Latest Lachlan Star (ASX:LSA) News

Exploration news drove the biggest share-price moves, while project funding remained the key test for developers across gold, copper, rare earths and energy. Strong drilling results lifted several small miners, but some early gains faded when investors focused on cash needs and the lack of formal reserves.

Lachlan Star’s 2026 annual report puts its 90%-owned New Waverley project at the centre of the company’s exploration strategy after drilling outlined shallow, high-grade gold mineralisation across roughly 400 metres. The company ended the year with $6.52 million in cash, but remains loss-making and without a mineral resource or ore reserve.

Exploration results, project funding and takeover activity drove another busy week across Australia’s materials market.
Investors rewarded new production plans and strong drill results, but several small-cap gaps quickly lost ground.

Lachlan Star’s latest 1-metre PhotonAssay results at New Waverley validate broad high-grade gold zones and push mineralisation deeper, underpinning a growing structural model and fresh exploration targets.

Small explorers led the ASX week, with Lachlan Star, EcoGraf and Basin Energy recording the biggest gains on new drilling, offtake and exploration news.
Takeovers, capital raisings and strong company results also drew attention, although several large stocks fell despite reporting better earnings.

Small-cap materials shares produced some of the market’s biggest moves, led by a dramatic rise in Accent Resources and strong gains in gold and critical metals explorers.
Investors also weighed new project funding, drilling results, acquisitions and several steep falls after opening price gaps.

Lachlan Star’s latest drilling at New Waverley delivers multiple shallow, high-grade gold intercepts, reinforcing a significant emerging discovery in Western Australia’s Norseman district.

Takeovers, mine studies and record quarterly updates drove the week, with buyers chasing companies that put hard numbers around cash flow, reserves and contract wins. Losses were just as sharp where traders sold into reopenings or questioned whether fresh capital and non-binding deals would turn into profits.

Small-cap resources names drove the biggest moves this week, with discovery drilling, project studies and funding deals pushing traders into a handful of stocks. The strongest gains came where companies delivered something concrete: thicker ore, bigger reserves, better cash flow or a clearer route to production.

Lachlan Star’s maiden drilling at New Waverley confirms a high-grade Norseman-style gold system, prompting an expanded 4,000m drilling campaign to test a mineralised corridor with over 800m strike potential.

Lachlan Star has kicked off an expanded 4,000m reverse circulation drilling program at its New Waverley gold project near Norseman, aiming to delineate and extend multiple high-grade quartz reef shoots within a 400m mineralised shear corridor.

Lachlan Star has confirmed shallow, high-grade gold mineralisation at New Waverley, prompting an expanded 4,000m drilling program to test extensions and increase density along a mineralised shear corridor open in all directions.