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Iltani (ASX:ILT) get its multi-metal bearings at Orient

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Iltani Resources‘ Stage 1 RC drilling program at the Orient Project has struck wide intersections of silver-lead-zinc-indium-antimony-tin mineralisation and confirmed its potential for a near-surface bulk tonnage operation in northern Queensland. Assays from multiple holes verified the presence of extensive mineralisation with high-grade veins surrounded by large zones of lower grade mineralisation, confirmed as epithermal […]

XTEK absorbs body armour order

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XTEK‘s Australian based ballistics division, HighCom, has received an order for thousands of high-performance body armours totalling $2.2 million. The specialist armour is going to an undisclosed international customer during elevated geopolitical tensions worldwide. This new international order will see many thousands of our advanced high-performance body armour products rapidly dispatched from inventory to meet […]

Encounter and South 32 commence drilling at Carrara

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Encounter Resources Ltd (ASX: ENR) and South 32 have commenced drilling at Carrara in the NT which is being explored under a Farm-in Agreement. The Greater McArthur Superbasin in the NT is a significant global opportunity for the discovery of new, large sediment-hosted copper and zinc deposits under shallow cover,”  Managing Director, Will Robinson, said. […]

Aston to undertake metallurgical testing of Edleston Main gold

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Aston Minerals Limited (ASX: ASO) is moving to the next stage of assessment for the development of the Edleston Gold Project in Canada. Gold bearing core taken from previous drilling at the Edleston Main deposit and included in the current 1.5Moz gold resource1 has been selected to be used in a metallurgical test program to […]

Wildcat (ASX:WC8) back up the lithium largesse at Tabba Tabba

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After maiden assays from Tabba Tabba confirmed high-grade lithium mineralisation at surface for Wildcat Resources, a second batch of results has come home with top end strikes up to 52m at 1.3% Li2O from its fast-emerging Pilbara asset. The results continue to define a very large, mineralised pegmatite at Leia in the project’s Central Area and a significant […]

Anson identifies multiple large REE anomalies at Hooley Well Project

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Anson Resources Limited (ASX: ASN) has defined two large, Rare Earth Element (REE) priority exploration targets at its Hooley Well Project in the mid-west region of Western Australia. The Hooley Well Project is located approximately 700km north-east of Perth, in the north-western area of the highly prospective Yilgarn Craton. Anson recently reported that it had […]

Lion One pours first gold at Tuvatu Mine in Fiji

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Lion One Metals Limited (ASX: LLO) is celebrating the pouring of the first gold at its 100% owned Tuvatu Alkaline Gold Project in Fiji. Construction of the Tuvatu Mine has been completed ahead of schedule. Mill construction began in August 2022 and commissioning began in September 2023. The mill is expected to ramp up to […]

Antipa commences new Minari Dome drilling camopaign

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Antipa Minerals Ltd (ASX: AZY) has commenced Phase 2 CY2023 drilling at its 100%-owned Minyari Dome Gold-Copper Project in the Paterson Province of Western Australia. Highlights We are delighted to have our boots on the ground with drill rigs beginning to turn once again at Minyari. Phase 2 CY2023 exploration is geared towards resource growth […]

Pioneer Lithium discovers multiple pegmatite outcrops at Root Lake

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Newly listed Pioneer Lithium (ASX Code: PLN) has made an “extremely positive” start to its recently commenced exploration program at the company’s 90%- owned Root Lake Lithium Project in Ontario, Canada with the discovery of multiple pegmatite outcrops in the Extended Morrison Corridor. Whilst the thick overburden has limited the team’s prospecting and mapping activities, […]

QX Resources raises $3M to fund Liberty Lithium Brine Project

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QX Resources (ASX: QXR) has received firm commitments for $3million in a private placement to assist funding of the Liberty Lithium Brine Project in the The company intends to use the net proceeds from the Placement as follows: In addition to the Placement, the company has entered into an At-the-Market Subscription Agreement (ATM) with Dolphin […]

Immuron (ASX:IMC) return record Travelan sales

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Immuron has just recorded its highest ever quarterly sales of Travelan, bringing in $1,550,240 of sales through the first quarter of the 2024 Financial Year from its over-the-counter immune supplement used to treat traveler’s diarrhea. It marked a $1,508,933 increase over the first quarter of last year and was 130 per cent higher than the pre-pandemic […]

Argosy (ASX:AGY) ramping up Rincon production

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As progression continues towards 2000tpa lithium carbonate production at Rincon, the Salta Mining Court has processed and approved Argosy Minerals‘ Environmental Impact Assessment submission for expedited 10,000tpa production facilities at the Argentinian lithium project. The company would become only the second ASX-listed battery quality lithium carbonate producer with its first gram, and now awaits final official […]

