Meeka Metals’ Murchison project area showing the Turnberry - St Annes corridor. Credit: File Meeka Metals (ASX: MEK) has delivered more high-grade gold hits from the prolifically mineralised Fairway Shear zone, which dominates the company’s Murchison gold project in Western Australia. Drilling results at its new Rosapenna target, just 500 metres south of the company’s Turnberry South deposit, returned a best hit of 23m grading 1.05 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, including a 4-me

Larvotto Resources’ Hillgrove geological personnel with ECORE Elemission’s technician and the ECORE scanner. Credit: File Larvotto Resources (ASX: LRV) has bought and taken delivery of Canadian-based Elemission’s game-changing ECORE automated core scanning system. The new technology will make the company’s NSW Hillgrove antimony-gold project the only operating mine site in Australia equipped with on-site laser ablation and atomic emission spectroscopy capability. The ECORE s

Chariot Corporation rock chip sampling at its Nigerian lithium project has identified the mauve mica mineral lepidolite as one of the lithium hosts, along with spodumene, a key source of lithium. Credit: File Chariot Corporation (ASX: CC9) has reported high-grade lithium oxide of up to 5.96% in first-pass rock chip sampling at its Fonlo and Iganna projects in southwest Nigeria, confirming the existence of fertile lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite systems and underlini

An aerial photograph of work on the drainage sump at Aquia Resources’ Tres Estrades phosphate mine in Brazil. The work is scheduled for completion during the first week of December. Credit: File Aguia Resources (ASX: AGR) is ramping up preparations for mining at its Três Estradas phosphate project in Brazil, with upgrades progressing ahead of schedule and production slated to begin in March of next year. Mine site preparations appear to be advancing steadily, with a drainage

Octava Minerals (ASX: OCT) has kicked off the first drilling program in almost 50 years at its Sweeney’s prospect, part of the company’s broader Federation project in Tasmania, targeting a rich mix of copper, zinc, silver, tin and untested high-grade indium. Once completed, each drill hole will be cased ahead of down-hole electromagnetic (DHEM) surveys to peer sideways for up to 200m, looking for conductors suggestive of massive sulphide mineralisation. Initially, Octava aims

Relined heap leach ponds at Pacgold Limited’s recently acquired White Dam gold mine in South Australia. Credit: File Pacgold Limited (ASX: PGO) has cleared the decks for a restart at its newly-acquired and wholly owned White Dam heap leach gold operation in South Australia. Rigs are now rolling in for a monster 25,000-metre reverse circulation (RC) program and pregnant gold leach solutions set to flow before year’s end. The company says it has now completed the project’s acq

FMR Resources diamond drilling is currently underway at Target C on the Southern Porphyry within the Llahuin Project Joint Venture with Southern Hemisphere Mining. Credit: File FMR Resources (ASX: FMR) , through its joint venture with Southern Hemisphere Mining (ASX: SUH) , has completed detailed downhole geophysics on the first deep hole into the Southern Porphyry target at the duo’s Llahuin copper-gold-molybdenum project in Chile. The surveys, which included downhole induce

Yet more visible gold in drilling and grades of up to 85.8g/t from Aureka Limited’s Irvine project in Victoria’s gold-rich Stawell belt. Aureka Limited (ASX: AKA) has revealed a fresh set of bonanza-grade assays from a diamond drill program at its flagship Irvine gold project in Victoria’s Stawell corridor. The strikes confirmed visible gold 70 metres below previously reported intercepts, running up to 85.8 grams per tonne (g/t), which the company says will likely add quick

A birds-eye view of the North and South gold pits at Dateline Resources’ Colosseum project in California. Credit: File Dateline Resources (ASX: DTR) has hit yet more solid gold intercepts from beneath the North pit at its Colosseum project in California, delivering wide zones of gold up to 132.6 metres grading 0.95 grams per tonne. The standout hole cut 64m running at 1.24 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from the bottom of the pit, packed with higher-grade stretches such as 7.66m

Olympio Metals sawn diamond drill core from Paquin, showing black quartz veining with abundant sulphides. Olympio Metals (ASX: OLY) has resumed fieldwork at its flagship Bousquet gold project in Quebec, Canada, with a targeted soil geochemical sampling program and review of historical diamond drill core now underway. The 290-sample survey was collected from a second soil horizon immediately below the exposed surface layer using a hand auger across a tight 50m × 50m grid. The

Drilling at Beetaloo Energy’s Carpentaria-5H horizontal gas well in the Northern Territory. Credit: File Beetaloo Energy (ASX: BTL) has taken a big step towards unlocking long-term appraisal gas production after securing key Federal Ministerial approvals linked to Traditional Owner consent for the sale of gas from its EP187 permit in the Northern Territory. The sign-off, granted under the Federal Aboriginal Land Rights Act, represents one of the most important administrative

