There are obvious distinctions between various interpretations of the term “Big Hits” – and some of this week’s featured intersections show why that is the case. When looking at gold, for example, keen students are often hoping to see an intercept running at least 10m at more than 10 grams per tonne. Looking at a different commodity, the thickness and grade of a niobium hit reported by Encounter Resources may not seem spectacular, but it is notable in a unique target. And for

A typical ultraviolet light response from spodumene pegmatite rock chips collected from the Miriam project. Credit: File Future Battery Minerals (ASX: FBM) is eyeing what it believes is a lithium target bonanza following its acquisition last month of Coolgardie Nickel’s Miriam project, just 10km from Coolgardie in Western Australia. Previous exploration results show the project to be highly-prospective for lithium and the company’s recent mapping has already identified 11 dis

Future Battery Minerals drilling for lithium at its Nevada lithium project in the US. Credit: File Future Battery Minerals (ASX: FBM) has unveiled an impressive maiden resource of 6.2 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) for its Nevada lithium project (NLP) in the United States. The company says its Lone Mountain deposit remains open at depth and to the north and east, with a strike length of more than 3km providing scope for further growth at its 80 per cent

Newly minted Future Battery Minerals Chairman Nev Power Credit: File Future Battery Minerals (ASX: FBM) has agreed to acquire 85 per cent of the Miriam lithium project where high-grade spodumene has already been found, stretching its ground north of the company’s promising Kangaroo Hills project near Coolgardie in WA. The company also revealed that former Fortescue Metals Group CEO and mining heavyweight Nev Power will step into the role of non-executive chairman, effective t

Neighbours has been a staple of the Australian television landscape spanning five decades, albeit with a brief hiatus between 2022 and 2023 when it was cancelled. Its catchy theme song includes the lyrics: “That’s when good neighbours become good friends…” So, what has this got to do with ASX-listed companies and the performance of their stocks over the past five days? Well, this week’s Bulls N’ Bears Runner of the Week goes to Lord Resources (ASX: LRD) which saw its share pr

Future Battery Minerals Nevada lithium project area. Credit: File. Future Battery Minerals (ASX: FBM) says it has extended the strike length of lithium mineralisation at its Nevada project in the United States by about 130 per cent to more than 3km, as it prepares to release a maiden mineral resource this month. The company’s latest reverse-circulation (RC) drill hits from its Lone Mountain prospect confirm thick lithium enrichment going as high as 128m at 770 parts per milli

Future Battery Minerals is back in the WA scrub to reboot drilling at its Kangaroo Hills project. Credit: File Future Battery Minerals (ASX: FBM) is hopping into a new 3000m reverse-circulation (RC) drill program to test for a northern extension to its coveted Kangaroo Hills lithium project in Western Australia after receiving a highly-anticipated program-of-works approval. The project that sits about 17km south of the WA Goldfields town of Coolgardie has already seen a strin

Future Battery Minerals is planning a fourth-phase drill campaign at its Kangaroo Hills lithium project. Credit: File Future Battery Minerals is one step closer to drill-testing the northern extensions of its Kangaroo Hills lithium project after its conservation management plan for the area received ministerial approval. Management says the planned phase-four drilling program is set to test the most prospective part of the project that sits within shouting distance of the Wes

Future Battery Minerals froth flotation testwork. Credit: File Future Battery Minerals says a hybrid flowsheet using heavy liquid separation and froth flotation could simplify spodumene processing and deliver high rates of recovery from its Kangaroo Hills project in Western Australia’s Goldfields region. Management says testwork on variously sized Big Red pegmatite samples produced a spodumene concentrate grading 5.56 per cent lithium oxide, with a stage recovery of 52.9 per

Future Battery Minerals’ Kangaroo Hills project continues to deliver. Credit: File Future Battery Minerals has delivered more high-grade phase-three infill and step-out reverse-circulation (RC) and diamond drill results, including 3m at 1.5 per cent lithium oxide from 37m at its Big Red prospect in Western Australia’s Goldfields region. The company’s latest results from its Kangaroo Hills lithium project, 17km south of Coolgardie, also included a 1m hit at 0.5 per cent lithiu

