Corella Resources resumes trading with a focus on kaolin after raising $5 million
Corella’s flagship asset is Tampu in WA, containing significant volumes of bright white kaolin, shown by recent drill results as well as those from two historical campaigns. 2019 water bore air-core drilling program at Tampu.
Corella Resources Ltd (ASX:CR9) has resumed trading on the ASX after raising $5 million from a public offer at 2 cents per share.
The company’s shares have surged from the issue price following its reinstatement to official quotation, last trading at 4.3 cents.
Corella has a trio of Western Australian shallow, free-dig kaolin projects – Tampu, Wiltshire and Kalannie, as well as the Bonnie Rock Silica Project.
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Pilbara s Marble Bar can unlock mysteries of Earth s origin but it must be protected, scientists say
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Marble Bar in Western Australia may seem out of this world, but scientists say it holds the key to the origins of the Earth.
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The Pilbara s vast deserts and staggering rocky outcrops can make its landscapes seem almost alien and, in fact, a piece of the region made its way out of this world earlier this year on NASA s Perseverance Rover.
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New research on the granite rocks at Marble Bar is helping scientists understand how the Earth was formed
First continents formed with a dash of mantle water
New research cracks the mystery of how the first continents formed.
Karijini National Park, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Credit: TED MEAD / Getty Images
Earth is an amazing planet. As far as we know, it’s the only planet in the universe where life exists. It’s also the only planet known to have continents: the land masses on which we live and which host the minerals needed to support our complex lives.
Experts still vigorously debate how the continents formed. We do know water was an essential ingredient for this and many geologists have proposed this water would have come from Earth’s surface via subduction zones (as is the case now).
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WA scientists shed light on continent formation
Research from Western Australian scientists has shed new light on how the Earth’s first continental crust was formed.
The team of scientists, which included Dr Laure Martin and Mr Matvei Aleshin from The University of Western Australia and was led by the Geological Survey of Western Australia and Curtin University, measured compositions of oxygen in ancient granites in the Pilbara using the ion microprobe Cameca IMS1280 at UWA.
The scientists found that the water required to produce the granites did not come from above but was supplied from the mantle, which is the thick layer below the Earth’s crust.