Aureka Limited’s Comstock open-pit gold mine, viewed towards the southeast. Aureka Limited (ASX: AKA) has delivered fresh high-grade gold and a standout silver intercept from its 2025 diamond drilling at its Comstock project in St Arnaud, 200 kilometres northwest of Melbourne in central western Victoria. Key recent assays from a diamond drillhole included 0.3 metres assaying 650 grams per tonne (g/t) silver and 1.91g/t gold from 192m, the project’s highest silver grade to da

Dateline Resources’ Colosseum gold and rare earths project in the US state of California is almost within a slingshot from MP Materials’ huge Mountain Pass mine, the only operating rare earths mine in the US. Credit: File Dateline Resources (ASX: DTR) has combined a high-powered series of multiple geology surveys to zero in on two compelling carbonatite-hosted rare earth targets at its Colosseum project in the US state of California. An impressive suite of high-resolution da

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Aerial image of old copper waste piles surrounding True North Copper’s Mt Oxide pit in Queensland. Credit: File True North Copper (ASX: TNC) has secured a $400,000 Queensland Government grant under the Collaborative Development Program (CDP) to probe old mine waste at its Mt Oxide copper project in Queensland. The company believes the historical bonanza-grade ore ripped out of the historic mine highlights the potential for significant untapped value in Mt Oxide’s waste and st

Olympio Metals’ adit entry at the old Raven silver-copper mine in Montana, USA. Olympio Metals (ASX: OLY) has signed a binding option agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the Raven silver project in Montana and the Sawtooth antimony project in Idaho, USA, marking a strategic entry into the US critical minerals sector. Both projects offer strong prospectivity for silver, antimony and copper, with interest in them bolstered by their inclusion on the 2025 US Geological Survey’s

Split graphite diamond drill core from Sarytogan Graphite’s project in Kazakhstan. Sarytogan Graphite (ASX: SGA) has locked in a key water licence, removing a critical hurdle to the ongoing definitive feasibility study (DFS) in Kazakhstan. The fresh permit has further strengthened the company’s already growing list of project approvals for its world-class graphite development. The move follows the 2024 pre-feasibility study that stamped Sarytogan as a low-cost, high-margin gr

An aerial view of Viking Mines’ Linka tungsten mine in Nevada, looking to the south from the Linka shaft, showing vent raises, open-pits and coarse ore stockpile. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) is charging ahead with its strategy to deliver the earliest possible tungsten production from its recently acquired Linka project in Nevada, USA, following completion of the digitisation of all historical data across 70 holes and 2881 metres of drilling. Viking’s latest tranche of data has s

Taruga Minerals’ non-executive directors, Eric de Mori and David Chapman, with the company’s geologist, Peter McNeil and Weioko landowner Ilope Bwagodi (R). Credit: File Taruga Minerals (ASX: TAR) has officially rolled out the field crews at its Weioko gold district on Papua New Guinea’s Normanby Island, marking the company’s first on-ground work under its East Normanby option. The company’s reconnaissance fieldwork will focus on pinpointing extensions to its Weioko gold dep

BMG Resources’ high-grade Abercromby gold project lies 30 kilometres southeast of Wiluna in WA. Credit: File BMG Resources (ASX: BMG) has sharpened its edge by hiring a seasoned mining executive as general manager to oversee project development and help steer the company’s Abercromby gold project in WA’s Agnew-Wiluna greenstone belt towards the earliest possible production timeline McArthur has landed with 25 years of mining credentials, including project leadership across o

Aurum Resources’ managing director Dr Caigen Wang and associates at an artisanal mine within the company’s Boundiali project in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) has delivered a blockbuster mineral resource estimate upgrade at its flagship Boundiali gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, pushing the project’s global inventory to 3.03 million ounces at one gram per tonne (g/t) gold. The JORC-compliant estimate, signed off by Independent Perth-based ge

PacGold Limited’s White Dam heap leach operation in South Australia. Credit: File Pacgold Limited (ASX: PGO) has hit shallow, wide, high-grade gold in initial mineral resource drilling at its wholly owned White Dam project in South Australia, marking a key step towards improved open pit designs and resource upgrades. The Vertigo open pit is one of three areas targeted for upgrade this year as part of the current reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign. So far, the initial

