Terrain Minerals reverse drilling campaign underway at their Lightning gold prospect. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has commenced a major 6800-metre RC drilling assault across its high priority Lightning and Wildflower gold and silver targets in the Murchison gold province of Western Australia. The company says it will drill deeper and along strike of existing stand-out intercepts, potentially leading to a maiden gold resource at Lighting, slated for mid-next year

Altech Batteries’ sodium-nickel-chloride battery systems are ready for first production following final engineering design and recent test work. Credit: File Altech Batteries (ASX: ATC) has locked in the final engineering design for its next gen sodium-nickel-chloride (SNC) battery system, clearing the last major hurdle before its first production next year. The company says its 400-volt batteries are set to roll off the line at partner AMPower’s manufacturing facilities bef

Its gold, gold, gold; Gateway Mining has picked up 19 more gold nuggets weighing a total of 23.2 grams being found within its Yandal project area near Wiluna in WA. Credit: File Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) is accelerating its aggressive exploration push across the company’s West Australian gold portfolio, with a second diamond drill rig now on site at its flagship Yandal gold project, 85 kilometres northeast of Wiluna. The dual diamond-rig assault at Yandal comes at a pivotal

Diamond drill rig in action at Hot Chili’s Costa Fuego project in Chile. Credit: File Hot Chili (ASX: HCH) has hit paydirt with a staggering 529-metre intercept grading 0.41 per cent copper and 0.21 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from a diamond drill hole at its emerging La Verde copper-gold porphyry discovery in Chile’s Atacama region. Notably, the new hole, drilled alongside an earlier 305m hit grading 0.5 per cent copper and 0.3g/t gold from 46m, has pushed the high-grade cor

Caption: Thick, high-grade hits have extended the emerging intrusion related gold system at Zenith Minerals’ Red Mountain gold project in Queensland. Zenith Minerals (ASX: ZNC) has returned the latest barrage of gold results from its Red Mountain discovery in Queensland, returning exceptional intercepts up to a thumping 122 metres grading 1.28 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 209m. The company’s results flowed from a recent reverse circulation (RC) follow-up program on the em

A diamond rig has been move to site for the start of a maiden drilling campaign at Locksley Resources’ Mojave rare earths and antimony project in California. Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) has shifted its Mojave Project in California into top gear, kicking off a maiden drilling program at the company’s El Campo rare earths prospect. Meanwhile, the company has simultaneously locked in full approval to launch an expanded drilling campaign at its nearby Desert Antimony mine. Eart

Neometals has locked in an exclusive option to access a number of inactive oil and gas wells in the Lisbon Valley area of Utah’s Paradox Basin with a view to using them to access potential lithium and potash riches. Credit: File After kicking the ball out of the park in the last lithium boom with its successful Mt Marion lithium mine in WA’s Goldfields region, Neometals (ASX: NMT) has backed up the truck for another tilt at what many believe is an impending 3rd lithium boom.

A reverse circulation drill rig in action at Noronex Limited’s powerline copper and silver project in Namibia. Credit: File Noronex Limited (ASX: NRX) has kicked off its new Namibian exploration campaign with a bang, after the first hole at the company’s Powerline project tagged a potentially broad copper-silver horizon exactly as predicted. The prospect forms part of the company’s broader Humpback–Damara grounds, which span a huge 8500 square kilometres across the west Afri

88 Energy’s Project Phoenix oil Project in Alaska, which is set for production testing in 2026. Credit: File 88 Energy (ASX: 88E) has fired the starter’s gun on what could be a defining moment for the company, confirming it will run a fully funded horizontal well and extended 90-day production test at its Project Phoenix oil project during the second half of 2026. Sitting in Alaska’s North Slope region, Project Phoenix has already delivered stellar results for the West Perth

Deep diamond drilling underway at Western Mines Group’s Mulga Tank project in WA’s Eastern Goldfields. Credit: File Western Mines Group (ASX: WMG) is rapidly advancing a government funded deep diamond hole at its flagship Mulga Tank nickel project in Western Australia to test a compelling regional nickel target at depth. The company says it is also simultaneously rolling out a high-powered moving loop electromagnetic (MLEM) survey across the promising Panhandle komatiite sys

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, otherwise known as Medicare, which is headquartered in Baltimore in the United States. Proteomics International (ASX: PIQ) has notched up a major win in the US, with the nation’s powerful Medicare system setting a reimbursement price of US$390.75 (A$604) for the company’s groundbreaking PromarkerD predictive kidney disease blood test. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ruling effectively hands the medical technolo

Black visual uraninite mineralisation at surface surrounded by greenish-yellow mineralisation at Infini Resources Reitenbach Lake project in Canada. Credit: File Infini Resources (ASX: I88) has wrapped up boots-on-the-ground work at its Reynolds Lake and Reitenbach Lake uranium projects in Canada’s renowned Athabasca Basin where it is looking to sharpen up and lock in drill targets ahead of a maiden campaign next year. The company says it has uncovered fresh zones of radioact

