Latest Exploration News

Bougainville Copper Limited’s key exploration licence EL01 is suspended after a 25-year large-scale mining lease was granted to Bougainville Minerals Limited over the same land, prompting the company to form an independent committee to assess legal and strategic options.

Resouro Strategic Metals has unveiled a robust Preliminary Economic Assessment for its Tiros Titanium and Rare Earths Project, signalling a post-tax NPV of US$715 million and a 44.2% IRR over 20 years. Meanwhile, binding agreements for mining and processing at the Novo Mundo Gold Project promise to unlock additional value.

Gold Mountain Limited has raised $4.5 million from a new institutional investor to accelerate exploration of its rare earth and lithium projects in Brazil.

Burger Fuel Group posted a 92% surge in net profit to NZ$1.97 million for FY26, driven by steady system sales growth, a one-off store sale gain, and reduced legal expenses, while geopolitical instability in the Middle East weighs on international sales.

Imugene Limited reports a complete response in the first patient treated with azer-cel combined with BTK inhibitors in its Phase 1b trial, highlighting potential for resistant follicular lymphoma.

Mithril Silver and Gold has upgraded its Target 1 resource at the Copalquin project, delivering a 196% increase in indicated ounces and incorporating mining dilution to better reflect practical extraction scenarios.

Brazilian Critical Minerals releases a robust Bankable Feasibility Study for its Ema Rare Earth Project, highlighting a US$1.47 billion post-tax NPV and a swift 0.5-year payback period, underpinned by low capital and operating costs.

North Stawell Minerals (ASX:NSM) has uncovered promising extensions to gold mineralisation at its Caledonia Prospect through a detailed 412-sample surface geochemistry program, highlighting untested anomalies and reinforcing the site’s high-grade potential.

EV Resources has verified continuous high-grade antimony mineralisation reaching 25.2% Sb at its Los Lirios Antimony Project through systematic underground channel sampling, underpinning plans for a maiden JORC Resource by year-end.

Cauldron Energy has updated its Yanrey Uranium Project exploration target, expanding the prospective uranium resource range to between 89.7 and 269 million pounds of uranium oxide, excluding its existing 55 million pounds resource base.

Peel Mining has distributed all shares in Spectre Metals to its shareholders, marking the completion of the demerger. This comes just before Aeris Resources is set to acquire Peel in a scheme of arrangement.

Matsa Resources has restructured its board and management team, appointing three new non-executive directors with deep technical and commercial expertise to support the expansion and development of its Lake Carey gold asset.