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Helen Barling

Helen is a senior analyst for Bulls N’ Bears. She is a Geologist with over 20 years of experience in the mining and exploration sector in Australia and Africa. In addition to writing, Helen enjoys getting boots on ground at any opportunity and actively engaging in the hunt for minerals.

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Moonlight_LEOGRANDE DRILLING_BNBWA Bulls N' Bears 27 Jan 2026

Maiden program shines as Moonlight strikes gold in Qld

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Moonlight Resources' first swing with the drill bit at its Clemont project in Queensland has struck thick, shallow gold, including a standout 40m at 1.3 g/t from surface and a further 34m averaging 1.37 g/t from only 6 metres downhole. Notably, both holes ended in mineralisation. With momentum building, the company has wasted no time, readying the rig to roll back in any day.

Lindian Resources_ESG_Bulls N' Bears Bulls N' Bears 27 Jan 2026

Lindian strengthens community foundations in Malawi

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Lindian Resources has continued to build strong community foundations alongside the development of its Kangankunde rare earths mine in Malawi. The company has launched Project Early Learning, designed to support access to safe, inclusive and supportive early education, directly benefiting about 400 students currently enrolled at the school.

NEOMETALS_BARRAMBIE_BNBWA Bulls N' Bears 22 Jan 2026

Neometals taps into long-lost WA gold treasure trove

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Neometals Ltd has continued to rack up high-grade hits at its Barrambie gold project in Western Australia's Mid-West region, delivering a bonanza 1m at 38.4 grams per tonne in first pass drilling along strike from the historic Golden Treasure mine. The latest results capped off last year's drilling program at the prospect, where 26 reverse circulation holes for more than 3250 metres peppered the intriguing trend.

lin Bulls N' Bears 08 Jan 2026

Mining fleet rolls in as Lindian ramps up Malawi rare earths play

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Budding rare earths miner Lindian Resources has moved a step closer to production after taking stock of its mining fleet at the company's Kangankunde project in Malawi. With early works and site establishment wrapped up, construction activity is gaining momentum across multiple fronts ahead of first production slated for later this year.

MOONLIGHT_CLERMONT_BNBWA (1) Bulls N' Bears 12 Dec 2025

Moonlight hits the ASX with rods spinning in Queensland

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Moonlight Resources has stayed true to its name, working after hours to set the rods spinning at its Queensland Clermont gold project just as the company made its debut on the ASX. Armed with $10 million from a heavily subscribed IPO, the explorer is primed to accelerate exploration across a cluster of advanced structural gold targets spread along a strongly mineralised 4km trend.

nfl Bulls N' Bears 11 Dec 2025

Norfolk confirms shallow copper in Chile

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Norfolk Metals has taken stock of initial assays from its maiden drilling program at the Carmen project in Chile's copper-rich Huasco Province, delivering 53m at 1.1% copper from only 62m downhole. Carmen sits tantalisingly close to mining giant Newmont's multi-billion-dollar joint venture development of the Relincho and Fortuna deposits, which host 16.6 billion pounds of copper.

Gold price trends_BNBWA Bulls N' Bears 17 Sep 2025

Historic assays fill missing pieces of Neometals WA gold play dataset

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Neometals Ltd has struck gold in the archives, uncovering a cache of 2271 unreported historic drill assays from its Barrambie gold project in Western Australia's goldfields, including a bonanza 3-metre run at 95.7 grams per tonne gold. The discovery will guide an upcoming drilling program. Neometals is set to get the drill rod spinning before the end of the year.

Latitude 66 Rig drilling BNBWA Bulls N' Bears 08 Jul 2025

Latitude 66 confirms promising gold target in WA Goldfields

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Latitude 66 has etched out a promising gold target at its Edjudina project in Western Australia's Goldfields, with an air core drilling program at its Colossus prospect targeting bedrock returning assays of up to 0.45g/t gold. The company says beneath a blanket of transported cover, the underlying geology exhibits the trademarks of Ramelius Resources' nearby 1.1-million-ounce Lake Rebecca gold project.

Aurumin Ltd Central Sandstone drill rig Bulls N' Bears 20 Feb 2025

WA drilling finished in next step towards Aurumin/Newcam deal

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Aurumin Ltd has wrapped up a 54-hole reverse circulation program at its Central Sandstone project in Western Australia's Mid West region. The holes were designed to test a clutch of iron-rich prospects key to a proposed exclusive option agreement with private entity Newcam Minerals. A successful joint venture deal could provide Aurumin with $7m in project funding.

Meeka Metals_Murchison gold project_AC drilling Bulls N' Bears 19 Feb 2025

Meeka keeps golden streak alive with high-grade hits at flagship WA project

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Meeka Metals is keeping its golden streak alive at its flagship Murchison project in Western Australia's Mid West region, striking 16m at 9.45 grams per tonne gold. This follows a red-hot 23m at 26.73g/t gold from the St Anne's deposit earlier this year. With rigs spinning and the mining fleet mobilised, Meeka is on a fast track to development and is closing in on production.

