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Litchfield Minerals eyes fresh NT targets after BHP Xplor model review
Copper mineralisation at Litchfield Minerals’ Oonagalabi project in Australia’s Northern Territory. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) is set to put a newly refined exploration blueprint, shaped through BHP Xplor, to its first real-world test, with three ground geophysical surveys scheduled to kick off in July across its Oonagalabi and Silver Valley projects in Australia’s Northern Territory. The company says the work will test a belt-scale mineral systems framework develop

Doug Bright
Jun 30


Litchfield Minerals maps out new NT copper-nickel search zone
Litchfield Minerals exploration is supported by BHP’s nine month Xplor program. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) says its BHP Xplor-backed technical work has changed the way it looks at its Harts Range ground in Australia’s Northern Territory, shifting the story from a handful of separate copper and nickel prospects to a potentially much bigger belt-scale mineral system. The company says the work it has completed through the global miner’s Xplor program has tied together

Doug Bright
Jun 18


Litchfield Minerals boosts NT base metals case with broad drill hits
Litchfield Minerals has bagged a string of broad copper-zinc-silver intersections at its Oonagalabi base metals project in the Northern Territory. Pictured is a 1m slice of diamond drill core from 158m downhole in the Oonagalabi Main zone, which assayed 1m at 3.1 per cent copper and 0.9 per cent zinc. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has delivered an encouraging clutch of broad copper-zinc-silver hits from phase three reverse circulation (RC) drilling at its Oonagalabi base

Doug Bright
Jun 3


Litchfield Minerals jags rich silver hit as NT drill campaign wraps up
Litchfield has wound up its latest drilling at the company’s Oonagalabi project near Alice Springs in Australia’s Northern Territory. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has put a bow on the latest drilling campaign at its Oonagalabi project near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, chalking up 11 reverse circulation (RC) holes for 1791 metres and three diamond holes for 1214m across the company’s key targets. The completed drilling program extended beyond the main Oonagalabi

Doug Bright
Apr 23


Litchfield Minerals launches phase three drilling at NT copper-zinc system
Litchfield Minerals has begun phase three drilling at its Oonagalabi project in the Top End, targeting its VT1, VT2 and Main Zone geophysical and mineralised targets to define scale and continuity.

Doug Bright
Apr 2


Litchfield Minerals builds momentum across Northern Territory copper hunt
Litchfield Minerals has wrapped up four drill holes at Oonagalabi and is lining up its next drilling blitz to test strong geophysical anomalies, while beefing up its NT field crew with a new senior geologist.

Doug Bright
Mar 17


Litchfield Minerals lights up new targets and 5km copper-zinc corridor in NT
Sunset at Litchfield Minerals’ Oonagalabi project in the Northern Territory. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has outlined additional large copper-zinc targets and a whopping 5km mineralised corridor at its emerging Oonagalabi project in the Northern Territory. The latest findings have confirmed strong chargeability trends, hinting at further discoveries beneath its rugged terrain. The company’s new induced polarisation (IP) work built directly on its earlier geophysical survey

Andrew Todd
Mar 2


Litchfield Minerals lands proof of strong copper, zinc potential in NT drilling
Litchfield Minerals’ latest reverse circulation drilling at its Oonagalabi project in the Northern Territory has defined exceptional indications of a potentially large polymetallic copper-zinc-silver system. Litchfield Minerals Limited (ASX: LMS) has reported compelling assay results from its phase two reverse circulation (RC) drilling at its Oonagalabi copper-zinc project in the Northern Territory. The results have confirmed runs of thick, continuous copper and zinc mineral

Doug Bright
Feb 5


BHP backs Litchfield Minerals with elite Xplor accelerator program
Litchfield Minerals’ Oonagalabi project in Australia’s Northern Territory looks set for a significant exploration boost, following the company’s acceptance into BHP’s prestigious Xplor development initiative. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has secured a coveted spot in BHP’s elite 2026 Xplor accelerator program, marking a significant endorsement of its exploration efforts at the company’s Oonagalabi copper-zinc project in the Northern Territory. BHP Xplor is a globally compet

Doug Bright
Feb 2


Litchfield Minerals targets high-grade manganese in NT
Massive manganese outcrop in Litchfield Minerals’ Lucy Creek prospect in the NT. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) is planning to launch a high-resolution aerial geophysical survey to target multiple hydrothermal manganese occurrences at its Lucy Creek prospect in the prospective southern Geogina Basin, in the NT. The Lucy Creek project sits 320 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs and covers a vast 1600 square kilometre area. The historically underexplored intracratonic basi

Michael Busbridge
Jan 27


Litchfield Minerals scout survey lights up strong NT lead-silver-copper potential
Litchfield Minerals’ Silver Valley Two prospect stole the show during a scout review of the company’s Silver Valley project area in the NT, boasting the strongest vein outcropping and most extensive historic workings noted during the visit. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has wrapped up a boots-on-the-ground reconnaissance sweep across its 165 square kilometre Silver Valley project area, a polymetallic lead-silver-copper-gold-zinc exploration play in the Northern Territory cen

