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The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Cassius Mining, which doubled on its $1.32B damages claim against the Ghanaian government in a David vs Goliath mining dispute.

Rio2 Ltd has chopped US$20M off its Peruvian Condestable copper project debt and is rolling out a heavyweight management team as it gears up for growth across Peru and Chile.

Litchfield Minerals has begun phase three drilling at its Oonagalabi project in the Top End, targeting its VT1, VT2 and Main Zone geophysical and mineralised targets to define scale and continuity.

Beetaloo Energy has banked a $15.4 million R&D tax refund, strengthening its balance sheet as it prepares to deliver first gas from its Carpenteria Pilot project in the Northern Territory.

Viking Mines’ testwork separation of the tungsten mineral scheelite (white) from waste minerals (brown) via Wilfley table gravity concentration obtained an assayed table-concentrate grade of 18 per cent tungsten trioxide. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has turned up the heat on its Linka tungsten project in Nevada, unveiling an accelerated workflow aimed at propelling the promising asset from desktop number-crunching into hands-on development and drilling. The company says an inten

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St George Mining executive chairman John Prineas (centre right) at the Brazil-US Critical Minerals Forum in March with (L–R): Thiago Amaral, Gabriel Escobar and Daniel Guimarães Medrado de Castro. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has rolled out another big-ticket partnership at its Araxá critical minerals project in Brazil, striking a strategic alliance with innovative metals processor Boston Metal to chase a cleaner, potentially cheaper pathway to niobium production

Drill rig in action at BMG Resources, Abercromby gold project near Wiluna in Western Australia. Credit: File BMG Resources (ASX: BMG) is turning the diamond bits at its 100 per cent-owned Abercromby gold project near Wiluna in Western Australia, as it hunts for high-grade extensions to its existing half-million-ounce gold resource. The company says reverse circulation pre-collars for the first seven holes of its phase one program have been completed to an average depth of 13

Auric Mining’s 180,000 tonne per annum Burbanks gold plant prior to refurbishment, 10 kilometres south of Coolgardie in Western Australia Credit: File In its march towards becoming a self-sufficient gold producer, Auric Mining (ASX: AWJ) has taken a significant step, locking down the services of a highly regarded industry veteran to lead the development and construction of its Burbanks processing facility. Scott Bailey, who is due to join the company as processing lead in thr

Larvotto’s Resources gold-antimony plant in NSW is undergoing refurbishment ahead of commissioning and return to production, with a target of mid-2026. Larvotto Resources (ASX: LRV) has kept the drill bit running hot at its Hillgrove antimony-gold project in New South Wales, with fresh diamond results from the historic Metz Mining Centre continuing to expand the story at the company’s Blacklode prospect. A standout deep diamond hole beneath the adjacent Syndicate and Blacklo