A reverse circulation drill rig in action at Noronex Limited’s Humpback-Damara copper and silver project in Namibia. Credit: File Noronex Limited (ASX: NRX) has once again expanded its Powerline copper project in Namibia, with fresh new copper-silver hits extending prospective zones at the mammoth Namibian project. A standout hole sliced through 4 metres of mineralisation grading 0.58 per cent copper and 69 grams per tonne (g/t) silver from 203m. The results come from the on

Aircore drilling at Gateway Mining’s Haflinger prospect within its extensive Yandal gold project in WA. Credit: File Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) has unveiled a substantial new gold discovery at its Yandal gold project near Wiluna in Western Australia, revealing a broad 52 metre aircore hit at its Haflinger prospect running 1.4 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from a depth of just 64 metres. The Haflinger discovery emerged from wide-spaced, shallow aircore along the company’s regiona

Exploring in the shadow of the headframe – Neometals Ltd has delivered high-grade hits from its historic Barrambie gold play. Credit: File Neometals Ltd (ASX: NMT) has continued to rack up high-grade hits at its Barrambie gold project in Western Australia’s Mid-West region, delivering a bonanza 1m at 38.4 grams per tonne (g/t) from first pass drilling along strike from the company’s historic Golden Treasure mine. Other notable results included 5m running at 5.65g/t from 84m,

Black Mountain's Valhalla gas project in the Canning Basin has received government environmental approvals near Buru Energy's Rafael project. Buru Energy (ASX: BRU) says it is inching ever closer to production in Western Australia after the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) approved exploration and well appraisal at the neighbouring Valhalla gas project in the Canning Basin. Buru received its own EPA approval in September last year and says the move is a major endorse

St George Mining executives meet with US government representatives at EXPOSIBRAM in October 2025. Third from left, John Prineas (St George Chairman); fourth from left, Gabriel Escobar (Chargé d’Affaires, US Embassy Brasilia); fifth from left, Adriano Rios (Director, St George Brasil). Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has secured extra runway in its push to feed US rare earths demand, extending its strategic alliance with Ohio-based REalloys - a key player already su

American West Metals Storm copper project in Nunavut, Canada, where an upgraded resource has boosted the project to 276,000 tonnes of copper. Credit: File American West Metals (ASX: AW1) has dropped a bumper resource upgrade at its flagship Storm copper project in Nunavut, Canada, increasing the deposit’s contained metal by more than 20 per cent and upgrading the resource confidence. The boosted inventory now sits at 28.2 million tonnes of mineralisation grading one per cent

Litchfield Minerals’ Silver Valley Two prospect stole the show during a scout review of the company’s Silver Valley project area in the NT, boasting the strongest vein outcropping and most extensive historic workings noted during the visit. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has wrapped up a boots-on-the-ground reconnaissance sweep across its 165 square kilometre Silver Valley project area, a polymetallic lead-silver-copper-gold-zinc exploration play in the Northern Territory cen

Stunning visible gold in drilling at Advance Metals’ Happy Valley gold project in the prolific Victorian goldfields. Advance Metals (ASX: AVM) has discovered new visible gold mineralisation less than 50m below surface at its Happy Valley prospect in Victoria’s goldfields. A step-out diamond hole intersected the gold in a previously unrecognised quartz vein structure roughly 100m east of the old mine area. The assay results confirmed the zone’s strength, returning a 0.6-metre

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West Wits Mining has locked in $27.5 million from institutions to fully fund its Qala Shallows gold mine in South Africa through to first production, while keeping growth upside alive across its gold and uranium portfolio.

Reach Resources’ historical gold working at its Murchison South gold project. Credit: File Reach Resources (ASX: RR1) has added serious weight to its Murchison South gold ambitions near Payne’s Find in Western Australia after securing a second granted mining lease that stitches together historic pits, underexplored ground and multiple development options just as gold prices continue to glitter. The newly granted mining lease folds the East Daffodil gold deposit into the comp

Malachite-rich, highly altered drill chips from Sarytogan Graphite’s recent drilling in Kazakhstan have highlighted a 600-metre-wide copper geochemical anomaly. Sarytogan Graphite (ASX: SGA) has caught a strong whiff of copper at its Baynazar project in Kazakhstan using some clever geology and a shallow drilling program that appears to have scratched far more than just the surface. The company’s latest results from shallow drilling at the Ilkin prospect have outlined a stron

Litchfield Minerals’ magnetics image with superimposed IP survey coverage (black lines) targeting southwest extensions of the Oonagalabi Formation (light blue) towards Silverado, before pivoting to southern magnetic structures trending towards the company’s VT1 target. If there is one thing explorers love more than tantalising outcrop, it is the idea that the real prize might be lurking just out of view beneath shallow cover. This is exactly the driver behind Litchfield Miner

