Stronger for Longer Pricing Sets up Tungsten Juniors for Development
Tungsten prices have surged to $3,185 per tonne, up about 350% year‑to‑date, as demand from defence, industrial and strategic stockpiling outpaces a limited new‑mine pipeline. Canaccord Genuity’s seventh Junior Book spotlights five emerging explorers—American Tungsten & Antimony, Viking Mines, Resolution Minerals, Apollo Minerals and Tungsten Mining—each advancing permits, mill refurbishments or feasibility studies across the U.S., France and Australia. Analysts project a 47% demand increase to 2035, creating a structural deficit that should keep prices elevated. The high‑price environment is expected to accelerate development and attract financing for these juniors.
Mount Ridley Revisits Grass Patch Samples to Unlock Critical Minerals Upside
Mount Ridley Mines is re‑assaying about 3,300 historic drill pulps from its Grass Patch project to capture missed scandium, gallium and heavy rare earth element (HREE) values. The company consolidated decades of drilling data, identifying roughly 17,000 untested pulps for...
Riversgold Gains Preliminary Heritage Clearance for Northern Zone
Riversgold has secured a preliminary heritage clearance for its 80 km² Northern Zone gold project near Kalgoorlie, confirming no heritage sites across the tenement. The clearance removes a key regulatory hurdle and paves the way for a final report in four...
GoldArc Plans Resource Growth After Record Leonora South Drilling Campaign
GoldArc Resources (ASX:GA8) completed a record drilling campaign at its Leonora South gold project, sinking 269 drillholes for 15,260 m. The effort spanned development, advanced RC and greenfields aircore programs across Eclipse, Orion, Sapphire and broader Kookynie targets. Partner Mineral Mining...
WA Gold Scoping Study Charts Path to Early Abercromby Production
WA Gold’s scoping study shows the Phase 1 Abercromby mine could generate $243‑$297 million in pre‑tax cash flow over a 4.5‑year horizon, with an initial 2‑year open‑pit delivering 24,000 oz and a subsequent 2.5‑year underground producing 90,000 oz of gold. The study assumes a...
Minrex Hands Reins to New CEO as Serbian Gold Adventure Begins
Minrex Resources has appointed veteran mining executive Max Piirto as chief executive following its merger with Electrum Discovery. The deal gives Minrex control of more than 700 km² of Serbian ground, highlighted by the Tlamino gold project that hosts a 670,000‑ounce gold...
Stellar Shouts Out Boost to Heemskirk Economics on Higher Tin Recoveries
Stellar Resources reported that metallurgical testwork at its Heemskirk project in Tasmania lifted tin recoveries at the Queen Hill deposit from roughly 62% to over 70%. The higher recovery rate supports the production of a clean concentrate grading between 42%...
Material Disconnect: How the Market Should Be Valuing PolarX’s Flagship Alaska Range Copper Project
PolarX (ASX:PXX) controls 85% of the Alaska Range copper project, a 11.2 Mt resource grading 2.4% copper, 0.6 g/t gold and 8.7 g/t silver. Blue Ocean Equities values the company’s 30% interest at roughly 8 c un‑risked and 4 c risk‑adjusted per share, far above...
I Get Byro with a Little Help From My Friends – How Science Could Unlock a WA Rare Earths Monster
Octava Minerals is advancing a bio‑leaching pilot at its Byro project in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region to extract rare earth elements, lithium and vanadium from black‑shale deposits. Recent test work with CSIRO cultures delivered recoveries of up to 68 % for...
Resources Top 5: Rio Tinto Firesale Drives Big Gains for Lithium Junior Solis
Rio Tinto sold a 93,000‑hectare Brazilian lithium exploration project to Solis Minerals for a nominal $500,000 plus a 1.75% NSR royalty, sending Solis shares up 74%. The parcel contains soil samples exceeding 330 ppm lithium, out‑performing nearby Latin Resources discoveries. Solis’s...
Resources Top 5: Tartana Minerals Closes in on Copper Sulphate Production
Tartana Minerals is poised to restart copper sulphate production within three weeks, targeting its first shipment to Kanins International in mid‑May. Meanwhile, Narryer Metals completed a A$1.056 million placement that brought seasoned miner Tim Goyder on board as a substantial shareholder....
Altitude Minerals Lines up Byrock Copper-Gold Porphyry Drill Targets
Altitude Minerals is finalising drill collar locations for three high‑priority pipe‑like copper‑gold targets at its Byrock project in New South Wales. The company has integrated new gravity and passive‑seismic surveys with existing air‑core, rotary mud and diamond drilling data to...
