Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

Beetaloo Energy is emerging as a standout in the Northern Territory Beetaloo Basin after global major INPEX farmed into nearby acreage and competitors refined their positions. With 100 per cent ownership, strong flow results and key approvals secured, the company offers a rare unencumbered entry point as corporate interest builds ahead of potential first gas in 2026.

The Bulls N' Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Killi Resources, after a boardroom makeover lured in ex-Fortescue boss Nev Power in a bold tilt for its Mt Rawdon West gold-copper play, in Queensland. Amplia Therapeutics more than doubled after delivering another eye-popping complete cancer response in its pancreatic cancer trial, NuEnergy ripped higher in a speculative frenzy amid tightening gas supply concerns, alongside the worsening Cyclone Narelle and 4DMedical charged again after the world-renowned Mayo Clinic deployed its breakthrough CT:VQ lung imaging tech.

American West has kicked off a 5000m diamond drilling program at its West Desert project in Utah, USA, chasing multiple high-priority indium and gallium targets beyond the company's existing resource footprint. The program will test for high-grade indium-copper-silver-gold skarns in the company's Goldilocks Zone, Apex-style gallium targets along the Juab Fault and other gravity and magnetic geophysical anomalies similar to those at its West Desert resource.

Neometals Limited has delivered a compelling exploration update from its Barrambie gold-silver-copper project near Sandstone in WA's Mid West region. Newly received silver assays from drilling of the historic Rinaldi copper mine have strengthened the company's case for a coherent primary hydrothermal copper-silver system. The strong positive correlation between silver and copper downhole indicates that silver is genetically linked to a primary copper sulphide mineralising system and not just a surface effect.

Corazon Mining has kicked off a 1000m maiden diamond drilling campaign at the company's Two Pools gold project in Western Australia. The program will target high-grade mineralisation and the previously identified critical structural controls. With a refreshed corporate strategy and a parallel review of its nearby Feather Cap gold project, Corazon is aggressively moving to prove up the regional gold inventory.

MetalsGrove Mining is emerging as a focused West African gold explorer, with early soil sampling and mapping defining multiple targets at its Zuénoula project in Côte d'Ivoire. The project forms part of a larger 1315-square-kilometre landholding along a highly prospective Birimian greenstone belt, where the company is steadily moving towards drill ready targets.

Triangle Energy has locked in financing from ASX-listed Winchester Energy and Triangle's wholly owned subsidiary, Tetragon Energy, to fund an Indonesian Joint Study in an offshore oil and gas exploration license in Indonesia. The deal will spread the costs and risk while allowing the company to retain a 51 per cent stake and operatorship in any future PSC.

Lindian Resources has brought its Tipume accommodation camp online at its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi, enabling workforce mobilisation and removing a key logistics constraint as construction ramps up. The camp underpins Lindian's push toward first rare earths production targeted for Q4 2026.

Aurum Resources has secured firm commitments for a $28.8M placement at a premium price of 60 cents per share, anchored by Perseus Mining's $23.69M investment for a 9.9 per cent stake. With cash expected to top $60M, Aurum will push ahead with a Boundiali feasibility study and a 130,000-metre drilling program across its Boundiali and Napié gold projects in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa.

Siren Gold's latest infill drilling campaign has kept the solid gold hits coming at its Sams Creek project, sitting at the top of New Zealand's South Island in the picturesque Golden Bay. Initial assays received for the first six holes have returned impressive numbers, including 4.8 metres grading 4.39 grams per tonne from 53.6m and a 4.2m slice running at 3.25g/t from 21.9m.

Neometals Limited has locked in a controlling stake of Utah Brine Corporation, gaining low-cost exposure to a lithium and potash brine opportunity in the Paradox Basin in Utah, USA. The venture has exclusive access to 24 inactive oil and gas wells for sampling and test work. Neometals will fund up to US$2 (A$2.82) million over three years.

Neometals has completed five reverse-circulation holes for 495m at the historic Rinaldi copper prospect within its Barrambie project, near Sandstone in WA's Mid West. Early results have confirmed primary copper sulphides 70m below surface, including the key copper ore minerals bornite and chalcopyrite. Early results from only 10 per cent of the submitted samples include 7m at a respectable 1.72 per cent copper from 82m depth.

The Bulls N' Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Immutep. In a slightly perverse twist, the oncology mid-cap bounced hard from last week's near-death experience, clawing back 53 per cent after a brutal 90 per cent wipeout last week. Blue Star Helium floated higher on mounting anticipation of near-term production from its Colorado-based Galactica project, with helium sales edging closer, and Patagonia Lithium rode a wave of speculation around looming results from its Lithium Triangle projects in Argentina.

Neometals Limited has delivered a positive scoping study for its Ironclad deposit at the company's fully owned Barrambie gold project in WA, pointing to a fast toll-milling run of up to 11,000 ounces of gold from an estimated 220,000 tonnes of ore at a grade of 1.8g/t. The study found that a proposed 50:50 mining services JV could fast-track mine development, with a kick-off in Q1 2027.

Patriot Resources has announced the hiring of Dominic Duggan as managing director to drive growth at its Tassa silver project in Peru. Duggan, who is already the company's chief executive officer, is a mining engineer and finance professional with more than 10 years of experience across multi-commodity underground and open pit operations, including at Rio Tinto.

Dalaroo Metals has defined a high priority 2.5 kilometre drill target at its Bondoukou gold project in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Geological mapping and surface sampling have returned gold values up to 17.95g/t gold and point to a large, structurally controlled Birimian style gold system ahead of drilling.

