Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

BMG Resources 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. Gareth McArthur has landed with 25 years of mining credentials, including project leadership across operational, technical and construction roles at Rio Tinto and smaller developers in WA.

Aurum Resources has delivered a whopping resource upgrade at its Boundiali gold project in West Africa, increasing the total gold for the project to 3.03 million ounces at one gram per tonne gold. The total resource has grown 26 per cent to 99.7 million tonnes at 1.0g/t gold, driven by infill and extension drilling at the company's BST1, BDT2, BDT3 and BMT3 deposits.

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The Bulls N' Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Recharge Metals, which snapped up the Sunset Well project in the heart of WA's Leonora district complete with 94,500-ounces of gold. Cosmos Exploration muscled into Bolivia's lithium big leagues via its EAU tie-up with state-owned YLB and exclusive access to Vulcan's VULSORB lithium extraction technology, while King River Resources dusted off the historic Mindoolah goldfield in WA's Murchison belt, chasing high-grade reefs the old-timers left behind with modern rigs and a roaring gold price at its back.

Peninsula Energy has confirmed its Lance uranium project in Wyoming, USA, remains on track to meet its production guidance of 400,000 to 500,000 pounds of yellowcake this year. The central processing plant's capacity of 2 million pounds of uranium oxide per year and the company's strong progress in developing its Mine Unit 4 are expected to deliver around 60 per cent of forecast output in 2026 and 2027.

Chariot Resources has signed a binding A$1.425m placement with a big Chinese battery metals firm at 15c a share, as talks advance on project-level funding and offtakes for its Nigerian lithium portfolio. Chariot's Nigerian lithium projects are showing big lithium oxide sample grades at surface, going five to six per cent lithium oxide that scream “drill here”.

Great Southern Mining is readying the drill bit for its Mon Ami gold project in Western Australia, with the company identifying multiple targets for resource extension at the mine-ready prospect. The company has initiated a detailed technical review of Mon Ami to speed up exploration that could lift the existing 55,500-ounce deposit, grading a handy 1.11 grams per tonne gold.

In an exceptional start to the year, St George Mining has pulled in its thickest intercept yet at the company's Araxá project in Brazil, with high-grade assays returning up to 17.15 per cent total rare earth oxides and 4 per cent niobium. With drilling continuing around the clock and the current mineral resource estimate modelled to just 100 metres, the next wave of results could be every bit as impressive.

Neometals Limited has unearthed a fresh copper hotspot at its fully owned Barrambie gold project near Sandstone in WA. Recent surface rock-chip and grab sampling has confirmed high-grade copper grades up to 24.4 per cent copper at the historic Rinaldi workings. Historic production at Rinaldi in 1944 and between 1956 and 1961 delivered about 1407 tonnes at 9.8 per cent copper.

American West Metals has bolstered its US critical minerals push by hiring a top Washington advisory firm to steer the company's West Desert project into becoming the nation's first end-to-end indium supplier. The newly appointed Ervin Graves Strategy Group is a heavyweight in government relations, a move set to deepen the company's ties with US agencies and potential downstream partners.

King River Resources has struck a high-grade chord in WA's Murchison, locking in an option over the historic Mindoolah goldfield where abundant gold occurrences remain untested.

Horizon Minerals has thrown the switch on a serious gold growth plan after scoping studies confirmed its Black Swan processing hub near Kalgoorlie could churn out more than 100,000 ounces a year. With strong economics, a short payback period and fresh funding locked in, the company is lining up to transform legacy infrastructure into a new WA gold powerhouse.

St George Mining has snapped up prime industrial land next to its Araxá project in Brazil, clearing a major hurdle on the path to fast-tracked niobium and rare earths production in a red-hot critical minerals market. The land parcel, which is less than 2 kilometres from the mining tenure, is zoned for mining and industrial use.

American West Metals is gearing up for up to 5,000m of diamond drilling at its West Desert critical minerals project in Utah, aimed at growing the existing resource. The company says it will target near-mine “Goldilocks” indium-rich skarns outside the current model and drill test a potentially fault-controlled area for gallium targets along the Juab Fault before testing large magnetic and gravity anomalies that resemble the known deposit.

Aurum Resources has delivered another strong round of diamond drilling results from its ongoing 100,000-metre program at the company's 2.41-million-ounce Boundiali gold project in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. The latest assays from 30 holes for 7208m of drilling have wrapped up the final data batch for the company's Boundiali mineral resource estimate (MRE) update, which is due later this month.

Patriot Resources has uncorked a mighty maiden mineral resource of 31.39 million ounces of silver-equivalent from its polymetallic Tassa silver-gold project in Southern Peru. The company's inferred maiden resource estimate clocked in at 18.53 million tonnes at 52.68 grams per tonne (g/t) for the 31.39 million-ounce silver-equivalent booty, with the silver-only component comprising an impressive 25.5 million-ounces at 42.73g/t.