Doug Bright
Jan 21


Litchfield Minerals hunts for hidden copper in NT with geophysics push
Litchfield Minerals’ magnetics image with superimposed IP survey coverage (black lines) targeting southwest extensions of the Oonagalabi Formation (light blue) towards Silverado, before pivoting to southern magnetic structures trending towards the company’s VT1 target. If there is one thing explorers love more than tantalising outcrop, it is the idea that the real prize might be lurking just out of view beneath shallow cover. This is exactly the driver behind Litchfield Miner

Doug Bright
Jan 20


Litchfield Minerals goes deep on NT copper-gold hunt
Litchfield Minerals has launched a 1000-metre maiden diamond drilling program at its Oonagalabi copper-zinc project in the NT, prompted by multi-element results from its previous drilling at the project.

Michael Busbridge
Jan 20


Litchfield Minerals EM survey lights up monster copper-zinc conductors in NT
Litchfield Minerals drilling at its Oonagalabi project in Australia’s Northern Territory. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has nailed ultra-strong EM conductors and a 1km-long carbonate unit at the company’s Oonagalabi project in the NT, hinting at a much larger copper-zinc system at depth and sharpening drill targets at its VT1 and VT2 prospects. The fixed-loop EM (FLEM) surveys significantly support the conductors identified in earlier airborne versatile time domain (VTEM) s

Doug Bright
Jan 12


Litchfield Minerals lands 148m monster copper hit in Northern Territory
Gossanous and copper-rich rock chips at Litchfield Minerals’ Oonagalabi Main Zone in the Northern Territory. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has hit a whopping 148m of copper, including 90m grading 0.6 per cent copper and 1.8 per cent zinc from 17 metres depth at its Main Zone prospect, which forms part of the company’s Oonagalabi copper-zinc project, 120 kilometres north of Alice Springs. The new hit represents the biggest drilling intersection to date at site and reinforces

Michael Busbridge
Dec 10, 2025


Litchfield Minerals launches new geophysics to refine NT copper-zinc find
Gossanous outcropping at Litchfield Minerals Oonagalabi copper-zinc project in the Northern Territory. Hot off the back of a successful drilling program and a new induced polarisation (IP) survey at the company’s Oonagalabi copper-zinc project in the Northern Territory, Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has shifted gears again, this time unleashing a fixed loop electromagnetic (FLEM) survey to zero in on its exciting VT1 conductor. The move marks the beginning of a new round of

James Pearson
Nov 28, 2025


Litchfield Minerals survey lights up big NT copper-zinc targets
Old workings at Litchfield Minerals’ Oonagalabi copper-zinc project, 120 kilometres north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has pulled back the curtain on what may be one of the Northern Territory’s most promising emerging base-metals systems. New induced polarisation (IP) survey results have outlined multiple fresh, high-priority targets across its Oonagalabi copper and zinc project, hinting at a large intrusion-related sulphide syst

James Pearson
Nov 24, 2025


Litchfield Minerals lands 91m Northern Territory copper hit
Samples from Oonagalabi Main Zone prospect Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has hit 91m of copper going 0.9% and 1.3% zinc from 8m depth at its Oonagalabi Main Zone prospect, located 120kms north of Alice Springs. It is one of the strongest drilling intersections to date by Lichfield and supports a reliable base case of a rich polymetallic mineralised envelope outcropping for at least 1.5kms along strike. Within the 91m intersection, a zone of 37m @ 0.9% copper, 1.8% zinc, 0.1%

Michael Busbridge
Nov 17, 2025


Litchfield Minerals' geophysics highlight large-scale NT mineralised system
Litchfield Minerals is seeking polymetallic mineralisation including cooper, lead and zinc at its Oonagalabi project, where surface rock chip samples reveal classic copper oxide, hydroxide and carbonate secondary mineralisation. Litchfield Minerals’ (ASX: LMS) has revealed the latest geophysical results from its priority VT1 VTEM drill target at its Oonagalabi project in Australia’s NT indicate it sits within a large-scale and fertile mineralised system that could potentially

Doug Bright
Nov 4, 2025


Litchfield Minerals nails 200m NT copper-zinc mineralisation
Litchfield Minerals drilling at the company’s Oonagalabi copper-zinc project in Australia’s Northern Territory Litchfield Minerals (ASX: LMS) has intersected more than 200 metres of continuous copper-zinc mineralisation in reverse circulation (RC) drilling, further emphasising the potential scale and persistence of the polymetallic system at its Oonagalabi project in Australia’s Northern Territory. Visual logging of the hole shows a significant 189-metre interval from 36 metr

Doug Bright
Oct 31, 2025
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