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

McLaren Minerals’ latest drilling results have returned broad, high-grade heavy mineral sands from surface at its McLaren Titanium Project in Western Australia. McLaren Minerals (ASX: MML) has continued to deliver broad, consistent and high-grade heavy mineral (HM) intercepts from surface at its namesake McLaren titanium project in the western Eucla basin of Western Australia, as the company works towards upgrading its massive resource. The 2026 drilling program - a monst

Terrain Minerals’ reverse circulation drilling at its Smokebush project in WA’s Mid West region Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has confirmed a potential high-grade, district-scale tungsten system at its 100 per cent owned Smokebush project in WA's Mid West region. A rigorous review of historical drilling - originally aimed at gold and silver - has uncovered impressive grades for the highly sought-after critical metal, effectively revealing a whole new explora

Red Metal’s drilling at its 100%-owned Sybella rare earths project near Mt Isa in Queensland. Credit: File For decades, the Western market’s playbook for breaking China’s choke-hold on the rare earths sector read like an instructional manual on how to incinerate capital. The strategy was almost dogmatic: target complex, hard-rock monazite or apatite monsters, raise astronomical sums of cash, and then attempt to construct eye-wateringly expensive, high-temperature crackin

Bright, high-grade phosphate being mined in Morocco, one of the world’s top players in fertiliser production. Credit: File Everyone has been obsessed with the minerals needed to power the next generation of data centres, batteries and weapons. Over the last few years, lithium, rare earths, antimony and tungsten have all taken turns in the critical minerals spotlight as governments scramble to secure supply chains and shore up their defence capabilities. But while the worl

Great Southern Mining has hit more high-grade gold at Golden Boulder in WA, including 4m at 11.38g/t, extending mineralisation across 1.1km of a 3.5km trend as assays build the case for a Duketon discovery.

An exploration camp in Queensland’s Taroom Trough, where Beetaloo Energy has added a liquids-focused play to its world-class gas assets in the Northern Territory. Credit: File Beetaloo Energy Australia (ASX: BTL) has picked up a 25 per cent slice of Queensland’s emerging Taroom Trough liquids play for the grand price of nothing upfront, adding a second energy angle to its Northern Territory gas push. Following a competitive land-release process, the Queensland Governmen

Critical Resources’ Gonini and Greenstars gold projects sit in Suriname’s Guiana Shield, a region known for major gold deposits. Critical Resources (ASX: CRR) has engaged a firm of exploration specialists with extensive on-the-ground experience to kick off a hunt for the structural keys to its gold projects in Suriname, South America. The company recently secured exclusivity over the Gonini and Greenstars projects in September, which sit in the Guiana Shield - a vast, a

Two core trays from the 72-metre intersection in Accelerate Resources’ diamond drilling at its Woodie Woodie North manganese project, showing visual manganese mineralisation. Accelerate Resources (ASX: AX8) has hit thick zones of visual manganese mineralisation in all three large-diameter diamond holes drilled for metallurgical testwork at its Woodie Woodie North project in Western Australia’s East Pilbara. One hole returned an impressive 72-metre downhole span of visual

Maritana Minerals’ Black Swan processing hub development is well underway, 50km northeast of Kalgoorlie in WA, including the pictured demolition of redundant conveyors and structures ahead of new site works. Credit: File Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has cleared the final hurdle to develop a major gold processing facility in the heart of Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields, securing the final statutory permit needed to build its 2.5-million-tonne-per-annum Black Swan go

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining’s Pinjin gold project in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields, where aircore drilling has been testing concealed gold targets beneath transported cover. Credit: File Kalgoorlie Gold Mining (ASX: KAL) has opened a fresh front in its search for hidden riches in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields, defining multiple gold anomalies from first-pass aircore drilling at its regional-scale Laverton Tectonic Zone (LTZ) Flexure target. The program focu

Buru Energy drilling operations at the Rafael project in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, where first gas is targeted by early 2029. Credit: File Buru Energy (ASX: BRU) has fired the starting gun on the formal approvals process for its flagship Rafael conventional gas project in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, referring the development to the State’s Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia (EPA WA). The submission marks another de-risking step

A historic shallow pit at King River Resources’ Mindoolah gold project in the Murchison region of Western Australia. Credit: File King River Resources (ASX: KRR) has made an eye-catching start at its recently acquired Mindoolah gold project in Western Australia’s Murchison province, with its first-pass drill campaign finding plenty of shallow, high-grade gold intercepts. The company’s maiden reverse-circulation program delivered an impressive 79 per cent hit rate, with 15

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This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Dateline Resources Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File And the finger-pointing begins. Albo is acting annoyed and flabbergasted that the RBA had the temerity to jack up interest rates again, as if the latest rise has somehow arrived from another planet rather than after years of rampant government spending. Meanwhile, RBA Governor Michele Bullock has finally stopped gaslighting the Australian public on spending and made on