Latest Exploration Drilling News

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.

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.

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.

Southern Cross Gold has updated its Sunday Creek project’s Exploration Target to between 3.0 and 4.6 million ounces gold equivalent, supported by ongoing drilling and promising metallurgical results.

Stelar Metals has raised A$2.6 million through a discounted placement to fund its maiden bedrock drilling at the Hill of Leaders Tungsten Project, aiming to test a historically unexplored system amid tight global tungsten supply.

Aeris Resources outlines FY27 production largely in line with FY26, while sharply increasing growth capital to advance the Constellation project and boosting exploration across assets.

Carnavale Resources has reported exceptional metallurgical results for its Kookynie Gold Project, with gold recoveries between 98% and 99% across all ore types, underpinning the project's economic viability and toll treatment prospects.

TechGen Metals (ASX: TG1) enters a catalyst-rich 2026 with fully funded drilling across four copper-gold projects adjacent to multi-million-ounce mines. The company’s $3.7 million cash position supports maiden drilling at Blue & Red Devil and resource development at John Bull.

Catalina Resources has completed a major soil sampling program at Kirkalocka, collecting around 1,500 samples to sharpen drill targets ahead of a scheduled heritage survey and maiden drilling campaign.

Solstice Minerals continues to push the boundaries of its Nanadie copper-gold project in WA, reporting multiple wide, high-grade copper intercepts from recent drilling that extend mineralisation beyond the current resource estimate.

Patronus Resources (ASX:PTN) is executing a major 30,000-metre multi-rig drilling campaign at its Pine Creek gold project, underpinning a 2.3 million ounce gold equivalent resource across its Northern Territory and Western Australia assets, supported by a robust $65 million cash position.