St George Mining has secured a $60 million funding package to fast-track its massive Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Brazil, with Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting tipping in $20 million.

King River Resources has kicked off a drone-borne magnetic survey at its Mindoolah gold project in WA, aiming to pinpoint the source of historic high-grade gold mined in the early 1900’s.

Golden Dragon Mining has applied for a new tenement right on the doorstep of Westgold's 2.3-million-ounce Big Bell gold mine in WA's Murchison region, adding to its already prospective Cue gold project.

Barkly Rare Earths has secured a second NT Govt grant, pocketing $115,000 for expansion drilling. It follows a recent $115,000 grant for metallurgy at its namesake rare earths project in the top end.

Critica is rolling out a dual critical minerals strategy at its WA rare earths and its Tasmanian tin-tungsten assets, with scoping studies for both projects on track for the September quarter.

Dateline Resources has identified three priority heavy rare earths targets at its Music Valley project in California following interpretation of a major geophysical survey.

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Western Mines Group diamond core photo showing examples of nickel sulphide blebs and segregations in the company’s ninth diamond hole put into its Mulga Tank project Western Mines Group (ASX: WMG) has intersected its most significant zone of deep basal mineralisation to date at its Mulga Tank nickel project, with assays confirming a 116-metre zone grading 0.50 per cent nickel from 1303m downhole. The hole, drilled from the base of an earlier phase-one reverse circulati

Diamond and reverse circulation drill rigs working at Hot Chili’s significant new copper-gold discovery, La Verde in Chile. Hot Chili (ASX: HCH) has continued to build out a significant copper-gold discovery at its La Verde prospect in Chile, with the latest drill hole delivering a huge 391.1-metre intersection grading 0.51 per cent copper equivalent from surface. The company says the impressive hit confirms the continuity of broad, high-grade mineralisation and adds fu

An electric vehicle battery pack which may benefit from Critical Resources’ breakthrough of successfully depositing a complete cathode, solid-state electrolyte and conductor in one step. Critical Resources (ASX: CRR) has delivered a huge manufacturing breakthrough from its solid-state battery evaluation program, successfully depositing a complete cathode, solid-state electrolyte and conductive network layer in a single, dry step. And the market would appear to agree, wi

Earthworks are already underway for Ora Banda’s new 3Mtpa processing facility at its Davyhurst gold project in Western Australia. Ora Banda Mining (ASX: OBM) has kicked its major expansion plans into high gear, executing a $233 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with GR Engineering Services for a new processing plant at its Davyhurst gold project in Western Australia. The deal locks in the construction of a new three-million-tonne-per-annum

Lake Maitland is Toro Energy's flagship prospect at the company’s Wiluna uranium project in WA. Toro is set to pass into Canadian hands as part of a $75M takeover by IsoEnergy. The final curtain is about to fall on Toro Energy (ASX: TOE) ’s long run as an independent ASX-listed uranium developer after a Federal Court ruling pushed the company’s Canadian takeover to the brink of completion. The court’s approval of the scheme of arrangement is the last major regulatory hu

Kalamazoo’s Mt Olympus deposit, part of the wider Ashburton Gold project, is 35 kilometres southeast of Paraburdoo in WA. Credit: File Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) has delivered a volley of broad, high-grade gold hits from a major drill campaign at the company’s 1.44-million-ounce Ashburton gold project in Western Australia as it targets resource growth to underpin a production profile of more than one million ounces. The results came from a resource definition program at t

Sarytogan Graphite has begun drilling its first diamond drill hole at the company’s Ilkin copper prospect in central Kazakhstan. Sarytogan Graphite (ASX: SGA) has fired up a maiden diamond drilling campaign at the Ilkin prospect, part of its Baynazar copper exploration project in central Kazakhstan, targeting what all the geological markers hint could be a significant copper porphyry system. The company has planned a four-hole, 1000-metre program designed to probe the m

The HOCH-1 wellhead and Christmas tree in Upper Austria ahead of production testing that could determine whether ADX Energy's shallow-gas discovery can kickstart a broader 60Bcf-plus gas growth story. ADX Energy (ASX: ADX) is about to discover whether its Upper Austrian shallow-gas play has genuine commercial punch, after mobilising surface testing equipment to its recently drilled HOCH-1 gas discovery well. The facilities will now be rigged up and pressure tested ahead o

Dalaroo Metals’ field crew open soil sampling lines at the Gold Ridge prospect, part of the company’s Bondoukou gold project in Côte d’Ivoire. Dalaroo Metals (ASX: DAL) has hit the kind of surface geochemistry numbers that would make many a hard-rock driller blush, unveiling a stunning peak soil sample result of 23.26 grams per tonne (g/t) gold at its Bondoukou gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. The outstanding result, taken from its Gold Ridge prospect, headli

Historic view of the Ivigtût cryolite mine in southern Greenland, where Eclipse Metals has confirmed high-grade fluorite and identified gallium and a broader suite of critical minerals within the historic pit environment. Eclipse Metals (ASX: EPM) has breathed new life into a century-old mine, uncovering a suite of high-tech critical minerals alongside high-grade fluorite at its historic Ivigtût project in southern Greenland. New assay results from two diamond drill hol

Great Southern Mining’s mineralised diamond drill core from 109.5m depth at Golden Boulder. The core is part of an intercept which delivered 0.72m at 4.07g/t gold. Great Southern Mining (ASX: GSN) is set to kick off the largest drill program since acquiring its Duketon tenure in 2021. A first phase of up to 20,000 metres in reverse circulation drilling is slated to begin next week at the company’s Duketon and Mon Ami gold projects in Western Australia’s prolific Laverton

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This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… 333D Limited. Just a week after questioning whether the AI-fuelled US rally was beginning to look a little frothy, the market delivered a fairly emphatic response. The tech-heavy Nasdaq copped a hiding last Friday, tumbling 4 per cent in its worst single-day performance in more than a year. At its low this week, the top-performing index was down more than 7 per cent since the start of June, wiping hundreds of billi