A view of zone 3, part of Osmond Resources’ Orion EU critical minerals project in southern Spain. Osmond Resources (ASX: OSM) has received a first set of barnstorming assays back from its 15-hole diamond drilling program in Spain, with the results confirming why the company’s Orión EU critical-minerals project has been generating so much industry chatter of late. Orión sits in southern Spain’s Jaén province and spans a massive 228 square kilometres, covering 756 claims across

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Aurum Resources 0.87 million ounce Napié deposit also bears evidence of the extensive artisanal gold mining that can be seen across the company’s Boundiali project about 100km to the northwest Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) has once again lit up the screen with more bonanza-grade gold hits, including a stunning 3.1 metres at 70.78 g/t gold in its 100,000-metre infill and extension drilling program at the company’s 2.41 million ounce Boundiali project in West Africa. The 3.1m at

Jon Childs from JT Metallurgical Services holding a doré bar from Auric Mining’s Munda starter pit near Widgiemooltha in Western Australia. Credit: File Auric Mining (ASX: AWJ) has delivered a thumping finish to the year, raking in $14.6 million in gold sales and banking $8.8 million in net revenues after milling and haulage costs from its Munda starter pit near Widgiemooltha in Western Australia In a gold market that continues to sizzle above A$6,000 an ounce, the company h

Advance Metals managing director Dr Adam McKinnon is driving the company’s Victorian and Mexican projects forward. Advance Metals Limited (ASX: AVM) has intersected new high-grade gold from the deepest diamond hole to date at its Happy Valley Deposit, within the company’s Myrtleford Project near Wodonga in the prolific Victorian Goldfields. The exceptional intersection of 3.7m at 16.6g/t gold included a 0.8m zone assaying almost 2 ounces gold to the tonne, substantially exten

True North Copper has defined shallow high-grade copper in drilling at its Aquila target at its Mount Oxide project in northwest Queensland. Credit: File True North Copper (ASX: TNC) has just dropped its most compelling copper result recorded at its exciting new Aquila discovery at the company’s Mount Oxide project in northwest Queensland, with a 7m standout intercept coming in at a blistering 7.9% copper from only 134 metres down-hole. The company’s latest results from its

TMK Energy has smashed another gas production record at its Pilot Well project, part of the company’s wider Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas project in southern Mongolia. Credit: File TMK Energy (ASX: TMK) has smashed another gas production record, pumping out 500 cubic metres of gas a day across successive days from its Pilot Well project, part of its Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas project in southern Mongolia. The company is also on track to punch out yet another record with its

Viridis Mining and Minerals has secured the backing of Export Development Canada, with the export credit agency offering to stump-up US$100 million in debt financing for the development of the company’s Colossus rare earths project in Brazil. Credit: File Viridis Mining and Minerals (ASX: VMM) has secured the backing of one of the world’s leading export credit agencies, with Export Development Canada (EDC) offering to stump-up a maximum of US$100 million (A$153 million) in de

A drill rig in action at Dateline Resources Colosseum gold and rare earths project in California. Credit: File Dateline Resources (ASX: DTR) has uncorked a set of thumping gold hits at its Colosseum project in California, pulling broad, consistent mineralisation from beneath the pit floor and inside the existing shell. The fresh batch of assays have come from a concerted 32-hole, 4,257-metre drilling blitz, with a diamond rig and two RC rigs working in tandem to chase infill,

Moonlight Resources will immediately start a drilling program at the company’s Clermont gold project in Queensland once listed. Moonlight Resources (ASX: ML8) is set to spring onto the ASX boards ahead of plans to fast-track a maiden resource at its brownfield Clermont gold project in Queensland. The company is also planning to explore a vast critical minerals frontier in the Northern Territory called the MacDonnell project that is already showing some huge, rare earths grad

Red Metal proposed ion exchange plant designed, built and operated by Core IPEX. Credit: File Red Metal Ltd (ASX: RDM) says it has made a major breakthrough in metallurgical testing of its rare earths ore from the company’s Sybella project in Queensland that will result in less impurities and higher grades. The company has managed to replace the standard two-stage impurity removal process with a simple Ion exchange process that will lower costs and increase purities. Ion exc

