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Terrain Minerals cracks 99pc rare earths recovery in WA with bonus credits
Terrain Minerals’ drilling at its Larin’s Lane prospect in WA’s Mid West region. Credit: File Terrain Minerals' (ASX: TMX) metallurgical test work has confirmed high recoveries of up to 99 per cent total rare earth oxides (TREO) in samples from its Larin’s Lane prospect, part of the company's 100 per cent owned Smokebush project in WA's Mid West. The study also pointed to potential gallium and scandium credits. The work, which used clay-hosted sample material from the p

Doug Bright
6 days ago


Terrain Minerals deploys CSIRO tech in Pilbara gold hunt
Terrain Minerals Carlindie project in WA’s East Pilbara, where the company has completed a 538-sample ultrafine geochemical soil survey. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has wrapped up a one-week, advanced ultrafine fraction soil sampling program at its Carlindie project, 90 kilometres southeast of Port Hedland in WA’s highly prospective East Pilbara region. The 538-sample survey was designed as an orientation exercise to test a modern ultra-sensitive geochemica

Doug Bright
7 days ago


Terrain Minerals IP lights up multiple priority WA Mid West gold targets
Terrain Minerals has defined seven new priority gold drill targets at its Smokebush project near Paynes Find in WA's Mid West, including a strong anomaly near its recent 54,000-ounce Lightning gold discovery.

Doug Bright
Aug 21


Terrain Minerals lands 54,000-ounce initial gold resource in WA Mid West
Terrain Minerals’ aerial view of its Lighting project area, looking to the west, with drill pads and access tracks. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has roared past a key milestone at its Smokebush gold and silver project in WA’s Murchison region, delivering a maiden inferred mineral resource of 54,000 ounces of gold at its Lightning deposit and laying the groundwork for a potentially much larger system. The new JORC-compliant resource totals 677,000 tonnes grading

Doug Bright
Jul 27


Terrain Minerals strikes high-grade clay-hosted rare earths hit near Esperance
Terrain Minerals’ aircore drilling rig and crew at the company’s Lort River rare earths project near Esperance in WA. Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) says a broad rare earths mineralised system is emerging at its Lort River project, 50 kilometres northwest of Esperance in WA’s Albany-Fraser Belt, after its recently completed aircore drilling hit anomalous mineralisation in 71 per cent of the drill holes. The program received further encouragement from a notably higher-grade

Doug Bright
Jul 1


Terrain Minerals nails high-grade gold and silver in Mid West
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

Doug Bright
Jun 9


Terrain Minerals flags large gold-pathfinder target near Port Hedland in WA
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

Doug Bright
Jun 4


Terrain Minerals extends IP hunt for gold across historic Mid West prospects
Terrain Minerals has extended its ongoing IP geophysical survey over three historic Mid West prospects in WA to sniff out new gold drill targets, ahead of a July maiden resource for its Lightning gold project.

Doug Bright
May 27


Terrain Minerals flags July maiden resource for Mid West gold play
Terrain Minerals is applying for a haul road linking its Smokebush gold project mining lease to the gazetted Warriedar Coppermine Road in WA’s Mid West region. Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) says it is closing in on a maiden July mineral resource estimate for its Lightning gold project in WA’s Mid West region, 350km north of Perth. While today’s announcement reads more like a progress checklist than a singular market-moving event, it paints the picture of a company steadil

Doug Bright
May 21


Terrain Minerals kicks off metallurgical testwork in Mid West gold push
Terrain has kicked off metallurgical testwork at its Lightning gold project in WA’s Mid West as it closes in on a maiden resource estimate, due in July. Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has launched preliminary metallurgical test work at its Lightning gold project in Western Australia’s Mid West region, ticking off another key de-risking step. Management says early signs point to a likely non-refractory feed, implying conventional gravity coarse gold separation and carbon-in

Doug Bright
May 19


Terrain Minerals launches geophysics blitz on WA Yalgoo gold play
Terrain Minerals’ previous drilling at its Lightning deposit in the north of the company’s Smokebush project, near Yalgoo in WA’s Mid West. Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has launched one of its biggest induced polarisation (IP) geophysical surveys yet at the company’s Smokebush gold and silver project, 350 kilometres north of Perth in WA, aimed at sniffing out repeats of its Lightning-style gold target. The survey will cover the granted mining lease in the extreme north o

