Latest Metallurgical Test Work News

iTech Minerals has extended the main Sabre gold-antimony shoot to approximately 270 metres below surface, with drilling returning 25 metres at 4.88 g/t gold and 0.85% antimony. A second shoot has also been identified 120 metres to the south, though assays remain incomplete and true widths are yet to be established.

Manhattan Gold’s first drilling at the Spectre VMS target has returned high-grade copper, gold, silver and zinc, including 6.10 metres at 3.18% copper. Mineralisation was repeated 77 metres along strike, but the early-stage results are reported as downhole lengths and do not yet establish true widths or a resource.

Iltani Resources has secured firm commitments for a $4.6 million placement, anchored by a $1.5 million investment from QIC’s Queensland Critical Minerals Fund. The funding will support a 145-hole drilling program at the Orient Silver-Zinc-Indium Project before the wet season, with further work planned in 2027.

Chilwa Minerals has lodged a prospectus supporting a fully underwritten US$3.5 million Nasdaq IPO, with most of the proceeds earmarked for exploration at its Chilwa Critical Minerals Project. The raising would strengthen its cash position, but the prospectus also flags material going-concern uncertainty and further funding needs.

Vanadium Resources has repositioned its Steelpoortdrift project around a proposed V-Iron plant producing pig iron and vanadium-bearing slag for Western markets. The strategy has secured a non-binding U.S. offtake framework and advanced site and funding work, but the auditor has flagged material uncertainty over the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

Recharge Metals ended FY2026 with $5.61 million in cash after a $5.97 million capital raise and the acquisition of the Sunset Well gold project. The explorer now faces a sharper test: whether drilling can turn Prospero’s 94,500-ounce inferred resource and its broader exploration portfolio into something more substantial.

Apollo Minerals ended 2026 with A$7.74 million in cash and no debt after raising A$9.3 million, but remains a loss-making explorer with no JORC Mineral Resources or production. The company is now concentrating its exploration story on the reinstated Couflens tungsten-gold project in France, while carrying a conceptual zinc-lead target in Gabon.

Raptor Metals completed its transformation into a Canadian copper and polymetallic explorer in FY2026, backed by drilling success at Chester and new Bathurst Mining Camp acquisitions. But the company’s $3.28 million loss, $3.97 million operating cash outflow and auditor-flagged funding uncertainty leave the next capital raise as a central investor question.

Surefire Resources has flagged a material uncertainty over its ability to continue as a going concern after reporting a $2.07 million annual loss and $1.30 million in operating cash outflows. The company is advancing Victory Bore and Yidby, but both projects remain tied to funding, approvals and further execution.

Temas Resources has generated its first revenue from its regenerative chloride leaching technology, but the milestone arrives alongside a wider first-half loss, declining cash and an explicit need for further funding by Q4 2026. The company ended June with C$3.39 million in cash and a C$933,940 estimated flow-through tax liability.

G50 Corp has moved from early-stage exploration towards a two-project drilling campaign, backed by a post-year-end A$26.25 million placement. The company remains loss-making and reliant on exploration success, but says the capital allows uninterrupted work at its Arizona and Nevada projects.

VBX has expanded the Wuudagu Bauxite Project’s resource to 143.2 million tonnes, but its FY26 accounts expose acute funding pressure, with just $301,208 in cash and an auditor warning of material uncertainty over going concern. The definitive feasibility study has been pushed into the first quarter of 2027 while the company relies on fresh equity, related-party funding and prospective strategic partners.