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

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Horizon Minerals is fast-tracking refurbishment of its Black Swan processing plant to treat ores drawn from its extensive surrounding portfolio of gold projects. Credit: File Perth-based Horizon Minerals (ASX: HRZ) has struck a binding heads of agreement to sell its 100 per cent-owned non-core Lake Johnston nickel project in Western Australia to emerging explorer Forrestania Resources for a total consideration of $35 million which includes a $30m cash component. The deal, ex

A reverse circulation drill rig in action at Pacgold Limited’s Alice River gold project in Queensland. Credit: File Pacgold’s (ASX: PGO) northern Queensland exploration campaign is gathering momentum, with fresh gold hits at the company’s White Lion prospect and a new 1.5-kilometre mineralised zone at its Jerry Dodds play steadily expanding the scale and promise of its Alice River gold project. The latest drilling program marked Pacgold’s first crack at the White Lion geophy

Kula Gold’s tracked reverse circulation drill rig and sample logging in operation at the company’s historic Mt. Palmer gold project near Southern Cross. Credit: File Kula Gold’s (ASX: KGD) recent review of 1998 rotary air-blast (RAB) drilling data has brought to light a standout hole put down by Sons of Gwalia at the North Yilgarn Star prospect near Southern Cross in WA which nailed a 5m intersection going 6.80g/t gold from 15m and a further 2m at 0.46g/t from 49m to end of

Reverse circulation drilling underway at Reach Resources’ Blue Heaven deposit at the company’s South Murchison gold project in WA. Credit: File Reach Resources (ASX: RR1) has kicked off a 5000-metre reverse circulation drill program at its Murchison South gold project near Paynes Find in Western Australia, targeting a mix of infill and extensional drilling. The work is centred around the company’s flagship Blue Heaven deposit, where it already holds a handy resource of 681,0

Locksley Resources’ Desert Antimony project leases in California, with MP Materials’ huge Mountain pass rare earths mine in the background. Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) has dropped the company’s most significant milestone to date in its bid to re-establish a domestic antimony industry in the United States, unveiling a large and unusually high-grade exploration target at its Desert Antimony mine in California. The target, built from a combination of underground surveying, de

Mount Ridley Mines’ persistence and drilling at its rare earths and gallium-rich Grass Patch Complex near Esperance in WA’s southwest has enabled the definition of a massive 536 million tonne inferred gallium resource. Credit: File Mount Ridley Mines (ASX: MRD) has locked in full control of the gravity high underlying its critical minerals-rich Grass Patch Complex, 70km north-northeast of Esperance in WA, by expanding its tenement area to 1069 square kilometres and consolida