Latest Gold Exploration News

49 Metals will begin a 3,500-metre follow-up drilling program at its Gold Mountain project in Nevada in October, targeting extensions of the Adit Zone discovery. The campaign is fully funded and follows a maiden program in which all 22 holes intersected gold and/or silver mineralisation.

Lodestar Minerals has received all assays from a 12,417-metre, 106-hole RC drilling program at Ned’s Creek, supporting its existing exploration target across three gold prospects. A maiden Mineral Resource Estimate is now expected in the second half of October, although reported widths remain subject to geological interpretation and true-width confirmation.

Famien Resources has used the year to pivot decisively from Australian exploration towards a 3,700km² gold portfolio in Côte d’Ivoire, backed by A$15.2 million in placements and A$13.1 million in cash. Early drilling has produced several high-grade intercepts, but the company remains loss-making and has yet to declare a mineral resource.

Great Southern Mining finished FY2026 with A$4.76 million in cash after selling Southern Star to Regis Resources and raising A$4.63 million, while drilling extended gold mineralisation at several Western Australian projects. The exploration story is advancing, but the annual report also contains an apparent inconsistency in the reported annual profit that warrants clarification.

Dundas Minerals has extended interpreted gold mineralisation at Rockland to about 170 metres below surface, led by a 4-metre interval grading 4.87 g/t gold. The early results strengthen the geological case for a 1-kilometre mineralised trend, but one-metre verification assays and more drilling are still required.

Minerals Exploration has intersected broad, lower-grade gold mineralisation with higher-grade structures in four holes at Jubilee South, expanding the interpreted system toward Sovereign. The company is preparing a six-hole, 1,200-metre Sovereign program, subject to approvals, while caution remains around recovery and unproven continuity.

Riedel Resources has begun a 1,100-sample soil geochemistry program across its 580km² Cosmo Gold Project in Western Australia, targeting unexplored ground and existing gold anomalies. The work is designed to sharpen drill targets before the company’s maiden Cosmo drilling campaign, scheduled for October.

Patronus Resources has struck a 44-metre gold interval at its Hydra target in the Northern Territory, with the hole ending in mineralisation and follow-up drilling brought forward. Early results from Grove Hill also returned gold, but the wide-spaced campaign remains far from defining a resource.

Marmota has expanded drilling across its Greenewood and Mainwood gold targets after intersecting geology resembling earlier favourable zones. With 313 holes now completed, the first assays are expected next week, although the announcement contains no new grades or quantified mineralisation.

Yandal Resources posted its busiest exploration year yet, expanding the Arrakis discovery and ending FY2026 with 450,200 ounces of reported resources and $9.7 million in cash. But a larger loss, material going-concern uncertainty and a CEO transition leave the company needing to convert drilling momentum into resources and renewed funding support.

Reach Resources has increased the Blue Heaven resource by 30% to 80,000 ounces while advancing a proposed profit-sharing mining arrangement with Andel Resources. The progress came alongside a sharply larger FY2026 loss and a balance sheet still dependent on future project execution.

DeSoto Resources has assembled about 1,300 square kilometres of gold tenure in Guinea’s Siguiri Basin, but the expansion came with a A$15.0 million FY2026 loss and a A$6.35 million write-off of Northern Territory exploration assets. The company enters FY2027 with drilling, geophysics and tenure renewals still to convert its large portfolio into a defined resource.