis Hazari court complexes, between 10 am and 4 pm on May 10, people throng to Lok Adalats to get their traffic challans waived. Himanshu Gupta, Founder and CEO of Lawyered, recounts a case of drinking and driving in Gurgaon, where the penalty was Rs 10,000.'During the last National Lok Adalat on March 8, 2025, we managed to bring down the Rs 10,000 fine for this drink and drive case to Rs 3,000, reducing the challan value by 70%', he experts also note that Lok Adalats do not typically cater to cases where drinking and driving has caused substantial injury or there is loss of human life, or the person in concern has a track record of repeated upcoming Lok Adalat, like its previous versions, expects to clear up to 1,80,000 challans/notices. Compoundable challans/notices up to January 31, 2025, will only be considered. Per private vehicle, only 5 notices and 2 challans, i.e., a total of 7 notices/challans will be taken, while for every commercial vehicle, only 2 notices/challans will be Askari, Senior Associate, PSL Advocates & Solicitors, was slapped with a Rs 20,000 penalty for violating GRAP-IV norms this year. He approached Lok Adalats, which noted that a BS - IV diesel hybrid car is a different vehicle category not covered under the notification since it is categorised as a mild hybrid vehicle distinct from typical petrol or Diesel cars.'In the end, I did not have to pay a single rupee in fines. Essentially, under the act and the rules, Petrol and Petrol/CNG are separate classes of vehicles; similarly, diesel and Diesel (Smart) Hybrid are separate and distinct classes of vehicles - one a polluting kind, the other is a non-polluting kind, hence the exemption in the law, and no penalty for me.'Vipul Wadhwa, Partner, Singhania & Co. highlighted 2023 a motor vehicle accident claims-related case, which was resolved in Lok Adalats within a single day.'In a 2023 motor accident matter in Punjab, a family battling for compensation after the death of the sole earning member managed to settle their claim for Rs. 25 lakh in a single day through the National Lok Adalat. What could have dragged on for years in the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal was resolved quickly with both parties walking away satisfied', he a National Lok Adalat last year, a 20-year-old property dispute in Juhu, Mumbai, was resolved in a Lok Adalat. The property, located in a prime area of India's financial capital, was valued at well over Rs 75 croreExplains Advocate V K Dubey, founder of VK Dubey Associates, a Mumbai-based law firm, 'Four parties, laying ownership claim to the same property, had been entangled in a legal dispute for a long time. However, the final awardee, who was granted ownership, proved that the documents being provided by other parties were fake and forged'.As Dubey highlighted, the documents provided by one of the other claimants dated back to 1970 and mentioned the area's pincode. This led to questions being raised on the authenticity of the documents, since the PIN code system was introduced in India only in 1972.'As a result, all three parties were granted nominal awards each (around Rs 50-60 lakh), and the case was speedily disposed of', Dubey another case in Jaipur, as Wadhwa explains, two brothers involved in a 12-year-old property dispute over ancestral land opted for a Lok Adalat session, saving nearly Rs. 30 lakh each in pending litigation costs. They left with a signed partition agreement'One of the most compelling aspects of Lok Adalats is how they make justice accessible, especially in cases where litigation costs would outweigh the outcome', he note that property-related disputes can only be resolved via Lok Adalats if both parties mutually agree to settle the issue through this process. If even one party disagrees and does not want to opt for resolving the dispute through mediation in Lok Adalat, the matter will then proceed to the regular The cornerstone of the awards and rulings passed by Lok Adalat lies in their conclusive nature. The award passed by the Lok Adalat is considered equivalent to a decree passed by a Civil Advocate Gaeti Khan, 'The award (decision) made by the Lok Adalat is final and binding on all parties and no appeal against such an award lies before any court of law'.The challenge to Lok Adalat's decisions can only be made under certain, exceptional circumstances. Explains Arman Roop Sharma, Partner, Anand Sharma & Associates, '. The Award passed by the Lok Adalat can be challenged by way of Writ in the High Court, where the party challenging it has to specifically allege that the award has been obtained by way of fraud, misrepresentation, or coercion. In other words, they have to prove that the settlement was not voluntary, the award is violative of the law, or was passed without jurisdiction. The High court also cannot set aside the award in a casual manner without including the reason for the same. So, the Statute intends to uphold the finality of the award of the Lok Adalat'.
