Aldebaran

Want to get into stargazing? A professional astronomer explains where to start

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Saturday, December 30, 2023
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Through the holidays, many people head away from the bright city lights to go camping.

Key Points: 
  • Through the holidays, many people head away from the bright city lights to go camping.
  • As a child, I loved such trips, and they helped cement my passion for the night sky, and for all things space.
  • One of my great joys as an astronomer is sharing the night sky with people.

Learning the night sky

  • A good place to start if you’re a budding astronomer is to learn your way around the night sky.
  • Today, there are countless good apps to help you find your way around the night sky.
  • A great example of such an app is Stellarium – a planetarium program allowing you to view the night sky from the comfort of your room or to plan an evening’s observing ahead of schedule.
  • To memorise the night sky, you can try star hopping.
  • By star hopping, you’ll slowly but surely learn your way around the night sky until the constellations become familiar friends.

Virtual observing

  • Thankfully, software like Stellarium can give you a fantastic virtual observing experience.
  • Imagine you want to see Saturn’s rings – a spectacular sight through even a small telescope.
  • A virtual observing session is as simple as that – just pan around the sky until you find something you want to see, and zoom in.

A hobby best shared

  • I’d recommend using planetarium programs like Stellarium to figure out what you want to see, then heading out to look at it with your own eyes.
  • Astronomy is a wonderful hobby, and one that is best shared.
  • I joined my local astronomy society, the West Yorkshire Astronomical Society in the United Kingdom, when I was just eight years old.
  • At the society, we had weekly talks on astronomy, given by the club members and visiting astronomers from local universities.
  • We also had regular night sky viewing nights, using the society’s very own telescope – a behemoth the members had built themselves.
  • People who are passionate about their hobby love nothing more than sharing it with others.


Jonti Horner does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Aldebaran Intercepts 649.40 m of 0.54% CuEq, Including 354.00 m of 0.72% CuEq at the Altar Copper-Gold Project

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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Lithology: The hole intersected a package of strongly fragmental dacitic crystal tuffs from surface to 139 m depth.

Key Points: 
  • Lithology: The hole intersected a package of strongly fragmental dacitic crystal tuffs from surface to 139 m depth.
  • This sequence is crosscut by a series of late diorite dykes from 1,124.90 m to 1,165.50 m depth.
  • A well-developed copper enrichment zone occurs from the base of oxidation at 274 m to 450 m depth.
  • Two zones of secondary copper enrichment characterized by the occurrence of chalcocite-covellite on pyrite and chalcopyrite occur from 168 m to 235 m depth and from 323 m to 374 m depth.

RobotLAB Proudly Renews Longstanding NAO & Pepper Agreements With United Robotics Group

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Monday, October 2, 2023
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RobotLAB , the premier robotics integrator that has delivered impactful robotics business innovations and solutions for more than 15 years, has renewed its agreement with United Robotics Group (URG), the new owner of Aldebaran, a former entity of SoftBank Robotics.

Key Points: 
  • RobotLAB , the premier robotics integrator that has delivered impactful robotics business innovations and solutions for more than 15 years, has renewed its agreement with United Robotics Group (URG), the new owner of Aldebaran, a former entity of SoftBank Robotics.
  • RobotLAB has been the master distributor for URG’s NAO and Pepper robots since 2009, boasting nearly 7,000 and 600 deployments, respectively.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231002310409/en/
    Leading Robotics Integrator, RobotLAB, Has Renewed Its Longstanding NAO & Pepper Agreements with United Robotics Group (Photo: Business Wire)
    “RobotLAB is on the cutting-edge of robotics technology, and we’re confident in our ability to identify truly innovative products like NAO and Pepper, which are two of the most impressive, game-changing robots available today,” said Elad Inbar, founder and CEO of RobotLAB.
  • “We are thrilled to continue our longstanding partnership with RobotLAB, a company that shares our vision of advancing robotics technology in various sectors," said Jason Panella, VP Education at United Robotics Group.

Aldebaran Announces Closing of $20.5 M Financing

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aldebaran Resources Inc. (“Aldebaran” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: ALDE, OTCQX: ADBRF), is pleased to announce it has completed its previously announced $20.5 million financing, led by a strategic investment from a wholly-owned subsidiary of South32 Limited (“South32”). The financing was completed via a non-brokered private placement (the “Private Placement”). The Company issued 1,000,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (the “LIFE Shares”) pursuant to the listed issuer financing exemption under part 5A of National Instrument 45‐106 – Prospectus Exemptions (“NI 45-106”). The balance of the Shares were issued pursuant to other exemptions from the prospectus requirements found in NI 45‐106.

Key Points: 
  • The financing was completed via a non-brokered private placement (the “Private Placement”).
  • The balance of the Shares were issued pursuant to other exemptions from the prospectus requirements found in NI 45‐106.
  • Aldebaran intends to use the funds to advance the Altar copper-gold project located in San Juan, Argentina, and for general corporate purposes.
  • Aldebaran is relying on exemptions from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements available under MI 61-101.

Aldebaran Announces It Has Earned a 60% Interest in the Altar Project and is Advancing Towards Earning an 80% Interest

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Monday, August 14, 2023
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Additionally, the Company has notified Sibanye-Stillwater that it intends to proceed with the second option to spend US$25 million over a three-year period to acquire an additional 20% interest in the Altar project.

