Latest Drilling Programs News

Black Bear Minerals’ re-analysis of historic drill core at Texas’s Shafter Silver Project reveals up to 147% higher silver grades and confirms polymetallic potential, prompting an expanded resource review and plans for a JORC upgrade.

Brightstar Resources is on track to deliver 75,000 ounces per annum from its Goldfields hub by mid-2027, backed by a new processing plant and strong project economics, while progressing its Sandstone project toward a Tier-1 development with a 2.9 million ounce resource.

Heavy Rare Earths Limited (ASX:HRE) has secured $2.028 million through a placement and entitlement offer to advance drilling programs and a strategic review across its key projects in South Australia and Western Australia.

Magnum Mining has reported robust rare earth element results from 92 new auger holes at its Piracanjuba North project in Brazil, confirming widespread mineralisation across multiple centres and accelerating its 10,000m drilling program ahead of schedule.

Right Resources' Heavy Liquid Separation testwork on a Blue prospect sample yielded a high-grade tungsten concentrate with recoveries up to 81.6%, supporting gravity-based processing options.

Killi Resources has kicked off a major drilling campaign at its Lodestone Iron Ore Project, aiming to grow and upgrade its 110Mt resource of high-purity magnetite expected to command a price premium.

White Cliff Minerals has significantly expanded high-grade copper mineralisation at its Danvers 3 target within the Rae Copper Project, with step-out drilling returning 42 metres at 1.43% copper and visual sulphides now confirmed over nearly 10km of strike.

St Barbara Limited is ramping up its gold exploration in Nova Scotia, increasing its FY27 budget by 64% and doubling its exploration team to accelerate resource growth near the 15-Mile Processing Hub.

FMR Resources has boosted exploration confidence at its Los Warbos Project in Chile following a detailed helicopter magnetic and radiometric survey, alongside rock chip sampling that returned significant copper and silver grades.

Forrestania Resources has upgraded the British Hill gold deposit resource to 126,290 ounces, more than doubling the previous estimate and significantly increasing the higher-confidence Indicated category. Ongoing drilling and development studies aim to further enhance the project’s value within the Forrestania Hub.

RUA GOLD has obtained regulatory approval to start exploration drilling at its Glamorgan Project, a promising epithermal gold target adjacent to a major OceanaGold deposit in New Zealand. The company plans a 9,000-metre drill program to test three high-priority targets identified through extensive geophysical and geochemical surveys.

Alma Metals has received assay results from the first three holes of its 2026 infill drilling program at the Briggs Copper Project, confirming copper grades align with the current resource model and underpinning progress toward a preliminary feasibility study.