Latest Base Metals News

Green & Gold Minerals has delivered its first drill results at Copper Hills, surpassing historic grades with exceptional copper, silver, tin, indium, and zinc intercepts, confirming a significant hydrothermal system and expanding exploration potential.

OD6 Metals has delivered compelling metallurgical and ore sorting results from its Quinn Fluorspar Project in Nevada, confirming exceptional fluorspar grades and effective waste rejection using TOMRA technology. These findings underpin a low-cost processing pathway for Metspar and Acidspar products, advancing the project's development prospects.

Arrow Minerals has uncovered seven decades-old drill cores at the GSWA library, validating historical mineralisation at its Yarraloola Copper Project in WA's Pilbara and setting the stage for a targeted 2026 drilling campaign.

Kuniko Limited has fast-tracked its earn-in to a 51% interest in Impact Minerals’ Commonwealth-Silica Hill project, hitting the milestone a full year ahead of schedule after $1.5 million in exploration spend.

Altoro Metals has reported outstanding high-grade zinc results from systematic channel sampling at the historic Emilia mine in Spain, reinforcing the potential for resource expansion along the Novales zinc trend ahead of a planned drilling campaign.

Bindi Metals’ maiden drilling at Serbia’s Ravni Project reveals significant high-grade gold and silver mineralisation, validating a large epithermal system with further assay results pending.

Lithium Universe Limited (ASX: LU7) has reported laboratory success for its licensed GCDE technology, achieving over 99% gold recovery and 97% purity from chloride solutions and e-waste, positioning it as a greener alternative in precious metals extraction.

Advance Metals has drilled four consecutive holes hitting high-grade silver at its Gavilanes Project in Mexico, extending the mineralised system 55 metres south and confirming significant exploration upside ahead of a maiden JORC resource due in Q4 2026.

Iltani Resources has intercepted significant lead, zinc, and copper sulphides over a 1,230m strike at its Union Jack Prospect in Northern Queensland, validating geophysical VTEM targets and setting the stage for expanded exploration within the Herberton Project.

Right Resources has upgraded Rising Sun and Midnight Star to high-priority drill-ready gold-copper targets after revisiting three decades of historic data at its New England Project in NSW.

Pilbara Gold (ASX: PGL) has formalised control over mineral rights at the Mt York Gold Project, unlocking exploration over an additional 367 square kilometres of prospective ground adjacent to its 2.1Moz resource in Western Australia.

Broken Hill Mines (ASX: BHM) has delivered a suite of high-grade silver, lead, zinc, copper, and gold intercepts from recent drilling at its Pinnacles Mine open pit area, underpinning ongoing mining operations and a planned resource upgrade by year-end.