could this be the next one to go like white nile speculaors talking about 20p i'm in @ 4p RAB capital have 30% so following thier lead any opinions ????

Stage 1 Commissioning Starts in January

A significant milestone has been reached with the commencement of the Stage 1 Plant hot commissioning on 15th January at the CSIRO facility at Waterford.

Over the past few weeks across Christmas/ New Year:

The sample from PT Antam’s Buli deposit in Indonesia was delivered to Cook Industrial Minerals for drying and preparation to minus 1.4mm

A HAZOP review was undertaken to assess safety implications of all modifications made to the Plant compared to the design

A ‘punch list’ of remaining items was worked through in readiness for start-up

A Commissioning Engineer from Therma-Flite in San Francisco arrived to ensure the decomposition unit is operating to specification

The full team of operators that underwent induction and training late last year were on hand for the start of 24/7 operations, which commenced on 14th January. The hot commissioning for the Stage 1 Test Plant flowsheet is planned to take three months followed by two months of operation.

DNi’s Project Manager, Graham Brock, said “The combined DNI, CSIRO and RMDSTEM team have worked very hard for many months to reach the point where we introduced ore feed to the Test Plant this week. It is very early days at present and we still have to fill the circuit and see if we encounter any mechanical issues before we can focus on process considerations. It is very satisfying to see the first ore move through the Plant and everyone can be proud of what we’ve done and look forward to the challenges we will face, with confidence.”

With Stage 1 commissioning now underway additional resources will focus on completing construction of the Stage 2 portion of the flowsheet with all equipment for this having been purchased and on site.

Meetings were held in Perth during last week with key stakeholders supplying ore and personnel for the Test Plant program. The emphasis was on ensuring the program adequately managed and continues without interruption after the completion of Stage 1 activities.

Discussions held with Indonesian mining company PT Antam focused on an ongoing involvement with DNi. Separately DNi is already planning for a program to identify the location for a possible first commercial Plant in Indonesia.

http://www.directnickel.com/16-january-2013-dni-test-plant-stage-1-hot-commisioning-commences/

Presentation RGM

Thursday the 31st January 2013,
Chesterfield Mayfair Hotel, 35 Charles Street, Mayfair, W1J 5EB (Charles Suite)

http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/register/event_details/174

SP has to pass 4.5p before the options start paying something to Aim for excuse the pun..

REGENCY MINES PLC
("Regency" or "the Company")

Grant of Options

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4528551

DNi Test Plant Update

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20130213/pdf/42d01x5f3bc3r9.pdf

RGM Presentation from last night courtesy of Vip from the other side...

Good to meet up with everybody last night.

Pyramid lake - needs more drilling as they're unsure of what they've got.

Graphite - deal with Graphite Australia could be announced shortly. GA's geologists have told them they must do a deal with Regency.

Sudan - doesn't look like any drilling will take place this year. Concession areas are huge, so time will be spent narrowing down and locating the very best areas. An important new area of interest should be announced soon.

RMR - being slow and RGM may go somewhere else as they have people queuing at the door to do a deal.

Spoke with a broker (Optiva) who was very interested in the DNi story.

Spoke at length with Russell Debney and all's good in Perth. Results to date are excellent. DNi will continue to issue updates on a regular basis.

Operational Update 1 March 2013

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4547232

New processing method to deliver huge benefits to global nickel industry

"This process has the potential to revolutionise the global industry. Australia has an abundance of nickel laterites, so it would provide a significant boost to our economy."

Dr Dave Robinson, CSIRO mineral processing research leader


http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Media/New-processing-method-to-deliver-huge-benefits-to-global-nickel-industry.aspx

Feature: Nitric Nickel

A new environmentally friendly processing method that uses and recycles nitric acid could unlock 70 per cent of the world’s nickel. Tim Treadgold reports

Updated 13 March 2013

http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Publications/Magazines/resourceful/3-Nitric-nickel.aspx

DNi & Heron Resources test results 26/03/2013

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20130326/pdf/42dwmy3jtd0bpg.pdf

Regency Mines Has Plenty Of Balance Sheet Strength To Support Its Aspirations In Sudan, Papua New Guinea, And Australia

By Alastair Ford

Andrew Bell pulls no punches about the Regency Mines share price when Minesite rings him up for a chat.

“It has underperformed this year”, he says matter-of-factly, before adding a reasonable enough qualifier: “the whole sector’s obviously bad”.

No doubt about that, with the gold price volatile, iron ore forecasts being trimmed, base metals weakening, and the funding environment in the junior equities space extremely depressed.

