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Mount Ridley Mines says its latest “Selectro” test work has delivered its best scandium and rare earths recoveries to date. Credit: File Mount Ridley Mines (ASX: MRD) has delivered a powerful one-two punch from the latest round of metallurgical testwork using its proprietary “Selectro” leach process, achieving its highest-ever scandium and rare earth recoveries while simultaneously slashing its reagent use by half. The third metallurgical tilt has returned a stellar 91.

A new Dalaroo Metals IP survey has defined priority drill targets at its Watheroo project 200km north of Perth, in the same geological province as Chalice Mining’s world-class Julimar discovery. Credit: File Dalaroo Metals (ASX: DAL) has firmed up a series of compelling drill targets at its Watheroo copper-nickel-platinum group elements (PGE) project in WA’s mid-north Wheatbelt, after an induced polarisation (IP) survey lit up several anomalies coinciding with existing ex

Elk Range Mining’s maiden diamond drill hole has returned multiple instances of visible gold at its Friday Gold Project in Idaho, USA. Credit: File Elk Range Mining (ASX: ELK) has struck visible native -gold - , gold that occurs naturally in its pure metallic elemental form- at the Friday gold project in Idaho, USA, with logging identifying seven separate instances of the precious metal in the first hole.. The company says the maiden diamond maiden diamond hole intersec

Critica has produced a second high-grade 58% total rare earths carbonate from its Jupiter project in WA. Credit: File Critica Limited (ASX: CRI) has taken another step towards de-risking its behemoth Jupiter rare earths project in Western Australia by producing a second high-grade mixed rare earth carbonate (MREC), which impressively clocked in at 58 per cent total rare earth oxide (TREO). The results replicate the first MREC result, demonstrating a repeatable product qua

Augustus Minerals’ Music Well project near Leonora in WA’s Eastern Goldfields. Credit: File Augustus Minerals (ASX: AUG) is preparing to unleash the drill bit on a tantalising new high-grade gold target at its Music Well project near Leonora in Western Australia. The prospect, dubbed St Patrick’s Well, previously threw up surface sampling grades as high as 30.4 grams per tonne (g/t) gold. The company expects drilling to restart once ground conditions improve, with a sit

Estrella Resources is expanding its exploration footprint in Timor-Leste, adding two new licences prospective for copper and gold. Credit: File Estrella Resources (ASX: ESR) is beefing up its presence in the emerging mineral jurisdiction of Timor-Leste, securing two new 50-square-kilometre exploration licences that are prospective for large copper and gold systems. The company says its latest additions have been accompanied by a key conditional approval for a maiden exp

Kalamazoo Resources’ Mt Piper project sits in the highly endowed gold-antimony region of central Victoria. Credit: File Kalamazoo Resources (ASX: KZR) has dramatically expanded its hunt for a Fosterville-style gold-antimony deposit in Central Victoria, consolidating a massive 1,574-square-kilometre land package and confirming mineralisation with first-pass drilling at its Mt Piper project. The company has secured new tenure over the Seymour and Hughes Creek exploration

Non-executive chairman Warwick Grigor (centre) in front of the underground gold-bearing veins at Aguia Resources’ Santa Barbara mine in Colombia. Credit: File Aguia Resources (ASX: AGR) has delivered its best production results to date from its Santa Barbara gold mine in Colombia, with August figures showing record output of 942 grams of gold at an impressive grade of over 10 grams per tonne (g/t). The performance more than doubles the project’s previous best month, which s

Auric Mining has acquired a significant package of second-hand processing infrastructure (pictured), including crushing and processing components, mill structure, conveyors and screening circuit for its Burbanks gold project. Credit: File Auric Mining (ASX: AWJ) has pulled off a coup, snapping up a significant package of processing infrastructure for its Burbanks gold project for the bargain-basement price of just $1.2 million. The company says the deal was struck at a f

Terrain Minerals’ Lightning gold project, within the active Murchison gold corridor in Western Australia. Credit: File Terrain Minerals (ASX: TMX) has cleared a major technical hurdle at its Lightning gold project in Western Australia, with metallurgical testwork confirming high gold recoveries of up to 93.7 per cent using a simple, conventional processing flowsheet. The results indicate the gold is free-milling in nature and can be treated using a standard WA gold plan