MRC recommences operations at Skaland Graphite Mine

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Mineral Commodities (ASX: MRC) has recommenced primary drilling and ore production at the Skaland Graphite AS operations in Norway following a mechanical failure of the primary ore production drill rig. A rental drill rig has been sourced and commissioned at Skaland to replace the primary ore production drill rig (Tamrock Data Solo 1020) that suffered […]

Scorpion (ASX:SCN) set the Youanmi target

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Scorpion Minerals is moving on converting its maiden resource after officially setting a large Exploration Target for the central area of its Youanmi Lithium Project in Western Australia. The initial 7.6 to 13.6 million tonnes at 1.0 – 1.4% Li2O target includes the upper and lower pegmatites of just the central 900 metres of a 2500 […]

Estrella makes bid for Timor-Leste property

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Estrella Resources Limited (ASX: ESR) has been successful in pre-qualifying for Timor-Leste’s inaugural Minerals Tender process, offering the company the potential to acquire tenure in a heavily underexplored region. The Minerals Tender will, for the first time, award mineral titles across the country, providing a unique first mover advantage for those that are successful in […]

DMC finds outcrops on Fraser Range near Nova

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DMC Mining (ASX:DMM) has wrapped up exploration at its Talon Ridge lithium project near IGO’s Nova mine in the Goldfields region of Western Australia after finding what might be pegmatites in additional outcrop zones. The company has been taking its first proper look at lithium at its wholly owned Talon Ridge project which forms part of […]

Summit (ASX:SUM) reveal new rare earth north of Stallion

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Summit Minerals ultrafine soil sampling has confirmed an additional zone of mineralisation north of its Stallion Rare Earth Project in Western Australia. The sampling returned numerous anomalous rare earth oxide results over a four-kilometre length and the new MHC target, coming from thick and sandy transported cover overlying mineralisation intersected in drilling. The final holes of Phase […]

Hamelin testing Sultan gold anomalies

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Hamelin Gold Limited (ASX:HMG) has commenced drilling at the Sultan Prospect within the West Tanami project in Western Australia. Following the announcement of the identification of these exciting new gold targets in the West Tanami less than three weeks ago, we have been successful in securing a drilling rig and have commenced drilling,” Managing Director, […]

Jindalee to commence drilling at significant McDermitt Lithium Project

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Jindalee Resources (ASX: JRL) has contracted Alford Drilling from Elko, Nevada to undertake a diamond core drilling programme at Jindalee’s 100% owned McDermitt Lithium Project in Oregon, USA. The proposed drilling programme comprises five HQ triple tube core holes collared within, or immediately adjacent to, conceptual Pit Shell 5 (nominal 20 years) and is primarily […]

EMU (ASX:EMU) runs on rare earth reveal at Condingup

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EMU (ASX:EMU) has had a run after the explorer revealed drilling at its Condingup rare earth project near Esperance had unveiled kilometres of rare earth mineralisation at in Western Australia. The West Perth small-cap flagged drilling results at its wholly owned project had shown REE mineralisation of significant scale, with high values for total rare earth […]

Cooper (ASX:CPM) spin up for copper-gold at Mt Isa East

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Cooper Metals has begun an RC drilling sweep over five key copper-gold prospects at its Mt Isa East project within Queensland’s famed North West Minerals Province. The campaign will hit the Mafic Sweats South, Brumby Ridge, Long Slot, Raven, Yarraman and Long Slot targets, where new rock chip assays from historical workings have just returned up […]

Dreadnought (ASX:DRE) keep growing Gifford Creek Carbonatites

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Dreadnought Resources‘ regional ground gravity survey has continued the expansion of its Gifford Creek rare earth carbonatite discovery at Mangaroon, now standing at over 17 kilometres of strike at the company’s multi-metal project in the West Australian Gascoyne. Drilling had already enhanced the collection of five discrete intrusions formerly known as the C1-5 carbonatites, now […]

Cavalier (ASX:CVR) heap gold at Crawford

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Cavalier Resources testwork has returned up to 92.5% gold extraction at its Crawford Gold project. The recoveries, ranging from 77.4% to remarkably high grades are likely to be at low cost due to low cyanide consumption. Low doses of cement required for aggregation and percolation, minimal need for lime and cyanide, and mineral crushing will likely […]

Everest commences bulk sampling at Revere Gold Project

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Everest Metals Corporation (ASX: EMC) has commenced a bulk sampling and gold extraction programme at the Revere Gold and Base Metal Project in Western Australia. The company is utilising the results from previously undertaken metallurgical test work of mineralised rock material from Revere and an exploration target has been generated. Results of the previous metallurgical […]

