A PYBAR jumbo at work underground. Larvotto Resources has signed a seasoned mining contractor on a four-year deal to drive underground development at its Hillgrove antimony-gold mine in New South Wales. Larvotto Resources (ASX: LRV) has secured the services of underground mining specialist PYBAR to lead the next development phase at its Hillgrove antimony-gold project in northern New South Wales. The four year deal covers almost 20 kilometres of underground drives and marks a

Eclipse Metals’ diamond core from ~104m depth in its Greenland rare earths deposit confirms patchy red bastnäsite in a beige carbonate matrix. Bastnäsite is a rare fluorocarbonate mineral that is a primary source of rare earth elements. Eclipse Metals’ (ASX: EPM) recently completed 705m of diamond drilling at its Grønnedal rare earths deposit within the company’s Greenland’s mineral exploration licence has confirmed continuous carbonatite-style mineralisation from surface to

Drilling at Advance Metals’ Happy Valley gold prospect in Victoria’s northeast. Advance Metals (ASX: AVM) is firing up a second diamond drill rig at its Happy Valley trend in Victoria’s goldfields, to chase up recent visible gold hits at depth. The company says Happy Valley remains open both down-plunge and along-strike at the high priority prospect within its broader Myrtleford project landholding. The recent gold extensions struck 140m below the deepest prior hit at Happy

Mount Ridley Mines: The largest gallium resource in Australia found hiding in old drill hole results

Thunderbird Resources is undertaking an extensive phase-one exploration soil sampling program across grazing land at its Rockvale gold-antimony project in NSW. Credit File Thunderbird Resources (ASX: THB) has kicked off its first grid-based soil sampling exploration program at its 100 per cent-owned Rockvale gold-antimony project in New South Wales. The initial program is focussed on sampling at the Achill gold-antimony prospect, which lies 13km along strike and within the Hi

Locksley Resources COO, Danny George (third from left) with the Hazen Research leadership team and Nick Hazen, President of Hazen Research Inc. in Golden, Colorado. Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) has taken another big leap towards rebooting America’s antimony industry, signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with renowned metallurgical firm Hazen Research in Colorado to toll treat ore from its Mojave Desert project in California. The deal is a key step for the ASX-listed

The White Dam heap leach gold mine in South Australia which produced 180,000 ounces in the 2010s. Credit: File Pacgold (ASX: PGO) is poised to transition from developer to producer having fired the starter’s gun on its recent White Dam heap leach purchase in South Australia, kicking off pond re-lining and plant maintenance ahead of first gold leaching slated for late November. The company has locked in all reagents and consigned crushing equipment, targeting a modest $800,000

ClearVue Technologies has signed a license partnership with South Korean glass producer Kukyoung Glass and Metal Co. to embed ClearVue’s solar facade tech into buildings. ClearVue Technologies (ASX: CPV) has signed a three-year license partner agreement with Kukyoung Glass and Metal Co., a leading South Korean producer of architectural glass, to embed ClearVue’s innovative power-generating solar facade technology into premium commercial and institutional building projects ac

An overhead view of Rio2 Limited’s Fenix Gold project in Chile’s Atacama region, which is nearing the end of its construction phase. Credit: File Canadian-listed Rio2 Limited (TSX: RIO) has closed the book on its funding deal with global streaming giant Wheaton Precious Metals after banking a final US$50 million (A$77m) tranche to power ahead with mine construction at its flagship Fenix Gold project in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The latest payment marks the fourth and final dep

Advance Metals’ Yoquivo silver-gold project in the world-class Sierra Madre silver belt in Mexico. Advance Metals (ASX: AVM) has delivered high-grade gold and silver from a low-cost resampling blitz at its Yoquivo project in Mexico, pulling from some 6300m of untested core that previous owners never bothered to cut. The company says its first batch of results from 11 holes has already confirmed new zones missed by patchy legacy sampling. Standout intercepts include a 2.05m hi

The first doré bars from Auric Mining’s Munda starter pit near Widgiemooltha in Western Australia. The gold was processed and poured at Black Cat Syndicate’s Lakewood Mill in Kalgoorlie. Credit: File Auric Mining (ASX: AWJ) has turned its Munda gold mine near Widgiemooltha in Western Australia into a bona fide cash machine, raking in almost $11 million from its first gold sales. The company hit the milestone this week after shifting 1,790 ounces at an impressive average price

Octava’s Federation tenement location and regional geology. Credit: File Octava Minerals (ASX: OCT) is about to fire up the rigs at its Federation base metals project in western Tasmania after uncovering rock chips grading overlimit indium, clocking more than 500 parts per million (ppm), alongside standout grades of copper, zinc, silver, and tin. The discovery has lit a fuse under the company’s exploration push at the Sweeney’s prospect, where regulatory approval has now bee

