Latest Drilling Program News

Western Gold Resources is pursuing multiple processing alternatives for Gold Duke after Wiluna Mining deferred third-party tolling, while revising the project’s study around a larger resource. The company is also considering corporate opportunities, but no processing agreement, transaction or expanded mine plan has been secured.

Cullen Resources has confirmed shallow gold, silver and copper anomalies at its Lila and Cleanthes prospects in Western Australia, including a 1m result grading 2.42 g/t gold with 2,610 ppm copper. The reconnaissance results support deeper follow-up drilling, but stop well short of defining a mineral resource or economic discovery.

TMK Energy says average gas production at its Gurvantes XXXV pilot in Mongolia has risen 11% above August’s daily average, with several wells reaching record rates. The company is now pursuing higher production, a gas-to-power project and regulatory steps to convert its 2C resources into reserves.

AngloGold Ashanti has completed a 2,659-sample soil geochemistry program at EcoGraf’s Golden Eagle project in Tanzania, with results now pending ahead of a planned drilling phase. The work forms part of a US$9 million farm-in while EcoGraf prepares separate exploration across a broader portfolio of gold and critical-minerals targets.

Infinity Mining has extended the gold anomaly at its Tanjil Dome project in Victoria to about 1km and identified a separate 1.5km anomalous trend at Good Hope. Surface samples returned up to 3.70 g/t gold at Tanjil Dome and 12.91 g/t from a Good Hope mullock sample, with trenching and drilling now planned.

Sinclair Gold has doubled the JORC Mineral Resource at its Mt Henry project to 1.8 million ounces after just 20,426 metres of drilling. The shallow resource remains open, with five rigs operating and assays pending from 25 holes outside the current estimate.

Boab Metals has reported high-grade silver-lead intercepts outside the current Sorby Hills FEED Study pit designs, led by 12.62 metres at 204g/t silver equivalent. The results have pushed the company to extend its growth drilling program as it assesses potential resource, reserve and mine-life additions.

Rumble Resources is preparing three drilling campaigns across Western Australia while an updated Western Queen study approaches its expected late-September release. The programs target resource growth at Wardawarra and Munarra Gully, alongside previously identified gold systems at Thunderstorm.

PLC Resources has started an approximately 2,400-metre RC drilling program at Rochefort, testing whether early gold anomalism marks the edge of a larger system. The eight-hole campaign is expected to produce first assays in four to six weeks, but the company cautions that its larger-system interpretation remains conceptual.

Rox Resources has reported multiple high-grade underground gold intercepts at Youanmi’s United North area, including 10.30m at 12.46g/t. Ore drives on two levels have also extended about 125m beyond the existing DFS mine plan, with production stoping preparations now underway.

Kalamazoo Resources is moving Ashburton from exploration story to development proposition, backed by a positive Mt Olympus Scoping Study and extensive drilling. The next test is whether the updated resource, feasibility work and funding can turn the project’s preliminary economics into a mineable plan.

BMC Minerals has moved the Kudz Ze Kayah project through a key regulatory gateway and reported high-grade drilling beyond the current reserve, but its first full year as an ASX-listed company also exposed the funding challenge ahead. The Canadian developer ended FY2026 with US$50.3 million in cash, no revenue and an auditor-highlighted material uncertainty over going concern.