LiDAR and photogrammetry image of Aureka Limited’s Comstock open pit in Victoria, with the main shear zones highlighted. Aureka Limited (ASX: AKA) has locked in long-term tenure over its historic St Arnaud Comstock gold project in Victoria, while rolling out high-resolution LiDAR mapping that may pave the way for a return to production at the old goldfield. The company has successfully renewed the key exploration licence for another five years, securing its Comstock project

Aurum Resources’ Napié ground hosts abundant evidence of artisanal gold mining with shallow gold, which drilling has now shown to extend to depth. Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) has delivered another batch of thick, near-surface, high-grade gold intercepts from its ongoing diamond drilling program at the company’s 870,000-ounce Napié gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. The campaign will provide the final key assays for the project’s upcoming mineral resource update, due

Blasting underway at the high-grade Crown Prince deposit, adjacent to Premier1’s Abbotts North gold project in Western Australia. Credit: File Premier1 (ASX: PLC) has launched powerful gravity surveys at its Abbotts North gold project in Western Australia’s Murchison region, with the program designed to sharpen the structural controls around its Rochefort prospect in the burgeoning gold address. The company says the high-resolution pictures generated by its geophysics will b

Patriot Resources has ownership of the 31-million-ounce silver equivalent Tassa project in Peru. Home to the llama, Peru is also one of the largest global producers of silver from epithermal deposits. Credit: File Patriot Resources (ASX: PAT) has ticked an important technical box at its newly acquired Tassa project in southern Peru, confirming the silver appears highly amenable to conventional processing - a key component in the recipe for turning resources into profitable mi

ClearVue Technologies’ solar-integrated glass solutions target net zero buildings. Smart building materials company ClearVue Technologies (ASX: CPV) has secured up to $3 million in structured, non‑dilutive funding to complete critical certification programs and accelerate the commercialisation of its solar‑integrated glass technologies. ClearVue’s product suite, which includes transparent solar vision glass, cladding, railings and skylights, has been designed to transform co

The diamond drilling rig on site at Great Southern Mining’s East Laverton project in Western Australia. Credit: File Great Southern Mining (ASX: GSN) is probing deep at its East Laverton project in Western Australia, kicking off government co-funded diamond drilling to target a platinum group elements (PGE’s) discovery. The program has started at the company’s Diorite Hill target, with the drill bit expected to reach up to a whopping 900 metres deep. Following completion of

Dateline Resources’ Music Valley project in California will soon echo to the sound of a high-resolution, helicopter-borne geophysical survey. Credit: File Dateline Resources (ASX: DTR) has wasted no time getting boots on the ground at its newly acquired Music Valley heavy rare earths project in California, kicking off an aggressive early‑stage exploration program, just days after sealing the deal. With the acquisition now complete, Dateline is focused on quickly building a c

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Drilling at Terrain Minerals’ Smokebush project area near Yalgoo in Western Australia. Credit: File. Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has wrapped up an extensive drilling assault at its Smokebush gold and silver project in Western Australia, completing some 7739 metres of deep targeting across its Lightning and Wildflower prospects. The company says it has been probing for potential repeat Lightning-style systems at geophysical anomalies in previously untouched areas as well. At L

Dollar Bill thinks investment diversity may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Credit: File Risk – at some level – is intrinsic to any investment, but diversity is a choice. And when it comes to diversity, Dollar Bill is not talking about all that woke nonsense that seems to be gripping the corporate world by the short and curlies. I’m talking about that super-diverse investment category of index funds, the practise of investing in a fund that invests in pretty much every comp

Taruga Minerals has engaged specialist aeromagnetic consultants to unlock the geological understanding of its PNG copper-gold project, by generating a structural framework to prioritise high-potential targets. Credit: File Taruga Minerals (ASX: TAR) has engaged aeromagnetic data processing specialist Southern Geoscience Consultants (SGC) to unlock the geological understanding of its Kol Mountain porphyry copper-gold project in Papua New Guinea. A refined litho-structural fram

Xpedra Resources' maiden drilling at the historic Springfield gold deposit in NSW looks well-timed in view of the recent sharp rise in the Australian gold price driven by Middle East tensions. Credit: File Xpedra Resources (ASX: XPD) has fired the starting gun on a maiden drilling campaign at its Springfield gold deposit in central New South Wales, mobilising a reverse circulation drill rig to test a gold system that has sat untouched for more than 25 years. The rig is expect

Castle Minerals has expanded its landholdings in Western Australia’s gold-rich region of Meekatharra to complement the company’s Polelle and Wanganui projects. Credit: File Castle Minerals (ASX: CDT) has upped its patch of prime ground in WA’s gold-rich Meekatharra region, bolstering its landholdings with an additional 68 square kilometres, bringing the total to a sizeable 184sq km parcel. The added land grab comes through the acquisition of private company Meekasan Pty Ltd,

