Viking Mines gets the green light to commence its maiden drilling program at its highly prospective Linka tungsten project in Nevada Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has received an official nod of approval from the United States Bureau of Land Management for a maiden drilling programme at its Linka tungsten project in Nevada. The federal green light landed ahead of schedule, locking in timeline certainty as the company moves towards its upcoming drill work. With approval now se

A company geologist inspecting historical workings at Viking Mines Linka tungsten project in Nevada, US. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) is officially transitioning from paperwork to power tools at its Linka tungsten project in Nevada, lodging a formal Notice of Intent with the US Bureau of Land Management for an expansive 63-hole drilling campaign. The move marks a pivotal shift for the company as it prepares to launch the first exploration drilling at the historical site in more th

Old workings at Viking Mines’ Linka tungsten project in Nevada. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) appears to have wasted little time advancing its Linka tungsten project in Nevada, moving into early-stage processing design work using a nifty modular plant design as it pushes the critical minerals play towards a genuine development story. Fresh from earlier metallurgical work that delivered a saleable concentrate grading an impressive 63.6 per cent tungsten trioxide, the company says co

Historic workings at Viking Mines’ Linka tungsten project at night, under the picturesque Nevada sky. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has launched a new interactive investor hub to give its followers direct access to management as the hunt for tungsten at its Linka project in Nevada ramps up. The company says its hub will provide real-time access to company announcements, reports and presentations, including a live upcoming webinar by managing director Julian Woodcock to lay out the

An aerial view of Viking Mines’ Linka tungsten mine in Nevada, looking to the south from the Linka shaft, showing coarse ore stockpiles in the background. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) is charging ahead with fieldwork at its Linka project in Nevada, executing an aggressive surface asset evaluation ahead of a June quarter drilling blitz as global tungsten prices hit an eye-watering 90-year high. The company is aiming to systematically quantify historical above-ground stockpiles, al

Viking Mines has begun trading on the US OTC Markets, giving North American investors a local-currency gateway to its Nevada-based Linka tungsten project. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has switched on a fresh US trading line for its shares, with the company now officially quoted on the OTC Markets under the ticker VKALF. OTC or “over-the-counter” is a US trading platform that allows broker-dealers to match buyers and sellers outside the big exchanges such as the New York Stock Exc

Viking Mines’ high-tech gravity survey delivered a rock-solid correlation with known mineralisation. Viking Mines Ltd (ASX: VKA) has dialled up the heat in Nevada, after a high-tech gravity survey at its Linka tungsten project delivered a rock-solid correlation with known mineralisation. The results have effectively sharpened drill-ready targets for the company’s upcoming maiden drill programme by confirming a direct correlation between the survey results and the heavy, tung

Viking Mines’ testwork separation of the tungsten mineral scheelite (white) from waste minerals (brown) via Wilfley table gravity concentration obtained an assayed table-concentrate grade of 18 per cent tungsten trioxide. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has turned up the heat on its Linka tungsten project in Nevada, unveiling an accelerated workflow aimed at propelling the promising asset from desktop number-crunching into hands-on development and drilling. The company says an inten

Tungsten from deposits such as Vikings Mines’ Linka project is used in tungsten carbide cutting tools due to its unusually high melting point, as well as in the defence, aerospace, electronics and manufacturing sectors. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has delivered a major metallurgical milestone at its Linka tungsten project in Nevada, USA, producing a top-tier scheelite concentrate using just simple gravity separation - essentially using the natural weight of tungsten-bearing mine

Viking Mines’ overview of its Linka tungsten project in Nevada, USA, image centre. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) says its expanded geophysical survey has recently revealed a much bigger intrusive system at its Linka tungsten project in Nevada in the US, than was first believed. The revelation has set the stage for a better-informed June-quarter drilling campaign with plenty of blue-sky punch. The main goal of the survey was to search beyond known surface mineralisation to identify

Viking Mines has joined forces with a global engineering firm to push the company’s permitting process for its Linka tungsten project in the US state of Nevada into overdrive. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has joined forces with a global US-based consulting firm to propel its permitting pathway into overdrive, as the company looks to develop its flagship Linka tungsten project in the US state of Nevada. The link-up with global engineering consultancy WSP USA Inc. (WSP) will drive

Viking Mines has engaged global specialist Mineral Technologies to fast-track development of its US Linka tungsten project, leveraging modular processing technology to meet critical US supply needs.

Viking Mines’ Linka tungsten project in Nevada. Viking Mines’ (ASX: VKA) detailed phase one gravity and magnetic surveys at its Linka tungsten project in Nevada have confirmed anomalies over known tungsten-rich zones. The geophysics also identified multiple new priority targets, including some hidden structures beneath younger volcanic cover. From a gravity perspective, Viking’s logic is simple. At Linka, the principal tungsten mineral, scheelite, is hosted in dense, coarse-

Viking Mines: 200% share price hike - grade is King when it comes to Tungsten

Tungsten from deposits such as Vikings Mines’ Linka project is used in tungsten carbide cutting tools due to its unusually high melting point, as well as in the defence, aerospace, electronics and manufacturing sectors. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has kicked off metallurgical test work at its Nevada-based Linka tungsten project with a result that reads more like a headline than a lab report - a 16-times increase in grade using the simplest processing method in the book. Initial g

An aerial view of Viking Mines’ Linka tungsten mine in Nevada, looking to the south from the Linka shaft, showing vent raises, open-pits and coarse ore stockpile. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) is charging ahead with its strategy to deliver the earliest possible tungsten production from its recently acquired Linka project in Nevada, USA, following completion of the digitisation of all historical data across 70 holes and 2881 metres of drilling. Viking’s latest tranche of data has s

Viking Mines’ aerial view of its tungsten projects in Nevada, USA. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has wrapped up due diligence on its flagship Nevada tungsten acquisition in the US and has given the project a resounding technical thumbs-up. The successful review could fast-track the company’s path to becoming a key player in America’s push for a secure domestic supply of the critical mineral. The company’s detailed review - including a site visit and deep dive into historical datase

Sunset at Viking Mines’ Linka tungsten project in Nevada, USA. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has unlocked high-grade tungsten hits by digitising historical data at its flagship Linka project in Nevada, revealing the system’s true scale and setting the stage for detailed drilling to come. The company says its ongoing effort to convert old records into digital form is now more than halfway done, with data from 38 historical exploration holes covering nearly 2000 metres of drilling no

A large-scale historic data integration by Viking Metals at its Linka project in Nevada has rapidly grown the scale and strike of the prospect. Viking Mines’ (ASX: VKA) deep dive into historic data has doubled the known strike at its Linka tungsten project in Nevada, uncovering high-grade surface hits and pointing to a much larger, district-scale system lurking under cover. Viking first invested in the Linka project in January, and with it, an extensive library of legacy data

Viking Mines is conducting a geophysical program at its picturesque Linka tungsten project in Nevada, USA. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) has kicked off a suite of detailed ground geophysics programs at its flagship Linka tungsten project in Nevada, as it seeks to unlock the strategic subsurface potential of the high-grade skarn system. The company says it has mobilised contractors to conduct a highly detailed ground gravity survey to identify the key target contact between sedimen