Haranga identifies new uranium anomalies at Sanela Prospect

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Haranga Resources (ASX: HAR) has identified extensive uranium anomalies of up to 17 ppm uranium over the Sanela Prospect area in its regional exploration program over the Saraya Uranium permit in Senegal. These results from Sanela are timely, as they come close on the heels of our first Mineral Resource Estimate at the Saraya Prospect […]

Bryah secures manganese mining licences

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Bryah Resources Limited (ASX: BYH) has welcomed the grant of two Mining Licences at the Bryah Basin manganese project in Western Australia. Bryah (49%) and OMM (51%) have a Joint Venture (JV) to undertake exploration to test targets in the area, with a view to commencing manganese production. OMM is a wholly owned subsidiary of […]

Kingfisher (ASX:KFM) discover more high-grade Mick Well mineralisation

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Kingfisher Mining has discovered more high-grade mineralisation with rock chip samples up to 26 per cent TREO and 3.62 per cent NdPr from two newly identified and parallel lodes at its Mick Well 9 project area in the West Australian Gascoyne. The results have substantially increased the extent of outcropping mineralisation associated with the CH1 intrusion […]

Great Boulder hits up to 248g/t Au at Mulga Bill

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Great Boulder Resources (ASX: GBR) has drilled high-grade gold hits in exploration at Mulga Bill target at the company’s flagship Side Well Gold Project near Meekatharra in Western Australia. “Recent RC drilling at Mulga Bill has intersected more sensational gold grades, with assays as high as 248g/t Au. There are also broad intersections showing good […]

Lithium Universe (ASX:LU7) opens Galaxy Hatch for lithium refinery

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Iggy Tan-chaired Lithium Universe has taken a significant step towards its bold plans to bring Canada into production by appointing an engineering firm to design a multi-purpose battery-grade lithium carbonate refinery in Quebec, Canada. The clean energy company is chaired by former Altech Batteries (ASX:ATC) and Allkem (ASX:AKE) managing director Tan and is developing its flagship Apollo […]

Nimy (ASX:NIM) strike massive Mons sulphides

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Nimy Resources‘ drilling to test two newly identified conductive MLEM Plates at Mons has intersected a continuous 13 metres of massive nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation from 102 metres depth from its first hole at the northern end of the Forrestania nickel belt in Western Australia. Containing pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite and pyrite, the intersections are coincident with […]

Western Mines (ASX:WMG) keeps the promise at Mulga Tank

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Western Mines Group diamond drilling has intersected around 950m of high magnesium oxide meso-adcumulate dunite with disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation and numerous remobilised sulphide veinlets at the Mulga Tank Ni-Cu-PGE Project on the Minigwal Greenstone Belt in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields The drilling to 1,107.5 meters below the surface has revealed similar geological observations to nearby […]

Legend commences high power fixed loop EM at Octagonal

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Legend Mining Limited (ASX LEG) has commenced a new high-power fixed loop Electro-Magnetics (HPFLTEM) survey over the entire Octagonal prospect within the Rockford Project in the Fraser Range region of Western Australia. This new high power fixed loop EM survey is designed to identify conductors below 600m,” Executive Chair, Mark Wilson, said. “The design loops […]

Altamin expands lithium project footprint 500%

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Altamin Limited (ASX: AZI) has received a report that confirms the potential for both power production and lithium extraction for the company’s two initial licence areas in the Lazio Region near Rome. The project area is near Cesano approximately 50km north of Rome in an area well known for its geothermal energy, with permits adjacent […]

LCL identifies additional nickel sulphide targets in PNG

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LCL Resources Ltd (ASX: LCL) has identified a number of targets in a successful 30-day due diligence (DD) process and review of Papuan Minerals Limited’s assets. The DD period was part of the binding Tenement Sales Agreement with Papuan to acquire exploration licences EL 2391 and EL 25601. Acquisition of these assets, which follows acquisition […]

Encounter finds new niobium-REE carbonatite at Hurley

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Encounter Resources (ASX:ENR) has identified new, large scale niobium-REE carbonatite at the Hurley target part, of the Aileron project (100% ENR), in the West Arunta region of WA. Following the intersection of thick, near surface niobium-REE mineralisation at Crean, the first step out target for testing was the Hurley gravity-magnetic target located three km to […]

Galileo unveils maiden mineral resource at exciting Callisto discovery

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Galileo Mining Ltd (ASX: GAL) has released the maiden Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the Callisto discovery within the company’s 100% owned Norseman project in Western Australia. Highlights Maiden Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate calculated for the Callisto Pd–Pt–Au–Rh–Ni–Cu sulphide deposit; with a 2.5g/t PdEq grade or 0.58% NiEq (metal content within indicated resource […]

