Whitebark Energy’s Alinya project covers multiple permits in the Officer Basin, in the heart of the Great Victoria Desert, about 1000km north of Adelaide. Whitebark Energy Limited (ASX: WBE) has appointed its chief operating officer, Nik Sykiotis, as chief executive officer, effective immediately, positioning the company to capitalise on its diverse portfolio spanning natural hydrogen, helium and conventional hydrocarbons. Sykiotis, who has driven operational efficiency and

St George Mining’s diamond drilling at its giant Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Brazil has been running 24/7 and has recently drilled the company’s longest mineralised intercept exceeding 115m from surface. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has delivered its thickest-ever high-grade rare earths and niobium diamond drill hit in the short but spectacular history of the company’s 100%-owned Araxá project in Brazil, boring through a staggering 115.65m from surfac

Ardea Resources managing director and chief executive officer Andrew Penkethman. Credit: File Ardea Resources (ASX: ARL) has been busy fine-tuning a definitive feasibility study on its flagship Kalgoorlie nickel project (KNP), unveiling a simpler development blueprint, with work due for completion in the first half of next year. After wrestling with industry-wide cost escalation and a wave of fresh technical data, Ardea and its heavyweight Japanese-backed partners Sumitomo an

Lindian Resources has commenced a diamond-drilling program at its high-grade North Knoll rare-earth prospect, which forms part of the company’s world-class Kangankunde project in Malawi. Credit: File Lindian Resources (ASX: LIN) has kicked off a first-pass diamond drilling campaign at the company’s exciting North Knoll rare earths prospect in Malawi. The target, which returned rock chip assays of up to 7.15 per cent total rare earths (TREOs) in earlier testing, is one of sev

Venus Metals has countered QGold’s 17-cent per share bid as opportunistic and underpriced, signalling the latest move in its takeover tussle. Credit: File If QGold was hoping for a quick resolution to its unsolicited takeover bid for gold junior Venus Metals (ASX: VMC) , it will likely be a little disappointed after Venus today tabled a string of value drivers lurking within its books that management says makes QGold’s bid look somewhat pale. In its formal response to the bi

Aureka Limited will partner with mining and processing specialists Core Prospecting to assess and develop its St Arnaud Comstock project. Aureka Limited (ASX: AKA) has taken a major step towards early gold production at its St Arnaud Comstock Project, 125 kilometres north-northwest of Ballarat in Victoria, by engaging small-scale mining specialist and local mill owner Core Prospecting. Under the deal, Core will be responsible for undertaking a comprehensive scoping study in

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This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Phoslock Environmental Technologies. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File It looked like Santa had shown up early, only to turn around and swipe all the presents this week. As silly season officially kicks off, the ASX-listed corporate suits have packed up for their holiday homes, leaving the market limping along on whatever momentum the algorithms can sustain. No major headlines sang out in markets this week, especially compared w

West Wits Mining has commissioned several key fleet additions, which are now fully operational at its Qala Shallows phase one underground gold mining operation in South Africa’s famed Witwatersrand Basin. West Wits Mining (ASX: WWI) has officially opened its Qala Shallows underground mine west of Johannesburg, marking the first new underground gold mine to be developed in South Africa in 15 years. The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources,

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Meeka Metals’ Murchison project area showing the Turnberry - St Annes corridor. Credit: File Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) has delivered more high-grade gold hits from the prolifically mineralised Fairway Shear zone, which dominates the company’s Murchison gold project in Western Australia. Drilling results at its new Rosapenna target, just 500 metres south of the company’s Turnberry South deposit, returned a best hit of 23m grading 1.05 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, including a 4-me

Larvotto Resources’ Hillgrove geological personnel with ECORE Elemission’s technician and the ECORE scanner. Credit: File Larvotto Resources (ASX: LRV) has bought and taken delivery of Canadian-based Elemission’s game-changing ECORE automated core scanning system. The new technology will make the company’s NSW Hillgrove antimony-gold project the only operating mine site in Australia equipped with on-site laser ablation and atomic emission spectroscopy capability. The ECORE s

Chariot Corporation rock chip sampling at its Nigerian lithium project has identified the mauve mica mineral lepidolite as one of the lithium hosts, along with spodumene, a key source of lithium. Credit: File Chariot Corporation (ASX: CC9) has reported high-grade lithium oxide of up to 5.96% in first-pass rock chip sampling at its Fonlo and Iganna projects in southwest Nigeria, confirming the existence of fertile lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite systems and underlini

