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Octava Minerals will launch aircore drilling next week at its Byro Critical Minerals Project in WA's Gascoyne region, following outstanding bioleaching test results which showed recoveries of up to 85% rare earths, 92% lithium, and 78% vanadium. Octava has planned an 18-hole, 1000m program that, pending final approvals, will target a maiden resource via testing of high-grade zones in the host Coyrie Formation.

Octava Minerals has launched exploration at its Federation copper, zinc, silver and tin project in Tasmania, re-opening historic ground last worked in the 1980s. The company has already tracked down Renison Associated Tin Mines' old drill holes and adits at the Sweeney's prospect, where previous sampling lit up with hits including 4.17 per cent zinc, 3.32 per cent tin and 1.23 per cent lead, pointing to untapped potential.

Octava Minerals has clinched a $1.5 million raising to help the company secure the Federation copper-zinc-silver project in western Tasmania, tapping into a region famed for its mineral wealth and pro-mining jurisdiction. The project, stumbled upon decades ago by then operator and nearby tin prodigy Renison, has a promising set of high-grade historical intercepts at its Sweeney's prospect that are untested since drilling in the 1970s.

Octava Minerals has received promising early-stage results from CSIRO tests of a low-cost bioleaching process of ore samples from its Byro rare earths and lithium project in WA's Gascoyne region. The stage one testwork focused on identifying, enriching and adapting microorganisms that can process the Byro ore. Stage two tests are underway to see which adapted cultures best extract critical and battery metals from the project's polymetallic samples.

Assays from metallurgical drilling at Octava Minerals' Byro rare earth elements and lithium project in Western Australia's Gascoyne region have backed up previously defined high-grade mineralisation. A hit from two 100-metre holes reached as high as 500ppm total rare earth oxides, 375ppm lithium oxide and 523ppm vanadium pentoxide over a 50m intercept.

Octava Minerals has wound-up drilling at its Yallalong antimony project in WA's Gascoyne region, confirming visual signs of antimony mineralisation and unlocking the next phase drilling of 14 high-priority targets, to follow assay results expected early next year. Octava completed 41 reverse circulation drill holes for a total of 2748m across its Discovery and Central antimony targets.

In a masterclass of timing, Octava Minerals will start a 3000m drill program next week at its Yallalong antimony project, 220km from Geraldton, WA, just as the metal price hits an all-time high of $30,000/t. The campaign will initially target the Discovery and Central zones which have already secured heritage clearance, while the company also completes a geophysical survey.

Octava Minerals has the drill bit primed for a maiden nickel-copper-cobalt exploration program at its Yallalong project in Western Australia's Mid West region, as part of a strategic collaboration with the CSIRO – the nation's premier science agency. The campaign will test several significant anomalies identified through the CSIRO's Kick-Start program, an initiative designed to assist innovative Australian start-ups and small-to-medium enterprises.

Octava Minerals and Future Metals are set to gallop onto their Palomino prospect in a bid to define the mineralised footprint at their East Kimberley JV sitting along strike from WA's historic Copernicus mine. The JV plans to kick off the new field season with structural and geological mapping and soil sampling in the highly-prospective nickel sulphide and PGM setting of the Halls Creek Orogen.

Octava Minerals will pick up the Byro rare earths and lithium project in WA's Gascoyne after agreeing to purchase 100 per cent of the shares in private company Byro Mining. The conditional agreement will see Octava undertake due diligence on two exploration licenses at the project which has some tantalising historic exploration hits from drill cuttings peaking at 388ppm lithium oxide and 501ppm total rare earth oxides.

Octava Minerals will become the sole owner of the prospective 202-square-kilometre Talga lithium project in the Pilbara after signing a deal to buy the remaining 30 per cent interest from its partner First Au. Octava will purchase First Au's entire project holdings – including a 20 per cent free-carried interest – for $200,000, 1.2 million fully-paid ordinary shares and a net smelter royalty of 0.75 per cent.

Octava Minerals has started drilling at its Pinnacle Well prospect in an area in Western Australia's Pilbara region known as “lithium elephant country”. Drilling at the prospect, 10km north of the Archer deposit that has resources of 18 million tonnes at 1.0 per cent lithium oxide, will test a significant lithium anomaly, including a 1.5km pegmatite showing visible lithium mineralisation.

Octava Minerals is putting boots on the ground at its Yallalong nickel-gold project, 220km north-east of Geraldton – and the CSIRO has jumped in with funding to help lessen the impact of the imprint. The “green energy” metals explorer has snared exploration funding from the CSIRO's Kick-Start program and will employ the agency's leading-edge technology to optimise sample collection, while simultaneously reducing on-ground activity.

Octava Minerals' joint venture partner Future Metals, which operates their Panton North project in WA's Kimberley region, is set to start exploration drilling on an interpreted extension of the neighbouring 5-million-ounce Panton platinum group metals deposit. Mineralisation was previously traced up to the tenement boundary. Drilling will also target soil and rock anomalies at Panton West, within the joint venture's ground.

Octava Minerals believes it may be on the cusp of proving up a significant nickel sulphide orebody in the wake of finding high-grade mineralisation from deep drilling at its JV project in WA's Kimberley. The company's project partner, Future Metals, has reported the discovery of high-grade platinum group metals that is believed to extend “well beyond” its 6.9-million-ounce mineral resource.

Green energy metals explorer Octava Minerals has entered into a farm-in joint venture agreement that enables fellow explorer Future Metals to earn up to 70 per cent in Octava's Panton North and Copernicus North nickel, copper and platinum-group metals projects in the East Kimberley. Octava will be free-carried through to a decision to mine and will receive about $600,000 in Future Metals shares.

Newly listed explorer Octava Minerals has outlined a suite of new pegmatite targets at its Pinnacle Well lithium prospect in the Pilbara region of Western Australia after a field reconnaissance program. The campaign was headlined by the detection of a 1.5km long east-west running outcrop about 10km north of Global Lithium's 10.5 million tonne Archer deposit.

Newly listed lithium and gold explorer Octava Minerals has lit up a number of priority targets at the company's Talga lithium project in WA's Pilbara region after a preliminary portable XRF machine analysis of over 2000 soil samples. Whilst the company awaits its full laboratory results it already has identified multiple additional pegmatites and marked seven priority target areas for further field assessment.

Lithium and gold explorer Octava Minerals hit the ASX boards today opening at $0.27 as it eclipsed its issue price of $0.20 by 35 per cent. After a fully subscribed initial public offering the company successfully raked in $6m with most of the funds earmarked for exploration at the company's flagship Talga lithium joint venture in WA's East Pilbara region.

Lithium and gold explorer Octava Minerals is set to light up the ASX boards this Friday with a trio of projects across Western Australia, the world's premier mining district. The new listing kicks off with the company's flagship Talga lithium project just 10km north-east of ASX-listed Global Lithium Resources' Archer deposit of 10.5 million tonnes going 1 per cent lithium oxide.

Octava Minerals is preparing for its ASX debut next month as it seeks to exploit some early lithium shows just 10kms from Global Lithium's revered Pilbara lithium discovery. Octava has also pulled together a package of Kimberley and Mid West tenements in solidly mineralised terranes that are already jostling with battery metals big hitters and the company's Pilbara ground also has some intriguing historical gold drill holes that are begging for follow up.

An intriguing listing is set to hit the ASX in December with the company, 8 Au Limited, offering a handful of impressively diverse Western Australia tenements prospective for gold, nickel, lithium and platinum group elements. All of the company's projects are located in tier one jurisdictions and all have returned either significant drill intersections or anomalous sampling results that would seem to demand follow up work.