ADX Energy conducting flow tests on the company’s Welchau-1 gas-condensate discovery in Upper Austria. Credit: File After exhaustive mapping and technical work, ADX Energy (ASX: ADX) has thrown down the gauntlet in Austria, upgrading its Welchau-1 gas discovery to a chunky mean prospective resource of 387 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of gas and 31 million barrels (MMbbl) of light oil and condensate. On the high side, the potential prize nudged almost one trillion cubic feet of g

St George Mining has been furiously drilling out its Brazilian Araxá rare earths and niobium project in the lead up to its latest resource upgrade. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has delivered a stunning resource upgrade at its already giant Araxá rare earths and niobium project in the Barreiro carbonatite complex in Minas Gerais, Brazil, lifting the project’s mineral resource by a hefty 75 per cent and reinforcing its credentials as a potential Tier‑1 global rare

Tungsten from deposits such as Vikings Mines’ Linka project is used in tungsten carbide cutting tools due to its unusually high melting point, as well as in the defence, aerospace, electronics and manufacturing sectors. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has kicked off metallurgical test work at its Nevada-based Linka tungsten project with a result that reads more like a headline than a lab report - a 16-times increase in grade using the simplest processing method in the book. Initial g

Osmond Resources chief executive officer Anthony Hall. Osmond Resources (ASX: OSM) has taken another important step toward unlocking value at its Orion EU critical minerals project in southern Spain, delivering strong early mineral processing results that point to a straightforward, industry-standard development pathway. Preliminary metallurgical testwork on a 150kg composite sample from outcrop at Zone One in the project area has demonstrated the mineralisation is highly ame

Lindian executive chairman Robert Martin and executive director Zac Komur with Vladimir Fedotov at the SARECO plant in Kazakhstan. Credit: File Lindian Resources (ASX: LIN) has pulled off a rare coup in the rare earths game, securing a fully built downstream cracking plant for a price tag that barely registers against the sector’s usual half-billion-dollar build costs. Not surprisingly, Lindian soared as the market voiced its approval, with the company’s share price up as mu

Artisanal gold workings at Dalaroo’s Côte d’Ivoire gold project. Credit: File Dalaroo Metals (ASX: DAL) has put boots on the ground in Côte d’Ivoire, wasting no time launching systematic geological mapping at its newly acquired Goldridge project in the Bondoukou region. Early fieldwork has already outlined a coherent 2-kilometre-long gold corridor within the prolific Birimian terrane. The field program marks the company’s first structured exploration work in this renowned gol

H3 Energy’s Warro gas field in Western Australia was first drilled in 2009. Independent reservoir engineering work has provided H3 Energy (ASX: H3E) with greater confidence that its long-debated Warro gas field in the North Perth Basin could still contain some proper lungs. The company said a reinterpretation of production logging tests in Warro 3 and Warro 6 indicates multiple intervals flowed gas only, and that there is no technical reason those zones could not deliver enh

Locksley Resources has struck further high-grade antimony from surface grab sampling at the company’s Desert Antimony Mine project in California. Locksley Resources’ (ASX: LKY) latest batch of surface grab samples has returned significant antimony grades, with a peak value of 16.9 per cent antimony from the company’s flagship Desert Antimony Mine, part of its wider Mojave project in the US state of California. Management believes the sample results are geologically significa

Gravity surveys underway at Noronex Limited’s Cgae Cgae copper-silver project in Botswana. Credit: File Noronex (ASX: NRX) has kicked off a ground gravity survey in the north of its Cgae Cgae copper-silver project in Botswana, following completion of maiden drilling campaigns in the project’s south. The gravity survey will target the stratigraphy and structures of the covered Kalahari Copper Belt to uncover vast, low-grade copper potential within the basin’s architecture. By

BMG Resources has launched a new drilling blitz at the company’s Abercromby gold project in WA to beef up its 518,000-ounce gold resource. Credit: File BMG Resources (ASX: BMG) has launched a new drilling blitz at the company’s Abercromby gold project near Wiluna in WA to beef up its 518,000-ounce gold resource and test for extensions to the mineralisation, which remains open in all directions. The 10,000 metre drill program is the first major assault on the company’s signif

Sunset at Litchfield Minerals’ Oonagalabi project in the Northern Territory. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has outlined additional large copper-zinc targets and a whopping 5km mineralised corridor at its emerging Oonagalabi project in the Northern Territory. The latest findings have confirmed strong chargeability trends, hinting at further discoveries beneath its rugged terrain. The company’s new induced polarisation (IP) work built directly on its earlier geophysical survey