Maritana Minerals hit visible high grade gold (circled) in quartz veining in phase one diamond drill core from Burbanks, for an intercept of 4.20m at 42.43g/t gold from 289.63m, including 1.37m at 126.93 g/t gold from 290.84m. Credit: File Emerging gold producer Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has smashed through the two million ounce gold resource holy grail after a stunning 62 per cent resource upgrade at its high-grade Burbanks deposit shunted its total combined global gold

Maritana Minerals is monetising its historic Windarra tailings dams to focus on developing its Black Swan gold processing hub near Kalgoorlie (pictured), unlocking cash and royalties to help fund the company’s plant refurbishment. Credit: File Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has turned a historical gold-rich waste dump into a future revenue stream, locking in a deal with development partner Encore Minerals to deliver immediate cash and a long-term production royalty from its

A drill rig on site at Maritana Minerals’ Coote and Crake deposit outside of Kalgoorlie. Credit: File Having wrapped up drilling at its Burbanks, Wilsons and Boorara gold projects near Kalgoorlie, Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has now turned its attention to its Coote and Crake prospects for the final push in the company’s ambitious 60,000m resource drilling blitz across its core WA gold assets. As the massive undertaking enters the final straight, the campaign has been

Demolition and clearing works are now underway at Maritana Minerals’ Black Swan processing hub near Kalgoorlie, WA. Credit: File The full redevelopment and repurposing of Maritana Minerals' (ASX: MRT) Black Swan processing hub (BSPH) near Kalgoorlie is in full swing, with engineering contractor GR Engineering Services on site and early works now in full swing. The company says demolition, earthworks and detailed engineering are all progressing as it targets first gold

Maritana Minerals drilling at the Burbanks project, 6km southwest of its Rose Hill ground near Coolgardie in WA. Credit: File Aspiring gold producer Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has delivered another significant milestone, tabling a maiden ore reserve for its Rose Hill gold project near the historic gold mining centre of Coolgardie, 25 kilometres southwest of Kalgoorlie and 70km southwest of the company's developing Black Swan gold processing hub in Western Australia. T

Maritana Minerals’ rapidly developing Black Swan processing hub, 40km northeast of Kalgoorlie and 75km northeast of Burbanks near Coolgardie in WA, with the new construction camp in the foreground. Credit: File Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has hit more high-grade gold from its phase two diamond drilling campaign at the Burbanks project, nine kilometres south of Coolgardie, with a standout intercept of 0.48 metres at a solid 25.19 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 224.63m.

After accounting for mining depletion, Maritana Minerals has boosted its gold WA ore reserves by a whopping 148 per cent to 204,000 ounces and hiked its combined mineral resource to 1.86 million ounces of gold.

Maritana Minerals’ Black Swan gold processing hub under development with the company’s stage-one construction camp in the foreground. Credit: File Securing a suite of key approvals from the Western Australian Government for its Black Swan Processing Hub (BSPH) 50 kilometres northeast of Kalgoorlie, Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has cleared a series of major hurdles in its quest to become one of WA's next gold producing companies. The approvals significantly de-risk the proje

Maritana Minerals has kicked off a 4000 metre air core drilling program at its Wilsons gold prospect near Kalgoorlie. Credit: File Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has fired up the drill rigs at a compelling new gold target just a stone’s throw from its major Black Swan processing hub (BSPH) currently under construction in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields. The company has commenced a 4000-metre air core drilling program at its Wilsons gold prospect located a mere 400 me

An example of Quick Camps’ mobile temporary accommodation, of the style Maritana Minerals will use to meet short-term needs during its construction activities. Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has moved to shore up the workforce backbone for its planned Black Swan gold processing hub, 50km north-east of Kalgoorlie, locking in a staged accommodation strategy at the project site and in Kalgoorlie, the beating heart of WA's Goldfields. The company has signed an agreement with

