Augustus Minerals’ Music Well project near Leonora in WA’s Eastern Goldfields. Credit: File Augustus Minerals (ASX: AUG) is preparing to unleash the drill bit on a tantalising new high-grade gold target at its Music Well project near Leonora in Western Australia. The prospect, dubbed St Patrick’s Well, previously threw up surface sampling grades as high as 30.4 grams per tonne (g/t) gold. The company expects drilling to restart once ground conditions improve, with a sit

Estrella Resources is expanding its exploration footprint in Timor-Leste, adding two new licences prospective for copper and gold. Credit: File Estrella Resources (ASX: ESR) is beefing up its presence in the emerging mineral jurisdiction of Timor-Leste, securing two new 50-square-kilometre exploration licences that are prospective for large copper and gold systems. The company says its latest additions have been accompanied by a key conditional approval for a maiden exp

Kalamazoo Resources’ Mt Piper project sits in the highly endowed gold-antimony region of central Victoria. Credit: File Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) has dramatically expanded its hunt for a Fosterville-style gold-antimony deposit in Central Victoria, consolidating a massive 1,574-square-kilometre land package and confirming mineralisation with first-pass drilling at its Mt Piper project. The company has secured new tenure over the Seymour and Hughes Creek exploration

Non-executive chairman Warwick Grigor (centre) in front of the underground gold-bearing veins at Aguia Resources’ Santa Barbara mine in Colombia. Credit: File Aguia Resources (ASX: AGR) has delivered its best production results to date from its Santa Barbara gold mine in Colombia, with August figures showing record output of 942 grams of gold at an impressive grade of over 10 grams per tonne (g/t). The performance more than doubles the project’s previous best month, which s

Auric Mining has acquired a significant package of second-hand processing infrastructure (pictured), including crushing and processing components, mill structure, conveyors and screening circuit for its Burbanks gold project. Credit: File Auric Mining (ASX: AWJ) has pulled off a coup, snapping up a significant package of processing infrastructure for its Burbanks gold project for the bargain-basement price of just $1.2 million. The company says the deal was struck at a f

Terrain Minerals’ Lightning gold project, within the active Murchison gold corridor in Western Australia. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has cleared a major technical hurdle at its Lightning gold project in Western Australia, with metallurgical testwork confirming high gold recoveries of up to 93.7 per cent using a simple, conventional processing flowsheet. The results indicate the gold is free-milling in nature and can be treated using a standard WA gold plan

A reverse circulation drill rig in action at Barkly Rare Earths’ maiden drilling campaign in the Northern Territory. In what can only be described as a stellar assay- results debut, Barkly Rare Earths (ASX: BAK) has hit significant rare earths mineralisation in every single one of the first 28 holes assayed from a maiden drilling campaign at its flagship Barkly project in the Northern Territory. RThe results, from the company’s 10,000-metre phase one resource expansion p

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Visual copper (chalcocite, dark grey) and zinc (sphalerite, brownish) mineralisation with magnetite in drill core from American West Metals’ 350m western step-out at its West Desert project in Utah. Credit: File American West Metals (ASX: AW1) has hit thick zones of visual copper, zinc and molybdenum mineralisation from three new diamond holes at its wholly-owned West Desert project in Utah, pushing the mineralisation beyond the deposit's existing footprint. The ongoing

Diamond drilling at Aureka Limited’s Irvine gold project, North Resolution lode, located in Victoria’s prolific Stawell Corridor, which has a production history of more than 5 million ounces of gold. Aureka Limited (ASX: AKA) has hit high-grade gold outside the boundary of its 398,300-ounce resource at the flagship Irvine gold play in Victoria. In a significant breakthrough, the company has also landed the first notable mineralisation within a previously untested two-kilo

