Latest Drilling Campaigns News

Golden Horse Minerals delivered robust drilling results at Southern Cross in Q1 2026, including visible gold at depth and strong shallow intercepts, supported by a healthy cash reserve of $39.3 million.

St George Mining has expanded its Araxá rare earths-niobium resource by 75% to 70.91Mt at 4.06% TREO, positioning the project among the world’s largest carbonatite deposits. The company also acquired land for processing facilities and forged new downstream partnerships, supported by Minas Gerais state tax incentives.

Resolution Minerals has successfully produced high-grade tungsten concentrates from historical stockpiles at its Golden Gate mine, achieving a 19-fold upgrade and strong recovery rates using simple gravity separation techniques.

Hammer Metals has kicked off a Reverse Circulation drilling campaign at its Mount Isa Kalman project, aiming to upgrade inferred copper-gold resources and expand near-surface mineralisation. The program supports an upcoming Scoping Study and reflects optimism due to recent strength in copper, molybdenum, and rhenium prices.

Catalina Resources has broadened its exploration footprint at Beasley Creek, unveiling multiple new copper-gold-silver targets along a key structural corridor and securing $180,000 in Western Australian government funding to kickstart drilling.

True North Copper has kicked off a major 2026 drilling campaign at its Mt Oxide Project, aiming to extend the Aquila copper-cobalt-silver discovery and advance resource growth across the district.

Lion Rock Minerals reported strong high-grade rutile and heavy mineral results at its Minta Project in Cameroon, expanding infill drilling and commissioning an in-country lab ahead of a maiden resource estimate targeted for H2 2026.

Rumble Resources has pushed deeper into its Western Queen Central deposit with a standout 9.45m intercept grading 11.16 g/t gold, reinforcing a string of high-grade hits that promise a significant resource upgrade.

Kincora Copper has kicked off a capital-efficient, sole-funded drilling campaign at its 100%-owned Condobolin gold-silver-base metals project in NSW’s Cobar Basin, targeting extensions to the high-grade Meritilga discovery and testing new geochemical and geophysical anomalies.

29Metals has delivered strong final drill results from its 2025 program at Golden Grove, revealing high-grade copper and zinc intercepts that promise to boost mineral resources and mine flexibility. The company plans a significant exploration budget increase for 2026 to capitalize on this momentum.

Trek Metals has confirmed exceptional manganese grades at its Kuro Prospect, secured expanded tenure, and completed a $15 million capital raise to fund maiden drilling starting May 2026.

Ballard Mining has unveiled new high-grade gold intercepts at its Ayla prospect and extended mineralisation at Golden Vale, suggesting the entire 13km Ballard Fault zone at Mt Ida may be mineralised. The company is accelerating drilling to support production growth beyond the 1.0 Moz Baldock deposit.