Horizon Minerals’ Black Swan plant, 50km northeast of Kalgoorlie in WA, is being refurbished and upgraded to convert it from nickel to gold processing. Credit: File Horizon Minerals (ASX: HRZ) is lining up a low-risk run for its planned Black Swan gold processing hub restart in WA’s Goldfields. The company’s current phase of mining at Boorara was completed last December and has mutually terminated its ore purchase agreement with Paddington Gold Mine, effective on 11 February

Quantum Graphite’s JV partner Sunlands Pure Group attended the signing ceremony in the offices of His Excellency Sayyed Dr Hamad bin Ahmed bin Saud Al Busaidi, Governor of Al Buraimi (right), with Mr Nasser Al Naaimi representing Sunlands. Credit: File Quantum Graphite’s (ASX: QGL) bid to turn its century-old Uley flake graphite mine into a globally relevant supply-chain play has taken a giant stride offshore, with its downstream technology partner signing up local government

Terrain Minerals’ aircore drill rig and crew on site at the Lort River rare earths project in Western Australia. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) is back on the drill pads at its fully owned Lort River rare earths project in the Albany Fraser belt, 50 kilometres northwest of Esperance in WA. The company has launched a critical follow-up aircore program designed to determine whether a standout, year-old rare-earth drill hit could herald a much bigger story. The drilli

H3 Energy’s massive Rickerscote hydrogen, helium and natural gas target sits in South Australia’s remote Officer Basin. Deep beneath the red dirt of outback South Australia lies what could be one of the most significant untapped oil and gas discoveries in Australia’s history. And now, ASX-listed H3 Energy (ASX: H3E) has brought in one of the world’s most respected energy dealmakers to help turn that potential into reality. The company has appointed London-based LAB Energy Adv

Reverse circulation drilling underway at Premier1’s Yalgoo gold project in WA. Credit: File Perth-based Premier1 (ASX: PLC) has wrapped up a reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign at its Yalgoo gold project in Western Australia, testing a series of high-priority targets as the company looks to expand its foothold in the prospective greenstone belt. The program drilled 16 RC holes for a combined 2776 metres, chasing structural and geochemical sweet spots in the large-scale

High altitude Andean drilling at BHP and Lundin’s Vicuna monster venture near Flagship Minerals’ Pantanillo gold project. In the rarefied air of high-altitude mineral exploration, the old real estate mantra of “location, location, location” carries the weight of billion-dollar opportunities. For junior explorer Flagship Minerals (ASX: FLG) , its strategic lock-up in Chile’s celebrated Maricunga belt is shaping up as a monster district-scale opportunity, with new data revealin

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Triangle Energy has launched an offshore exploration study in Indonesia. Credit: File Triangle Energy (ASX: TEG) has taken a fresh swing at Southeast Asia’s hydrocarbon potential, signing a joint study agreement (JSA) that could put the ASX-listed junior in the box seat for a future production sharing contract (PSC). The deal will see Triangle undertake a technical study alongside an Indonesian institution, with the work carried out under the oversight of the nation’s Direct

St George Mining’s Brazil country head (left) and Fernando Contadini, chief executive officer of Nanum (right), at the signing of the MoU. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) is taking aim at the “basket value” problem that plagues many rare earths projects, signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore a downstream process that could upgrade the product mix from its Brazilian Araxá project. Under a non-binding deal with Brazilian fine chemicals group Nanum Nan

Locksley Resources has produced 99.5% antimony metal from its Desert Antimony mine in California, similar to the production-grade ingots pictured. Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) has successfully produced 99.5 per cent purity antimony trioxide from feedstock sourced at its Desert Antimony mine, part of the wider Mojave project in California. The company says its industry-grade metal was achieved through ongoing metallurgical optimisation programs, marking a major step forward i

Ora Banda Mining’s newest Sapphire trend lies to the south of its Riverina gold mine near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Credit: File Ora Banda Mining (ASX: OBM) has continued to knock its gold exploration out of the park, unlocking a fresh parallel gold trend at its emerging Little Gem prospect in Western Australia. The new results have stretched the burgeoning system’s footprint to 1500 metres just a day after a monster 1.33-million-ounce resource uplift at its Round Dam

Auric Mining’s early days, opening up its Jeffreys Find gold mine near Norseman, Western Australia. Credit: File Auric Mining (ASX: AWJ) has tied a golden bow around its maiden mining venture, banking a final $2.2 million cash distribution from the company’s Jeffreys Find gold mine, near Norseman in Western Australia. The final payment, received yesterday, has wrapped up Auric’s 50:50 joint venture with Kalgoorlie-based BML Ventures, delivering the company a whopping $16.5 mi

The road to production is almost complete at Aguia Resources’ phosphate project in Brazil - this weighbridge is almost finished and is awaiting installation of the weighing modules. Credit: File Aguia Resources (ASX: AGR) has moved another step closer to becoming a major fertiliser producer after securing a key mining concession for its Três Estradas phosphate project in southern Brazil. The permit, granted by Brazil’s National Mining Agency last week, represents a major reg

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MetalsGrove Mining’s PortablePPB field lab set-up in Zuénoula, used for rapid gold assaying of soil samples. Credit: File MetalsGrove Mining (ASX: MGA) is steadily stitching together a promising new gold story in central-west Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, with early-stage soil sampling pointing to a second priority gold target at its Zuénoula permit. The new target, dubbed the “Fifty-Five Area”, sits one kilometre north of the company’s previously flagged Central Area and is d

Drilling at Ora Banda Mining’s Round Dam trend in West Australia’s Goldfields region. Credit: File Ora Banda Mining (ASX: OBM) has unveiled a colossal tenfold resource boost to its emerging Round Dam gold trend in Western Australia, catapulting the prospect’s previous inventory by an additional 964 per cent to a new total of 1.33 million ounces. The monster mic-drop moment caught the eyes of the market with the already $2.2 billion company piling on an extra $480 million in

K-Drill has been contracted to run a 4-hole diamond drill program at Corazon Mining’s Two Pools gold project near Meekatharra in Western Australia. Credit: File Corazon Mining (ASX: CZN) has taken a determined stride towards its first sub-surface test of the company’s fully-owned Two Pools gold project, 200 kilometres northeast of Meekatharra in Western Australia. The company has locked in contractor K-Drill and finalised a tightly targeted maiden program, comprising an init

St George Mining’s round-the-clock diamond drilling at Araxá is keeping all hands on deck in the core store. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) seems irrepressible as it keeps the drill bit spinning at its 100 per cent-owned Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Brazil and delivering more assays showing thick, high-grade mineralisation from surface. The company says the latest results from 16 diamond drill holes have confirmed strong grade continuity in the monster c

Noronex Limited’s recently divested Dordabis copper project in northern Namibia. Credit: File Noronex Limited (ASX: NRX) has completed the divestment of its non-core Dordabis copper project in Namibia, securing $440,000 cash to streamline its flagship uranium and copper projects in Central Africa. With the sale now fully settled, the company is pressing ahead with exploration across its remaining projects in Namibia and the Kalahari Copper Belt. Notably, the Dordabis licence