West Australian
06-05-2025
- Business
- West Australian
Askari identifies more than 4% tin oxide at Namibian project
Askari Metals has identified high-grade tin, tantalum and rubidium in old rock chip assays from its Uis project in Namibia, with best hits including 4.05 per cent tin oxide, 1121 parts per million (ppm) tantalum pentoxide and 0.83 per cent rubidium oxide. The revelation comes from a review of third-party data from Askari's central tenement in its Uis project, which is contiguous at its northeastern extremity with Andrada Mining's operating Uis tin mine. Andrada's mine hosts a JORC-compliant mineral resource estimate of 77.51 million tonnes at average elemental metal grades of 0.15 per cent tin, 3655ppm lithium, 1355ppm rubidium, 82ppm tantalum and 114ppm niobium. In comparison, Askari's highlighted historical rock chip oxide numbers - drawn from 1163 samples - convert to elemental metal equivalents as 3.19 per cent tin, 7589ppm rubidium and 918ppm tantalum. Askari's 2-kilometre by 26-metre OP pegmatite target features high-grade mineralisation up to 1.64 per cent tin oxide, 392ppm tantalum pentoxide and 0.22 per cent rubidium oxide. Rock chip samples from its PS pegmatite exhibit values to 1.63 per cent tin oxide, 639ppm tantalum pentoxide and 0.27 per cent rubidium oxide. Fieldwork at its DP pegmatite target has also revealed high-grade mineralisation with values up to 0.89 per cent tin oxide, 635ppm tantalum pentoxide and 0.29 per cent rubidium oxide. Other pegmatites near the DP target produced higher grades, with best results including 4.05 per cent tin oxide, 1121ppm tantalum pentoxide and 0.44 per cent rubidium oxide. The three projects lie in a cluster close to the northern border of the tenement, about 3.5km southwest of Andrada's mining operation. Askari also has a fourth established K9 target, about 5km south of the triad of targets near the tenement border. K9 also shows respectable grades, with values up to 0.27 per cent tin oxide, 216ppm tantalum pentoxide and 0.49 per cent rubidium oxide. Historical drilling on the tenement also produced high-grade intercepts, which include 4m assaying 0.16 per cent tin oxide, including 1m at 0.26 per cent, 4m at 314ppm tantalum pentoxide, including 1m at 695ppm, and 2m at 0.30 per cent rubidium oxide, including 1m at 0.38 per cent. The highest tin grade obtained from the results is 4.05 per cent tin oxide, which equates to 3.19 per cent tin, while 66 samples produced grades of more than 0.25 per cent tin oxide or 0.19 per cent tin. At the OP target, analyses from 175 drilling samples yielded an average grade of 0.11 per cent tin oxide, while 175 samples from the company's DP target averaged 0.19 per cent tin oxide. The results point to strong tin potential within the licence. The company has also identified significant tantalum mineralisation in the central licence area, which has produced three top grades of 1121ppm, 803ppm and 639ppm tantalum pentoxide. A total of 268 samples assayed better than 100ppm tantalum pentoxide, which points to significant potential for the valuable metal in the northeastern corner of the licence area. Rubidium hits attain a maximum of 0.83 per cent rubidium oxide, with 61 samples assaying better than 0.2 per cent rubidium oxide and 174 samples from the DP target averaged 0.14 per cent rubidium oxide. With rubidium rising in significance in the growing panoply of critical commodities, the prevalence of the metal in Askari's Uis ground could prove to be an important sweetener to any future production stream. Importantly, in addition to the company's known PS, OP, DP and K9 pegmatite targets, its exhaustive review of historic assay data has highlighted three significant new anomalous tin, tantalum and rubidium zones that extend northwest within and parallel to the northern licence border. These distinct individual trends range from 2km to 4km long and are centred between 2km to 3km inside the northern licence border, northwest of the PS, OP, DP cluster. Askari is looking at further exploration to develop and expand the known tin and tantalum mineralisation in the central licence area. The company will review its phase one trenching assays from the licence when they are received and plans to undertake detailed mapping and rock chip sampling of the three new target zones northwest of the current target cluster. Subject to trenching results and indications from detailed mapping, Askari also plans to mobilise an excavator to site for a phase two trenching program. The company's immediate further work will focus on better defining the company's tin and tantalum targets across the licence and will also embrace extensions of the known current OP and DP targets. The Uis project is shaping up to be a valuable polymetallic project with strong economic potential. It is rapidly emerging as a major but significantly under-explored asset for the company.