St George Mining_Araxa project_Brazil Bulls N' Bears 18 Feb 2025

St George bolsters cavalry to fast-track Brazil niobium-REE delivery

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St George Mining has bolstered its cavalry by appointing an ex-CBMM engineering manager from a neighbouring industry-leading niobium plant. Armed with a $20 million war chest and strategic alliance with global mining engineering firm Shandong Xinhai Mining, St George is assembling elite in-house expertise to fast-track the development of its Araxá niobium-rare earths project in Brazil.

KALGOLD_PINJAN PROJECT_BULLSNBEARS Bulls N' Bears 17 Feb 2025

KalGold explores green pastures near Lighthorse gold play

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Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has etched out an under-explored 13km corridor along strike at its freshly minted Lighthorse gold discovery and is fast-tracking drilling to test the full extent of its prospective gold system. The company set tongues wagging and its share price bolting earlier this month when it pulled up a clutch of impressive intercepts including 17m running at 4.81 g/t.

ABx Group_Pilot Plant at ALCORE_ Bulls N' Bears 19 Dec 2024

ABx secures funding support from Tassie government

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ABx Group and its subsidiary ALCORE are redefining the circular economy by turning waste into opportunity and have garnered the Tasmanian Government's support along the way. Tassie will provide indicative terms and conditions for a $1 million, zero-interest loan to fund the construction of a continuous pilot plant to trial its world-first proprietary process that produces industrial chemicals from waste generated during aluminium smelting.

Lindian Resources Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi. Bulls N' Bears 16 Dec 2024

Lindian scores US$50m boost for Malawi rare earths giant

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Christmas has come early for Lindian Resources, with it wrapping up the year with a US$50 million (A$78.6 million) funding agreement with US-based commodity trader Gerald Metals Group. Funds are earmarked to kick off development of its world-class Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi. A feasibility study on the stage one development shows a whopping annual EBITDA of US$84m (A$132m) in a 45-year mine life.

Thunderbird lights up new Canadian uranium targets Bulls N' Bears 17 Oct 2024

Thunderbird lights up new Canadian uranium targets

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Thunderbird Resources is racking up the uranium targets at its Cluff Lake project in Canada's world-class Athabasca Basin, with results from a detailed electromagnetic survey lighting up a suite of intriguing conductors that may have identified favourable geological settings for yellowcake mineralisation. Several targets sit along strike from the nearby Shea Creek deposits that collectively contain 95.85 million pounds at 1.3 per cent uranium oxide.

Canadian copper bonanza for White Cliff Minerals Bulls N' Bears 04 Oct 2024

Canadian copper bonanza for White Cliff Minerals

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White Cliff Minerals has kicked up a swag of uber high-grade copper sniffs, tipping the scales at a record-breaking 64 per cent, giving hints of a large-scale copper discovery at its Rae project in northern Canada. The latest haul follows a suite of extraordinary silver grades the junior explorer recently racked up, reaching as high as an eye-boggling 75,439 grams per tonne, from its nearby Great Bear Lake project.

Buxton charges into Graphite Bull drill campaign Bulls N' Bears 12 Aug 2024

Buxton charges into Graphite Bull drill campaign

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Buxton Resources has wheeled in a reverse-circulation drill rig at its Graphite Bull play in Western Australia's Gascoyne region, eager to unveil the full extent of thick graphitic mineralisation intersected from a recent diamond program. The company says it has squared away several strategic deals, with its drilling and earthworks contractors to partly fund the 5500m program.

Strickland hauls in spectacular Serbian gold hit Bulls N' Bears 05 Aug 2024

Strickland hauls in spectacular Serbian gold hit

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Strickland Metals has hauled in a whopping 89.7m running at 4 grams per tonne gold from 244m at its wholly-owned Rogozna project in Serbia. The spectacular intercept includes 24m averaging an impressive 10.5g/t gold from 296m. The well-funded Western Australian explorer has four rigs working around the clock targeting extensions to the existing 4.6 million-ounce gold equivalent Shanac resource.

Gold Mountain etches intriguing Down Under rare earths patch Bulls N' Bears 24 Jul 2024

Gold Mountain etches intriguing Down Under rare earths patch

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Gold Mountain has etched out a second intriguing rare earths patch at its Down Under project in Brazil, with a further 85 assays returned from a scout stream sediment survey showing values up to 4582ppm TREO. The company recently collected 800 samples in a first-pass reconnaissance program at its freshly-minted tenure – a stone's throw from Brazilian Rare Earths' Rocha da Rocha critical minerals province.

Solid oil sales for Triangle ahead of gas exploration drive Bulls N' Bears 30 Apr 2024

Solid oil sales for Triangle ahead of gas exploration drive

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Triangle Energy Group has capped off a solid quarter, raking in $6.54 million courtesy of oil sales associated with its Cliff Head JV partnership with Pilot Energy. The proceeds are earmarked for high-impact exploration drilling near Geraldton in Western Australia's Mid West region, with the company set to kick off its hunt for hydrocarbons at the Booth-1 well by July.

