Solis Minerals’ drill rig being mobilised at the company’s Cinto copper project in Peru. Credit: File Solis Minerals (ASX: SLM) has kicked off a maiden diamond drilling campaign at its 100 per cent-owned Cinto copper project in southern Peru. The rods are now turning on a program designed to test a string of compelling porphyry copper targets featuring rich surface geochem, including an eye-catching surface sample that clocked a massive 8.7 per cent copper. The initial

Diamond drill core from hole PDG-05 showing the lighter coloured pegmatite sections at Solis Minerals Mandacaru lithium project in Brazil. Credit: File Solis Minerals (ASX: SLM) confirms its maiden drilling campaign at its Mandacaru lithium project in Brazil has intersected visual pegmatites just as the company prepares to kick off a separate 2500-metre diamond drill (DD) program at its Cinto copper project in Peru. The company says drilling at Mandacaru is progressing

Diamond drilling rig on the drill pad at Solis Minerals’ Mandacaru lithium project in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Solis Minerals (ASX: SLM) has fired up the drill rig at its Mandacaru lithium project in Brazil, kicking off a 10-hole, 2000-metre diamond drilling campaign designed to test a compelling pegmatite system. The company says it is looking to quickly define a coherent lithium discovery along an 800-metre-long corridor within the heart of the prolific Araçuaí Lithium V

Solis Minerals’ 93,000-hectare Brazil Lithium project in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Solis Minerals (ASX: SLM) has emerged from the market with a heavily reinforced balance sheet and a clear mandate to drill its flagship Brazil Lithium project after securing firm commitments for a $6 million placement. The company will issue just over 63 million new shares at 9.5 cents apiece, a relatively modest discount to its previous closing price. According to management, the fresh

Solis Minerals has moved a step closer to maiden drilling in Brazil’s red-hot Lithium Valley after locking in land access, securing a driller and confirming fertile lithium markers at two priority targets.

Outcropping white pegmatites at Solis Minerals’ recently acquired Brazil lithium project. Junior explorers can come unstuck for a thousand different reasons and it’s rarely just about the rocks. More often, the biggest signal can be the people steering the ship. So, when a team that has already nailed a major discovery and a monster sale in one postcode decides to reunite and have a crack at the ground next door, the market tends to pay attention. That’s the story now