Terrain Minerals has confirmed gold and silver mineralisation across all three Wildflower targets within its Smokebush project in WA. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has confirmed gold hits up to 6.05 grams per tonne (g/t) and silver to 20.34g/t in first-pass reverse circulation drilling of three key targets at its Wildflower prospect in the company’s Smokebush project, 350km north of Perth in WA. The results have backed up the company’s induced polarisation (IP) tar

A drill rig on site at Novo Resources’ Belltopper project in central Victoria’s Goldfields region. Novo Resources (ASX: NVO) has unveiled a quality-grade gold resource at its Leven Star Reef deposit, part of the company’s Belltopper gold project in central Victoria, 120 kilometres northwest of Melbourne. The inferred mineral resource comprises 760,000 tonnes grading a healthy 3.6 grams per tonne (g/t) gold for 87,000 ounces of the shiny yellow metal. The company says

A drill rig in action at Zenith Minerals’ Consolidated Dulcie gold project in Western Australia Zenith Minerals (ASX: ZNC) has agreed to an off-market scrip takeover by Forrestania Resources in a savvy corporate action that values the company at $93.5 million. The binding transaction will consolidate two Western Australia-focused exploration and development portfolios, centred on Zenith’s 675,000-ounce Dulcie gold project, 70 kilometres south of Southern Cross in the re

Titleline Drilling’s diamond rig conducting phase one drilling at Kuniko Limited’s Commonwealth project in NSW.Credit:File Kuniko (ASX: KNI) is charging back into the field at its high-grade Commonwealth gold-silver-copper project 80 kilometres north of Orange in New South Wales after securing top-tier contractor Titeline Drilling for a significant diamond drilling campaign starting in early July. The exploration program will put down six priority holes for 1340 metres, targe

The Swan and Swift resource areas at Horizon Gold's Gum Creek project near Sandstone in WA, where drilling is adding new ounces around the proposed Gidgee processing hub ahead of a feasibility study. Horizon Gold (ASX: HRN) has been busy stacking up new ounces at its Gum Creek gold project with a raft of high-grade drilling hits emerging from deposits clustered near its planned processing hub south of Sandstone. The lift could potentially set the stage for a resource boos

Maritana Minerals is stepping up work at its Black Swan processing hub near Kalgoorlie after raising its planned plant throughput. Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has stepped up work on its Black Swan gold processing hub near Kalgoorlie, after front-end engineering design (FEED) by GR Engineering Services lifted planned plant capacity from the 2.2 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) used in its scoping study to 2.5Mtpa as the company moves closer to construction. The revision

Visible gold from the Paquin prospect at Olympio Metals' Bousquet gold project in Quebec, where a 1500m phase-three drilling campaign is targeting extensions to a bonanza-grade gold intercept. Olympio Metals (ASX: OLY) has kicked off phase three diamond drilling program at its Bousquet gold project in Quebec, Canada, as it seeks to determine whether a bonanza-grade hit from March is the first step towards a much larger gold system. The company has mobilised a rig for a

Chariot Resources has nearly doubled its US lithium footprint after staking 573 new claims at its Resurgent project in the prominent McDermitt Caldera, capitalising on a recovery in battery metal prices.

An aerial view of Viking Mines’ Linka tungsten mine in Nevada, showing coarse ore stockpiles in the background that are returning grades equivalent to historical mine grades. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has uncovered a potentially valuable source of near-surface tungsten at its Linka project in Nevada, with sampling confirming a historic stockpile left behind by previous operators still carries grades comparable to those mined during the project’s heyday. The company collec

Wide-open Murchison terrain near Meekatharra, where PLC Resources have kicked off a high-resolution magnetic and radiometric survey across the Abbotts North gold project. PLC Resources (ASX: PLC) is looking to keep the exploration momentum rolling at the company’s Abbotts North gold project in Western Australia's Murchison region, launching a high-resolution airborne geophysical survey while market watchers wait for results from the first drilling campaign at its project.

