Latest Drill Targets News

Alma Metals is pushing the Briggs Copper Project through a substantial drilling and metallurgical program, with a 2027 resource update planned to support a prefeasibility study. The project’s 932Mt resource contains about 2Mt of copper, but the company still faces the usual funding, technical and development hurdles of a large undeveloped mine.

Fulcrum Lithium has staked 41 additional claims around its Alkali Flats project in Nevada and reported up to 79% lithium extraction from acid-free roast and water-leach tests. The results improve on earlier water-leach work, although they remain below the company’s 93% to 96% sulfuric-acid benchmark and come from scoping-level tests.

ACDC Metals has secured Bureau of Land Management approval for a 15-hole exploration program and a 12 line-kilometre geophysical survey at its Mount Jackson project in Nevada. Field activity is expected to begin in October, with drilling targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026.

Buxton Resources has returned to profit after selling its 49% Copper Wolf joint venture interest to IGO for A$5.91 million. The transaction lifted cash and term deposit investments to A$7.39 million, but the explorer remains dependent on capital and future discoveries rather than recurring earnings.

Tasman Resources has swung to a $16.5 million FY2026 profit after booking a $19.48 million gain when Eden Innovations ceased to be controlled. The explorer also ended the year with $5.65 million in cash and no borrowings, but its next test is geological rather than accounting: drilling at Titan West and Parkinson Dam.

QX Resources reduced its annual loss and ended June with $1.64 million in cash, but its auditor has warned that the company must raise more money to keep operating. The Madaba uranium project has produced a sizeable conceptual exploration target, yet it remains some distance from a mineral resource.

Desert Metals expanded its Côte d’Ivoire exploration portfolio during FY2026, with high-grade results at King Kong and Tiogo and a new 7km Nyan gold corridor. The operational progress sits alongside a sharp fall in cash to A$409,355 and an auditor warning that further funding is critical to continuing as a going concern.

Dalaroo Metals has moved from a Western Australian base-metals explorer into a three-country gold and critical-minerals play, but its next phase depends on drilling success and continued access to capital. The annual report records a $2.63 million loss, $509,442 in year-end cash and a material uncertainty over going concern.

Odessa Minerals has expanded its Western Australian exploration targets and ended FY2026 with $3.66 million in cash, but its annual loss nearly doubled as equity-based payments increased. The company is now preparing a maiden 10,000-metre air-core program while remaining dependent on future funding and exploration success.

Krakatoa Resources advanced drilling at its flagship Zopkhito antimony-gold project in Georgia, but the exploration push more than doubled its annual loss and reduced cash to $739,459. The company subsequently raised $4 million, highlighting the funding needed to keep moving towards a maiden JORC-compliant resource.

Regener8 Resources has identified three large, coherent silver-lead-zinc-antimony soil anomalies at its Srebrenica North project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The results give the explorer a sharper target ahead of follow-up geophysics and potential drilling, although the project remains at an early exploration stage.

Westar Resources has reported a $3.30 million FY2026 loss after impairing $2.20 million of exploration assets, predominantly at Gidgee North. The explorer ended the year with $1.85 million in cash after raising $1.98 million, while adding several early-stage gold and copper projects.