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Kalamazoo drilling at its Ashburton Project. Credit: File Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) is set to test and drill the down plunge extents of existing resources beneath its Mt Olympus pit shell design and multiple brownfields prospects at its Ashburton gold project in northern WA . Ashburton already comes replete with a 1.44‑million‑ounce gold resource going 2.8 grams per tonne gold and Kalamazoo has now set its sights on banking additional ounces from a proposed underground s

Reach Resources’ reverse circulation drilling rig at the company’s 61,300 ounce Blue Heaven gold resource in its South Murchison project in WA. Credit: File Reach Resources (ASX: RR1) has secured its prospective Jacamar gold project within the company’s Murchison South gold project in WA with a recent mining lease grant centred less than 1 kilometre southeast from the historic Payne’s Find Hotel on WA’s Great Northern Highway which runs through the tenement. The northern bou

Terrain Minerals is engaged in a 4500m reverse circulation drilling program at its Lightning prospect in the northwestern corner of its Smokebush project 350lm north of Perth in WA. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has successfully converted multiple prospecting licences to a mining lease which will secure its exploration and planned mining activities in the area for a 30 year term. The newly granted mining lease will firmly cement Terrain’s presence in the prospectiv

Laying subsea gas pipeline for ENI’s vast offshore Argo Cassiopea gas development in Sicily, close to ADX Energy’s Sicily Channel project in Italy. Credit: File ADX Energy (ASX: ADX) has supercharged its European gas ambitions after upping the best (P50) resource estimate at the company’s Sicily Channel southern offshore play by 31 per cent to 484 billion cubic feet (Bcf). Notably, the company’s mean prospective estimate now sits at an impressive 619Bcf. ADX management says

Lindian Resources mixed rare earth carbonate (MREC) produced from Kangankunde monazite concentrate in Malawi. Credit: File Lindian Resources (ASX: LIN) has delivered a major downstream step for its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi, with Australia’s national nuclear science agency (ANSTO) confirming its monazite ore feed cracks cleanly to a premium mixed rare earth carbonate (MREC) grading 54 per cent total rare earths oxide concentrate (TREO) and carrying an elite 2

Critica Limited has produced a second high grade mixed rare earths product from its Jupiter project in Western Australia’s Mid West region. Critica (ASX: CRI) has planted another flag in the fast-moving hunt for non-China based rare earths, revealing a second high-grade mixed rare earths product (MREP) from its Jupiter project in Western Australia’ Mid West region. The latest batch, which was drawn from an entirely different part of the clay-hosted rare earths resource to th

Excavation at Auric Mining’s Munda open pit near Widgiemooltha IN Western Australia. Credit: File Auric Mining (ASX: AWJ) has delivered a dazzling first strike from its Munda gold mine near Widgiemooltha, raking in $16.85 million in gold sales and banking $10.82 million in cold, hard cash after costs. The first mining campaign from the company’s starter pit at Munda, which finished two weeks ago, saw 57,900 tonnes of ore trucked to Black Cat Syndicate’s Lakewood Mill in Kalg

Viridis Mining and Minerals drilling at its world-class Colossus rare earths project in Brazil. Credit: File Viridis Mining and Minerals (ASX: VMM) confirmed today it remains on track to secure the all-important Preliminary Licence (LP) for its flagship Colossus ionic clay rare earths project in Poços de Caldas, Brazil. The company says that, notwithstanding a minor delay in the environmental permitting process, management remains confident it will receive approval at the reg

A reverse circulation rig in action at Zenith Minerals’ Dulcie gold project near Marvel Loch in Western Australia. Credit: File Zenith Minerals (ASX: ZNC) has fired the first shot in what could become one of the more significant gold resource discoveries in Western Australia’s Southern Cross–Forrestania belt. Early drilling at the company’s Consolidated Dulcie project have confirmed broad zones of gold exactly where the company predicted they would be. The company is running

Altech Batteries’ new Board is focussed on turning its Cerenergy sodium batteries and Silumina Anodes technologies from technical successes into commercial reality. Credit: File Altech Batteries (ASX: ATC) has completed a full board overhaul, installing a new leadership team tasked with turning its two flagship battery technologies – CERENERGY sodium solid-state batteries and Silumina anodes - from technical success into commercial reality. The change in management was reque

Core photograph illustrating sulphide rich breccia at Strickland Metals’ Kotlovi prospect, part of the company’s Rogozna gold and base metals project in Serbia. Strickland Metals (ASX: STK) has unearthed thick, high-grade gold at its Kotlovi prospect, which forms part of the company’s massive 7.4-million-ounce Rogozna gold and base metal project in Serbia. The company says mineralisation has now been defined across several drillholes at the prospect, which currently stretche

Larvotto Resources has secured an exclusive option to acquire the Blockade mine, a historic copper operation, 41km east-northeast of Queensland’s Mt Isa mining centre. Larvotto Resources (ASX: LRV) has secured an exclusive option to acquire the Blockade mine, a successful historic copper operation strategically enclosed by the company’s existing Mt Isa tenements in northwest Queensland. The 152.7-hectare Blockade mining lease, 41 kilometres east-northeast of Mount Isa, initia