The staged deal will streamline Noronex’ portfolio and strengthen its balance sheet for upcoming exploration. Credit: File Noronex Limited (ASX: NRX) has struck a binding agreement to sell its Witvlei copper project in Namibia for $4.5 million in staged payments, a move the company says will sharpen its focus on the Kalahari Copper Belt while strengthening its cash position for 2026 exploration. The asset is held through joint-venture vehicle Larchmont Investments Pty Ltd (L

Altech Batteries’ scanning electron microscope image of its alumina-coated silicon spheres (white) distributed through graphite in voids between the graphite flakes (dark grey). The white sphere in image centre-left measures about 6.5 microns in diameter. Credit: File Perth-based Altech Batteries (ASX: ATC) is riding high on unsolicited but welcome industry buzz, with a leading global electric vehicle battery manufacturer kicking the tires on the company’s game-changing “Sil

Southern Hemisphere Oxide copper at Ferro South. Credit: Files Southern Hemisphere Mining (ASX: SUH) has discovered outcropping high-grade copper at its recently discovered Ferro South prospect in central Chile. A portable XRF recorded 15 per cent copper indicating a higher-grade zone than previously mapped. It suggests Ferro South may host a robust near-surface copper system with potential for open-cut mineralisation. Visible minerals identified by the onsite geologist incl

Reverse circulation drill rig in progress at Estrella Resources’ Werumata Limestone prospect in Timor Leste. Credit: File Estrella Resources says (ASX: ESR) it is on track to unearth a monster 500m tonne limestone resource at its Werumatamata project in Timor Leste after drilling logged large sheets of valuable mineralisation up to 87m thick. The company says the average width logged within the limestone blanket at the project is 55m and it also encountered an unexpected bonu

Viridis Mining has secured a $46m funding package to fast-track the development of its Colossus rare earths project in Brazil. Credit: File Viridis Mining and Minerals (ASX: VMM) has shifted into a higher gear after converting its landmark memorandum of understanding with Brazilian financial heavyweights Régia Capital and ORE Investments into a fully binding US$30 million (A$46 million) funding deal. With the first US$5 million already banked, the company says the strategic

Eclipse Metals historic open pit Ivigtût cryolite mine in southwest Greenland Eclipse Metals (ASX: EPM) has wound up a pivotal 503-metre diamond drilling program at its flagship Ivigtût cryolite and critical minerals project in southwest Greenland, delivering visual confirmation that the historic Ivigtût cryolite mine is far more than a relic and is a polymetallic cousin to its nearby Grønnedal resource, one of the Western world’s most promising rare earths systems. Two diamo

St George Mining executive chair John Prineas. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has unleashed a fresh suite of standout rare earths and niobium numbers from its maiden diamond drilling program at the company-defining Araxá project in Brazil – and the new results could reshape the scale of what is already one of the Western world’s most significant critical-minerals discoveries. The latest six holes lit up the lab sheets with exceptional and consistent grades and thick

Old workings at Litchfield Minerals’ Oonagalabi copper-zinc project, 120 kilometres north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has pulled back the curtain on what may be one of the Northern Territory’s most promising emerging base-metals systems. New induced polarisation (IP) survey results have outlined multiple fresh, high-priority targets across its Oonagalabi copper and zinc project, hinting at a large intrusion-related sulphide syst

Chariot Corporation signing its Nigerian small-scale mining agreement. From left to right: Ronald Onosode, COO of Continental Lithium; Shanthar Pathmanathan, Chariot Corporation Executive Chairman and MD; and Lanre Afebuameh, President and Vice Chairman of Continental. Credit: File Perth-based lithium explorer Chariot Corporation (ASX: CC9) has moved decisively to unlock near-term cash flows from its Nigerian lithium portfolio, signing a binding agreement to formalise small-s

