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St George Mining’s metallurgical test work has produced separate high-grade concentrates from its Araxá project, including 39.6 per cent niobium pentoxide at a flotation recovery rate of 54.3 per cent. Credit: File St George Mining's (ASX: SGQ) Araxá rare earths and niobium project has put some serious numbers on the board in Brazil, with the company delivering a massive resource upgrade over the deposit that catapults into globally significant territory. The company t

Advance Metals (ASX: AVM) has hit paydirt again at its Gavilanes silver project in Durango, Mexico, with its fourth consecutive diamond drill hole intersecting high-grade silver and extending the known mineralised system a further 55 metres to the south. The latest results include a broad 13.2m intersection grading a notable 311 grams per tonne (g/t) silver from 123m, which housed an even higher-grade 6m core running an even more impressive 612g/t silver from 125.4m. The ho

Kuniko Limited and Impact Minerals beginning phase 2 diamond drilling at Commonwealth-Silica Hill NSW. Credit: File Kuniko Limited (ASX: KNI) has seized a controlling 51 per cent stake in the high-grade Commonwealth-Silica Hill gold-silver-copper project in New South Wales more than 12 months ahead of schedule after completing the initial A$1.5 million expenditure commitment under its earn-in agreement with Impact Minerals with the company now taking operational control of

In a move that signals a swift transition from a newly-minted ASX-lister to an active explorer, Elk Range Mining (ASX: ELK) is set to start a maiden 2850-metre diamond drilling campaign at its Friday gold mine in Idaho in the United States. The company completed a successful and significantly oversubscribed Initial Public Offering raising $10 million at 20-cents a pop, with Inyati and Bank of Montreal (Euroz) acting as brokers to the issue. The company has inked a drilling

Critical Resources’ Lammerlaw Gold Project in New Zealand’s Central Otago Schist Belt, an undrilled project considered an analogue to nearby Macraes-style gold systems. Critical Resources (ASX: CRR) has narrowed the search for a potentially significant New Zealand gold discovery after a string of arsenic-antimony-tungsten soil anomalies lit up its Stony Creek target within the Lammerlaw Gold Project, strengthening the geological case for an orogenic gold system beneath th

True North Copper's (ASX: TNC) Aquila discovery in North Queensland has thrown up another broad copper hit at its Mt Oxide project with the company drilling through a massive 130-metre-long intersection extending known high-grade mineralisation to about 300m depth, with the system remaining open. The intercept graded 0.67 per cent copper and included a stunning high-grade core of 6m going 5.70 per cent copper. The result comes at a time when the global copper market remains

Aureka has just hit visible gold from the Walkers shear zone at its St Arnaud-Comstock project in Victoria. For the first time, Aureka (ASX: AKA) has struck visible gold in multiple shallow intercepts at its 56,500 ounce Comstock gold project in Victoria, with the latest discovery bolstering the company’s plans for near-term production. The gold was hit from a shallow vertical depth in a drill hole targeting the Walkers Shear structure with one hole encountering multiple

Augustus Minerals’ Music Well gold project north of Leonora in Western Australia. Credit: File Augustus Minerals (ASX: AUG) has bagged its highest gold grade to date at its Music Well project near Leonora in Western Australia, with its June reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign intersecting a one-metre section grading 19.5 grams per tonne (g/t) gold. The impressive high-grade hit was contained within a broader 8-metre zone that returned 3.27g/t gold from a depth of

Long-lead drilling equipment manufactured for TMK Energy’s Gurvantes coal seam gas project in southern Mongolia ahead of the company’s 2026 drilling campaign. TMK Energy (ASX: TMK) is steadily turning promise into progress at its Gurvantes XXXV coal seam gas project in southern Mongolia. Rising gas production is now being matched by tangible steps towards commercialisation. The company's latest operations update shows average gas production during July climbed 5 per cent

Lindian Resources has secured full ownership of a Kazakhstan-based rare earth processing plant, accelerating its push to become a vertically integrated producer with a mine-to-market strategy outside China.