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St George Mining’s Araxá project resource area in Brazil, adjacent to Brazilian heavyweight CBMM’s world-class niobium mine. Credit: File St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has uncovered a new zone of high-grade niobium mineralisation at its Araxá project in Brazil, with assays confirming thick intercepts from surface well beyond the current mineral resource estimate envelope. The company says its latest discovery lies 400 metres northwest of the existing resource in a previously u

Mining fleet arriving on site at Lindian Resources’ Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi. Credit: File Budding rare earths miner Lindian Resources (ASX: LIN) has moved a step closer to production after taking stock of its mining fleet at the company’s Kangankunde project in Malawi. The fleet, made up of a dozer, excavators, wheel loaders, a grader, articulated dump trucks and a drill rig, forms a core pillar of the company’s owner-operator mining model and will underpin

Gold dore produced at Kaiser Reef’s Henty gold mine in Tasmania. Credit: File Kaiser Reef (ASX: KAU) has knocked out another barnstorming quarter of gold production at its Henty gold mine in Tasmania, producing 6946 ounces of gold, alongside 715 ounces from Victoria, to boost its cash reserves to $43.1 million, as the company heads into a transformative new year. The company says it continues to generate strong cash flows from Tasmania alongside a ramp-up at its Maldon gold

Bags of lithium spodumene concentrate in China. Credit: File Chariot Resources (ASX: CC9) has partnered up with a China-based lithium trader to negotiate potential funding and an offtake deal for lithium from its recently acquired Nigerian project. Lithium-trader Fujian Jinjianqiao New Energy Technology has inked a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide funding for the development of an on-site processing facility for Chariot to deliver spodumene concentrat

Estrella Resources CEO Robert Mencel (L) and managing director Chris Daws with Timor-Leste mining officials following approval of the Ira Miri manganese sampling program in Dili. Credit: File Estrella Resources (ASX: ESR) has taken a significant step towards commercialising its Ira Miri manganese project after inking an agreement with Timor-Leste’s Autoridade Nacional dos Minerais (ANM) to extract and export up to 30,000 tonnes of high-grade manganese oxide for market apprai

Drilling at Larvotto Resources’ Hillgrove project, just west of Armidale in NSW. Larvotto Resources (ASX: LRV) has again underlined the growth potential of its Hillgrove antimony-gold project in New South Wales after diamond drilling at the company’s Clarks Gully prospect returned further high-grade mineralisation at depth, along strike and to the north - with a dash of tungsten for good measure. The company drilled three near-mine exploration holes at the target during Octob

Aquia Resources’ newly appointed managing director and chief executive officer Tim Hosking. Credit: File. Aguia Resources (ASX: AGR) has tightened its leadership ranks, naming Tim Hosking as managing director to steer the company as its key South American projects gather momentum. The move follows his recent elevation to chief executive in November. It comes as the multi-commodity miner edges closer to first mining at its flagship phosphate operations in Brazil, with initial

Titanium Sands has moved a step closer to bringing its Mannar Island heavy mineral sands project into production, after lodging its mining license application with the Sri Lankan government. Credit: File Titanium Sands Limited (ASX: TSL) is creeping ever closer to the development of its Mannar Island heavy mineral sands project in Sri Lanka, after lodging applications for an industrial mining licence (IML) with the country’s mining bureau late last year. The lodgement clears

Aurum Resources’ Boundali gold project in West Africa, where the company has applied for mining licence coverage. Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) has taken a major step towards development at its flagship Boundiali gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, lodging three mining licence applications over the multi-million-ounce project. The Boundiali South (BST), Boundiali DS (BD) and Boundiali Minex (BM) tenements are now all in application, spanning a combined 573 square kilometres of ferti

Heap leaching underway at Pacgold Limited’s White Dam mine in South Australia. Credit: File Pacgold Limited (ASX:PGO) is lining up its transition from project acquisition to gold production after confirming it will run up to 250,000 tonnes of ore through cyanide irrigation at its White Dam gold project in South Australia by mid-January. The project, 80 kilometres west of Broken Hill, is a proven heap-leach operation with a solid production pedigree. Between 2010 and 2018, th