Sierra Nevada Gold Takes New Pass Toward Trial Mining
Sierra Nevada Gold (ASX:SNX) has started underground refurbishment at its New Pass project in Nevada, focusing on the high‑grade Superior Vein. The company is preparing a 500‑metre drilling program from five stations to map vein continuity and support potential stope...
Record 7900-Ounce Laverton Gold Run for Brightstar
Brightstar Resources completed its final ore processing campaign at the Laverton operation in Western Australia, delivering a record 7,900 ounces of gold from 140,000 tonnes of ore at 2.0 g/t. The campaign achieved an 89.1% recovery rate, generating $53 million in revenue...
Pure Silver Plays Strongly Leveraged to Metal’s Upside
Silver is trading near US$78 per ounce, still up roughly 140% from a year earlier, as industrial demand from electrification, renewable energy and high‑tech electronics outpaces supply. Sprott’s SLVR ETF, launched in early 2025, targets pure‑play silver exposure, offering more...
Kristie Batten: Auravelle Builds Gold Exploration Momentum Across SA and WA
Auravelle Metals (ASX:AUV), a sub‑$10 million market‑cap explorer, is accelerating gold drilling across South Australia’s Gawler Craton and Western Australia’s Crown project. A 2025 program at the Nuckulla Hill Sheoak target returned high‑grade intercepts, including 1 m at 25.4 g/t Au and a...
Gold Steps Out of the Shadows in Cobar Basin Exploration Push
Australian explorer Mount Hope Mining is spotlighting gold in the historically polymetallic Cobar Basin of New South Wales. Recent phase‑two drilling at the Mt Solitary prospect returned high‑grade intersections, notably 6 metres at 17.9 g/t Au with a 2‑metre core grading 48.1 g/t. The...
Vroom, Baby, Vroom: Energy Shock Puts Aussie Graphite in the Box Seat
Australia’s Leliyn Graphite Project, owned by Kingsland Minerals, contains 14.2 Mt of graphite – the country’s largest known deposit – positioning the nation to supply the fast‑growing EV battery market. While global demand for battery‑grade graphite is rising, prices remain muted...
Emerging ASX Gold Stocks Show Overlooked Potential in South Africa’s Legendary Gold Scene
Two ASX‑listed miners are reigniting interest in South Africa’s historic gold belt as gold prices near $5,000 per ounce. Theta Gold Mines (ASX:TGM) targets its first gold pour from the Theta Gold Mining Estates project in Q1 2027, backed by an...
Barry FitzGerald: Multi-Billion Dollar Guyana Gold Deal Places $240m ASX Explorer in the Spotlight
Altair Minerals (ASX:ALR) secured up to a 70% stake in Guyana's Greater Oko gold project last August, but only recently has the deal attracted market attention. The catalyst was the $C3 billion (≈US$2.2 b) acquisition of G2 Goldfields by TSX‑listed G Mining...
Gold Digger: Silver Faces Sixth Annual Deficit as Market Moves Into ‘Era of Reduced Stocks’
The World Silver Survey projects a sixth consecutive deficit for silver in 2026, expanding to 46.3 million ounces as both supply and demand are expected to fall 2%. Physical stocks are thin, and a surge in exchange‑traded product (ETP) demand...
Monsters of Rock: Gold Miners Remain Hungry to Grow as Mergers Have Investors Asking Who’s Next
M&A activity remains vigorous on the ASX gold front despite broader market turbulence, with investors eyeing emerging jurisdictions such as Guyana and West Africa. A C$3 bn ($2.2 bn USD) takeover of G2 Goldfields by G Mining Ventures has highlighted a 30,000‑metre...
Titanium Sands Project Takes Shape as Sri Lanka Seeks Stronger Mineral Economy
Titanium Sands (ASX:TSL) is advancing its Mannar Island heavy mineral sands project in north‑west Sri Lanka as the government finalises a new national mineral policy. The company has lodged an industrial mining licence for a 69 km² area that hosts a...
Orpheus Gears up for Uranium Drilling Push in South Australia
Orpheus Uranium (ASX:ORP) has secured all regulatory approvals to commence drilling at its Frome uranium project in South Australia, adding to existing permits for the Radium Hill South Project. The Frome site sits beside Boss Energy’s Goulds Dam, which hosts...
Rubidium: This Critical Mineral Goes for a Million Bucks a Tonne and Washington May Be Footing the Bill
Rubidium, a critical mineral priced above $1 million per tonne, is dominated by China and essential for atomic clocks, GPS, quantum computing, and defense applications. US military contractors are seeking secure supply, prompting Australian juniors Delta Lithium, Iris Metals and Everest...