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A drone and magnetometer on the ground after completing Aureka Limited’s survey across the company’s Irvine project in Victoria. Aureka Limited (ASX: AKA) has hit the ground running at its flagship, 100 per cent owned Irvine gold project in Victoria, locking onto fresh, high-priority targets after sending survey drones skyward. The precision airborne geophysical program has unmasked a network of previously hidden subsurface structures across the project area in the deco

AETC principals welcome Sarytogan managing director Sean Gregory (right) to Chicago, where bulk samples of the company’s graphite concentrate have arrived for purification trials. Sarytogan Graphite (ASX: SGA) has begun bulk graphite purification trials in the United States after shipping concentrate samples from its massive graphite project in Kazakhstan to specialist processor American Energy Technologies Company (AETC) in Chicago for plant scale testing. The program will p

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Viridis Mining and Minerals’ Colossus rare earths project in Brazil Viridis Mining and Minerals (ASX: VMM) has bagged its first major project delivery contract, signing a binding agreement with municipal electricity distributor DME for the turnkey construction of a dedicated 3.2-kilometre, 138-kilovolt high-voltage transmission connection to its Colossus rare earths project in Brazil. The fresh agreement secures critical electrical infrastructure by covering the licensi

American West Metals’ picturesque West Desert critical minerals project in Utah, United States. Credit: File American West Metals (ASX: AW1) has added rich veins of critical and base metals to its West Desert project in Utah, for the budget price of simply resampling its historical drill core at the emerging US play. The company’s decision to assay previously unsampled sections of core has paid off handsomely, returning outstanding peak values of 155 grams per tonne (g/t) i

Drilling underway at Ardea Resources' massive Goongarrie Hub nickel project near Kalgoorlie has been green-lit for approvals by the WA government. Ardea Resources (ASX: ARL) has received another official government nod for its Kalgoorlie nickel project’s (KNP) Goongarrie Hub, this time at the State level, after being awarded Lead Agency Status by the Western Australian government to streamline project approvals. The status, granted by the Department of Energy and Econom

Drone photograph of resource expansion drilling currently underway at Advance Metals’ Gavilanes project in Mexico Advance Metals (ASX: AVM) has roared out of the blocks in Mexico, with the first diamond drill hole from a maiden program at its wholly owned Gavilanes project returning a 33.9-metre zone of high-grade silver mineralisation. The opening hole’s headline intercept clocked 220 grams per tonne (g/t) silver from 117.6m down-hole. The hit also featured a rich 6.2-

TMK Energy’s well LF-02, pictured in winter 2024 at its Gurvantes XXXV pilot field in Mongolia. TMK Energy (ASX: TMK) has moved a step closer to its goal of declaring its Mongolian Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas pilot well project commercial after posting higher May production. The company has also lined up a July drilling date for up to three new wells and a possible well workover campaign, along with progressing a small-scale gas-to-power project. Average daily gas pr

Diamond drilling at Locksley Resources El Campo project in California, with the world-class Mountain Pass rare earths mine in the background. Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) has confirmed high-grade neodymium and praseodymium-enriched rare earths mineralisation at its El Campo prospect in America. The company also successfully extended the rich antimony trends at the nearby Desert Antimony Mine (DAM), which lies within its broader Mojave project in California. The recen

A diamond drill rig working at Hot Chili’s La Verde copper-gold discovery in Chile’s Atacama region. The age-old junior explorers’ term “nearology” is typically used to describe a project's geological potential based on its proximity to another promising discovery. Every now and then, however, nearology takes on a completely different meaning. Sometimes it becomes a powerful indicator of where serious money is about to flow. That appears to be exactly what is unfoldin

Terrain Minerals has outlined a large, coherent, multi-element gold-pathfinder anomaly at its Carlindie project in WA’s East Pilbara, where field reconnaissance is set to begin in July. Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has identified a coherent 4km-by-3km multi-element gold-pathfinder anomaly in the northeast of its Carlindie project near Port Hedland in WA. The results coincide with a concealed greenstone target generated independently by machine learning. The anomaly was d

Macarthur Minerals has consented to a new JV at its Lake Giles hematite project that will see mining magnate Steve Wyatt’s Destec partner with Gold Valley to develop the WA asset.