But however that may be, Andrew’s still of the clear view that Regency in particular offers value at these levels, and he makes a simple enough case to back up this view.

“The market capitalisation is just under £3 million”, he says. “We have listed investments of £1.5 million. And we have £2.5 million-plus in Direct Nickel.”

So, a simple enough proposition: £4 million in investments to support a £3 million market capitalisation, with all the company’s other licences and interests thrown in for free. But given that straightforward analysis, much then hangs on Direct Nickel and its future prospects.

UK investors may not be overly familiar with Direct Nickel, which could end up revolutionising the processes whereby nickel metal is extracted from saprolite and limonite ores with its proprietary hydrometallurgical technology.

But anyone who attended our Minesite forum back in March of 2012 received a comprehensive enough picture from Russell Debney, Direct Nickel’s chief executive, who presented in conjunction with Andrew Bell.

That presentation is still available here, and provides a pretty good grounding as to the opportunity and the potential for the future.

Much has happened since then, of course. Direct Nickel has gained further financial support from Australia’s prestigious scientific body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.

But more to the point, it’s now commissioned a test plant capable of treating a tonne a day of laterite feed, and is now beginning to release the results of the first phase of the testing process into the market. The latest update, issued on April 23rd 2013, reported that after three months of initial tests the acid recovery circuit is performing to design, and that the company is on track to complete the overall test plant programme in 2013 as planned.

That’s good news for Regency on two levels. One, the commercialisation of the Direct Nickel process creeps nearer, and the likelihood that Direct Nickel itself will be able to list on the ASX looms ever larger, potentially allowing Regency an easy exit route, should one be needed.

Secondly, and on an even longer-term view, the thinking is that Direct Nickel’s hydrometallurgical process can be applied to ore from Regency’s Mambare nickel laterite project in Papua New Guinea, which holds at the last count, more than 162 million tonnes grading 0.94% nickel and 0.09% cobalt.

This project is, says Andrew, “absolutely enormous”, and he’s fairly clear that ultimately Regency will need a partner to help with development. Success with the Direct Nickel process will go a long way towards demonstrating the economics at Mambare, however, and after the latest release from Direct Nickel, Andrew was quick to put out a press release of his own, in which he expressed view that the latest results were “very promising”, and that the Direct Nickel process could end up being “a disruptive technology for the nickel industry”.

It’ll be some time yet though before Direct Nickel commercialises its product, and Andrew Bell is fully aware that investors need excitement in the short-term if he’s to keep them interested. That’s why he’s now taken Regency into a new area of operations, the Sudan, where a few intrepid London-based operators, including Mark Parker, late of African Eagle and our good friends at Toro Gold, are already nosing around, but where no-one as yet has made a really big splash.

But Regency is moving fast. “We’ve already looked at and eliminated a number of areas”, says Andrew. “It’s very cheap to do that with a hand-held XRF. But the potential for early stage discoveries is enormous and doing that kind of thing doesn’t cost very much.”

Interestingly though, Regency is at least for the time being focussing on phosphate and gypsum, which Andrew argues remain at attractive points in their relative cycles, unlike most of the precious and base metals which are many years into an upswing and are now encountering significant volatility.

“We think that the outlook for agrominerals is good”, he says. “It’s still a growing and important story. The supply is less than the demand, and there is huge interest in the Sudan.”
So the attention will now shift to the Jebel Abyed property, the boundaries of which were recently extended by Regency in response to work already undertaken this year. “The next news from Regency will be an announcement that people are going out at the end of the month”, says Andrew.

But before anyone objects that the market is hardly likely to support big outlays on early stage exploration at the current time, it’s worth just noting that movement in Sudan is surprisingly easy, and that the overall cost of the next pass at the exploration ground shouldn’t amount to more than £30,000 or so.

Longer-term, Andrew talks of the potential of bringing in a partner to help move the Sudanese projects along, and that seems a realistic enough proposition given that he’s had plenty of experience in bringing bigger companies to the table with his other vehicle, Red Rock Resources.

There, Brian Gilbertson no less, took a stake in some iron ore and manganese assets that Red Rock held in Australia in a transaction that also involved Jupiter Mines. And it’s in Australia too that Regency’s other key asset is located, also in an area that’s more than likely to attract in a major in due course – the famous Fraser Range where Sirius has recently discovered nickel in a big, big way.

“We are in the Fraser Range right next door to Sirius”, says Andrew. “Sirius has become a billion dollar company from nothing and we’re right next door.” That success represents a clear opportunity for Regency to monetise its own assets, and accordingly the key licenses are going into a local company, ASX-listed Ram Resources, once A$1.5 million is raised to support further exploration work.