ADX is performing a flow test at the Welchau-1 well in Austria. The well was first drilled in 2024. Credit: File ADX Energy (ASX: ADX) has taken an encouraging step towards proving up a potentially significant oil discovery in Austria after recovering light oil and gas during recent testing at its Welchau-1 well. The company resumed testing in the Reifling Formation, one of four oil- and gas-bearing zones intersected in the well. To get the reservoir flowing, ADX pumped a sma

Osmond Resources’ Zone 3 at its Orion EU critical minerals project, showing outcropping rare earths mineralised seams. Osmond Resources (ASX: OSM) has inked a collaboration agreement with Spanish engineering powerhouse Técnicas Reunidas to target the European Union’s first fully vertically integrated production of mixed rare earth carbonates (MREC) and mixed rare earth oxides (MREO). The deal commits both parties, where practical, to extract monazite and produce final rare e

A diamond drill rig has begun punching into Locksley Resources’ potentially antimony-rich ground at the company’s Desert Antimony Mine project in California. Aspiring antimony producer Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) has kicked off its first drilling program at the company’s flagship Desert Antimony Mine, part of its wider Mojave project in the US state of California. The company’s maiden diamond drilling campaign will home in on extensions of the known high-grade antimony mine

Gateway Mining’s aircore drilling program at its Yandal project near Wiluna in WA. Credit: File Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) has thickened and stretched its emerging Haflinger gold discovery in Western Australia’s Yandal belt, delivering another wide, high-grade hit that adds real weight to the growing shear-hosted system. The headline intercept from the latest aircore campaign is a massive 64m running at 1.2 grams per tonne gold from 56m, including 24m grading a serious 2.4g/t

Dollar Bill ponders the wisdom of share consolidations. Credit: File Dollar Bill was sitting at the back of an AGM not long ago when Resolution 6 was called. The chair cleared his throat and declared, “Approval of a 20-for-1 consolidation of issued share capital.” A few retail holders squinted at the screen. Someone from the great unwashed side of the room muttered something about “finally getting the price back over twenty cents”, and a couple in the row in front reached for

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The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Recharge Metals, which snapped up the Sunset Well project in the heart of WA’s Leonora district complete with 94,500-ounces of gold.

Eclipse Metals executive chairman Carl Popal on the company’s Grønnedal rare earths project in Greenland, above the Grønnedal settlement. Eclipse Metals’ (ASX: EPM) first-pass metallurgical tests at its Grønnedal rare earths project in southwest Greenland have delivered encouraging confirmation that the critical minerals are well suited to magnetic separation, suggesting the potential for efficient beneficiation. Phase one wet, magnetic separation tests on composite samples s

Viking Mines’ aerial view of its tungsten projects in Nevada, USA. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has wrapped up due diligence on its flagship Nevada tungsten acquisition in the US and has given the project a resounding technical thumbs-up. The successful review could fast-track the company’s path to becoming a key player in America’s push for a secure domestic supply of the critical mineral. The company’s detailed review - including a site visit and deep dive into historical datase

Zenith Minerals’ newly acquired, and strategically placed mining lease M77/599 now forms part of the company’s Dulcie gold project near Marvel Loch in Western Australia. Credit: File Zenith Minerals (ASX: ZNC) has kicked its exploration momentum up another gear, snapping up a key neighbouring mining lease beside its Consolidated Dulcie gold project in Western Australia. Hot on the heels of a barnstorming resource upgrade yesterday to 675,000 ounces grading one gram per tonne

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Osmond Resources’ drilling assays from Zone 3 at its Spanish Orion EU project have revealed multiple thick, high-grade intersections of source minerals for titanium, zirconium/hafnium and rare earths elements.

Sunset at Viking Mines’ Linka tungsten project in Nevada, USA. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has unlocked high-grade tungsten hits by digitising historical data at its flagship Linka project in Nevada, revealing the system’s true scale and setting the stage for detailed drilling to come. The company says its ongoing effort to convert old records into digital form is now more than halfway done, with data from 38 historical exploration holes covering nearly 2000 metres of drilling no