Amplia Therapeutics is preparing to recruit patients for its Phase 2 PRROSE ovarian cancer trial after finalising the study plan for its narmafotinib combination treatment. Clinical-stage biotech Amplia Therapeutics (ASX: ATX) has finalised plans for its PRROSE phase two ovarian cancer study, clearing a key preparatory hurdle and opening a second cancer front for its leading drug candidate narmafotinib. The move takes the drug beyond Amplia’s established pancreatic ca

McLaren Minerals has hit an impressive 24 metres at 7.54 per cent heavy minerals at its wholly-owned McLaren titanium project in Western Australia. McLaren Minerals (ASX: MML) has hit a thick, high-grade zone of titanium-bearing sands right from the surface, with a standout drill intercept of 24 metres grading 7.54 per cent heavy minerals (HM) at its namesake project in the Eucla basin, Western Australia. The impressive hit headlined the latest 61-hole batch of assays f

Broken Hill Gold’s induced polarisation geophysics survey is underway at its White Dam gold-copper project in South Australia. Credit: File Broken Hill Gold (ASX: BH6) has launched a major geophysics program and is mobilising a second drill rig to its 100 per cent-owned White Dam gold-copper project in South Australia, ramping up the hunt for sulphides to determine whether its high-grade Icebreaker discovery is the tip of a much bigger iceberg. The company has started 4

Visible malachite and azurite in the core from 20 metres downhole from the second hole drilled at Sarytogan Graphite’s Ilskan prospect in Kazakhstan. Sarytogan Graphite (ASX: SGA) has significantly extended copper mineralisation at its Ilksan prospect in central Kazakhstan, delivering a massive 318-metre-long intersection from surface to the end of the hole. The result comes from the second of a three-hole diamond drill program and follows a similarly impressive 229-metre

TMK Energy’s LF-07 gas flare at its Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas project in Mongolia, where rising gas flows are building the case for broader field development. Credit: File TMK Energy (ASX: TMK) has chalked up another production milestone at its 100 per cent-owned Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas (CSG) project in Mongolia, with flows showing an 11 per cent increase on August’s daily average and continuing to build across its production pilot. Average gas production over t

Critica Limited’s tungsten mineralisation in scheelite fluorescing under ultraviolet light at Mt Lindsay in Tasmania, where drill core returned 147m at 1 per cent tin and 0.2 per cent tungsten trioxide. Credit: File Critica Limited (ASX: CRI) has planted a major flag at its wholly owned Mt Lindsay project in Tasmania, putting a JORC 2012-compliant resource around what it describes as one of Australia’s largest undeveloped tin-tungsten deposits. The project-wide inventor

Coarse visible gold observed at approximately 137m downhole within the 5.3m at 26.54g/t interval in historical drill core from Elk Range Mining’s Friday gold project in Idaho, USA. Credit: File It’s not often a company strikes paydirt by simply kicking the tyres on some old drill core. Still, Elk Range Mining (ASX: ELK) has done just that, unearthing coarse visible gold in historical core from its Friday gold project 15 kilometres southwest of Elk City in Idaho, USA. Th

Forrestania is building a regional processing hub strategy in Western Australia, with the Taipan open pit (pictured), operated by MEGA, set to provide the first ore under a new agreement. Credit: File Forrestania Resources (ASX: FRS) has secured a significant ore supply stream for its Western Australian gold processing hubs, executing a deal that gives it the right to purchase and process up to two million tonnes of ore over the next two years. The company has struck tw

ADX Energy has lined up Empyrean Energy to fund 20 per cent of its GOLD-1 Austrian gas well for a 10 per cent interest, ahead of a planned Q4 spud, following the nearby HOCH-1 discovery and production tests.

Sarytogan has produced high-quality coated spherical purified graphite (pictured) from its giant deposit in Kazakhstan, exceeding key lithium-ion battery specifications. Sarytogan Graphite (ASX: SGA) has reached a major milestone in its downstream processing ambitions, producing high-quality, battery-grade coated spherical purified graphite (CSPG) that smashed key industry specifications for use in lithium-ion batteries. Testwork on a 24-tonne bulk sample from its massi