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More than 100 people armed with weapons have been involved in violent alcohol-fuelled fighting at multiple locations across...

Earlier in the night, officers seized 11 edged and two blunt weapons after they caught a group of people fleeing the scene of a fight on the town's east side. On the same night, officers in Alice Springs broke up a crowd of about 50 people fighting near Railway Terrace in the centre of the town, with one edged weapon seized. Officers dispersed a crowd of about 100 and a number of people with minor injuries were taken to a local medical clinic for treatment.

The team who built Predictive Discovery into one of the ASX's most exciting gold stocks are back with the listing today of DeSoto Resources.

And in fact their geologist in control of the program thought they had basically sniffed the sides of what was a big gold system.” It’s 40 million ounces at about eight grams per tonne and (Homestake) were doing a global search for an analogue and the place they settled on was the Northern Territory,” Swallow said. “But we’ve also basically given the team the opportunity to take that technology and put it into new ideas and a new idea they’ve come up with – which is our project generation idea – is high-grade manganese in the tropics. “So we’ve started a fair bit of work on that using this technological and methodical approach and, as well as the projects in the NT, we should have some really exciting manganese projects to talk about in the next 6-12 months.” “What we see is an opportunity to hopefully make a Core style discovery, that kind of opportunity is right there in front of the company. “The initial work’s basically been mapping the pegmatites, looking for spodumene and things like that, and then with Core landing right in the middle of us, it was pretty good validation that we were on the right path.” “On the east side of our project there’s an old tin mine called Mount Wells, and the history of mineral exploration in the Northern Territory is wherever you find tin and tantalum, there’s usually been a lithium discovery made as well,” Swallow said. The abundance of tin mineralisation on the eastern side of the Pine Creek leases is also a source of encouragement. “It’s a project they’ve called Shoobridge and they’ve picked it up because of the tin and tantalum potential there, which is the same reason why we’re where we are as well,” Swallow said. “So that approach is really differentiated and it’s something that the team has brought over to DeSoto and it’s pretty unusual for a junior exploration company to have that level of technical expertise driving the company.” “They ran a mine in South Dakota called the Lead Deposit, it was actually the biggest gold mine in the USA. “They made a discovery in Burkina Faso, they made a couple in Cote d’Ivoire, and then finally, the one that everyone knows about, which is the one in Guinea, Bankan, which is currently 4.2 million ounces and I think when all is said and done will be the better part of 10-15 million ounces.