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Southern Palladium’s updated study has lifted the Bengwenyama project’s post-tax NPV to US$1.96 billion, driven by sharply improved chrome recovery and a stronger commodity price deck. The project still needs a definitive feasibility study, permits, funding and commercial offtake arrangements before those figures can be tested in development.

Solstice Minerals has reported broad copper-gold intersections beyond Nanadie’s current resource boundary, including 64.1 metres at 0.94% copper and 91.4 metres at 0.97% copper. A spectacular silver interval adds intrigue, but its geometry and economic significance remain unresolved.

Many Peaks Minerals has reported a 188.9-metre gold intercept beneath the Ouarigue resource at its Ferké project in Côte d’Ivoire, including 46.75 metres at 7.02g/t and a narrow 109.8g/t interval. The results will feed into a resource update now under way, while regional drilling has opened additional targets south of Ouarigue.

Macro Metals has secured approximately A$3.28 million through a placement and the proposed conversion of its chairman’s loan, funding drilling across iron ore, copper and gold assets. The raise also completes the acquisition of Yandi South, but much of the capital remains tied to exploration outcomes that are yet to be established.

Maronan Metals has secured firm commitments for a $20 million placement to expand drilling and bring forward engineering, permitting and metallurgical work at its Queensland project. The raise is conditional on shareholder approval, with Kinterra Capital set to lift its interest to 22.99%.

Astral Resources has intersected broad, high-grade gold below the current Theia resource pit shell while extending mineralisation about 150 metres south. The results strengthen the exploration case beneath the planned open pit, although a resource or reserve increase has not yet been announced.

Rumble Resources has renewed attention on its Earaheedy zinc-lead-silver project, pointing to a 94Mt inferred resource and metallurgical work that produced a 61% zinc-plus-lead bulk concentrate. The company is now testing separate concentrates and seeking strategic partners, but the project remains short of a definitive development case.

White Cliff Minerals has identified copper sulphides on a previously untested parallel structure mapped over 2.8km at its Rae Copper Project. Sulphides also appeared in all three northeast infill holes, but laboratory assays remain six to eight weeks away.

Sunstone Metals has expanded the Bramaderos gold-copper Mineral Resource Estimate by 72% to 6.2 million ounces of gold equivalent, with Indicated Resources rising 450% to 3.3Moz. The upgrade strengthens the basis for future mine studies, but remains an exploration-stage estimate with metallurgical and funding questions still to resolve.

Ore Resources has added 408.87 square kilometres to its Kal East gold footprint in Western Australia, but all 18 new tenements remain pending. The company plans to begin 3,000-5,000 metres of aircore drilling at Mt Monger in November, subject to heritage clearances.

Minerals 260 says 320 grade-control holes at Bullabulling have delivered results consistent with its 6.2Moz resource model, while infill drilling returned standout grades at Phoenix and Bacchus. The next test is whether these higher-grade zones prove continuous enough to influence mine planning and the definitive feasibility study.

Wia Gold has extended several underground targets at Kokoseb after 18,476 metres of diamond drilling returned broad and high-grade gold intercepts. The results strengthen the geological case for growth beyond the project’s maiden 0.56 million ounce underground inferred resource, although the larger exploration target remains conceptual.