ASX-listed Battery Minerals has signed a binding agreement to buy 67% of Gippsland Prospecting, which has the sole right to apply for an exploration licence immediately adjacent to fellow-listed Stavely Minerals’ Thursday’s Gossan copper/gold project, in Victoria. Known as Block 4, the tenement covers 809 km2 and hosts the historic Moyston gold mine, which produced 75 000 oz at 22 g/t gold.The exploration licence is also 7 km from the rich Stawell gold mine, which has produced five-million ounces of gold.