Public Company News

Aurum Resources has nailed stellar gold hits in infill drilling at its Boundiali project in Cote d'Ivoire, including 1 metre assaying a bonanza 152.35g/t gold, in a 12-hole campaign targeting a pre-feasibility study in the first quarter of 2026. Potential exists for significant resource growth as mineralisation remains open along strike and at depth.

Terrain Minerals' latest drilling results shine with 13m at 8.13g/t gold, including 2m at 48.22g/t and 1m at 18.04g/t at its Monza and Lightning targets in the company's Smokebush project, about 350km north of Paynes Find in WA. Eighty per cent of the reverse circulation drill holes jagged gold, with multiple thick zones, while IP surveys point to a possible big system that remains open along strike and to depth.

The US Government's plan to take a direct stake in Lithium Americas' Thacker Pass mine has sent shockwaves through the battery metals market. With lithium now squarely a matter of national security, ASX-listed Chariot Corporation has landed in the spotlight. It holds one of the biggest lithium land packages in the US and a tier-one scale project portfolio.

Bulls N' Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Everlast Minerals, after the newbie blasted onto the boards with a $6 million oversubscribed IPO for its Bangladesh mineral sands play. Finder Energy's Timor Sea oil farm-in with national heavyweight TIMOR GAP slashed the funding hurdles for first gushers, Environmental Clean Technologies zapped into the forever chemicals fight by grabbing Rice University's flash heating tech, and Swift Networks' tie-up with aged care giant Opal HealthCare unlocked screens and upsold cash amid regulatory rewrites.

Dateline Resources has landed a cracking validation at its Colosseum gold-rare earths project in California, with a second geophysics survey confirming a standout carbonatite rare earths target. The fresh results double down on the project's potential to deliver a major rare earths discovery. Drilling continues at the white-hot United States play.

Siren Gold's Langdons project in New Zealand's Paparoa goldfield has dazzled with assays up to 38.5g/t gold and 5.7% antimony from open-pit channels samples, and 37.8g/t gold and 20.9% antimony in adit mullock. The results confirm previous sample analyses, including a bonanza-grade 506g/t gold and 6% antimony from open-pit mullock. Multiple mineralised structures span a 400m strike, while soil geochemistry flags extensions under cover.

Rio2 Limited has inked deals with two water suppliers in Chile's Copiapo region to study piping desalinated water from the coast up to its high-altitude Fenix Gold mine in the Atacama Desert. The move paves the way for an ambitious expansion that could see the project churn out 300,000 ounces of gold a year for the next decade, firmly positioning Rio2 as a major player in the Americas.

Middle Island Resources has begun field exploration at the company's Bobija polymetallic project in western Serbia, targeting exposed barite-sulphide mineralisation in the historic open-pit mine. Initial rock chip and channel sampling aims to validate previous sample results up to 5.24g/t gold and 120g/t silver, while soil sampling is planned to chase up areas defined by anomalous stream sediment results.

Lindian Resources has engaged DRA Pacific for its Malawian Kangankunde rare earths project stage 2 study, targeting 50,000-100,000pa concentrate. Lindian is positioning itself as a key player in the global rare earths market, under recently appointed executive director Zac Komur, with stage 1 development on track, funded by a $91.5 million placement, targeting first production in the fourth quarter of 2026.

Red Metal's 44 per cent stake in Maronan Metals looks set to shine after its partner unveiled a barnstorming preliminary economic assessment for the Queensland-based Maronan project. The study paints a picture of a long-life polymetallic mine, powered by a juicy silver core expected to deliver 53 per cent of revenues, while future expansion potential looms large across the broader resource base.

Gold's stubborn strength is pushing spreadsheets ahead of drill holes. And Dollar Bill sees more moves forming, with some left-field possibilities. There's Kingsgate/Emerald in South East Asia, Capricorn and Bellevue - despite their distance - and perhaps some Leonora adjacency tidies make sense. There may be more on the home front, while in Africa, Perseus and West African Resources look like a regional fit.

Thunderbird Resources is forging a golden path in NSW'S renowned Lachlan Orogen, acquiring the drill-ready Springfield gold deposit and kicking-off a $2.2 million placement to fuel its exploration blitz. The binding agreement to acquire Springfield with its impressive series of existing drill hits, sets in train a boost to the company's growing portfolio of gold projects.