Augustus commences RC drilling at Ti-Tree project

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Augustus Minerals (ASX: AUG) has kicked-off maiden reverse circulation (RC) drilling at its Ti-Tree Project in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, targeting copper-gold, molybdenum and rare earths. The Ti-Tree project overlies 85km of the Ti-Tree Shear that is known to host a significant number of mineral occurrences in the region. The project area also […]

Strickland make additional gold discovery at Horse Well

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Strickland Metals (ASX:STK) has made a new gold find at its 100% owned Horse Well prospect at the Yandal Gold Project in Western Australia. Highlights Our ongoing aircore program has delivered another fantastic discovery at the newly identified Konik trend, HWAC1488: 58m @ 1.7g/t Au from 17m (to BOH), including 10m @ 4.2g/t Au,” CEO, […]

DMC Mining (ASX:DMM) take its first lithium look at Talon Ridge

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DMC Mining have begun on-ground lithium exploration at Talon Ridge, covering a 27.5-kilometre anomalous lithium zone within a pegmatite trap defined by the Geological Service of Western Australia at its fully owned project. The company’s Fraser Range tenements cover 1065 square kilometres of potential pegmatite-bearing granites hosted on the margins of a Yilgarn Craton which has […]

Cavalier (ASX:CVR) shows deep promise at Forrestania

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Cavalier Resources has identified 277 untested anomalies at Ella’s Rock Li-Au-Ni Project in Forrestania in Western Australia. The geological units emit dyke-like signals that may represent pegmatitic intrusions of the Lithium-Caesium-Tantalum. The geophysical surveys identified over 277 untested anomalies and have shown an exceptional correlation between the existing anomalous soil geochemistry. According to the company, the […]

Forrestania (ASX:FRS) extend lithium at South Iron Cap East

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Follow up drilling at the South Iron Cap East Prospect has intersected spodumene-bearing pegmatite in multiple drill holes as Forrestania Resources continue to home in on ore-grade mineralisation at its namesake project. The results extended lithium mineralisation at the prospect, with the pegmatite remaining open down dip and along strike. Forrestania Managing Director Michael Anderson said the […]

DMC commences exploration of 27.5 km lithium zone

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Western Australian critical metals explorer, DMC Mining Limited (ASX: DMM) had kicked-off on ground lithium exploration has commenced at its 100% owned Talon Ridge Project. “We are excited to commence on-ground lithium exploration at our highly promising Talon Ridge Project,” Executive Chairman, David Sumich, said. “DMC has a belt-scale, dominant position in the Fraser Range. […]

Metal Hawk identifies multiple conductors at Yarmany

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Metal Hawk Limited (ASX: MHK) has identified new untested electromagnetic conductors from a VTEM MAX survey in nickel sulphide exploration activities at the Yarmany Project in Western Australia. The recently acquired Yarmany Project covers 282 sq. km along the Ida Fault, a major regional structure and crustal boundary between the Kalgoorlie and Youanmi Terranes. The […]

ABx hits record 17,333ppm TREO result

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ABx Group (ASX: ABX) has received an outstanding 17,333 ppm TREO assay result from its recent drill program of 18 holes. This programme was designed to explore an area west of hole RM302, which was ABx’s previous best assay result. The assay results in hole RM336 are four times higher grade than ABx’s previous highest […]

Encounter hits copper sulphides in first hole at Jessica IOCG Project

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Encounter Resources (ASX:ENR) has intersected copper mineralisation in an IOCG setting at the Zeta target in the first drilling activity at in a farm-in campaign with South32 at the Jessica project in the Northern Territory. Highlights: South32, our farm-in partner at Jessica, has informed us that observations from the first drill holes at the Zeta […]

Tennant kicks off drill test of Bluebird extensions

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Tennant Minerals (ASX:TMS) has commenced a new drilling programme aiming to triple the strike-extent of the Bluebird high-grade copper-gold discovery in the Northern Territory. This programme follows the recent approval of a new Exploration Operations ‘Mine Management Plan’ (MMP) received from the NT government. The new drilling will comprise up to 4,000m of RC and […]

Estrella to unveil Carr Boyd lithium

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Estrella Resources Limited (ASX: ESR) has commenced an evaluation of the pegmatite hosted lithium potential of the Carr Boyd Project in Western Australia. All available geological and geophysical datasets will be evaluated to determine the presence and potentially extent of pegmatites present within the Carr Boyd Project tenure which extends over 250 sq. km. To […]