Latest Joint Venture News

Horizon Oil has used its Pareto Securities presentation to put record FY26 production, enlarged reserves and a multi-country drilling pipeline at the centre of its growth case. The stronger platform comes with a test: convert a long list of projects into sustained cash flow while preserving shareholder returns.

Deep Yellow reported a A$13.3 million FY2026 profit and moved its Tumas uranium project closer to a targeted fourth-quarter investment decision. The company remains debt free, but acknowledges it will need external capital to fund construction.

Cazaly Resources will replace managing director Tara French with mining executive Adrian Byass from 8 October, while launching a review of its exploration portfolio. Byass will receive a $325,000 annual salary and may be granted up to 7 million performance rights, subject to approval and conditions.

Elixir Energy says its Lorelle-3H well reached a peak test rate of 10.5 MMscfd and a stable rate of 2.35 MMscfd during first-phase cleanup. The ASX-listed gas explorer is now preparing for post-soak testing while weighing farm-outs, joint ventures and other structures for its Taroom Trough assets.

Infratil has raised FY27 earnings guidance as data-centre demand accelerates across CDC and Longroad, with AI infrastructure now representing 73% of its NZ$22 billion asset base. The company is also sharpening its strategy around scaled growth platforms, contracted cash flows and selective new investments.

Resources & Energy Group has reported strong gold intercepts from grade control drilling at its Maranoa project in Western Australia, including 2 metres at 15.84g/t and 4 metres at 10.38g/t. The results support further mine-planning work, but do not yet change the deposit’s existing inferred resource.

Everest Metals has started a 6,000-metre drilling campaign at Revere while commissioning a Scoping Study targeted for March quarter 2027. A separate $150,000 cash and share transaction would lift EMC’s stated joint venture interest to 56% and halve a royalty burden over selected tenements.

Hawk Resources has exercised its option to acquire an 80% interest in Western Australia’s Olympus scandium project after securing the approvals needed to begin exploration. The immediate test is whether laboratory assays can validate historical pXRF anomalies before drilling proceeds.

Aerometrex has secured a $617,141 excluding GST contract to capture LiDAR and aerial imagery across approximately 7,500 square kilometres in the Beetaloo Sub-basin. The project is expected to begin shortly and reach production finalisation around eight weeks after data capture.

Infinity Mining has extended the gold anomaly at its Tanjil Dome project in Victoria to about 1km and identified a separate 1.5km anomalous trend at Good Hope. Surface samples returned up to 3.70 g/t gold at Tanjil Dome and 12.91 g/t from a Good Hope mullock sample, with trenching and drilling now planned.

Wide Open Agriculture has signed three additional non-binding framework agreements with prospective contract manufacturers in Vietnam, India and Indonesia, bringing its shortlist to four. The agreements protect WOA’s lupin intellectual property while technical and commercial feasibility work begins, but stop well short of securing production or revenue.

Neometals has cleared a key regulatory hurdle for an A$2 million standby loan from a company controlled by former chairman David Reed. The facility provides near-term funding, but carries 10% interest, security over Barrambie-related assets and potential conversion into equity.