Horizon releases Kalpini gold resource after stellar drill hits

Horizon Minerals has released a new mineral resource estimate for its Kalpini project about 65 kilometres northeast of Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia. The revised resource weighs in at 1.87 million tonnes grading 2.33 grams per tonne for 139,000 ounces of the precious yellow metal.

Kalpini is one of six key satellite gold deposits that underpins Horizon’s proposed flagship Boorara gold production hub about 15km east of Kalgoorlie.

That Horizon has managed to pick up so many projects and do so many deals around Kalgoorlie should come as no surprise to punters that know its board members.  Jon Price is the original quintessential mining man. He is as much metallurgist as he is businessman and he is just as at home doing deals in the front bar of the Palace Hotel in Kalgoorlie as he is in the boardrooms of West Perth.

Company Chairman, Ashok Parekh is a bit like beach sand in so much as he gets into everything. He is often referred to as the unofficial Mayor of Kalgoorlie and his network of contacts is extreme and two tiered. On the one hand he can be seen drinking and doing deals with the region’s prospectors at The Tatts Club in Kalgoorlie most Friday nights and equally, he mixes it with some of the biggest names in mining on a regular basis.

The third major cog to the Horizon wheel is non-executive Director Peter Bilbe who, as the Chairman of the $6.8b Independence Group has impeccable blue chip credentials and a string of mining successes to his name.