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A bird’s eye view of True North Copper’s historic Taipan open pit, which will now be expanded by its Mongoose acquisition to the immediate northwest. True North Copper (ASX: TNC) has consolidated the groundholding at its flagship Cloncurry copper project in northwest Queensland, securing the adjacent Mongoose resource after Glencore opted not to exercise its right of first refusal. The deal sees True North pick up ASX-listed Renegade Exploration’s interest in the Carpen

Aureka Limited diamond drilling underway in June at the company’s Irvine gold project north of the Resolution Lode, targeting one of the exploration target areas identified in the updated JORC. Aureka (ASX: AKA) has added more ounces to its Victorian gold story after lifting its global inferred JORC resource 26 per cent to 454,800 ounces, driven by a strong upgrade at its flagship Irvine project in the historic and richly endowed Stawell gold corridor. The company says

Forrestania Resources’ soon-to-be refurbished centrepiece, the 3.2 million tonnes per annum Lake Johnson gold processing plant, 185km southwest of Kalgoorlie in WA. By almost any measure, Forrestania Resources’ (ASX: FRS) transformation from a small-cap explorer into a major emerging gold producer with a sprawling multi-hub footprint across Western Australia’s premier mining belts in barely three years represents an extraordinary evolution. Now it has its foot on almost

Litchfield Minerals exploration is supported by BHP’s nine month Xplor program. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) says its BHP Xplor-backed technical work has changed the way it looks at its Harts Range ground in Australia’s Northern Territory, shifting the story from a handful of separate copper and nickel prospects to a potentially much bigger belt-scale mineral system. The company says the work it has completed through the global miner’s Xplor program has tied together

Historic mine shaft at Kuniko Limited’s Stringers prospect in New South Wales’ prolific Lachlan Fold Belt. Kuniko Limited (ASX: KNI) has turned up the heat at its Commonwealth-Silica Hill project in New South Wales, unveiling more high-grade gold and silver from two old-timer prospects just one kilometre from its recent eye-catching bonanza silver discovery. The company says new zones of gold and silver mineralisation at its historic Walls and Stringers prospects have r

Critical Resources has scaled up its lab testing to full format pouch cells in its solid-state battery technology development push. Critical Resources (ASX: CRR) has scaled up its solid-state lithium-ion battery evaluation program, moving from laboratory coin cells to full-format, larger-scale pouch cells. The milestone is a major validation of the company's proprietary dry-spray deposition cathode, with electrochemical testing and cell conditioning already underway.

Farming in Brazil will provide a huge local market for Aguia Resources’ newly launched Pampafós natural phosphate fertiliser. Aguia Resources (ASX: AGR) has hit the ground running with sales of its Pampafós organic phosphate product, notching up sales of an impressive $A600,000 in the first two weeks since kicking off mining at its Tres Estrades project in Brazil. With the football World Cup underway, the company has scored its own huge goal by securing a significant 20

Red Metal Limited's column leach test set-up showing its 100mm and 150mm columns with coarsely crushed ore samples from the Kary Zone within its Sybella rare earths project, near Mt Isa in Queensland. Red Metal (ASX: RDM) has moved a big step closer to proving a low-cost processing route for its monster Sybella rare earths project in Queensland, with definitive column leach tests delivering stellar recoveries from coarse-crushed ore using weak sulphuric acid at ambient te

Gas flare from the first test zone at ADX Energy's HOCH-1 well in Upper Austria after the Basin Floor Fan reservoir flowed at 2.8 million cubic feet per day, firing up the company's broader shallow-gas growth story. ADX Energy (ASX: ADX) has delivered the first tangible evidence that its Upper Austrian shallow gas strategy could deliver a new European energy source, with its HOCH-1 discovery well flowing gas at an encouraging rate of 2.8 million cubic feet per day, or 467

Flagship Minerals’ newly acquired Whipsaw copper project in British Columbia, Canada, just 17km from Hudbay Minerals’ fabled Copper Mountain mine. In a savvy diversification move, Flagship Minerals (ASX: FLG) has planted a copper flag in Canada by acquiring the Whipsaw project in British Columbia and gaining exposure to a potential billion-tonne-scale system in a tier-one jurisdiction. The company says its shiny new project features a big porphyry copper system, 160 kil