Kaiser Reef has delivered a robust December quarter lifting its cash position by $13.7 million to $43.1 million, while posting solid gold production from its flagship Henty gold mine in Tasmania.

Venus Metals has unlocked fresh exploration upside at its Bellchambers gold project near Sandstone in WA’s Mid West, with a CSIRO-led hyperspectral study pinpointing new zones closely linked to gold potential.

Barkly Rare Earths hit the ASX boards with a flourish today, up almost 50% to 29.5c in early trade following a fresh $8 million capital raising to fund its namesake rare earths project in the NT’s Tennant Creek region.

Premier1 has locked up full ownership of one of the Yalgoo greenstone belt’s last remaining gold packages in Western Australia not already in the hands of a multi-billion-dollar gold producer.

Great Southern Mining’s Megan Veins target area, where two outcrops reveal (left) laminated and stockwork quartz veins and (right) strongly hydrothermally altered dolerite. Credit: File Mining giant Gold Fields Limited is getting ready to fire up the rigs again at Great Southern Mining (ASX: GSN) 's vast Edinburgh Park project in north Queensland, with drilling set to restart after the north Queensland wet season. In particular, near-term excitement is building around the Mt

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Ora Banda Mining will increase capacity at its Davyhurst operation, bringing a third open pit into play at Waihi. Credit: File Ora Banda Mining (ASX: OBM) has doubled down on its organic growth playbook, with the board signing off on $63 million in key investments to crank up capacity across processing, mining and camp infrastructure at its fully-owned Davyhurst project in WA’s goldfields. The centrepiece is a $10 million commitment to advance the proposed three million tonne

Golden Dragon Mining undertaking the company’s initial drilling program at Coodardy. Credit: File Golden Dragon Mining (ASX: GDR) has doubled down on its gold bet in Western Australia’s fertile Murchison Goldfields by consolidating 600 square kilometres of prime, underexplored tenure into a single, centralised landholding known as the Cue gold project. Notably, the broader district is an infrastructure-rich, tier one mining jurisdiction that has played host to more than 35 m

Venus Metals owns a 1% net smelter royalty over the Youanmi gold mine and is a substantial shareholder of Rox Resources Ltd, which is driving the mine’s development. Credit: File Venus Metals Corporation (ASX: VMC) has kicked off a formal strategic review of its portfolio and has engaged a top corporate gun, Sydney-based amicaa Advisors to initiate a formal strategic review of the company’s Western Australian mineral assets. As a renowned consultant, amicaa has a strong repu

Black shale cuttings from Octava Minerals’ Byro critical minerals project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region. Credit: File Octava Minerals (ASX: OCT) has officially fired the starting gun on drilling at its Byro critical minerals project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region, launching a maiden exploration program designed to test a vast black shale system prospective for rare earth elements, lithium and vanadium. The 1100-metre aircore drill program marks Octava’s firs

Its gold, gold, gold for Rio2 …. and copper

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A typical example of gold and stibnite in quartz veining, similar to that being targeted by Pacgold Limited at its St George project in Northern Queensland. Pacgold Limited (ASX: PGO) has kept the drill bit busy and the excitement ticking over at its St George gold–antimony project in North Queensland, wrapping up its maiden reverse circulation (RC) drilling program with another set of shallow, high-grade antimony hits. The company says the new results have added weight to t

Mount Ridley Mines has delivered a maiden 368Mt scandium resource near Esperance, ranking it among the world’s largest and strengthening the company’s growing multi-element critical minerals portfolio.

Maiden drilling underway at Noronex Limited’s Etango North uranium project in Namibia. Credit: File Noronex (ASX: NRX) has wasted no time turning theory into action, with the company confirming a maiden reverse circulation drilling program is now underway at its Etango North uranium project in Namibia. It is the first time the company has drilled specifically for uranium in the country and signals a big step up from desktop geology to dirt-under-the-fingernails exploration.

Meeka Metals has notched up another robust quarter at its Murchison Gold mine in Western Australia, lifting output to 9174 ounces while generating $23.9 million in cash, to take its holdings to $67.4 million.

An underground drive at Horizon Minerals’ Burbanks gold mine in Coolgardie, Western Australia. Credit: File Horizon Minerals (ASX: HRZ) has continued to intersect bonanza-grade gold in drilling at its Burbanks gold project, south of Coolgardie in Western Australia, with assays confirming another stellar intercept grading up to 396.6 grams per tonne (g/t). The latest results came from the remaining holes drilled in late 2025 and have built directly on to the ultra-high-grade

St George Mining has hired a leading government relations firm to deepen ties with the US as it pursues potential incentives and funding support for its Araxá critical minerals project in Brazil. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has made a strategic move to strengthen ties with the United States Government by appointing a leading government relations firm, as the aspiring producer looks to provide in-demand critical minerals such as rare earths and niobium to the Wes

Mineralised zinc-indium outcropping at Venus Metals Corporation’s Pincer Well project near Youanmi in Western Australia. Credit: File Venus Metals (ASX: VMC) has turned the spotlight back onto the Youanmi district, outlining a sizeable zinc–indium exploration target at its Pincher Well prospect, just 15 kilometres from Rox Resources’ Youanmi gold mine redevelopment and close to its own titanium–vanadium–iron ground. The newly defined target sits within the Pincher Dome volca

Core trays showing visible sulphides from diamond drill hole OFD003 at Octava Minerals’ Sweeney’s prospect in western Tasmania. Credit: File Octava Minerals (ASX: OCT) has kicked off its 2026 field season with a flourish after firing up the diamond rigs again at its Sweeney’s copper-zinc-silver prospect in western Tasmania and snagging metres of visible sulphide mineralisation in the very first hole of the year. Three diamond drill holes for a total of 457 metres of the plan

The historic headframe standing above Great Southern Mining’s Mon Ami deposit at its Duketon gold project in Western Australia. Credit: File Great Southern Mining (ASX: GSN) has unveiled shallow gold hits at its Mon Ami project in Laverton, Western Australia, hinting at a potentially new parallel lode that could expand the deposit’s existing 55,500-ounce resource. 2146 metres of aircore drilling was completed, targeting gold anomalies to the north of the existing 1.56 millio

True North Copper has beefed up its Queensland copper-gold inventory after recent reverse-circulation drilling returned impressive numbers to boost its resource. Credit: File Queensland-based explorer True North Copper (ASX: TNC) has beefed up its Wallace North copper-gold mineral resource after incorporating the numbers from two reverse-circulation (RC) drillholes completed last year. The Wallace North deposit forms part of the company’s wider Cloncurry copper project in no

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Red Metal Ltd’s first drilling at its Pardoo play in WA’s Pilbara has hit anomalous gold in cover sequences, with a growing geochemical trail hinting at potential basement mineralisation near the Hemi corridor.