Strickland spins rods for Yandal gold hunt Bulls N' Bears 18 Apr 2024

Strickland spins rods for Yandal gold hunt

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A second drill rig has rolled onto Strickland Metals' Yandal project in WA's Eastern Goldfields region to target high-grade gold intercepts from last year's reconnaissance drilling program that pulled up 39m averaging 6.1g/t, including a 7m core running at 22.2g/t of the precious yellow metal. It is back to business for Strickland after it yesterday confirmed the acquisition of a giant Serbian gold project.

Terrain stares into Nova-style “eye” at Lort River Bulls N' Bears 16 Apr 2024

Terrain stares into Nova-style “eye” at Lort River

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Terrain Minerals is preparing to stare directly into a Nova-style “eye” magnetic feature at its Lort River project, with a detailed airborne electromagnetic survey slated to kick off early next month. The company identified the intriguing feature just eight weeks ago and is wasting no time in refining the target, which displays stark similarities to IGO's Nova-Bollinger nickel-copper-cobalt deposit in Western Australia's prospective Albany-Fraser Belt.

Lycaon pockets crucial West Arunta mining entry permit Bulls N' Bears 16 Apr 2024

Lycaon pockets crucial West Arunta mining entry permit

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Lycaon Resources has secured a crucial tick of approval from WA's Aboriginal Affairs Minister to kick off exploration at its Stansmore project in the West Arunta region – near WA1 Resources' notable niobium discovery. The highly-coveted mining entry permit paves the way for the company to land boots on ground, with a heritage survey planned before it plunges the drill bit into alluring magnetic anomalies.

KalGold set to spin drill rods in Pinjin gold hunt Bulls N' Bears 03 Apr 2024

KalGold set to spin drill rods in Pinjin gold hunt

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As the gold price continues its meteoric rise, tipping over $3500 per ounce, Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has completed an interpretation of its Pinjin project in WA's goldfields, revealing a clutch of compelling new targets. With the project nestled along strike from Ramelius Resources' 1.1 million ounce Rebecca project, KalGold is set to spin the rods in a first-pass aircore program designed to test the targets.

Estrella hits high-grade manganese in new mineral frontier Bulls N' Bears 03 Apr 2024

Estrella hits high-grade manganese in new mineral frontier

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Estrella Resources is wasting no time as it looks to explore the potential of its freshly minted 500 sq kms of tenure in Timor-Leste with a high-grade manganese rock chip sample peaking at 60.8 per cent already on the table. As the ink dries on the historical agreement with state-owned Murak Rai Timor, Estrella is making history as one of the first companies to receive exploration rights in the country.

Quantum leaps to extend SA graphite resource Bulls N' Bears 03 Apr 2024

Quantum leaps to extend SA graphite resource

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Quantum Graphite has completed a detailed airborne electromagnetic survey over its Uley tenure on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. The company is on a quest to boost its current Uley 2 resource of 6.3 million tonnes at 11.1 per cent total graphitic carbon for an inventory of 697,000 tonnes of the critical battery mineral.

Reach lands boots on ground for WA niobium hunt Bulls N' Bears 18 Mar 2024

Reach lands boots on ground for WA niobium hunt

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With the till topped up to the tune of $3.2 million, courtesy of a sweet, new JV deal with budding producer Delta Lithium, Reach Resources has landed boots on ground at its Wabli Creek niobium-rare earths project in Western Australia's Gascoyne region. The company has at least 16 compelling anomalies to ground-truth, with recent soil geochemical surveys indicating niobium, rare earths and lithium mineral systems.

Surefire testwork triggers Murchison gold upgrade Bulls N' Bears 18 Mar 2024

Surefire testwork triggers Murchison gold upgrade

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Metallurgical testwork on samples from Surefire Resources' Yidby gold project in Western Australia's Murchison region alludes to almost 70 per cent more gold than previously reported by the company. And it is a timely finding for Surefire as the gold price continues to glitter, trading last week at a stunning all-time Australian high of $3308 per ounce.

K2fly brings in heavyweights for strategic review Bulls N' Bears 23 Nov 2023

K2fly brings in heavyweights for strategic review

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Software provider K2fly has initiated a sweeping strategic review of its operations in a swift boardroom move designed to maximise the full potential of its innovative resource governance software solutions. After posting 13 quarters of increasing revenue on the trot, K2Fly has vowed not to sit on those laurels and has appointed Argonaut PCF and Atrico as joint advisors to steer its review.

High-purity silica sand mass emerging for Allup in WA Bulls N' Bears 26 Oct 2023

High-purity silica sand mass emerging for Allup in WA

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Boots on ground at Allup Silica's Cabbage Spot project has mapped out an extensive high-purity silica sand system within easy trucking distance to the Wyndham Port on WA's Kimberley coast. The company collected 20 surface samples along a 2km traverse designed to help pinpoint future priority drill targets. Previous sampling across the surficial sand masses returned a plethora of high-purity results peaking at 99.4 per cent silica.

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