Key Points: 
  • Additionally, the Company has notified Sibanye-Stillwater that it intends to proceed with the second option to spend US$25 million over a three-year period to acquire an additional 20% interest in the Altar project.
  • Upon completion of the second option, Aldebaran will own an 80% interest in the Altar project while Sibanye-Stillwater will own a 20% interest.
  • As of June 30, 2023, the Company has spent approximately US$38 million on the project.
  • John Black, Chief Executive Officer of Aldebaran, commented as follows: “We’re happy to report that we’ve officially earned a 60% interest in the Altar project and are on our way to earning an eventual 80% interest.

Aldebaran Announces Additional Strategic Investment From South32 as Part of a C$17.5 M Financing

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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
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The Private Placement will be structured in two tranches.

Key Points: 
  • The Private Placement will be structured in two tranches.
  • Closing of this financing is expected to occur in August 2023 and is subject to various conditions, including approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
  • This release does not constitute an offer for sale of, nor a solicitation for offers to buy, any securities in the United States.
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Lizzo proudly calls herself a 'fat' woman. Are we allowed to as well?

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Monday, July 17, 2023
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If you don’t know Lizzo yet, she shot to fame in 2019 with the release of her third studio album Cuz I Love You.

Key Points: 
  • If you don’t know Lizzo yet, she shot to fame in 2019 with the release of her third studio album Cuz I Love You.
  • The re-release of sleeper hit Truth Hurts launched Lizzo to number one on the charts and made her a household name.
  • The catchy lyrics still have people around the world singing, “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch”.

Thick and juicy

    • She also uses descriptors such as big, thick and juicy.
    • Lizzo’s reclamation of the word is rooted in a queer-feminist led and disability-related activist movement: fat activism.
    • The fat activist movement emerged in the United States in the 1970s, and includes early figures such as Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran.
    • Fat studies has since emerged as an interdisciplinary field that documents and theorises the work of fat activists.
    • For years fat activists have been drawing attention to the assimilationist nature of body positivity and its toxic and exclusionary mechanisms.

Fatness in society and culture

    • We have the added complication that fatness, in many ways, is in the eye of the beholder: conceptions of fatness tend to be individually, socially and culturally shaped.
    • She says,
      I am a Black woman, I am making music from my Black experience, for me to heal myself.
    • I am a Black woman, I am making music from my Black experience, for me to heal myself.

So should we say ‘fat’?

    • If an individual like Lizzo self-identifies as fat, an invitation emerges for us to also pick up and use the term to describe her body.
    • Doing so, it feels like we, too, might participate in a process of fat liberation and size acceptance.

Aldebaran Announces Closing of Top-Up Financing by South32

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aldebaran Resources Inc. (“Aldebaran” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: ALDE, OTCQX: ADBRF), is pleased to announce it has completed its previously announced top-up financing with a subsidiary of South32 Limited (“South32”).

Key Points: 
  • VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aldebaran Resources Inc. (“Aldebaran” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: ALDE, OTCQX: ADBRF), is pleased to announce it has completed its previously announced top-up financing with a subsidiary of South32 Limited (“South32”).
  • South32 elected to exercise its anti-dilution rights to maintain a 9.9% equity interest in the Company following the exercise of warrants announced on May 5, 2023.
  • South32 acquired 970,000 common shares (the “Common Shares”) at a price of $0.73 per Common Share for total proceeds of $708,100.
  • The Common Shares issued pursuant to this financing will be subject to a four month hold period in accordance with applicable securities laws.

Aldebaran Intercepts 565.60 m of 0.60% CuEq, Including 329.60 m of 0.80% in Hole ALD-23-228: Drilling Has Recommenced to Deepen Hole as it Terminated in High-Grade Mineralization

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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The final depth of the hole was 1,241.60 m (drilling has re-started on this hole to deepen it).

Key Points: 
  • The final depth of the hole was 1,241.60 m (drilling has re-started on this hole to deepen it).
  • Holes ALD-23-229, ALD-23-230, ALD-23-231 and ALD-23-189EXT are completed and were terminated at 1,413.60 m, 611.40 m, 1,211.80 m, and 1,246.00 m respectively: all pending final assays.
  • Hole ALD-23-189EXT, is an extension of a historically drilled hole ALD-12-189, which was originally terminated at 592 m depth.
  • Hole ALD-23-124EXT is an extension of a historically drilled hole ALD-12-124, which was originally terminated at 226.50 m depth.

Aldebaran Intercepts 951.20 m of 0.60% CuEq, Including 645.00 m of 0.70% CuEq From the Altar Project in San Juan, Argentina

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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The formula utilized to calculate equivalent values is CuEq % = Cu % + (Au g/t * 0.34025) + (Ag g/t * 0.00446) + (Mo ppm * 0.00023).

Key Points: 
  • The formula utilized to calculate equivalent values is CuEq % = Cu % + (Au g/t * 0.34025) + (Ag g/t * 0.00446) + (Mo ppm * 0.00023).
  • Holes ALD-23-227, ALD-23-228, ALD-23-230, ALD-23-231 and ALD-23-189EXT were recently completed and were terminated at 1,238.5 m, 1,241.6 m, 611.4 m, 1,211.8 m, and 1,246.0 m respectively: all pending final assays.
  • Hole ALD-23-189EXT is an extension of historical drill hole ALD-12-189, which was originally terminated at 592 m depth.
  • Hole ALD-23-124EXT is an extension of historical drill hole ALD-12-124, which was originally terminated at 226.50 m depth.