Auric Mining’s newest Parrots Feather deposit in Western Australia has been purchased off Top Global Mining. Credit: File Auric Mining (ASX: AWJ) has swooped on the Lindsay‘s gold project near Kalgoorlie after finalising its acquisition via the execution of a sales agreement seizing majority control of the tenements just a day before a Warden’s Court defence on a contested mining lease was scheduled to be heard. The company says it has settled with Top Global Mining, handing

88 Energy has landed 34,560 acres of prime oil acreage in Alaska near the biggest conventional oilfield in the US. Credit: File Perth-based 88 Energy (ASX: 88E) has strengthened its grip on Alaska’s North Slope with a successful bid for 14 new leases covering roughly 34,560 acres in the latest state lease sale. The new ground splits neatly into two high-impact blocks which sit either side of the company’s existing Project Leonis and importantly nearby the existing Trans-Alas

The growing ore stockpile at West Wits Mining’s Qala Shallows gold mine in South Africa with community housing developments in background for its workforce. West Wits Mining (ASX: WWI) has officially hit its stride at the company’s Qala Shallows gold project in South Africa, delivering a string of operational wins backed by a fresh US$12.5 million (A$19.2M) cash injection from the US-based Nebari Holdings. The company says the funding marks the first drawdown of a facility wo

A diamond drill rig in action at Strickland Metals’ Shanac deposit, part of the company’s broader Rogozna gold and base metals project in Serbia. Strickland Metals (ASX: STK) has landed another pair of cracking drill hits, with two deep diamond holes cutting through hundreds of metres of strong gold-copper mineralisation at its 5.3 million ounce gold-equivalent Shanac deposit in Serbia. The latest hits at Shanac - one of four deposits at the company’s 7.4-million-ounce gold-e

St Arnaud Comstock visible gold with galena and sphalerite in drill hole 25NED002. Aureka’s (ASX: AKA) Comstock gold project in Victoria continues to turn heads with the company unwrapping a suite of assays that not only validate earlier sightings of visible gold but also deliver the highest grades ever recorded at the operation. The latest numbers, pulled from diamond drill core glinting with coarse free gold, showcase a mineralised system rich in sulphides and structural pa

A nice selection of 146gms of gold nuggets sourced from within the general area of Augustus Minerals’ Music Well project. Credit: File Augustus Minerals’ (ASX: AUG) recently received results from 1175 auger soil samples have highlighted a distinct gold anomaly at its Clifton East target near Leonora in WA over an area measuring about 1.2km x 0.6km which remains open to the west, with peak values in the range of 9.3 parts per billion gold to a maximum of 44.1ppb gold. The high

Old workings at Middle Island Resource’s Tisovik lead mine in Serbia. Middle Island Resources (ASX: MDI) has outlined another promising target in Serbia after the company’s first soil-sampling program at its historic Tisovik lead mine returned widespread anomalism, including assays up to 2733 parts per million (ppm) lead and 899ppm zinc across a footprint stretching 1.5km by 400m. The company says the mineralisation remain open to the north where sampling lines near the proje

Queensland’s QCoal Group founder and billionaire Chris Wallin has lifted his holding in Venus Metals to 26.21 per cent. Credit: File It’s not every day you see a billionaire quietly tiptoeing up a junior explorer’s register, but Chris Wallin’s latest manoeuvre to increase his stake in Venus Metals (ASX: VMC) bears all the hallmarks of a man who knows exactly where the gold is headed. Wallin is no small-time punter. Ranked number 50 on The Australian’s 250 Rich list with an es

Maiden drilling underway at Pacgold Limited’s St George gold-antimony project in far North Queensland. Credit: File Pacgold Limited (ASX: PGO) has fired up the rigs at its St George gold-antimony project in north Queensland, with a maiden reverse circulation program now hammering into the historic mine. Just a few days ago the company dropped eye-watering surface rock chips up to 52.7 per cent antimony and 10.2 grams per tonne (g/t) gold. The crisp nine-hole 900m program is

Larvotto Resources has added tungsten to its resources at the company’s Hillgrove gold-antimony project in New South Wales, adding even more value to its precious antimony-gold concentrate product. Credit:File. Larvotto Resources (ASX: LRV) has pulled back the curtain on a prospective third revenue stream at its Hillgrove gold-antimony project in NSW, with initial metallurgical testwork delivering a thumping 90 per cent tungsten recovery for the high-demand strategic concent

A view of zone 3, part of Osmond Resources’ Orion EU critical minerals project in southern Spain. Osmond Resources (ASX: OSM) has received a first set of barnstorming assays back from its 15-hole diamond drilling program in Spain, with the results confirming why the company’s Orión EU critical-minerals project has been generating so much industry chatter of late. Orión sits in southern Spain’s Jaén province and spans a massive 228 square kilometres, covering 756 claims across

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Aurum Resources 0.87 million ounce Napié deposit also bears evidence of the extensive artisanal gold mining that can be seen across the company’s Boundiali project about 100km to the northwest Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) has once again lit up the screen with more bonanza-grade gold hits, including a stunning 3.1 metres at 70.78 g/t gold in its 100,000-metre infill and extension drilling program at the company’s 2.41 million ounce Boundiali project in West Africa. The 3.1m at

Jon Childs from JT Metallurgical Services holding a doré bar from Auric Mining’s Munda starter pit near Widgiemooltha in Western Australia. Credit: File Auric Mining (ASX: AWJ) has delivered a thumping finish to the year, raking in $14.6 million in gold sales and banking $8.8 million in net revenues after milling and haulage costs from its Munda starter pit near Widgiemooltha in Western Australia In a gold market that continues to sizzle above A$6,000 an ounce, the company h

Advance Metals managing director Dr Adam McKinnon is driving the company’s Victorian and Mexican projects forward. Advance Metals Limited (ASX: AVM) has intersected new high-grade gold from the deepest diamond hole to date at its Happy Valley Deposit, within the company’s Myrtleford Project near Wodonga in the prolific Victorian Goldfields. The exceptional intersection of 3.7m at 16.6g/t gold included a 0.8m zone assaying almost 2 ounces gold to the tonne, substantially exten

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