Argonaut Algorithm: Why David Franklyn Sees Lithium as a Long-Term Play After the Iran War
Argonaut Funds manager David Franklyn says the Iran‑related oil shock has accelerated a shift toward lithium, which he views as a long‑term winner. He notes lithium prices have rebounded to about US$2,200 per tonne, driven by falling EV costs and...
Resources Top 5: Investors Join Stampeding Herd for Bison Shares as Gold IPO Charges 225pc on Debut
Bison Resources (ASX:BSR) surged 225% on its ASX debut, raising $5.5 million to fund exploration across more than 300 claims in Nevada’s Carlin Gold Trend. Core Energy Minerals (ASX:CR3) posted strong rare‑earth assay results, including a 27‑metre interval with 505 ppm TREO,...
Core Energy Targets Broad Rare Earths System at Cummins After Strong Drill Hits
Core Energy Minerals (ASX:CR3) announced a series of high‑grade rare earth intercepts at its Cummins project in South Australia, including a 27‑metre interval with 505 ppm total rare earth oxides (TREO) and 27% magnet rare earth oxides (MREO). A standout 4‑metre...
Perpetual Resources Kicks Off Reconnaissance for Tungsten as Prices Strengthen
Perpetual Resources has launched a two‑week reconnaissance program at its 8,714‑hectare Paraíba tungsten project in Brazil’s Seridó province. The field work aims to quickly map mineralisation, validate historic occurrences and produce high‑priority drill targets for a Phase 2 program. Tungsten prices...
Andromeda Wraps Early Works at Great White Project, Trims Equity Requirement for Stage 1A+ FID
Andromeda Metals has finished the early‑works program at its Great White kaolin project on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, establishing the site and cutting the equity needed for Stage 1A+ to roughly $40 million AUD (about $26 million USD). The work included bulk earthworks,...
Gold Developer Antipa Shines Bright for Mining Experts as Investors Chase Next Big Thing
At the Resources Rising Stars Gather Round conference, analysts named Antipa Minerals the top gold pick, citing its updated Minyari resource of 2.9 Moz gold, 91 kt copper and 880 k oz silver. A recent scoping study projects Minyari could deliver about 128,000...
Resources Top 5: FIN’s Maiden Drilling Strikes Wide Sulphide Zones at Cabin Lake
FIN Resources reported its maiden drilling at the Cabin Lake gold project in Canada, intersecting 114 m of massive sulphide mineralisation at the Arrow prospect. Historical drilling at Arrow has returned high‑grade zones such as 31.4 m at 15.2 g/t Au, bolstering the...
Sierra Nevada Sets the Stage for As Safra Drilling with High-Grade Copper and Gold Samples
Sierra Nevada Gold announced that rock‑chip sampling at its As Safra project in Saudi Arabia returned exceptionally high grades, including up to 7.63% copper and 32.9 g/t gold. The 60‑sample program highlighted a 400 m high‑grade corridor in the Central Gold Zone and...
Waratah Minerals Drilling Keeps Extending High-Grade Gold Mineralisation at Spur Project
Waratah Minerals' aggressive 10‑rig drilling campaign at its Spur project in New South Wales has extended high‑grade gold mineralisation in both the Consols and Spur zones. In the Consols zone, hole SPD025 added 75 m of strike continuity and 100 m up‑dip,...
Explorers Podcast: GoldArc Targets Big Leonora Find as Production Nears
GoldArc Resources is accelerating drilling across its Leonora North and South projects in Western Australia while forging mining partnerships to generate cash flow from existing assets such as Mount Stirling and Stirling Well. The company plans to launch a campaign‑style...
Echoes of DeGrussa: New Wave of Explorers Drive Murchison Copper Revival
The Murchison region of Western Australia, once revitalised by Sandfire’s 2009 DeGrussa copper‑gold discovery, is seeing a fresh surge of exploration as copper prices hit record highs. ASX explorers BOA Resources, Solstice Minerals and Neometals have secured new tenements and...
Resources Top 5: Blackstone Goes to the Mayor, Wins Copper Exploration Rights
Blackstone Minerals announced that the cease‑and‑desist order from the Mankayan mayor has been lifted, clearing the way for drilling on its 638 Mt copper‑gold project in the Philippines. The company plans ten drill holes, each 800‑1000 m deep, as it moves toward...
