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TMK Energy’s Gurvantes XXXV wellhead equipment in the South Gobi Basin, with energy-hungry industry in the background. Credit: File TMK Energy (ASX: TMK) has secured a crucial regulatory tick for its pivotal Declaration of Discovery at the wholly owned Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas project in Mongolia, opening the formal pathway towards an exploitation or production licence. Lodged on 2 October and accepted by Mongolia’s Mineral Resources and Petroleum Authority (MRPAM)

Aurum Resources is rapidly expanding its 3.22-million-ounce Boundiali gold project in Côte d'Ivoire, where extensive previous and ongoing artisanal mining operations (pictured) offer powerful evidence of shallow gold potential. Credit: File Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) has once again displayed its enduring knack for pulling rabbits out of its West African hat, by further extending gold mineralisation at its flagship 3.22-million-ounce Boundiali gold project in Côte d’Ivoire

Third-party small-scale open pit artisanal workings at Critical Resources’ Gadu Manda project in Suriname, 4km from the giant 6-million-ounce Rosebel gold mine. Critical Resources (ASX: CRR) has muscled its way deeper into South America, securing exclusivity over a third gold project in Suriname, just a nine-iron from a monster mine. The company’s new Gadu Manda project sits a mere four kilometres west of Chinese giant Zijin Mining’s Rosebel open pit gold mine, which has

Critica’s Jupiter project in Western Australia’s Mid-West region, 270km from Geraldton. Credit: File Critica Limited (ASX: CRI) has kicked the door down with a blockbuster scoping study for its wholly owned Jupiter rare earths project in Western Australia, outlining a potential world-class development sporting a whopping pre-tax net present value (NPV) of $2.67 billion. Using an eight per cent discount rate, the study forecasts a pre-tax internal rate of return (IRR) of

An outcrop of copper-bearing ore (pictured left) alongside a sample of veining from the same outcrop (pictured right), which featured 0.49 per cent copper and 419 parts per million molybdenum, from Solis Minerals’ Cucho copper project in Peru. Credit: File Solis Minerals (ASX: SLM) is set to fire up the diamond drill rig this month at its Cucho copper project in Peru after a fresh round of mapping and sampling returned a string of high-grade copper and molybdenum hits, si

Dollar Bill reckons it’s the skipper, not the ship, that matters most. Credit: File For 2000-odd years, philosophers have been arguing about a boat. The story comes to us most famously through the ancient Greek writer Plutarch and concerns the ship in which the legendary Theseus returned to Athens from Crete after killing the Minotaur. The Athenians preserved the vessel as a piece of their history, replacing old, decaying timbers with new ones whenever necessary. Howe

Mount Ridley Mines’ Selectro process, developed for its flagship Grass Patch project near Esperance, Western Australia, has been adapted for industrial feedstocks. Credit: File Mount Ridley Mines (ASX: MRD) has lodged a second provisional patent application for a variant of its proprietary Selectro hydrometallurgical process, this time targeting metals from industrial feedstocks such as bauxite. The new filing builds on Mount Ridley’s original application, lodged in Aug

Kaiser Reef’s Henty gold mine and processing plant (pictured) in Tasmania has fully repaid a major gold loan. Credit: File Multi-asset gold producer Kaiser Reef (ASX: KAU) has put a senior secured gold loan to bed, immediately unchaining $600,000 per month in operating cash flow. The move adds another shot of financial firepower to its growth ambitions in Tasmania and Victoria, driving another peg into the ground as the company continues its remarkable turnaround from gol

A small-scale LNG facility operated by Clean Energy Fuels Australia at Mount Magnet in WA’s Mid West offers an example of the modular processing concept proposed for Buru Energy’s Rafael project in the Kimberley. Credit: File Buru Energy (ASX: BRU) has taken a major stride towards developing a homegrown energy solution for Western Australia’s Kimberley region, lodging a production licence application for its 100 per cent-owned Rafael conventional gas and condensate field.

Terrain Minerals is embarking on its biggest ever drilling campaign at its Smokebush project in WA, with its reverse circulation drill rig shown ready for transport to site. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) will launch its biggest-ever drilling campaign at the company's 100 per cent-owned gold-silver-tungsten Smokebush project in WA's Mid West, with an 86-hole, 10,905-metre reverse circulation (RC) program. The drill rig is scheduled to arrive on-site this week