An aerial photograph of work on the drainage sump at Aquia Resources’ Tres Estrades phosphate mine in Brazil. The work is scheduled for completion during the first week of December. Credit: File Aguia Resources (ASX: AGR) is ramping up preparations for mining at its Três Estradas phosphate project in Brazil, with upgrades progressing ahead of schedule and production slated to begin in March of next year. Mine site preparations appear to be advancing steadily, with a drainage

Octava Minerals (ASX: OCT) has kicked off the first drilling program in almost 50 years at its Sweeney’s prospect, part of the company’s broader Federation project in Tasmania, targeting a rich mix of copper, zinc, silver, tin and untested high-grade indium. Once completed, each drill hole will be cased ahead of down-hole electromagnetic (DHEM) surveys to peer sideways for up to 200m, looking for conductors suggestive of massive sulphide mineralisation. Initially, Octava aims

Relined heap leach ponds at Pacgold Limited’s recently acquired White Dam gold mine in South Australia. Credit: File Pacgold Limited (ASX: PGO) has cleared the decks for a restart at its newly-acquired and wholly owned White Dam heap leach gold operation in South Australia. Rigs are now rolling in for a monster 25,000-metre reverse circulation (RC) program and pregnant gold leach solutions set to flow before year’s end. The company says it has now completed the project’s acq

FMR Resources diamond drilling is currently underway at Target C on the Southern Porphyry within the Llahuin Project Joint Venture with Southern Hemisphere Mining. Credit: File FMR Resources (ASX: FMR) , through its joint venture with Southern Hemisphere Mining (ASX: SUH) , has completed detailed downhole geophysics on the first deep hole into the Southern Porphyry target at the duo’s Llahuin copper-gold-molybdenum project in Chile. The surveys, which included downhole induce

Yet more visible gold in drilling and grades of up to 85.8g/t from Aureka Limited’s Irvine project in Victoria’s gold-rich Stawell belt. Aureka Limited (ASX: AKA) has revealed a fresh set of bonanza-grade assays from a diamond drill program at its flagship Irvine gold project in Victoria’s Stawell corridor. The strikes confirmed visible gold 70 metres below previously reported intercepts, running up to 85.8 grams per tonne (g/t), which the company says will likely add quick

A birds-eye view of the North and South gold pits at Dateline Resources’ Colosseum project in California. Credit: File Dateline Resources (ASX: DTR) has hit yet more solid gold intercepts from beneath the North pit at its Colosseum project in California, delivering wide zones of gold up to 132.6 metres grading 0.95 grams per tonne. The standout hole cut 64m running at 1.24 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from the bottom of the pit, packed with higher-grade stretches such as 7.66m

Olympio Metals sawn diamond drill core from Paquin, showing black quartz veining with abundant sulphides. Olympio Metals (ASX: OLY) has resumed fieldwork at its flagship Bousquet gold project in Quebec, Canada, with a targeted soil geochemical sampling program and review of historical diamond drill core now underway. The 290-sample survey was collected from a second soil horizon immediately below the exposed surface layer using a hand auger across a tight 50m × 50m grid. The

Drilling at Beetaloo Energy’s Carpentaria-5H horizontal gas well in the Northern Territory. Credit: File Beetaloo Energy (ASX: BTL) has taken a big step towards unlocking long-term appraisal gas production after securing key Federal Ministerial approvals linked to Traditional Owner consent for the sale of gas from its EP187 permit in the Northern Territory. The sign-off, granted under the Federal Aboriginal Land Rights Act, represents one of the most important administrative

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Kalamazoo drilling at its Ashburton Project. Credit: File Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) is set to test and drill the down plunge extents of existing resources beneath its Mt Olympus pit shell design and multiple brownfields prospects at its Ashburton gold project in northern WA . Ashburton already comes replete with a 1.44‑million‑ounce gold resource going 2.8 grams per tonne gold and Kalamazoo has now set its sights on banking additional ounces from a proposed underground s

Reach Resources’ reverse circulation drilling rig at the company’s 61,300 ounce Blue Heaven gold resource in its South Murchison project in WA. Credit: File Reach Resources (ASX: RR1) has secured its prospective Jacamar gold project within the company’s Murchison South gold project in WA with a recent mining lease grant centred less than 1 kilometre southeast from the historic Payne’s Find Hotel on WA’s Great Northern Highway which runs through the tenement. The northern bou