Great Southern Mining has extended gold mineralisation to 3.5km at its Golden Boulder discovery in WA's Duketon belt. Shallow RC drilling returned multiple high-grade hits, including 6m at 6.7 g/t and 2m at 5.0 g/t Au. EIS co-funded diamond drilling will test depth potential as the company works toward a maiden JORC resource.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has chalked up encouraging results from maiden diamond drilling of its Kirgella Gift and Providence deposits at the company's Pinjin gold project, 140 kilometres northeast of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia's prospective Laverton Tectonic Zone. While good gold was intercepted in all holes, the real kicker is confirmation that the Pinjin system doesn't end shallow, with primary orogenic mineralisation extending well beyond previous drill limits.

Patriot Resources has masterminded a globally scaled copper-silver portfolio to ride the explosive wave of demand being driven by AI and data centres. The company has stitched together a set of perfectly timed high-grade assets in Africa and South America, as copper prices shatter records and silver surges on its dual role in the electronics industry and as a precious metals.

The Bulls N' Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Great Dirt Resources, after a fresh $1.446 million placement to industry insiders woke up its manganese projects in northern New South Wales. EMC Gold Corp surged on permitting hopes for its monster Salave gold project in Spain, MetalsGrove ran on no news, just early boots-on-ground work at its Côte d'Ivoire gold project, European Resources ran on diamond drilling from its Korsnäs rare earths project in Finland delivering hits like 27m at 3767ppm total rare earth oxides.

Horizon Minerals has delivered a timely boost to its gold credentials, lifting its total mineral gold inventory by 6.5 per cent to a chunky 1.88 million ounces. A buoyant gold price has allowed the company to redraw its economic lines, capturing a swathe of lower-grade ounces and strengthening the development runway for its Kalgoorlie-centred Black Swan gold processing hub.

Brazil has rolled out the welcome mat for St George Mining's Araxá project, locking in sweeping tax exemptions that could materially lower development costs for what is shaping up as a globally significant niobium and rare earths play. With state government backing, pilot plant plans in train and a world-class resource already defined, Araxá looks set to emerge as a cornerstone asset in Brazil's critical minerals ambitions.

Dateline Resources has reported strong step-out drilling results at its Colosseum project in California. Best hits included 150m at 1.39g/t gold from surface, featuring a 55-metre section grading 2.83g/t gold. The hole targeted the northeast extension of the North Pipe breccia system beyond the current mineral resource boundary and ended in mineralisation, confirming the system remains open at depth.

BMG Resources is set to kick off a major 10,000m diamond drilling resource expansion program this month at its Abercromby gold project, 30km southeast of Wiluna in WA's eastern goldfields. The program is primarily aimed at expanding the existing 518,000 ounce gold resource estimate at the project and will be the first significant drilling at the project since the definition of the maiden resource estimate in 2023.

Novo Resources has dusted off its Belltopper gold project in Victoria after boosting its exploration target to between 2.1 and 3.1 million tonnes of high-grade resources running 6.7 to 8.9 grams per tonne gold. The company says it has now outlined between 460,000 and 880,000 ounces of high-grade gold, with the upgraded figures accelerating plans for follow-up exploration in the world-class Bendigo goldfields.

Early drilling results from Estrella Resources' Werumata limestone project in Timor-Leste have pointed to a bounty of clean, high-purity limestone, with intersections up to 55 metres thick, averaging a rich 84 per cent calcium carbonate. The broad, consistent intersections support the company's push towards its objective of defining an inferred mineral resource of at least 500 million tonnes from the interpreted large-scale calcite deposit.

Lindian Resources has kicked off stage two resource definition drilling at its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi, targeting a significant upgrade in resource confidence. The campaign is designed to convert between 20 and 40 million tonnes from the inferred category to the indicated class. This work will support mine planning and potential production growth, helping extend the life of one of the world's largest undeveloped rare earths deposits.

Dalaroo Metals has enlisted rare earths industry pioneer Greg Barnes as a special advisor for its Greenland critical minerals project amid plans to pursue a secondary listing on the US Venture market. Barnes is best known for founding two of Greenland's most significant rare earths projects, the Kvanefjeld deposit and the Tanbreez project.

The latest geochemical results from Novo Resources' Wyloo gold-silver-antimony project in WA's southern Pilbara have confirmed multiple targets, paving the way for the company's first drilling of the project. Recent work has significantly upgraded the Wyloo SE prospect, where a confirmed polymetallic vein system carrying silver, antimony, arsenic, zinc and lead warrants early testing.

Exceptional metallurgical test results from Reach Resources' Murchison South gold project in Western Australia, showing up to 97 per cent recoveries, have confirmed that its proposed ore is free-milling, relatively soft and highly amenable to conventional gravity and cyanide leach processing. The results have demonstrated that the material is ideal for third-party toll milling or ore purchase agreements at nearby facilities.

Dateline Resources is homing in on what could be the deeper heart of its Colosseum gold and rare earths project in California after a suite of new geophysical surveys lit up the ground beneath the old pits. With gravity, magnetics, radiometrics and earlier IP data now converging, the company is about to put the theory to the test with diamond rigs.

Lindian Resources has ordered critical long-lead processing equipment for its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi, strengthening construction certainty as site activity accelerates. The company is now working on multiple fronts, with major milestones locked in for 2026 and first concentrate targeted for November, positioning Kangankunde as a future globally significant rare earths producer.