Doug Bright
May 13


Terrain Minerals wraps up Mid West drilling ahead of July gold count
Terrain Minerals’ Lightning gold project in WA’s Murchison region, where the company has completed a four-hole diamond drilling program to support its upcoming maiden mineral resource estimate. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has put another big tick in the box at its Lightning gold project in Western Australia’s Mid West region, concluding a 671m diamond drilling program at its Lightning gold project aimed at securing rock density and other important structural inpu

Doug Bright
Apr 20


Terrain Minerals ignites WA gold play with sizzling high-grade hits
Terrain Minerals’ reverse circulation drilling in progress at its Lightning gold prospect at the company’s Smokebush project in WA’s Mid West region. Credit: File Terrain Minerals’ (ASX: TMX) Lightning prospect, which forms part of its Smokebush gold project, has burst to life with a set of cracking gold hits fuelling confidence the system is bigger than first thought and primed to grow along strike and at depth. The company’s progressive build-up to a concerted drilling effo

Doug Bright
Apr 15


Terrain Minerals nears defining moment at WA gold project
Terrain Minerals’ reverse circulation drilling underway at the company’s promising Lightning prospect within its Smokebush project in WA’s Mid West. Credit: File After many years of hard-nosed exploration and patience on the ASX, the moment of truth may finally be approaching for Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX). With drilling stacking up at its Smokebush gold project in Western Australia and geological models rapidly taking shape, the long-time explorer appears to be edging towa

Doug Bright
Apr 9


Terrain Minerals targets high-grade rare earths in vast WA clay basin
Terrain Minerals’ aircore drill rig and crew on site at the Lort River rare earths project in Western Australia. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) is back on the drill pads at its fully owned Lort River rare earths project in the Albany Fraser belt, 50 kilometres northwest of Esperance in WA. The company has launched a critical follow-up aircore program designed to determine whether a standout, year-old rare-earth drill hit could herald a much bigger story. The drilli

Doug Bright
Mar 13


Terrain Minerals wraps up major WA drilling assault at Yalgoo gold play
Drilling at Terrain Minerals’ Smokebush project area near Yalgoo in Western Australia. Credit: File. Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has wrapped up an extensive drilling assault at its Smokebush gold and silver project in Western Australia, completing some 7739 metres of deep targeting across its Lightning and Wildflower prospects. The company says it has been probing for potential repeat Lightning-style systems at geophysical anomalies in previously untouched areas as well. At L

Andrew Todd
Mar 4


Lightning WA gold play strikes as Terrain Minerals rolls out diamond rig
Terrain Minerals’ diamond drilling rig and support vehicles are mobilising to the company’s Lightning prospect, with both rig and crew arrival expected on site later today. Credit: File Terrain Minerals Limited (ASX: TMX) has kicked off a round of diamond drilling at its wholly owned Smokebush gold and silver project, about 350km north of Perth in Western Australia's prospective Yalgoo mineral field. The program will zero in on the company’s emerging Lightning prospect, now

Doug Bright
Feb 4


Terrain Minerals back on gold-drill trail in WA’s Mid West
Terrain Minerals has restarted drilling at the company’s Lightning gold-silver prospect, 65 kilometres west of the old gold-rush settlement of Paynes Find in Western Australia’s Mid West region. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has hit the ground running after the holiday break, kicking off a large-scale 6,800-metre reverse circulation drilling campaign at its Smokebush gold and silver project in Western Australia’s Murchison region. The current program comprises 34

Rowena Duckworth
Jan 15


Terrain Minerals sets sights on major WA gold push for 2026
Terrain Minerals has paused work at its WA Smokebush gold project for Christmas. With drilling well advanced at its Lightning prospect, a new mining licence in place and funding secured, the company says it is ready for a big 2026.

Cassius Pitt-Warddhana
Dec 19, 2025


Terrain Minerals tightens grip on high-grade WA gold with new mining lease
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

Doug Bright
Dec 2, 2025
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