Neometals will soon see its innovative technologies at the core of a giant vanadium recycling plant in the Finnish port of Pori. Credit: File ASX listed Neometals (ASX: NMT) has welcomed the backing of the Government of Finland which will contribute a €48.7M (A$86.8M) grant towards the building of a vanadium recycling plant in the Finish port of Pori. The plant will recycle vanadium industrial waste streams using technology developed by Neometals which owns 86% of the €400M p

Terrain Minerals drilling at its Smokebush project last year, about 5km south of the Lightning prospect. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) is swinging back into action at its Smokebush project near Yalgoo, 350km north of Perth in WA, with a 4500m reverse circulation (RC) drilling program set to launch at its Lightning gold-silver prospect in the northwest of the project’s tenement block. The proposed 21-hole campaign - split across 3200m for resource extension drilling

Outcropping rocks found in zone three, part of Osmond Resources’ Orión EU critical minerals project in southern Spain. Heavy minerals hunter Osmond Resources (ASX: OSM) has intersected further quartzite layers that look prospective for a suite of lucrative heavy minerals like rutile, ilmenite, zircon and monazite at its flagship Orión EU critical minerals project in southern Spain. The ongoing drill program has punched out a total of five holes for 1302 metres with another t

Samples from Oonagalabi Main Zone prospect Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has hit 91m of copper going 0.9% and 1.3% zinc from 8m depth at its Oonagalabi Main Zone prospect, located 120kms north of Alice Springs. It is one of the strongest drilling intersections to date by Lichfield and supports a reliable base case of a rich polymetallic mineralised envelope outcropping for at least 1.5kms along strike. Within the 91m intersection, a zone of 37m @ 0.9% copper, 1.8% zinc, 0.1%

Sample preparation onsite at Storm. Credit: File American West Metals (ASX: AW1) has taken another major leap forward at its Storm copper project on Somerset Island in Nunavut, Canada after defining a monster 4.1km-long geochemical copper anomaly that mirrors the structural trend of its known Storm deposits. The newly coined Chevron prospect, identified through regional soil chemistry, spans up to 700 metres in width and is positioned within the same prospective Allen Bay Fo

Locksley Resources has teamed up with Columbia University in New York to fast-track its US rare earths processing technology. Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) has inked a landmark partnership with Columbia University in New York in a move that could dramatically accelerate America’s push to rebuild its rare earths and critical minerals processing muscle on home soil. The timing could not be sharper either, arriving just as the US Government announced it is rolling out a US$355 m

Larvotto Resources is using four diamond drill rigs to systematically test known zones of mineralisation to add to its resources at the company’s Hillgrove gold and antimony project in New South Wales. Larvotto Resources (ASX: LRV) has rung the till again at its Hillgrove project in NSW, with first pass diamond drilling at the company’s Freehold prospect delivering broad, high-grade antimony-gold zones alongside a surprise tungsten hit, all painting the picture of a new syst

Critica Limited’s Jupiter rare earths project in WA contains a massive 1.8 billion tonnes grading 1700 parts per million total rare earths at a 1000ppm cut-off grade, including about 70,000 tonnes of gallium oxide. Credit: File Critica Limited (ASX: CRI) has locked in a $500k investment from specialist junior mining investor Lion Selection Group Limited as part of its oversubscribed $8 million placement to accelerate the company’s massive Jupiter rare earths project. The comm

Augustus Minerals and ACM PNG personnel on their way to visiting the Vanapa river project site in the Central Province of PNG, about 35km north of Port Moresby. Credit: File Augustus Minerals (ASX: AUG) has expanded its push into PNG, home to multiple elephant sized mineral deposits, with an exploration licence (EL) application covering 1906 sq km in the prospective Vanapa River region, 35km north of Port Moresby. The application follows a recent site visit by management, wh