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ADX Energy’s contracted MB Well Services rig will support HOCH-1 phase two testing and production enhancement work at the company’s Vienna Basin fields in Austria. Credit: File ADX Energy (ASX: ADX) has put more power behind its Austrian gas strategy after a second flow test at the company's HOCH-1 discovery delivered a stable average of 3.15 million cubic feet per day, or 548 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The stronger technical read on the shallow gas system benea

Elk Range Mining’s maiden drill hole at the Friday gold project in Idaho, USA, has now been completed, intersecting additional visible gold (pictured). Credit: File Freshly-listed gold explorer Elk Range Mining (ASX: ELK) has completed a maiden drill hole at its Friday gold project in Idaho, USA, hitting more visible gold at multiple depths, including several occurrences well beyond the limits of historical drilling. With the first hole now in the bag and assays due in la

Western Mines Group’s giant, still-growing Mulga Tank nickel project lies 190 kilometres east-northeast of Kalgoorlie in WA’s Eastern Goldfields. Credit: File Western Mines Group (ASX: WMG) has rounded out a phase-five reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign at its flagship Mulga Tank nickel project in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields, with all seven final holes returning impressively broad zones of nickel sulphide mineralisation. The company says the latest re

One of Estrella Resources’ rock samples from its Laleno Dome area of investigation, which assayed 33.22 per cent copper. Credit: File Estrella Resources (ASX: ESR) has struck a deal to divest its Spargoville nickel rights near Kambalda in Western Australia to Astral Resources for $3 million in scrip, a move that will enable the company to sharpen its focus on a suite of promising projects in Timor-Leste. The deal allows Estrella to streamline its portfolio amid a tough

Barkly Rare Earths’ drilling is targeting a massive expansion of its existing 40-million-tonne rare earth resource in the Northern Territory. Barkly Rare Earths (ASX: BAK) has delivered another volley of high-grade rare earth intercepts from its namesake Northern Territory project, confirming shallow mineralisation across a staggering 23-kilometre expanse. The latest batch of 16 assayed holes returned 15 significant intercepts. Highlights include a three-metre hit gradi

Aguia Resources’ heavily mineralised Vein No. 1 in the exploratory tunnel at the Santa Barbara gold project in Colombia. Credit: File. Aguia Resources (ASX: AGR) has rung the till at its Santa Barbara gold project in Colombia, with record September production covering local corporate and operating costs for the first time to give its high-grade underground strategy some early financial bite. The 100 per cent-owned operation produced 36.75 ounces of gold from 105 dry tonne

Gas flare burning at TMK Energy’s Gurvantes XXXV pilot well project in Mongolia’s South Gobi Basin as the company reports new gas production records. Credit: File TMK Energy (ASX: TMK) has lifted gas production to a new monthly record at its 100 per cent-owned Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas (CSG) project in Mongolia, adding momentum as two rigs prepare to return to the South Gobi field. September’s average output climbed eight per cent from August to 872 cubic metres a da

Gateway Mining’s geological field crews are currently on site at the Glenburgh South gold project, undertaking mapping, rock-chip sampling and prospect evaluation in preparation for first-pass drill testing of the new geochemical anomalies. Credit: File Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) has put two chunky new gold targets on the radar at its Glenburgh South project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne after first-pass soil sampling picked out a pair of coherent anomalies running for r

Manhattan Gold’s Hook Lake project sits in the Rankin-Ennadai greenstone belt in Nunavut, Canada. Mineralisation (pictured) returned 29.5 per cent zinc from recent drilling at the Spectre prospect. Credit: File Manhattan Gold Corporation (ASX: MHC) has struck a high-grade cocktail of copper, gold, silver and zinc in the very first drill holes at the Spectre prospect, part of its Hook Lake project in the tier-one mining jurisdiction of Nunavut, Canada. The company’s maid

Flagship Minerals’ Whipsaw copper project sits just 17km west of Hudbay Minerals’ operating and expanding Copper Mountain mine in British Columbia. Flagship Minerals (ASX: FLG) looks to have picked its moment perfectly in Canada's British Columbia, securing three new mineral claims that more than double its Whipsaw copper tenure, just as the province rolls out the red carpet for miners and copper prices hover near record highs. The company initially swooped on the massi