Dateline Resources has purchased and deployed a second diamond drill rig at its Colosseum gold and rare earths project in California's Walker Lane, bringing the total number of rigs on site to three. The track-mounted rig can drill to 1,200 metres and will work alongside the existing contracted rig to complete a 12-hole rare earths program before targeting additional gold and rare earths zones. A third company-owned rig is also being deployed to test underground gold potential.

Corazon Mining has struck a deal with IGO Ltd to expand its Plutonic-Marymia gold footprint, lifting the company's contiguous landholding to 537 square kilometres. The agreement hands Corazon historic exploration data, including non-public De Beers work and opens up an underexplored greenstone corridor ripe for modern sampling and geophysics.

Red Metal Limited has linked up with ASX-listed mid-tier explorer Chalice Mining under an earn-in joint venture on ground prospective for copper-gold at Red Metal's Callabonna project in South Australia's Curnamona Province. The JV will focus on a series of magnetic and gravity targets along the site's northern margin, where wide-spaced historic drilling has identified large hydrothermal breccias reminiscent of an iron oxide copper-gold system.

Meeka Metals is preparing to install a wash plant, extra crushing circuit and Steinert multi-sensor ore sorter at its Murchison gold project near Meekatharra to lift its plant throughput from 600,000 to 800,000 tonnes per year and provide a higher-grade ore feed to the mill. The $6 million upgrade is expected to be commissioned in the September quarter.

Triangle Energy has revealed plans to spin out the company's Philippine assets and its wholly owned subsidiary Tetragon Energy, to create an Asian-focused oil and gas explorer to be listed on the ASX bourse. The plan, subject to the thumbs up from ordinary Triangle shareholders, will result in an in-specie distribution of Tetragon's ordinary shares to existing Triangle shareholders.

Siren Gold is chasing down a 7km long dyke at its Sam's Creek gold project in New Zealand that appears to be harbouring multiple gold deposits after the company landed a 19m drill hit going 1.3g/t gold 500m away from its existing 824,000 ounce resource. The new hit from the Doyles fold area includes a 9m section grading a solid 1.86g/t gold.

Dateline Resources has completed a high-resolution helicopter-borne magnetic and radiometric survey across its Music Valley heavy rare earths project in California. The survey was flown at just 30 metres altitude for maximum resolution. Data is with consultants for analysis, while REE and structural geology experts are already in the field, mapping and rock chip sampling the project area.

NeuroScientific Biopharmaceuticals has taken a major step towards scaling up its StemSmart stem cell therapy by launching its first manufacturing run with Australian cell therapy specialist Q-Gen. The milestone signals the start of transferring the company's patented production process to a clinical-scale facility capable of supplying future trials and potentially, commercial demand.

MetalsGrove Mining has launched surface mapping, rock chip sampling and high-resolution LiDAR ground imaging to home in on drill targets at its Zuénoula gold project in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. The company expects the work to wrap up by the end of March, producing high-resolution digital terrain models and imagery to define historic prospects, refine structural interpretation, understand gold dispersion and prioritise future drilling targets across the project.

Estrella Resources has received the final assays from its 2025 drilling at the Werumata limestone project in Timor-Leste. The Baucau limestone averaged 83 per cent calcium carbonate and Batu Putih chalk averaged 77.5 per cent carbonate, values which would support a range of industrial acid-neutralisation uses. Bulk density work is underway ahead of a maiden mineral resource estimate targeted for mid-April.

The Bulls N' Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… 88 Energy, after the company's shares stormed higher on its Alaskan North Slope oil ground, more than doubling as oil went parabolic. Aguia Resources locked in a key mining permit for its Três Estradas phosphate play in fertiliser-starved southern Brazil, Chariot Resources surged after Nigerian government approvals cleared the transfer of six lithium licences into its JV, unlocking a large undrilled land package. The punters also piled into Torque after the gold explorer poached the ex-Spartan dream team behind the $2.4 billion Never Never take-out.

Horizon has wrapped up its latest mining phase at Boorara, retaining a hefty 460,000 tonnes of stockpiled ore containing 14,200 ounces of gold that will serve as the initial feed for the commissioning of its planned Black Swan processing hub in mid-2027. The move is designed to de-risk the mill start-up, while pre-production planning is also underway for an early-2027 Boorara mining restart.

Quantum Graphite says partner Sunlands Pure Group has signed an MOU with Oman's Al Buraimi Governorate for a planned, large-scale graphite refinery on a 240-hectare site in Buraimi, 60km from the nation's Sohar Port. The agreement recognises Quantum as the exclusive flake graphite supplier and flags a further update on funding and downstream arrangements within two weeks.

Terrain Minerals has kicked off 1500 metres of aircore drilling at its Lort River project near Esperance, targeting clay-hosted rare earths. The program was prompted by a standout 8m intercept 12 months ago, which assayed 4037 ppm total rare earth oxides, with peak one-metre results of almost one per cent TREO, including highly anomalous grades of magnet rare-earth elements.

Triangle Energy has signed a joint study agreement with an Indonesian institution for an offshore exploration area in Indonesia, overseen by the nation's Directorate General of Oil and Gas. The six- to eight-month study is expected to cost about US$300,000 and, once completed, will give Triangle priority rights to negotiate a production-sharing contract. The company says the area is unexplored and prospective for gas and oil.

St George Mining has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with a Brazilian fine chemicals specialist to assess processes for separating cerium and lanthanum from its Brazilian Araxá rare earths concentrates. With cerium and lanthanum making up the bulk of Araxá's rare earths mix, the company says removing them could boost its more valuable neodymium-praseodymium and other heavy rare earths concentration to boost its product value.