Latest Drilling Campaigns News

Cauldron Energy has completed a 10,506-metre Yanrey drilling campaign that extended mineralisation at Manyingee South and Manyingee North, including a link towards Paladin’s neighbouring Manyingee deposit. The ASX-listed uranium explorer now plans to fold the results into a JORC resource update expected within two months, while a visit from Uzbekistan’s Navoiyuran adds a separate potential development thread.

49 Metals has started a fully funded 3,500-metre reverse-circulation drilling program at its Gold Mountain project in Nevada, targeting extensions of the Adit Zone discovery. The first assays are expected in roughly four to six weeks, making the next phase a test of whether the broad mineralised system can translate into greater continuity and scale.

White Cliff Minerals has reported a 76.5-metre copper-silver intercept at Danvers 1, including a 4-metre zone grading 11.19% copper. Three deeper holes also intersected visible copper sulphides, but their grades remain unconfirmed pending assays.

Yugo Metals has secured six-year access to the private land covering its planned Petrovo drill sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, paying EUR300,000 and issuing 18 million escrowed shares. An IP survey is due to begin next week, with drilling planned for the fourth quarter subject to approvals.

Great Boulder Resources has reported further shallow, high-grade gold intersections from its 40,000-metre Peak Hill drilling campaign, including 9 metres at 4.17g/t gold from just 6 metres at Enigma. Results at Enigma and Five Ways point to continuity and potential open-pit upside, although further drilling and resource updates remain ahead.

Terrain Minerals has identified high-grade tungsten across six Smokebush prospects after re-assaying previously capped samples, with the strongest result reaching 0.75% WO₃. The company plans up to 12 tungsten-focused RC holes, although the mineralisation remains early-stage and only a third of the available samples has been tested.

Unity Metals has opened a non-renounceable share purchase plan targeting $1 million to fund gold and copper-gold exploration in Cambodia and Thailand. Eligible shareholders can buy shares at a 15.2% discount, with attaching options subject to a later shareholder vote.

BMC Minerals has intersected significant silver, zinc, gold, copper and lead mineralisation in all nine reported holes at the Rhyolite Peak prospect, 1.2km from its proposed ABM mine. Six further assays are pending as the company moves toward completing its 20,000m 2026 drilling program.

Peregrine Gold has secured $2.25 million through a discounted placement backed by major shareholder Mark Creasy, Lion Selection Group and company directors. The funding is earmarked for maiden drilling and broader gold and iron ore exploration in Western Australia, subject to heritage and Programme of Work approvals.

Osmond Resources’ preliminary study has put a US$2.31 billion post-tax NPV on its Spanish rare earths and mineral sands project, but the headline economics rest on a scoping-level model and a US$300 million funding requirement. The next test is whether drilling, metallurgy, permitting and financing can turn the attractive concept into a financeable mine.

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.

Prospect Resources has reported its first Phase 3 infill assays from Nyungu Central, including 18 metres at 1.31% copper, while extensional drilling continues to identify broad mineralisation beyond the existing resource. Twenty Nyungu Central assay results remain pending as the company advances toward a Q1 2027 Mumbezhi Scoping Study.