Latest Drilling Programmes News

Dundas Minerals (ASX:DUN) posted a $5.05 million net loss for FY2026 while advancing its Western Australian gold projects and refreshing its leadership team.

Dundas Minerals has stitched together a continuous gold corridor north of Kalgoorlie, adding nine licences including the high-grade Gemini prospect. Historical drilling highlights untested mineralisation open along strike and depth, setting the stage for a major drilling campaign starting late September.

Vertex Minerals has revised the Reward Gold Mine resource to 146,900 ounces at 16.68 g/t gold, boosting the Indicated grade by 36% to 21.17 g/t. The update refines geological confidence and outlines three priority underground drilling targets ahead of planned 2027 operations.

Industrial Minerals Ltd (ASX: IND) has pinpointed a compelling gold target at its North Pool prospect within the Laverton Gold Project, confirming a strong geophysical anomaly aligned with historic high-grade drill results along the Chatterbox Shear Zone.

Savannah Goldfields is launching a substantial 2026 drilling campaign targeting resource growth at its Georgetown and Agate Creek gold projects, aiming to bolster feedstock for its Georgetown processing plant and unlock value at Agate Creek.

Tesoro Gold has completed its 80-hole infill drilling at the Ternera Gold Deposit, delivering multiple wide, high-grade gold intercepts that underpin an imminent resource upgrade and maiden Ore Reserve.

Viking Mines’ maiden drilling at Nevada’s Linka Project reveals multiple broad intervals of visually confirmed scheelite mineralisation, setting the stage for assay results that could validate a near-term tungsten supply boost.

Medallion Metals has confirmed and expanded high-grade gold mineralisation at its Lounge Lizard deposit in Western Australia, validating historical data and identifying new lode structures ahead of a major drilling campaign and resource estimate.

Burley Minerals has kicked off its maiden reverse circulation drilling at the Cane Bore Iron Ore Project following heritage survey clearance, targeting a substantial Channel Iron Deposit over 290 hectares. Assay results are anticipated by late September, marking a key step in advancing the Pilbara project.

Ore Resources Ltd has unveiled promising assay results from 290 aircore drill holes at its Coolgardie Gold Projects, reinforcing the Miriam Shear Zone as a fertile gold system and highlighting new prospects at Burbanks East. The company plans an aggressive follow-up drilling campaign in Q4 2026 alongside ongoing lithium exploration.

Connected Minerals (ASX:CML) is mobilising a ~6,000m reverse circulation and diamond drilling program at its Bailundo Carbonatite Project in Angola, aiming to define a maiden JORC Mineral Resource for niobium and rare earth elements.

Viking Mines has uncovered significant tungsten mineralisation in historical rock stockpiles at its Linka Tungsten Project, Nevada, with assay results reaching 1.8% WO3, well above the historical mined average. The findings open the door to potential ore sorting applications and advance the project towards a brownfields restart.