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First Graphene reported unaudited first-quarter income of about A$201,000, up 21% year on year, as PureGRAPH moved into new cement, mining, composites and footwear applications. The commercial pipeline expanded, but A$915,000 of operating cash outflow left the company with A$1.831 million and an estimated two quarters of funding at the reported burn rate.

True North Copper says its Cloncurry Copper Project has reached a more substantial technical base, with Wallace North flotation tests averaging 88.9% copper recovery and contained copper-equivalent Resources rising 62% to 204kt. The pre-feasibility study remains targeted for completion in late 2026, but gold recovery, toll-processing terms and economic outcomes are still unresolved.

ActivEX has increased the Mt Hogan project’s Inferred Mineral Resource by 30% to 403,000 ounces of contained gold, even after accounting for historical mining. The gain is encouraging, but the estimate remains global and Inferred, with coarse-gold sampling and data-quality gaps still limiting confidence.

Mount Ridley has lodged a second provisional patent application for an adapted Selectro chemistry targeting industrial metal feedstocks, following first-pass bauxite recoveries of 92% aluminium and 97% iron. Gallium results are still pending, and the process has not yet been optimised for bauxite.

Nyrada has moved its PROTECT-MI heart-attack trial into active recruitment, with four hospitals open and three patients dosed. The biotech also reported supportive US FDA feedback, encouraging preclinical oncology data and AU$13.72 million in cash after a AU$12 million placement.

Falcon Metals has struck 12 metres at 2.8g/t gold from surface in the first hole at its Olsen Well prospect, including 4 metres at 4.7g/t. The result has confirmed bedrock mineralisation beneath a 5.8-kilometre soil anomaly, but four nearby holes were only weakly anomalous and the geometry remains unresolved.

QMines has intersected further high-grade copper-gold mineralisation beneath the flooded Mt Chalmers pit, led by 26.2 metres at 2.0% copper equivalent including 2.4 metres at 9.1% CuEq. The results strengthen the geological model and leave mineralisation open, but continuity, true widths and the eventual resource impact remain unconfirmed.

Amplitude Energy has opened FY27 with record quarterly production and revenue, while a successful Juliet gas discovery and East Coast Supply Project investment decision push its growth plan forward. The trade-off is higher spending, with FY27 capital expenditure guidance rising to A$320 million to A$390 million.

WA1 Resources has reported broad, high-grade niobium intersections from infill drilling at the eastern zone of its Luni Project, with 41 further assays still pending. The results are intended to support a Q1 CY2027 resource update targeting an initial Measured Resource, while the Pre-Feasibility Study remains on track for completion this quarter.

Barkly Rare Earths has added 13 significant rare earth intercepts from 16 holes at its Northern Territory project, extending confirmed mineralisation across 23km. The results strengthen the case for a larger resource, although the next test is whether pending assays translate that continuity into a materially bigger estimate.

Mount Ridley Mines says its patent-pending Selectro process recovered 91.9% of aluminium and 96.7% of iron from a third-party bauxite sample at below 100°C. The test produced a small, pH-neutral silica-rich residue instead of conventional red mud, but product purification, economics and scale-up remain unproven.

Podium Minerals has improved flotation recovery at its Parks Reef PGM project to 67% while maintaining overall concentrator recovery near 80%, with a smaller targeted downstream circuit. The September quarter also delivered the full A$4 million underwritten raising and a proposed Australia-US processing partnership, though both the flowsheet and funding pathway still require further validation.