Latest Drill Planning News

Patriot Resources has expanded its silver-gold footprint in southern Peru by staking the Tassa 5 tenement, increasing its landholding by 50% and pushing the mineralised corridor further south adjacent to its 31.4Moz AgEq inferred resource.

Albion Resources has cleared a regulatory hurdle to commence its inaugural drilling at the Gidgee Gold Project, targeting a high-priority gold zone and multiple new anomalies in Western Australia's Gum Creek Belt.

AIC Mines has reported promising drilling results at its Iris and Eloise South prospects near the Eloise copper mine, confirming extensive copper mineralisation and a spectacular high-grade gold intercept.

Pursuit Minerals has unveiled a comprehensive geological mapping study at its Sascha Marcelina Project in Argentina, defining a district-scale volcanic-hydrothermal system with five priority targets and setting the stage for maiden drilling from September 2026.

Trek Metals’ maiden drilling at Kuro returns multiple high-grade manganese intercepts including a standout 10m at 42.3% Mn, validating an extensive near-surface system with promising low penalty elements.

Enova Mining’s latest auger drilling results at East Salinas confirm significant near-surface rare earth element mineralisation, reinforcing the project’s potential as a large saprolite-hosted REE system in Brazil.

Sabre Resources has secured 4,000km2 of prime gold-copper ground near Tennant Creek and kicked off its maiden drilling campaign at Kurundi North, aiming to replicate world-class mineralisation.

Black Bear Minerals’ re-analysis of historic drill core at Texas’s Shafter Silver Project reveals up to 147% higher silver grades and confirms polymetallic potential, prompting an expanded resource review and plans for a JORC upgrade.

Chilwa Minerals’ Phase I drilling at Mpyupyu West has confirmed a continuous, free-dig saprolite mineralisation from surface across a 17 km² target, advancing the company’s largest heavy mineral sands prospect in Malawi.

FMR Resources has boosted exploration confidence at its Los Warbos Project in Chile following a detailed helicopter magnetic and radiometric survey, alongside rock chip sampling that returned significant copper and silver grades.

RUA GOLD has obtained regulatory approval to start exploration drilling at its Glamorgan Project, a promising epithermal gold target adjacent to a major OceanaGold deposit in New Zealand. The company plans a 9,000-metre drill program to test three high-priority targets identified through extensive geophysical and geochemical surveys.

Arcadia Minerals has identified multiple promising drill targets at its Tantalite Valley Complex in Namibia, leveraging historical data and new geological modelling. Scout diamond drilling is planned, pending funding, to test these ultramafic-hosted targets with nickel, copper, PGE, lithium, and tantalum potential.