Eclipse Metals drilling at its Grønnedal rare earths resource within the company’s Ivigtût critical minerals project in southwest Greenland. Eclipse Metals (ASX: EPM) has enlisted BGR Group, a leading US strategic advisory and government affairs firm, to ramp up its outreach to American policymakers, defence agencies and funding bodies. The move aims to shine the spotlight squarely on the company’s Ivigtût critical minerals project in southwest Greenland and will highlight i

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Octava Minerals’ Federation project, 12km west of the town of Zeehan in Western Tasmania, comprises two exploration licences covering about 121 square kilometres. Credit: File Octava Minerals (ASX: OCT) has landed some exceptional high-grade indium results up to 860ppm by having a re-look at some old rock chip samples from its Sweeney’s prospect within the company’s Federation copper-zinc-silver project in western Tasmania. A fixed-loop electromagnetic (FLEM) geophysical sur

Mount Ridley Mines has lit up a 33-kilometre run of untested rare earths and gallium targets across its vast Grass Patch Complex north of Esperance. Credit: File Mount Ridley Mines (ASX: MRD) has lit up a 33-kilometre run of untested rare earths and gallium targets across its vast Grass Patch Complex north of Esperance in WA after completing a fresh review of modern geophysical datasets. The company says the work has outlined multiple new structural and lithological corridors

Green360 Technologies has trucked about 60 tonnes of its Eco-Clay partial cement replacement product for trials to two major concrete plants in Melbourne. Credit: File Green360 Technologies (ASX: GT3) has taken a major step towards commercialisation of its highly-reactive “Eco-Clay metakaolin” product, delivering about 60 tonnes of the product to two commercial concrete batching plants operated by a national concrete supplier in Melbourne for full-scale trials in low-carbon c

Corazon Mining’s two gold projects sit near multiple renowned open-pit and underground gold operations in the Gascoyne region of WA. Credit: File Gold-focused explorer Corazon Mining (ASX: CZN) has locked-in a strategic partnership with the local Marputu Aboriginal Corporation to secure access to its promising Two Pools gold project in the Gascoyne region of WA. A newly-signed land access agreement delivers a win-win outcome for both outfits, with Corazon now moving to fast-

Venus Metals owns 50.17 million shares and a one per cent net smelt royalty over Rox Resources’ 2.2-million ounce gold mine in the Western Australia’s Murchison region. Credit: File Venus Metals (ASX: VMC) has urged shareholders to sit on their hands and ignore the noise after private company QGold launched an unsolicited, low-ball takeover bid for the Western Australian exploration company this week. The 17-cent cash offer, unveiled in a bidder’s statement yesterday, landed

TMK Energy’s Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas project adjacent to coal mining operations in Mongolia. Credit: File TMK Energy (ASX: TMK) has crept closer to the magic moment when its Gurvantes XXXV coal seam project in Mongolia finally gives up its gas. The latest pressure build-up test, run over four days, showed the reservoir pressure in the upper coal seams at the LF-06 pilot well has continued to fall towards the all-important gas desorption point, exactly as the company’s la

Aguia Resources Santa Barbara high-grade gold vein in the mine workings ranges from 0.3 to 0.5m wide and to 1m wide in places. It is developed along a strike distance of about 200m and has been mapped over 7km of strike. Credit: File Aguia Resources (ASX: AGR) has appointed Tim Hosking as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately, following the resignation of William Howe as Managing Director and CEO. The leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for

True North Copper drilling for copper from its latest phase-two drilling program at its Aquila prospect, part of the company’s Mt Oxide project in northwestern Queensland. Credit: File True North Copper (ASX: TNC) has put another serious run on the board at its exciting new Aquila copper-cobalt discovery within its Mount Oxide project in Queensland, stretching the mineralised strike to more than 900m and confirming what management says is the emergence of a multi-deposit cop

Kaiser Reef’s Union Mine waste dump with planned drill holes. Credit: File Kaiser Reef (ASX: KAU) is working on a plan to turn historic waste dumps into cash at its Union Hill site within the company’s Maldon Gold project in Victoria. The Maldon gold project hosts a remarkable historical production legacy of 1.75 million ounces on mining licences, offering immense potential for renewed exploration to expand resources and reserves through exploration and future development. C

Kalamazoo Resources Executive Chairman, Luke Reinehr. Credit: File Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) has moved quickly to expand the growth picture around its 1.44‑million‑ounce Ashburton gold project 35 kms south east of Paraburdoo in WA, outlining fresh underground potential and a broadened pipeline of brownfields and greenfields targets across a seven‑kilometre structural corridor – neither of which were included in the recent scoping study. A recent re‑optimisation of the M