West Australian
23-04-2025
- Business
- West Australian
Askari exec reappointed to deliver African green energy shift
Askari Metals has reappointed company founder and major shareholder Gino D'Anna as executive director to drive the company's transition towards a greater focus on its African assets. The transition combines Askari's growing African emphasis with its strategic shift towards battery metals and clean energy commodities, which will include developing projects such as its Namibian Uis lithium project and its Matemanga and Eyasi uranium projects in Tanzania. D'Anna's re-appointment enables Askari to focus on and advance its 2025 corporate objective to get the best value from the company's existing portfolio and ensure further growth through strategic acquisitions suited to its commodity emphasis and specialisation. D'Anna has significant experience in managing and advising junior mining exploration companies and more than 15 years of experience in the sector, combined with significant primary and secondary capital markets experience. His professional background includes resource exploration, public company operations, administration and financial management, including mining sector work with the Canadian government and First Nations communities. It also has a broad international flavour, including in Australia, Botswana, Namibia and Canada, where D'Anna was involved in exploring and developing many projects, including some recent discoveries. Askari also last week appointed resource industry professional Tim Morrison to its board as a non-executive director to strengthen the company's corporate expertise as it realigns its focus towards Africa and clean-energy commodities. Morrison has more than 20 years of experience in senior roles developing early-stage resource companies and has been involved in raising significant capital for resource projects across various exchanges. Downey said Askari has some highly prospective and advanced projects across Africa, where its strength and experience would allow the company to leverage a first mover advantage. In addition to its Uis lithium project, Askari has assembled an attractive portfolio of lithium, rare earth elements and copper-gold projects in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and New South Wales. The company recently acquired the Matemanga and Eyasi projects in Tanzania's southern and northern regions, respectively, through a direct application process. Matemanga is geologically well-situated due to its potentially significant continuity with the world-class Nyota uranium mine, about 70 kilometres north. Matemanga and Nyota both lie within the Karoo Basin, which includes sandstone sequences known to host uranium. A 2006 exploration program at Matemanga by former US-based explorer Uranerz Energy identified a big radiometric anomaly over a 10km x 6km area that indicates potential uranium mineralisation. Uranerz had other exploration priorities at the time and did not follow up the Matemanga anomalism. The Nyota uranium project, with its substantial resource estimate of 124.6 million pounds of contained uranium oxide at 306 parts per million uranium oxide, serves as a powerful indication of the region's potential for big uranium deposits and provides a strong incentive for new explorers. Nyota is owned by the Russian state-owned company, Rosatom, through its subsidiary Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ). The project was previously owned by Mantra Resources and was acquired by Rosatom in 2011 for $1.2 billion. Uranium One is also a subsidiary of ARMZ and is the project operator in Tanzania. Askari's re-processing of airborne geophysical data at its Eyasi project has identified two discrete, 1km-wide linear radiometric anomalies along a 30km trend, which it interprets as part of a fluvial channel system draining primary basement granitic rocks. Askari is also undertaking due diligence assessments towards the likely acquisition of other uranium projects to assemble a district-scale uranium portfolio in southern Tanzania. Askari has also appointed specialist advisor CPS Capital Group to help it implement a capital markets strategy over the next 12 months by working with existing shareholders and new investors. CPS Capital has extensive experience in the global mineral resources sector and has successfully led financings for several mining, exploration and development companies with Australian and international assets. Askari will issue CPS Capital or its nominee $90,000 in ordinary shares in the company at a deemed issue price of 1.3 cents per share, equalling 6,923,077 shares, under Askari's existing ASX LR 7.1 placement capacity. D'Anna said the strategic alliance with CPS Capital would help Askari leverage its strength and experience to extend its corporate reach. Askari also executed a binding subscription agreement in January with Celtic Finance Corporation, a single high-net-worth sophisticated investor, to raise a further $350,000 before costs at an average issue price of 1.35c per share. The placement was completed when Askari issued 10,937,500 shares at 1.6c per share with shareholder approval and a further 15,909,091 shares at 1.1c per share under its ASX LR 7.1 capacity. Askari will use the placement to support its growth plans, as working capital to advance its Tanzanian uranium strategy and to help access a broader funding network. The company is continuing due diligence to acquire further uranium projects in the emerging tier-1 uranium province in southern Tanzania. Askari is also working on a divestment strategy for its Australian exploration portfolio, which contains prospective gold, copper, rare earths and lithium projects. The company's strategic objectives will now be built on exploiting its considerable African expertise, coupled with its desire to become a disciplined African explorer and developer. Is your ASX-listed company doing something interesting? Contact:
BBC News
21-02-2025
- BBC News
Man who drank on Isle of Man ferry before driving jailed
A man who drank alcohol on an overnight ferry to the Isle of Man before driving off the vessel has been jailed for 15 Askari, 27, was traveling to the island on the Manxman on 11 February for a trip when he was reported to the authorities for being Courthouse heard he failed a roadside breath test after being stopped by port officers after he drove his Alfa Romeo off the vessel in Douglas at about 05:40 him for driving while under the influence of alcohol and disqualified, Deemster Graeme Cook said he had an "appalling" driving record. The court heard he roadside breath test had recorded a result of 45 micrograms of alcohol per 100 micrograms, the legal limit is 35 were called by port officers after Askari became "argumentative", and he was was subsequently found out that the UK resident was disqualified from driving at the time. 'Blatant disregard' The 27-year-old pleaded guilty to driving while over the legal alcohol limit and while court heard he had several previous convictions for similar driving offences in West Cook said Askari had a "blatant disregard" for court orders and for other vehicles and while he had pleaded guilty straight away, he would only be given some credit for that due to the overwhelming evidence against him. The deemster noted that although the maximum sentence for driving while disqualified was six months in the UK sentencing guidelines, it was 12 on the Isle of him, Deemster Cook said it was "one of the most appalling driving records I have ever seen".Askari was also banned from driving for five years, and banned from returning to the island for five years after being released. Read more stories from the Isle of Man on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X.
