Latest Metallurgical Optimisation News

Stavely Minerals has announced a major upgrade to its Mineral Resource Estimate at the Stavely Copper-Gold Project, more than doubling tonnage and significantly boosting contained metals. This sets a robust foundation for its 2026 Scoping Study targeting a decade-long copper production.

Black Canyon Limited reports promising metallurgical results from its Wandanya Project, confirming high-quality direct shipping ore potential for manganese and iron. The company is gearing up for a significant 15,000m drilling campaign to expand and infill its resource.

Locksley Resources has produced 99.5% pure antimony trioxide from its Desert Antimony Mine feedstock, marking a key step toward restoring a fully domestic U.S. supply chain for this critical mineral.

Victory Metals Limited has reported a record-breaking rare earth oxide intersection of 11,565 ppm TREO at its North Stanmore project, reinforcing its status as a world-class heavy rare earth deposit. The December 2025 drilling program also advances resource confidence and metallurgical prospects, positioning the project as a key Western supplier of critical rare earths.

Aguia Resources has reported its best-ever gold production at the Santa Barbara project in Colombia, with metallurgical improvements driving recovery rates above 85%. The company is poised to achieve positive cash flow soon as it completes plant mechanisation and optimises mining operations.

Terra Metals’ latest drilling results at the Dante Project confirm one of Australia’s largest titanium-vanadium-copper-platinum group metal systems, showcasing thick, continuous mineralisation and promising metallurgical potential.

Resouro Strategic Metals reports encouraging metallurgical testwork results and progress on the Preliminary Economic Assessment for its Tiros Titanium and Rare Earths Project in Brazil, highlighting potential for a globally significant operation.

Galileo Mining has initiated diamond core drilling beneath its 17.5Mt Callisto PGE-nickel-copper resource in Western Australia, aiming to uncover deeper mineralisation and enhance metallurgical understanding.

Australia’s ANSTO has independently confirmed that Lindian Resources’ Kangankunde monazite concentrate is exempt from radioactive transport classification, simplifying export logistics and lowering downstream costs.

Caravel Minerals confirms its Definitive Feasibility Study for the Caravel Copper Project remains on track for mid-2026, while regulatory water investigations push the Final Investment Decision to late 2027. Meanwhile, strategic talks with Adani advance steadily.

Magnum Mining has confirmed that its Piracanjuba Prospect hosts an Ionic Adsorption Clay rare earth element system, revealing high recoveries of strategic metals under mild leaching conditions. This discovery could pave the way for a large-scale, low-cost rare earth operation in Brazil’s Azimuth REE Project.

BHP Group Limited reported a robust half-year to December 2025, with copper overtaking iron ore as the top earnings contributor and a detailed technical assessment released for its promising Vicuña copper-gold project.