Latest Composites News

Lion Rock Minerals has reported repeated shallow heavy-mineral zones with significant monazite at Minta Est, including up to 1.94% estimated TREO and 3.62% calculated monazite in recovered concentrate. Early magnetic-separation tests also concentrated up to 84.1% of calculated TREO into less than 27% of recovered heavy-mineral mass, although the results remain preliminary and HMC-based.

Iron Road has completed 464 metres of RC drilling at its TAU-A nickel-copper-gold target, but laboratory assays are still pending. The quarterly update also brings a major shareholder transition, a CEO retirement and a $1.21 million cash balance into sharper focus.

Many Peaks Minerals has reported a 188.9-metre gold intercept beneath the Ouarigue resource at its Ferké project in Côte d’Ivoire, including 46.75 metres at 7.02g/t and a narrow 109.8g/t interval. The results will feed into a resource update now under way, while regional drilling has opened additional targets south of Ouarigue.

EDU Holdings has lifted total enrolments 26% to a record 7,489, with Higher Education up 45% and now accounting for 88% of the group. The result also exposes a sharper divide: domestic and postgraduate demand is strengthening, while international VET enrolments continue to contract.

Coda Minerals has moved Elizabeth Creek closer to a targeted first-quarter 2027 pre-feasibility study, backed by improved leach recoveries, drilling and fresh funding. But the copper developer remains loss-making, burned A$8.87 million in operating cash and will likely need further capital to progress beyond the study stage.

Pioneer Minerals is pursuing staged options over a 3,477-hectare Argentina gold-copper-silver project where historical drilling returned broad, high-grade polymetallic intervals. The proposed acquisition is paired with an A$1.8 million funding package, but both the transaction and most of the capital raise require shareholder approval.

Cyprium Metals says direct-injection heap leaching at its Nifty Copper Complex has reached target injection rates, with 212 wells now established across Pad 6. The company remains on track for wet commissioning and first copper cathode production in Q4 2026, although the reported chemistry is still based on early commissioning results.

Central Petroleum will put PV14 into production despite an initial 3.2 TJ/d flow test that fell below its target and recent Palm Valley wells. Water seen during vacuum flow leaves the well’s sustainable output uncertain as attention shifts to PV15.

Kantra Copper says laboratory testing achieved copper recoveries above 90% and gold recoveries above 50% from Coburn mineralisation using the existing Kanmantoo processing flowsheet. The result reduces a key metallurgical risk in the Pre-Feasibility Study, although rail logistics and deposit variability remain unresolved.

Southern Cross Gold’s latest infill drilling at Sunday Creek has delivered some of its strongest composite intersections, including 2.7 metres at 178.4 g/t gold and 6.8 metres at 49.8 g/t gold. The tighter drilling also extended Golden Dyke west towards Christina and uncovered four vein sets outside the current Exploration Target.

D3 Energy has re-established gas flow at its NGT245 E well in South Africa and confirmed a 5.2% helium composition in a new sample. Further remediation is still required before production testing, while the methane result is being retested.

Barkly Rare Earths has reported rare earth mineralisation in 43 of 44 holes at its Northern Territory project, with high-grade intervals in 30 holes. The results strengthen the case for a larger resource, but more than 300 holes and further assays are still ahead before that potential can be tested.