Public Company News

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.