Pioneer Minerals Notches up Springfield Milestone in US Tungsten, Gallium Race
Pioneer Minerals has submitted a plan of operations to the U.S. Forest Service for a low‑impact reverse‑circulation drilling program at its Springfield tungsten‑gallium prospect in Idaho. The proposal calls for up to 15 deep drill holes and up to 20...
Gold Hits up to 41.25g/t Confirm Growth Potential for Ausgold at Katanning
Ausgold reported exceptionally high‑grade gold intercepts at its Katanning Gold Project, including up to 41.25 g/t Au over a 2‑metre interval within an 11‑metre zone. Infill and extensional drilling also revealed wide mineralised zones beyond the current reserve, suggesting substantial upside...
West Coast Chases Deeper Silver at Elizabeth Hill
West Coast Silver (ASX:WCE) has launched a diamond drilling campaign of up to 1,500 m across six holes at its Elizabeth Hill project in Western Australia. The program focuses on testing depth extensions of high‑grade silver mineralisation along the Munni Munni...
In Hot Pursuit: High-Priority Target Supports Rio Grande Sur Expansion Post-PFS
Australian lithium producer Pursuit Minerals has identified a high‑priority brine target in its Mito tenement, part of the Rio Grande Sur project in Argentina’s Lithium Triangle. New CSAMT data shows a large, continuous conductive system extending beyond 1 km depth, prompting a 3,200 m...
Nova Uncovers Gold Anomaly Near 8.65Moz Korbel Resource
Nova Minerals announced a new gold anomaly at the Portage Pass prospect, located just 2.5 km from its 8.65 Moz Korbel resource in Alaska’s Estelle project. Surface sampling returned seven rock samples above 2 g/t Au, including a 14.3 g/t intercept, and ten soil...
America-First Puts Aussie Miners in the Running for Big Bucks
Washington’s “America‑first” push is channeling billions into critical‑minerals projects, putting several ASX‑listed junior miners in line for U.S. funding and strategic contracts. Project Vault alone offers about $12 billion to build a U.S. Critical Minerals Reserve, while a $10 billion EXIM loan...
Resources Top 5: Gas Drills, Tungsten Targets and Approvals Lift Small Caps
The latest Resources Top 5 roundup highlights three small‑cap catalysts. Invictus Energy secured a renewed environmental impact assessment in Zimbabwe, clearing the path for high‑impact gas drilling at Cabora Bassa. Viking Mines listed on the US OTC market, expanding access for North‑American...
Drumroll for Western Yilgarn on Securing Gascoyne Gold Exploration Licences
Western Yilgarn (ASX:WYX) has been granted three exploration licences covering 201 sq km in Western Australia’s Gascoyne gold district, adjacent to Benz Mining’s Glenburgh project. The licences contain seven priority target zones whose geophysical signatures mirror those that vector into Glenburgh’s 510,000‑oz...
Success as Anson Hits Lithium in Drilling Fluids at Skyline
Anson Resources reported 148 ppm lithium in the drilling fluids of its Mt Fuel‑Skyline Geyser 1‑25 well, confirming commercial‑grade brine similar to the earlier Bosydaba #1 results. 3D modelling indicates a potential pay zone up to 660 ft thick, data that will feed...
High-Grade Gold Strengthens GoldArc Production Path at Mt Stirling JV
GoldArc Resources reported high‑grade gold intercepts from grade‑control drilling at its Mt Stirling joint‑venture in Western Australia. A key hole delivered 10 metres at 8.04 g/t Au, including a 2‑metre zone of 23.2 g/t, confirming grade continuity for the 137,000‑ounce resource. The results are...
PTR Adds Titanium Firepower as Rosewood Takes Shape
PTR Minerals is strengthening its Rosewood titanium project by hiring former Iluka metallurgist Victor Bruinsma to head up metallurgy and seasoned mineral sands marketer Neil Patten‑Williams to lead product marketing. The new hires will focus on testwork, flowsheet optimisation, grade...
Queen Alexandra Infill Hits Boost Redcastle’s Gold Development Plans
Redcastle Resources’ infill drilling at the Queen Alexandra (QA) gold project in Western Australia returned high‑grade assays, including 4 m at 12.3 g/t Au from 32 m depth, confirming that mineralisation extends below and beyond the 2025 conceptual pit. The results broaden the...
Yeah, Nah to Gallium as a Side Hustle: Alumina Route Shortchanges Recoveries
Gallium, a critical metal for semiconductors and defence, is overwhelmingly supplied by China, exposing U.S. security interests. Australia is positioning its alumina industry as a low‑risk source, with projects at Alcoa's Wagerup refinery and emerging miners like Mount Ridley, Nimy...