Jaén Province, Andalucía in Southern Spain is home to Osmond Resources’ world class Orión EU critical minerals project. Osmond Resources (ASX: OSM) has planted another big flag in the ground at its Orión EU critical minerals project in southern Spain, as the company’s second drill hole also returned more thick, high-grade titanium, zirconium and rare earth mineralisation from the same quartzite layer that got tongues wagging last week. The result tightens the screws on what i

Whitebark Energy has kicked off a series of studies on its Warro gas field in WA to better understand the commercial potential of its huge onshore gas resource in the Perth Basin. Whitebark Energy (ASX: WBE) has kicked off a series of studies on its Warro gas field in WA to better understand the commercial potential of its massive onshore gas resource. Several leading industry firms have now been tasked with completing four technical and commercial studies to unveil the true

The results of Proteomics OxiDx blood testing trials are being presented today in Sydney at the Australian Physiological Society (AuPS) Annual Scientific Meeting. Proteomics International (ASX: PIQ) has delivered another strong data set from its precision diagnostics pipeline. The company has revealed that its unique, majority-owned “OxiDx” blood test for Thoroughbred racehorses shows a strong correlation between horses racing with low levels of oxidative stress and those th

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This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Alvo Minerals. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File What a wild couple of days in markets. The red sea of despair on Friday had traders going glasses down and heading for the cricket to close out the week. Just as things were looking up on a resilient “AI-bubble”, on Thursday, US markets pulled the handbrake on any chance of a recovery overnight. After shooting up nearly 2 per cent at the open, the bears took the reins of the S&P 5

Horizon Minerals’ mining operations at the company’s Boorara gold project Credit: File Horizon Minerals (ASX: HRZ) is nearing the end of open-pit mining at its Phase 1 program at Phillips Find and its Boorara gold projects near Kalgoorlie in WA’s Eastern Goldfields, with strong stockpiles built and first gold already flowing from both operations this year. At Phillips Find, 45km north-northwest of Coolgardie, mining of the Newhaven and Newminster pit cutbacks under the compa

Lindian Resources’ rendition of individual accommodation houses designed to provide a safe and comfortable living environment for the Kangankunde workforce. Credit: File Lindian Resources’ (ASX: LIN) has kicked off construction of its Tipume accommodation village at the company’s world-class Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi, representing an important development milestone along the pathway to construction. Kangankunde is a world class rare earths project that boasts

Visible uranium rich mineralisation (uraninite) in diamond core from Infini’s flagship Portland Creek project in Canada. Credit: File Infini Resources (ASX: I88) has wasted no time putting its fresh $12 million in capital to work, expanding drilling across its flagship Portland Creek project in Canada’s emerging uranium province in Newfoundland. Seizing a window of favourable weather conditions, the company has pushed beyond its planned 2500 drill metre program, racking up 39

Drilling underway at Advance Metals’ Yoquivo gold project in Mexico’s world-class Sierra Madre belt. Advance Metals (ASX: AVM) has wasted no time getting the rods turning again at its high-grade Yoquivo silver-gold project in Mexico, kicking off a fully funded follow-up program to chase recent high-grade hits at depth. The new campaign is already under way at the company’s Pertenencia vein area, targeting at least 3000m of diamond drilling that will likely stretch the program

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Meeka Metals’ aircore reconnaissance drilling at its Murchison project earlier this year has paid off in spades, defining multiple thick, high-grade gold intercepts which are now being mined across multiple pits. Credit: File Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) has delivered exactly what the market loves to see at a producing high-grade gold mine - shallow, thick, high-grade hits that sit outside the current mine plan. The standout intercepts from the latest results at the company’s Andy

Drilling at Marmota Limited’s emerging Greenewood gold prospect in South Australia’s Gawler Craton. Marmota Limited (ASX: MEU) has wasted no time unleashing Stage 2 drilling at its explosive Greenewood gold prospect in South Australia’s Gawler Craton, with rigs already chewing fresh rock barely five weeks after its maiden program. The company’s maiden program at Greenewood delivered some of the hottest near-surface hits seen in the region since the nearby Challenger mine domi