“Our aim”, says Andrew, “is not that this should be a financial burden on Regency shareholders, but rather that it should be a source of revenue”. After all, Andrew runs a fairly tight ship at Regency and isn’t keen on parting with the company’s money unless it’s absolutely necessary. At the moment there’s around £300,000 to £400,000 in the company, with the remains of an £800,000 facility also available.

And as far as future funding is concerned, investors ought not to be too worried about dilution, especially at this price. “We aim to sell off one or two of our peripheral investments, including the listed ones”, says Andrew. These include stakes in Red Rock, Oracle, Alba, and Ram Resources. “We have people approaching us for the Direct Nickel stake at the price of the last financing, but we’d only sell a bit of it”, he adds.

So money ought not to be an issue in the immediate term. But will there be further deals? Well, Andrew’s always got an eye for a bargain, so never say never. “At the bottom of the market, you should be using undervalued stock to get underpriced assets”, he says. So watch this space.

http://minesite.com/news/regency-mines-has-plenty-of-balance-sheet-strength-to-support-its-aspirations-in-sudan-papua-new-guinea-and-australia

AB Talks to Miningmaven

http://www.miningmaven.com/companies/aim-mining/regency-mines/regency-mines-chairman-andrew-bell-talks-to-miningmaven/

Game changer for nickel processing

Hannah Vickers Wednesday, 29 May 2013

DIRECT Nickel is looking to change the mining industry by providing a low-cost, environmentally friendly process to treat nickel laterites. MiningNewsPremium.net was at the official pilot plant opening in Perth on Friday.

Direct Nickel managing director and CEO Russell Debney at the official launch of the company's test plant. Courtesey of Direct Nickel.

The revolutionary process, which is being tested at CSIRO’s Australian Minerals Research Centre at Curtin University in Western Australia, uses nitric acid and is capable of processing nickel laterites easily and with very little waste.

Most nickel in the past has been from sulphides, which are processed using standard flotation techniques but laterites are very different.

Direct Nickel chief executive officer and managing director Russel Debney said the existing laterite processes were known for their high intensity.

“Not only that, the processes that are currently available are selective so that a process to treat the iron-rich limonite section of a laterite would be a different process from that used to treat the magnesium-rich saprolite layer,” he told MiningNewsPremium.

“The DNi process treats both in the same flow sheet.”

Direct Nickel project manager and technology head Graham Brock said the process was needed to open up the nickel laterite deposits around the world.

“Unfortunately most of the easy sulphides have been found and finding new ones is getting harder and harder,” he said.

Companies waiting for an effective way to treat laterites won’t have to wait much longer.

In the Direct Nickel process, material is crushed to around 2mm then conveyed into leaching tanks where it will sit for approximately four hours at 100 degrees Celsius before separating out anything that didn’t dissolve in the nitric acid from the solutions.

Iron, aluminium, cobalt and nickel are all produced from the process, along with magnesium nitrate which is processed into magnesium oxide and can be sold as a by-product.

The nitric acid left at the end of the process is sent back through pipes to the first leaching tank to start its work again, with more than 90% of the acid recycled.

As a result, the amount of reagent left in tailings is very small compared to alternative processes and will be easily neutralised.

In addition to Direct Nickel and CSIRO stakeholders, WA Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion and Chilean ambassador Pedro Pablo Diaz Herrera were on the scene for the opening.

“I must take my hat off to everyone here involved in this process,” Marmion said.

Speaking with MiningNewsPremium, Marmion said the development of the Direct Nickel process was important for the state, especially because of how inexpensive it would be to run.

“It actually opens up a whole lot of extra resources for Western Australia and the world,” he said.

Partnering with CSIRO has given Direct Nickel the ability to run the test plant for a full year and give the company time to get a real feel for the process, according to Brock.

“If we did the same exercise in a commercial facility, we’d probably spend all the money we’re going to spend in a year here in a month and we just would not get the data that is needed to demonstrate and to confirm all the things we know about this process,” he said.

“So it’s a fantastic opportunity to be able to run this plant here for a whole 12 months.”

Having the plant running for a while also gives the company an opportunity to greet sceptics as well as potential investors.

Brock said roughly 60 visitors had come to the plant in March and April and of the 40 who expressed interest, 20 might be serious about getting involved.

The pilot plant, which has been running since January and is processing around 1 tonne per day of ore, will operate through October.

“We’re going to learn so much,” Brock said, while taking stakeholders on a tour of the facilities.

“If we’re going to find a problem, we’ve got time to do it.”

