Latest Base Metals Exploration News

Mantle Minerals has boosted its Carlton Hill Project by acquiring Far West Metals and securing a new exploration licence, positioning itself near Boab Metals' Sorby Hills deposit with promising base metal potential.

Miramar Resources' detailed gravity survey at the Joy Helen prospect reveals untested anomalies beneath known high-grade copper-lead-silver mineralisation, prompting plans for deeper drilling following pending auger assay results.

Daly Resources has debuted on the ASX after a $12 million IPO, positioning itself to explore fluorite, copper, and zinc in the Northern Territory, led by the Huckitta project.

The NSW Supreme Court has approved Aeris Resources' takeover of Peel Mining, setting in motion key dates for shareholder entitlements and trading suspension.

Litchfield Minerals, supported by BHP Xplor, has transformed its view of Harts Range into a belt-scale copper-nickel mineral system, identifying a key deep conductor beneath known prospects and planning detailed surveys to unlock drill targets.

Blaze Minerals has completed a 443-metre trenching campaign at its Krokodil Prospect in Botswana, confirming in-situ copper, lead, and zinc mineralisation with notable spot XRF readings. Laboratory assay results are expected in 6-8 weeks as the company plans further soil sampling to extend the target zone.

Westar Resources has won a Northern Territory Government grant to co-fund an aeromagnetic survey over 569 square kilometres of its Bunda Creek Project, aiming to unlock structural insights critical for sediment-hosted copper exploration.

Ballymore Resources has significantly extended its Torpy’s silver-lead-zinc-indium discovery in North Queensland, identifying four new mineralised shoots beyond the historic mine area through recent drilling. With assays pending and multiple targets open, the Ruddygore Project’s potential continues to grow.

Azzuro Resources has reported thick, high-grade copper-gold-zinc-silver mineralisation from drillhole MU2601 at its Red Hill project, while drillhole MU2605 visually extends the massive sulphide zone by 124 metres, highlighting a substantial polymetallic system still open along strike and at depth.

Litchfield Minerals' latest drilling at Oonagalabi reveals broad copper-zinc mineralisation and an unusual nickel-molybdenum-bearing quartz vein, prompting refined geological models and planned advanced geophysical surveys.

Miramar Resources has successfully completed an auger drilling campaign at its Joy Helen prospect, extending known SEDEX-style mineralisation and identifying new structural targets within the Chain Pool project in Western Australia.

Cosmo Metals has reported robust rock chip assays from its Everest-Mona-Victory Trend in NSW, revealing significant copper, gold, and silver mineralisation and advancing towards its first drill program.