TMK Energy’s record October gas production is testimony to just how far the company has come since the 2023 establishment of its Lucky Fox LF-01 well in Mongolia, shown here. Credit: File TMK Energy Limited (ASX: TMK) has delivered a strong operational update from its 100 per cent-owned Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas (CSG) project in Mongolia, posting record gas production for October with a 25 per cent month-on-month increase more than doubling its August output. Total gas pr

Scoping study at Kalamazoo’s Mt Olympus deposit, part of the wider Ashburton Gold Project. Credit: File Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) has tabled a set of numbers at its Mt Olympus gold project in Western Australia’s Pilbara that would turn heads in any gold cycle. The scoping study highlights a deposit which could deliver more than 500,000 ounces of gold over just six years and generate up to $1.4 billion in free cashflow, with capital repaid in less than two years. The rep

Gateway Mining’s Recent 328 gold nugget haul at the company’s Great Western prospect, which forms part of its Yandal gold project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Credit: File Gateway Mining’s (ASX: GML) Great Western prospect, which forms part of the company’s Western Australian Yandal gold project has again proven itself the gold-laden prize that keeps on giving. A new batch of 328 nuggets weighing a total of 72.7 grams have been unearthed across a four-kilometre str

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Litchfield Minerals is seeking polymetallic mineralisation including cooper, lead and zinc at its Oonagalabi project, where surface rock chip samples reveal classic copper oxide, hydroxide and carbonate secondary mineralisation. Litchfield Minerals’ (ASX: LMS) has revealed the latest geophysical results from its priority VT1 VTEM drill target at its Oonagalabi project in Australia’s NT indicate it sits within a large-scale and fertile mineralised system that could potentially

True North Copper has continued finding 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 Queensland-focused explorer True North Copper (ASX: TNC) has boosted its Aquila mineralised system an additional 400m to the north, which now stretches more than 500-metres along strike. The company’s phase-two drilling program tested a swag of new drill targets kicked-up from its rece

Flagship Mineral’s Chilean warehouse containing the recently acquired physical data for the company’s Pantanillo gold project. Flagship Minerals (ASX: FLG) has officially taken the keys to Anglo American’s long-held warehouse in Chile’s Copiapó mining hub, gaining control of the entire physical exploration archive behind the company’s 1.05-million-ounce Pantanillo gold project. The warehouse comes complete with 13,949 metres of diamond core, 18,878 metres of reverse circulat

Infinity Mining’s historic Cangai copper mine project which operated mainly between 1905 until 1917, where processing included smelting furnaces, as depicted in this 1907 photo. Credit: File Infinity Mining (ASX: IMI) has entered into a binding memorandum of understanding (MOC) with Singapore-based innovator Orivium Global Pte Ltd to breathe new life into its historic Cangai Copper Project in northern New South Wales. The company proposes deploying Orivium’s extraction techno

A reverse circulation drill rig in action at Kula Gold’s Mt Palmer gold project close to Southern Cross in Western Australia. Credit: File Kula Gold (ASX: KGD) has unveiled its best set of high-grade drill hits yet from the company’s Mt Palmer gold project in Western Australia’s Southern Cross Goldfields. Its latest reverse-circulation (RC) results next to the Mt Palmer mine include a 6m intercept grading a stunning 20.3 grams per tonne (g/t) from 90 metres depth and another

Mount Ridley Mines has appointed experienced energy and resources executive Allister Caird to drive its critical mineral growth plans. Credit: File Mount Ridley Mines (ASX: MRD) has picked up experienced resource executive Allister Caird, for the role of chief executive officer. Caird brings 15 years’ experience as a geologist in the energy and resources sector to the aspiring critical minerals producer. He was recently the head of critical minerals at Locksley Resources, wit

Locksley Resources recently poured its first 100 per cent American-made antimony ingot, using ore from its Mojave project in California and refining it entirely in country. Locksley Resources’ (ASX: LKY) shares rocketed almost 25 per cent to 43 cents in early trade today after the company landed a crucial nod of financial support from Washington for its US critical minerals ambitions. The US Government-backed Export-Import Bank (EXIM) has issued the company with a letter of

Thunderbird Resources’ newly-acquired Springfield prospect in the renowned Lachlan Orogen in NSW, showing easy land access through agricultural land. Credit: File. Thunderbird Resources (ASX: THB) is approaching a final verdict on its Slasher Flats gold acquisition in Central NSW, with the Springfield gold deposit emerging as a leading contender for drilling. The company says the existing known high-grade hits are likely just a slice of a much bigger system that is still beg