Maritana has launched a major plant refurbishment and construction program at its Black Swan processing hub near Kalgoorlie. Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has taken another major step towards joining Western Australia's ranks of gold producers, launching an early works program at its Black Swan processing hub near Kalgoorlie. The company has engaged GR Engineering Services to deliver the initial program, which includes detailed engineering, earthworks preparation, demoli

Maritana Minerals’ Boorara gold project, where first ore will be trucked for a mining restart aimed at mid-2027 near Kalgoorlie. Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) is firing up the drill rigs in a massive 60,000-metre resource conversion program across four of its Western Australian gold projects to de-risk its mineable ounces for the company’s soon-to-be commissioned Black Swan processing hub near Kalgoorlie. The fully funded reverse circulation (RC) blitz will look to upgra

Maritana Minerals is stepping up work at its Black Swan processing hub near Kalgoorlie after raising its planned plant throughput. Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has stepped up work on its Black Swan gold processing hub near Kalgoorlie, after front-end engineering design (FEED) by GR Engineering Services lifted planned plant capacity from the 2.2 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) used in its scoping study to 2.5Mtpa as the company moves closer to construction. The revision

Maritana Minerals drilling near Black Swan where the company has recently secured additional extensive tenure while offloading non-core ground. Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has tightened its grip on the Kalgoorlie goldfields after striking a strategic tenement swap with ASX-listed Accelerate Resources that brings in the extensive Kanowna East package while offloading the company’s non-core Balagundi ground. The deal fits Maritana’s push to consolidate ground around its

Maritana Minerals has launched a phase two reverse circulation drilling program on its Burbanks Main and Birthday Gift Lodes, 9km southwest of Coolgardie in WA. Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has wasted little time following up on recent strong first-pass results from its phase one campaign at its Burbanks gold project, 9km southwest of Coolgardie in WA, and has launched a phase two drilling program and mobilised a second drill to accelerate its hunt for more ounces. The

Maritana Minerals is developing its Black Swan processing hub, near Kalgoorlie, which sits within a 50km radius of at least 12 significant gold projects and numerous prospects at various stages of evaluation. Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has further tightened its grip around the company’s Black Swan processing hub near Kalgoorlie, unveiling a deal to buy a strategic package of tenements sitting right on the doorstep of its existing infrastructure. The company says it wi

Maritana Minerals’ Burbanks underground mine, 9km south of Coolgardie in Western Australia. Credit: File Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT), formerly Horizon Minerals, has delivered more sizzling gold intercepts from phase one diamond drilling at its Burbanks project, near Coolgardie in Western Australia. The drill bit has nailed an impressive string of hits, with one standout intercept delivering 4.20m at 42.43 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 289.63m, including 1.37m going an eye-

Maritana’s Minerals’ Phillips Find project, where the pictured dump rehabilitation has been completed, is centred 45km north-northwest of Coolgardie. Credit: File Maritana Minerals (ASX: MRT) has clocked up a solid March quarter, significantly bulking up its cash position and nudging its Black Swan processing hub closer to the starting line as it pivots from a developer to a long-term producer. The company, formerly Horizon Minerals, changed its name to Maritana Minerals and

Horizon Minerals’ Black Swan plant, 50km northeast of Kalgoorlie in WA, is being refurbished and upgraded to convert it from nickel to gold processing. Credit: File Horizon Minerals (ASX: HRZ) is lining up a low-risk run for its planned Black Swan gold processing hub restart in WA’s Goldfields. The company’s current phase of mining at Boorara was completed last December and has mutually terminated its ore purchase agreement with Paddington Gold Mine, effective on 11 February

Horizon Minerals’ Black Swan nickel processing plant, which is soon to be refurbished and converted to a gold-processing plant. Credit: File Horizon Minerals (ASX: HRZ) has turned more of its Phillips Find gold into cold hard cash, banking another $10 million in March from the project’s joint venture (JV) as the last of the mine’s toll-treatment campaigns wrapped up. Mining by the company’s JV partner, BML Ventures finished in late November last year, with two processing cam