Future Battery Minerals drilling in Nevada. Credit: File Lithium assays from the latest three diamond drill holes at Future Battery Minerals’ 80 per cent owned Nevada lithium project confirm the extension of high-grade mineralisation at depth as a resource estimate looms at the project. All three of the holes drilled at the Lone Mountain prospect hit clay hosted lithium paydirt. The best results were 226m at 855 parts per million (ppm) from 140m, including a 66m section gradi

Future Battery Minerals drilling at its Kangaroo Hills lithium project. Credit: File. Future Battery Minerals has identified three new targets and extended its Big Red prospect to more than a 2.2km strike length using new resistivity data shot at its 100 per cent-owned Kangaroo Hills lithium project in Western Australia’s Goldfields region. Management says the identification of Big Red North allows it to extend the resistivity profile of Big Red. Legacy lithium oxide drill hi

Future Battery Minerals has re-booted drilling in Nevada. Credit: File. A maiden mineral resource estimate is emerging on Future Battery Minerals’ horizon for its Lone Mountain project in Nevada – some 300km from the Las Vegas gambling mecca – as the company sets sail on a new reverse-circulation (RC) drilling campaign. The six-hole mission follows positive results from a recent three-hole diamond-core program that proved the lithium-bearing clays to be much thicker than anti

Nev Power has joined Future Battery Minerals. Credit: File Ex-Fortescue Metals Group boss Nev Power has joined Perth-based explorer Future Battery Minerals as a non-executive director, bringing more than four decades of experience in mining, minerals processing, construction and steel making to the company. Power led FMG as managing director and chief executive officer from 2011 to 2018, guiding the company to quadruple its production to more than 170 million tonnes per annum

Future Battery Minerals’ Kangaroo Hills project. Credit: File Future Battery Minerals has unveiled a new raft of shallow, high-grade lithium hits at its 100 per cent-owned Kangaroo Hills project (KHLP) in Western Australia’s Goldfields region, with many intersections grading more than 1 per cent lithium oxide. The results from 53 holes in an expanded phase-three reverse-circulation (RC) and diamond-drilling campaign continue the company’s path towards development of the proje

Drilling at Future Battery Minerals’ Kangaroo Hills project. Credit: File Future Battery Minerals has intercepted thick, near-surface stacked spodumene lithium-caesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites while drilling within its Rocky and Big Red prospects that form part of the greater Kangaroo Hills lithium project. The company today revealed assay results that included a headline hit of 22m at 1.24 per cent lithium oxide from 23m at Big Red. Management also says its Rocky prospect,

Future Battery Minerals’ diamond drill rig at its Lone Mountain prospect. Credit: File Following a triumphant fundraising mission that attracted Hancock Prospecting as a notable investor, Future Battery Minerals has wasted no time in getting the drill rods spinning at its Lone Mountain prospect in Nevada. The company has today confirmed that a diamond rig is operational and RC drilling is expected to start early next month. The resource definition drilling program at the Unit

Future Battery Minerals’ RC drill-rig at the Rocky prospect. Credit: File Hot on the heels of a $7.6 million fundraising mission that lured in Hancock Prospecting, Future Battery Minerals has rolled up its sleeves and got straight to work at its two promising lithium projects in WA and Nevada. The work includes chasing up a discovery of spodumene-bearing lithium pegmatites at the company’s Rocky prospect within its Kangaroo Hills project in WA’s Goldfields region. Management

Future Battery Minerals’ recent $7.6 million placement was oversubscribed. Credit: File Future Battery Minerals has received the backing of Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart in its recent $7.6 million placement after her company Hancock Prospecting agreed to become a cornerstone investor. Hancock has committed to invest $2.65 million across two tranches in the oversubscribed placement, which Future Battery says validates its highly-prospective lithium projects in Kanga

Drilling at Future Battery Minerals’ Rocky prospect intercepted pale green spodumene within a 10m-thick pegmat Future Battery Minerals has intercepted several thick pegmatites with visible spodumene from diamond drilling at its Rocky and Big Red prospects that form part of the greater Kangaroo Hills lithium project. The company says the latest visual results are consistent with the stacked model previously identified at Big Red, with further diamond holes planned to test the