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Sarytogan Graphite’s upstream DFS supports a 50,000-tonne-a-year Kazakhstan graphite operation with a pre-tax NPV8 of US$132.7 million, but the company remains unfunded and without binding offtake. Trading in its shares has also been suspended while it seeks Western Australian court orders over an inadvertently unlodged options prospectus.

Native Mineral Resources has lifted Blackjack’s weekly doré output for a second consecutive week, with the latest 552oz smelt the operation’s largest since August. October production has reached 1,376.2oz, although the newest bars still await Perth Mint refining.

GBM Resources has recorded rougher flotation recoveries of 92% to 99% from composite samples at its Twin Hills Gold Project in Queensland. The early results strengthen the case for conventional processing, although weaker 309 CIL recoveries mean the project’s final flowsheet remains unresolved.

Westgold Resources has completed a A$33.3 million infrastructure program at Beta Hunt, where an annualised 2Mtpa mining rate was reached in September. The company is now targeting sustained performance at that rate from Q2 FY27, while warning that the mine’s original life-of-mine ventilation system still requires repair, recommissioning or replacement.

29Metals’ September quarter was sharply weaker after a planned 11-day Golden Grove shutdown cut copper production, revenue and liquidity. The company is now relying on higher December-quarter volumes, a restarted Xantho Extended and a funding solution for Capricorn Copper to restore momentum.

Cobre has secured 150,000 tonnes of low-cost ENAMI oxide material while testing two ways to recover copper from Sierra Atacama’s old leach infrastructure. The initiatives could lift SX-EW utilisation, although the historical pad opportunity remains early-stage and non-JORC.

True North Copper says its Cloncurry Copper Project has reached a more substantial technical base, with Wallace North flotation tests averaging 88.9% copper recovery and contained copper-equivalent Resources rising 62% to 204kt. The pre-feasibility study remains targeted for completion in late 2026, but gold recovery, toll-processing terms and economic outcomes are still unresolved.

Aurum Resources has reported gold mineralisation outside the current resource at BST1 and BMT2, including a 57-metre intercept grading 2.34 g/t gold. The results will be assessed in an updated Boundiali resource estimate due by the end of October, ahead of a planned definitive feasibility study.

OD6 Metals has extended the high-grade fluorspar footprint at its Quinn project in Nevada, with rock-chip assays reaching 95.6% CaF₂ along a 350-metre trend from Blue Bell to Shannon Queen. The result elevates the corridor to a priority exploration target, although drilling is still needed to establish continuity, depth and scale.

BHP has held its FY27 production and unit-cost guidance despite a 19% year-on-year fall in first-quarter copper production, with stronger iron ore and coal output providing some balance. The mining giant also reported a 10.73 billion tonne Olympic Dam block cave Mineral Resource, although the new resource remains far from an Ore Reserve or approved mine plan.

Beacon Minerals lifted September-quarter gold production to 6,250 ounces as milling rates improved at its Jaurdi project. Wet commissioning of a plant upgrade has now begun ahead of schedule, setting up a closely watched December quarter.

Hot Chili says drilling has confirmed a second porphyry centre at La Verde, with a broad copper-gold intersection extending the discovery footprint. The result arrives as the company prepares a maiden resource estimate and targets a 2031 production start for the wider Costa Fuego project.