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M&EC - Edition #515
Bulls N' Bears Mining & Exploration Chronicle 515 has been unearthed Bulls N' Bears Mining & Exploration Chronicle 515 has been unearthed! Read it here: https://tinyurl.com/bdcws2d3 Subscribe to get it emailed directly to your inbox. https://bit.ly/46LCixx #MiningNews #ASX #BullsNBearsWA #TheWestAustralian #BullsNBearsChronicle Today's edition features – $KZR #KalamazooResources $AWJ #AuricMining $TMK #TMKEnergy #RunnersoftheWeek TSX: $RIO #Rio2 $PGO #Pacgold $GML #Ga

Azi Capuno
Nov 9


ASX Runners of the Week: Mont Royal, Mount Ridley, HitIQ & XPON
This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Mont Royal Resources. Credit: Bulls N' Bears/File Is the AI bubble bursting? A hot market has turned ice cold this week, as the pessimistic doomsdayers rear their heads. In US markets, Palantir—the data analytics and big brother surveillance powerhouse—plunged 16 per cent this week. This was despite delivering a robust quarter of profitability, underscoring the market’s insistence on unrelenting, exponential growth. Meanwh

Andrew Todd
Nov 7


Aurum Resources hits 5m at 11.07g/t gold outside current West African resource
One of Aurum Resources’ diamond drill rigs, recently increased to 12 units, which are working through more than 130,000m of drilling at the company’s Boundiali and Napié gold projects in West Africa. Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) recent diamond drilling has delivered an intercept of 5m assaying 11.07 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 200m depth among other promising high-grade gold intercepts from its ongoing 100,000m drilling program at the company’s 2.41 million ounce Boundiali

Doug Bright
Nov 7


Pacgold nails five hits from five holes in new Qld gold target
A reverse circulation drill rig in action at Pacgold Limited’s Alice River gold project in northern Queensland. Credit: File Pacgold’s (ASX: PGO) Alice River gold project in north Queensland has served up another golden surprise, with all five holes from a first-pass aircore drilling program at its new Kapok prospect revealing broad gold zones over a 50-metre-wide corridor. Kapok is a previously untested quartz-vein and outcropping target that sits at the northernmost point

James Pearson
Nov 7


PCC - Edition #53
Bulls N' Bears Chronicle 53 has been unearthed! Bulls N' Bears Public Companies Chronicle 53 has been unearthed! Read it here: https://tinyurl.com/53s4swcy Subscribe to get it emailed directly to your inbox. https://bit.ly/46LCixx #PublicCompanies #ASX #BullsNBearsWA #BullsNBearsChronicle Click the company name below to visit the URL hosting its articles - $LKY #LocksleyResources $MEK #MeekaMetals $BBC #BNKBank $LMS #LitchfieldMinerals $THB #ThunderbirdResources $AVM #Advance

Azi Capuno
Nov 7


Altech Batteries long-term SNC battery data shows ultra-low fail rate
Altech Batteries’ sodium-nickel-chloride (SNC) batteries which will be produced by the company’s partner AMPower. Credit: File Altech Batteries (ASX: ATC) says batteries utilising similar technology to its sodium-nickel-chloride batteries deployed in South Africa up to 15 years ago have exhibited failure rates of just 0.6% to 1.5%. The company says those rates blitz the failure rates of lithium and lead-acid batteries that typically fail at rates of 3% to 5% and 8 to 12% resp

Doug Bright
Nov 6


Neometals nails near-perfect gold recoveries at Murchison gold play
Old workings at Neometals Limited promising Barrambie gold project in Western Australian Murchison region. Credit:File Neometals Limited (ASX: NMT) has delivered a stellar set of early metallurgical results from the company’s Ironclad gold deposit, part of its Barrambie project in Western Australia’s Murchison region, revealing a lovely set of recovery numbers. Initial testing delivered up to 71 per cent gravity recoveries and overall gold recoveries of up to 98 per cent, al

James Pearson
Nov 6


Novo Resources jags bonanza grade gold at untested NSW prospect
Core logging rig at Novo Resources’ Tibooburra gold project in New South Wales. Credit: File Novo Resources (ASX: NVO) has jagged numerous high-grade gold rock chips at its Tibooburra project in northwest New South Wales, grading up to a punchy 39.9 grams per tonne (g/t) at its Pioneer North prospect. The company says a string of double-digit gold assays have lit up its undrilled Pioneer prospects, highlighting numerous targets for maiden drilling. The latest batch of reconna

Andrew Todd
Nov 6


Great Southern Mining jags shallow high-grade WA gold over 4.5kms
Air core drilling underway at Great Southern Mining’s Amy Clarke prospect, part of the company’s Duketon gold project near Laverton in Western Australia. Credit: File Great Southern Mining’s (ASX: GSN) latest aircore drilling campaign has lit up its Duketon gold project near Laverton in Western Australia, revealing a huge 4.5 kilometre corridor of shallow high-grade gold hits at the company’s Amy Clarke prospect. Topping the results was a 2m strike grading a whopping 23.9 gr

James Pearson
Nov 6


Larvotto Resources locks in underground mining muscle for NSW antimony-gold play
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

James Pearson
Nov 6


Eclipse Metals onto Greenland carbonatite-hosted rare earths to 190m
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

Doug Bright
Nov 6


Advance Metals doubles down on visible gold hits at emerging Victorian play
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

Andrew Todd
Nov 6


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

Matt Birney
Nov 6


Thunderbird Resources launches NSW project antimony exploration
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

Doug Bright
Nov 5


Locksley Resources strikes toll processing deal to fast-track US antimony push
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

James Pearson
Nov 5


Pacgold fires starter gun on gold production at South Australian play
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

Andrew Todd
Nov 5


ClearVue Technologies inks 3-year Korean license partnership for solar glass
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

Doug Bright
Nov 5


Rio2 banks US$50m from Wheaton to fuel Chilean mine build
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

James Pearson
Nov 5


Advance Metals collects cheap silver and gold from untested core in Mexico
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

Andrew Todd
Nov 5


Auric Mining bags $11m from first WA Munda gold mine sales
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

James Pearson
Nov 5


Octava Minerals poised to drill high-grade indium at Tasmanian polymetallic hot spot
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
Rowena Duckworth
Nov 5


TMK Energy hits record monthly gas production in Mongolia
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

Doug Bright
Nov 5


Kalamazoo Resources WA mine study shines with $1.4b gold upside
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

Bill McConnell
Nov 5


Golden streak grows as Gateway Mining bags 328 new nuggets in WA
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

James Pearson
Nov 5
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