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Brightstar Resources -Alto Metals union creates 3m ounce mid-tier gold explorer
Brightstar’s recently acquired Sandstone project contains the Lord Nelson deposit, which has an estimated resource of 5.6 million tonnes...

Sheena Francis
Jan 28, 2025


Brightstar Resources launches 55km of RC drilling at Sandstone project in WA
Brightstar resources has recommenced RC drilling to infill and extend resources at its previously-mined Lord Nelson resource which...

Sheena Francis
Jan 21, 2025


Alto Metals nails 212m gold hit under historic pit
Alto Metals (ASX: AME) has nailed a 212m drill hit at its Bull Oak project near Sandstone in WA grading 1.2 g/t gold from just 28m and...

Sheena Francis
Oct 28, 2024


Alto Metals nails gold leach recoveries to 97 per cent at Sandstone
Metallurgical testing on reverse-circulation (RC) drill samples from Alto Metals’ (ASX: AME) Indomitable target at Sandstone in Western...

Sheena Francis
Sep 24, 2024


Alto Metals spins drill bit to extend Sandstone gold prospects
Alto Metals (ASX: AME) has launched a 3500m reverse-circulation (RC) drilling program at its Sandstone gold project in Western...

Sheena Francis
Sep 12, 2024


Alto Metals strikes golden option on prized WA mining lease
Alto Metals (ASX: AME) has seized an option on the prized Lightning mining lease that sits within its 100 per cent-owned Sandstone gold...

Sheena Francis
Apr 22, 2024


Alto Metals kicks off drill campaign to test gold hints in soils
Alto Metals (ASX: AME) has kicked-off a 4000m air-core drill program to interrogate new shallow gold targets identified from a recent...

Sheena Francis
Apr 8, 2024


Alto Metals eyes Mid West drill campaign along 1km gold anomaly
Alto Metals (ASX: AME) has defined a 1km-long gold anomaly after a successful fine-fraction infill soil sampling program at the Sandstone...

Sheena Francis
Mar 26, 2024


Alto Metals runs rule over 6km high-grade Sandstone gold anomaly
Alto Metals plans to infill fine-fraction soil sampling at its Sandstone gold project in Western Australia’s Mid West region to better...

Sheena Francis
Feb 13, 2024


Alto Metals defines 6km gold-arsenic anomaly at Sandstone
Alto Metals has defined a 6km gold-arsenic anomaly at its Sandstone gold project in Western Australia above old workings that previously...

Sheena Francis
Dec 6, 2023


High-grade gold extensions for Alto Metals at Kohinoor reef
Alto Metals has extended the mostly-unmined Kohinoor reef within its Bull Oak deposit in Western Australia’s Mid West region by 100m in...

Sheena Francis
Nov 20, 2023


Alto Metals' drilling shows new life for historic Bull Oak deposit
Alto Metals has recorded some solid hits from the first holes sunk at its historic Bull Oak deposit including a 55m intercept grading 1.5...

Sheena Francis
Oct 25, 2023


Alto Metals cranks drillbit to revive Bulls Oak gold mine
Alto Metals has blasted the first dirt aside with a reverse-circulation (RC) drilling program consisting of 18 holes for 2400m as it aims...

Sheena Francis
Oct 3, 2023


Alto Metals breathes new life into Bulls Oak gold mine
Alto Metals has shone the miner’s torch on more gold in the historic Bull Oak mine after a data review at its Sandstone project in...

Sheena Francis
Sep 19, 2023


Good Lord: Alto Metals beefs up Sandstone play with new lease
Alto Metals has been granted a pivotal mining lease at its 100 per cent-owned Sandstone gold project in Western Australia, within a...

Sheena Francis
Sep 12, 2023


Sandstone gold hits keep coming for Alto Metals
Alto Metals’ final assays from four reverse-circulation (RC) holes drilled for 856m at its 100 per cent-held Indomitable gold camp near...

Sheena Francis
Aug 28, 2023


Alto Metals drilling scores big Indomitable gold runs at depth
Alto Metals’ latest results from a 5000m phase-two drilling program at its 3km-long Indomitable gold camp have handed the company a string of remarkable gold runs in assays from deep oxide zones. Significant results from the reverse-circulation (RC) program include an oxide intercept of 15m at 3.1 grams per tonne gold from 32m downhole, including 8m at 5g/t gold from 32m that includes a high-grade sweetener of 1m running 22.2g/t gold from 33m. Two other respective oxide runs

Doug Bright
Aug 4, 2023


Second-phase drilling proves Indomitable for Alto Metals
Alto Metals continues to record positive results from drilling at its Sandstone project in WA’s Mid West region. Credit: File Alto Metals has returned positive results from a second phase of drilling at the Indomitable site that forms part of its greater Sandstone gold project, including a 24m hit at 2.2 grams per tonne gold from 160m. The intercept contained solid sections including 16m going 3g/t gold from 167m, 1m grading 8.8g/t gold from 175m and another 1m hit at an impr
Michael Philipps
Jun 23, 2023


Alto Metals adds lithium blue sky to Sandstone gold project
Alto Metals drilling at its flagship Sandstone gold project. Credit: File Alto Metals is planning to turn the ground at its Indomitable prospect into Swiss cheese in an aggressive hunt for gold extensions – particularly at depth – at the site near the Western Australian town of Sandstone. The company says recent drilling results at its prospect have demonstrated the potential for a significant high-grade gold system. Results announced this month include 16m at 13.1 grams per
Terry Bates
May 31, 2023


New Sandstone prospect boosts Alto Metals gold goal
A chip tray of samples taken from a drill hole at Alto Metals’ new Cessna prospect at its Sandstone project. Credit: File Alto Metals has received yet another boost for its Sandstone gold project in Western Australia’s Mid West region, with first-pass RC drilling at its new Cessna prospect confirming high-grade gold mineralisation in a strike that extends to more than 3.5km and remains open in all directions. With its Cessna assays returning a headline figure of 4m at 24.2 gr
Mark Irving
May 18, 2023
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