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Aerial image of old copper waste piles surrounding True North Copper’s Mt Oxide pit in Queensland. Credit: File True North Copper (ASX: TNC) has secured a $400,000 Queensland Government grant under the Collaborative Development Program (CDP) to probe old mine waste at its Mt Oxide copper project in Queensland. The company believes the historical bonanza-grade ore ripped out of the historic mine highlights the potential for significant untapped value in Mt Oxide’s waste and st

Olympio Metals’ adit entry at the old Raven silver-copper mine in Montana, USA. Olympio Metals (ASX: OLY) has signed a binding option agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the Raven silver project in Montana and the Sawtooth antimony project in Idaho, USA, marking a strategic entry into the US critical minerals sector. Both projects offer strong prospectivity for silver, antimony and copper, with interest in them bolstered by their inclusion on the 2025 US Geological Survey’s

Split graphite diamond drill core from Sarytogan Graphite’s project in Kazakhstan. Sarytogan Graphite (ASX: SGA) has locked in a key water licence, removing a critical hurdle to the ongoing definitive feasibility study (DFS) in Kazakhstan. The fresh permit has further strengthened the company’s already growing list of project approvals for its world-class graphite development. The move follows the 2024 pre-feasibility study that stamped Sarytogan as a low-cost, high-margin gr

An aerial view of Viking Mines’ Linka tungsten mine in Nevada, looking to the south from the Linka shaft, showing vent raises, open-pits and coarse ore stockpile. Viking Mines (ASX: VKA) is charging ahead with its strategy to deliver the earliest possible tungsten production from its recently acquired Linka project in Nevada, USA, following completion of the digitisation of all historical data across 70 holes and 2881 metres of drilling. Viking’s latest tranche of data has s

Taruga Minerals’ non-executive directors, Eric de Mori and David Chapman, with the company’s geologist, Peter McNeil and Weioko landowner Ilope Bwagodi (R). Credit: File Taruga Minerals (ASX: TAR) has officially rolled out the field crews at its Weioko gold district on Papua New Guinea’s Normanby Island, marking the company’s first on-ground work under its East Normanby option. The company’s reconnaissance fieldwork will focus on pinpointing extensions to its Weioko gold dep

BMG Resources’ high-grade Abercromby gold project lies 30 kilometres southeast of Wiluna in WA. Credit: File BMG Resources (ASX: BMG) has sharpened its edge by hiring a seasoned mining executive as general manager to oversee project development and help steer the company’s Abercromby gold project in WA’s Agnew-Wiluna greenstone belt towards the earliest possible production timeline McArthur has landed with 25 years of mining credentials, including project leadership across o

Aurum Resources’ managing director Dr Caigen Wang and associates at an artisanal mine within the company’s Boundiali project in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) has delivered a blockbuster mineral resource estimate upgrade at its flagship Boundiali gold project in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, pushing the project’s global inventory to 3.03 million ounces at one gram per tonne (g/t) gold. The JORC-compliant estimate, signed off by Independent Perth-based ge

PacGold Limited’s White Dam heap leach operation in South Australia. Credit: File Pacgold Limited (ASX: PGO) has hit shallow, wide, high-grade gold in initial mineral resource drilling at its wholly owned White Dam project in South Australia, marking a key step towards improved open pit designs and resource upgrades. The Vertigo open pit is one of three areas targeted for upgrade this year as part of the current reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign. So far, the initial

ADX is performing a flow test at the Welchau-1 well in Austria. The well was first drilled in 2024. Credit: File ADX Energy (ASX: ADX) has taken an encouraging step towards proving up a potentially significant oil discovery in Austria after recovering light oil and gas during recent testing at its Welchau-1 well. The company resumed testing in the Reifling Formation, one of four oil- and gas-bearing zones intersected in the well. To get the reservoir flowing, ADX pumped a sma

Osmond Resources’ Zone 3 at its Orion EU critical minerals project, showing outcropping rare earths mineralised seams. Osmond Resources (ASX: OSM) has inked a collaboration agreement with Spanish engineering powerhouse Técnicas Reunidas to target the European Union’s first fully vertically integrated production of mixed rare earth carbonates (MREC) and mixed rare earth oxides (MREO). The deal commits both parties, where practical, to extract monazite and produce final rare e