14 April 2025
ProActive Investors - Antipa advances Minyari Dome pre-feasibility study and locks in priority drilling schedule
By Ephrem Joseph
Antipa Minerals Ltd is advancing its Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) and exploration drilling activities at the Minyari Dome Project in Western Australia, supported by a strong cash position of approximately A$40 million.
The PFS, which builds on the October 2024 Updated Scoping Study, continues to validate the potential for a standalone gold mining and processing operation.
Minyari Dome now forms part of the significantly expanded Minyari Project, which incorporates the Wilki and Paterson tenements.
Key PFS workstreams
Key PFS workstreams have progressed. These include advanced metallurgical test work, environmental surveys to support future approvals, water management assessments, and drafting of permitting documentation.
Antipa is also actively engaging consultants and stakeholders, including Native Title groups, while evaluating funding pathways through traditional debt and equity structures.
“Our Minyari Dome development team, assembled in late 2024, has already made significant progress across multiple critical technical and permitting activities during the first quarter of this year,” Antipa managing director Roger Mason said.
“Workstreams have been designed to get ahead of long-lead activities required for future development, in parallel with refining and de-risking the already substantial development opportunity at hand.”
Exploration program
In parallel, a fully funded exploration program is set to start. Reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling at the Minyari Dome resource area will begin in the second half of April 2025.
Greenfield RC drilling at targets such as Parklands will commence mid-April, followed by aircore drilling in early May. PFS-specific drilling is scheduled for July 2025, with further follow-up campaigns to be informed by first-half results.
“Our exploration team has been laser-focused on its primary objective of designing and planning drilling campaigns which target continued low-cost resource growth, both in and around the Minyari Deposit, but also from within our substantially expanded portfolio of attractive targets,” Mason added.
“Even in its current form, Minyari Dome is comfortably one of the top gold development projects in Australia. With so much exploration upside potential yet to be unlocked and with multiple fully funded drilling programmes set to begin, investors can look forward to an exciting period of activity and news flow.”
Minyari Dome development project
The Minyari Dome development project is wholly owned by Antipa Minerals Ltd and spans 4,060 hectares in Western Australia’s Paterson Province.
The project is strategically located just 35 kilometres from Greatland Gold's Telfer gold-copper-silver mine and its 22 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) processing facility, and 54 kilometres along strike from the Havieron gold-copper development project.
Minyari Resource
In October 2024, Antipa released an updated Scoping Study based on its September 2024 Mineral Resource Estimate.
The current resource stands at 2.3 million ounces of gold, 84,000 tonnes of copper, 661,000 ounces of silver, and 13,000 tonnes of cobalt, with high-grade gold mineralisation intersected from surface.
The Scoping Study provided a preliminary assessment of a standalone mining and processing operation, supported by a 1.5 million ounce gold inventory. It reaffirmed both the technical and financial viability of advancing the project at this scale.
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