The plant has already processed ore from Indonesia before recently starting work on Brazilian samples without any difficulty.

Should things go according to plan, the first commercial Direct Nickel plant will be operational by 2017.

“The world has been waiting a long time for this breakthrough and it is literally weeks and months away,” Debney said.

http://www.pngindustrynews.net/storyview.asp?storyid=798530436&sectionsource=s0

Edison latest RGM....

http://www.edisoninvestmentresearch.com/researchreports/Regency110613update.pdf

Latest News Letter From RGM 13/06/13

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uczwxstk1yd9ynx/RES_1306_AU_LR_Fraser_Range%20%281%29.pdf

("Regency" or the "Company")

Fraser West Project - Update on Disposal 1 July 2013

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4623808

News Letter 15/07/2013


Dear Shareholders and Colleagues,
This summer has been one of British sporting success – a Briton winning Wimbledon, a successful Lions tour, and (perhaps) victory in the Ashes. We would improve your summer, and our own, if we could produce some small victories for Regency. We are working towards that, in a discouraging market.
Sudan
On Friday two of our geologists returned from a target identification field trip to Sudan.
Gary Hurst, project manager, and Amy Linehan, project geologist, flew out to Khartoum a fortnight ago to meet with the Head of the Agromineral Department at the Ministry of Minerals, where they spent time researching, talking to local geologists and arranging logistics, before flying out to Port Sudan. From there, they took a team of eight people into the field at our Red Sea concession.
From their temporary base camp in the desert, five days were spent exploring for evaporite sequences by traversing the field, taking samples, doing some basic mapping, field reconnaissance and structural analysis of the lithologies.
A great deal was achieved before the beginning of Ramadan brought our programme to a close. A detailed report of the trip will be released via RNS.

Fraser Range
All Australians, and some of you, know of the great success that Australian company Sirius has found with their Nova and Bollinger nickel-copper-cobalt deposits in Western Australia. Their story is one that all exploration companies strive to emulate and market attention is focussed on companies with adjacent tenements.
Late last year we announced that we agreed the sale of the majority of the rights to our Fraser West Project in Australia to RAM Resources Limited (ASX:RMR)("RAM"), a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The map below demonstrates the location of these tenements in Fraser Range in relation to Sirius’.
With just two days’ notice from RAM, we have been able to arrange a team of 5 geologists (borrowed from Red Rock Resources and not currently doing field work) to work on this Regency project that is being carried out on behalf of RAM. The decision was made following discussions with RAM given the need to get feet on the ground working before the licence anniversary.
The work is important and exciting, and it is a tribute to the efficiency of our systems that we are able to pick something up and hit the ground running so promptly. From the H&S protocols, to the logistical planning, budget and field work proposal, we are always ready for swift mobilisation. We are able to rely on an outstanding staff who worked efficiently to get both the Sudanese and Australian reconnaissance trips off the ground.
The team will be flying out in two groups today and Wednesday, for approximately 2-3 weeks in the field.
The following photos are from a reconnaissance trip to Fraser Range undertaken in April this year and demonstrate the environment our geo team will be working in over the next few weeks.
Fraser Range is a project that excites all of us. RAM is at the start of a road that has the potential for failure, but also for success that could transform us.

Fraser Range Exploration Update From Ram...

http://www.tradingroom.com.au/apps/company_annoucements.ac?contentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsstore.com.au%2Fapps%2FviewDocument.ac%3Fsy%3Dtpl_nws%26ss%3DTPL%26docID%3DGCA01425360RMR%26backTo%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tradingroom.com.au%2Fapps%2Fqt%2Fquote.ac%3Fcode%3Drmr

Regency Mines Plc Update on Direct Nickel Limited 19 July 2013

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4635341

Jul 19 2013 – Direct Nickel produces first marketable Nickel Concentrate

http://www.directnickel.com/category/news/

Direct Nickel and PT Antam sign an agreement to develop nickel laterite deposits and processing plants in Indonesia

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20130722/pdf/42h5jnmvg3l09l.pdf

Ram Resources
$1.5m Capital Raising / Appointment of Managing Director

http://www.tradingroom.com.au/apps/company_annoucements.ac?contentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsstore.com.au%2Fapps%2FviewDocument.ac%3Fsy%3Dtpl_nws%26ss%3DTPL%26docID%3DGCA01427946RMR%26backTo%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.tradingroom.com.au%2Fapps%2Fqt%2Fquote.ac%3Fcode%3DRMR%26type%3Dlivequote%26sy%3Dtpl

Ram Resources New Web Site

http://www.ramresources.com.au/