Sunrise on True North Copper’s emerging copper-cobalt-silver Mt Oxide project in northern Queensland. Credit: File True North Copper (ASX: TNC) has continued to build momentum at the company’s Mt Oxide project in northwest Queensland, delivering another set of solid drilling results that confirm the scale, continuity and growth potential of its emerging copper-silver-cobalt system. A phase two reverse circulation (RC) drilling program has locked in the geometry of mineralisa

Aircore drilling at Critica Mineral’s Jupiter rare earths project, near Yalgoo in WA’s mid-west region. Credit: File Rare earths company Critica Limited (ASX: CRI) has officially shifted gears at its flagship Jupiter project in the infrastructure-rich Yalgoo region of Western Australia, kicking off a scoping study that marks the company’s transition from technical proof to commercial reality. The study will be led by global engineering group Sedgman, supported by Snowden Opti

Olympio Metals diamond drill core from hole B0-21-08 at the Paquin East prospect showing visible gold within characteristic blue-grey quartz from 184.5m depth. The one metre interval 184-185m assayed 1m at 129.25g/t gold. Olympio Metals (ASX: OLY) has wasted no time showing its hand at its Bousquet gold project in Quebec, delivering a maiden diamond drilling program that has landed more than 100 significant gold intercepts that confirm the company is onto something big along

Core from Strickland Metals’ Shanac deposit in Serbia showing massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in green garnet skarn from 317m depth. The intercept graded 18.1g/t gold equivalent, including 1.8g/t gold, 7.2 per cent copper and 229g/t silver. Strickland Metals (ASX: STK) has come out swinging in the New Year, delivering another impressive set of diamond drill results from its cornerstone Shanac deposit within the company’s Rogozna gold and base metals project in southern Serbi

Drillers carefully pull out high-grade core from drill rods at Hot Chili’s La Verde copper project in Chile. Credit: File Hot Chili (ASX: HCH) has served up another encouraging drill update from its rapidly growing La Verde copper-gold discovery in Chile, with the latest results continuing to expand what is emerging as a substantial, high-grade porphyry system just 30 kilometres from the company’s flagship Costa Fuego project. The company’s third reported diamond drillhole f

Litchfield Minerals has launched a 1000-metre maiden diamond drilling program at its Oonagalabi copper-zinc project in the NT, prompted by multi-element results from its previous drilling at the project.

St George Mining’s diamond drill rig in action at its Araxá rare earths project in Brazil. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX:SGQ) has landed another set of jaw-dropping rare earths and niobium results at its wholly owned Araxá project in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with diamond-drill assays confirming thick, high-grade intercepts from surface, beyond the current world-class resource outline. The current resource stands at 40.6 million tonnes grading 4.13 per cent total rare earth

Gateway Mining geological staff logging core at the company’s Yandal gold project near Wiluna in Western Australia. Credit: File Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) has turned up the heat on its flagship Yandal gold project 85 kilometres northeast of Wiluna in Western Australia, with fresh aircore assays confirming significant high-grade gold mineralisation along a trend that encompasses the company’s emerging Mustang-Pony prospects. Drilling has continued to define two major structur

Excavation has uncovered intact leach tank footings, mill foundations and crusher infrastructure at Dateline’s Colosseum gold project in California, now being assessed for reuse in the planned redevelopment. Credit: Flie Dateline Resources (ASX: DTR) is closing in on completion of its Colosseum gold feasibility study in California, boosted by strong metallurgical results. Its work appears perfectly timed as the gold price surged to an all-time high of US$4,690 (A$7012) an ou

Infini Resources mapping and sampling at Reitenbach Lake in Canada. Credit: File Infini Resources (ASX: I88) has jumped back into the uranium spotlight, with fresh rock-chip assays from its Reynolds Lake and Reitenbach Lake projects on the eastern flanks of Canada’s legendary Athabasca Basin. The company’s latest phase two follow-up sampling results have delivered the goods, confirming high-grade, coherent, system-scale uranium mineralisation at surface and extending anomalis

Anaiwan cultural mural at Larvotto Resources’ Hillgrove Hub. The artwork will feature on the Hillgrove high-vis work shirts. Larvotto Resources (ASX: LRV) is fast emerging as a near-term critical minerals producer, with refurbishment works and underground mining activities at its Hillgrove antimony–gold project in NSW on track and, importantly, on budget, ahead of a return to production by mid-year. Alongside Hillgrove, the company is lining up its next growth moves, eyeing a