Category: Exploration & Discovery

Recent drilling and surface sampling activities at Sky Metals’ (ASX: SKY) Tallebung tin project have identified significant extensions of the known mineralisation, outlining new mineralised positions east and south?east of the current footprint.

Golden Dragon Mining’s (ASX: GDR) exploration program has intersected high-grade gold close to surface at an advanced gold target within the greater Cue gold project in WA.

Tivan (ASX: TVN) has updated the mineral resource estimate (MRE) for its Speewah fluorite project, with an increase of 16% in tonnage and 6% in contained calcium fluoride.

Terra Metals (ASX: TM1) has confirmed a second new platinum group metal (PGM) copper-nickel sulfide discovery at the Southwest Prospect within the Dante project.

New Murchison Gold (ASX: NMG) has returned high grade gold results from the Lydia gold prospect, the miner’s next potential addition near Meekatharra, WA.

Summit Minerals (ASX: SUM) has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the historic high-grade polymetallic Keystone mine in Nevada, US.This forms part of the Keystone project, located within the large-scale skarn district and hosting significant historic and current production of silver, gold, lead, zinc, molybdenum and tungsten.

Northern Star Resources’ (ASX: NST) FY26 exploration program continues to target near-mine growth across production centres, with spend heavily weighted to the miner’s flagship KCGM operations.The $225m budget is being spent across Northern Star’s three production centres of Kalgoorlie, Yandal and Pogo as well as the newly acquired Hemi development project.

Mineral Resources (ASX: MIN) has broken ground at its Lamb Creek iron ore project, following the receipt of all regulatory approvals. Just 50km from Minres’ Iron Valley operations, Lamb Creek will be an open pit mine with a capacity of 7.5mtpa and is expected to extend the Pilbara hub’s current production profile by more than five years, with an improved cost profile. 

reatland Resources’ (ASX: GGP) Havieron feasibility study confirms the project’s potential as a world-class gold-copper mine capable of generating an annual pre-tax free cashflow of $739m.

Alcoa Australia (ASX: AAI) has removed areas in the Perth Hills from proposed exploration plans due to “local stakeholder and community feedback”.

The latest geochemical analysis from the Geological Survey of NSW has shown promising prospects across the state for the mining of high-purity silica.