Latest Mining And Drilling News

Great Southern Mining (ASX:GSN) is pushing forward with aggressive drilling campaigns across its Western Australian and Queensland gold projects, supported by a recent $4.6 million equity placement. Early results hint at promising extensions of known mineralisation, setting the stage for further resource growth.

Unico Silver has secured permanent ownership of over 10,000 hectares critical to its Joaquin silver-gold project, replacing a limited mining easement and reducing development risk ahead of its Pre-Feasibility Study.

Riversgold has been granted a 21-year mining lease for its Northern Zone Gold Project near Kalgoorlie, clearing a major hurdle for development and triggering full funding from Mega Resources under a profit-sharing agreement.

Cauldron Energy has updated its Yanrey Uranium Project exploration target, expanding the prospective uranium resource range to between 89.7 and 269 million pounds of uranium oxide, excluding its existing 55 million pounds resource base.

Benz Mining's drilling at Glenburgh's Hurricane Camp reveals thick, high-grade gold mineralisation linking key zones and extending the deposit down-plunge by over 400 metres, boosting the project's growth potential.

Hillgrove Resources has uncovered significant copper-gold mineralisation extending more than 100 metres below previous depths at the Kanmantoo Copper Mine, marking the deepest recorded intersection to date and reinforcing resource growth potential.

Pacgold has poured its second gold doré bar at White Dam and is fast-tracking plans to restart mining at Vertigo pit six months ahead of schedule.

Diatreme Resources has unveiled a maiden Mineral Resource Estimate of 102.7 million tonnes of high-purity silica sand at its Casuarina deposit, lifting its total global resource base to 632.8 million tonnes. The deposit's proximity to existing infrastructure and high silica content underpin its development potential.

Chilwa Minerals has expanded its Mpyupyu West heavy mineral sands discovery to over 17 km², surpassing the combined area of the Mpyupyu Dune and Flat deposits. This expanded target borders the recently doubled 109.6 Mt Mpyupyu resource, with drilling underway to test a potential physical merger.

Lachlan Star has confirmed shallow, high-grade gold mineralisation at New Waverley, prompting an expanded 4,000m drilling program to test extensions and increase density along a mineralised shear corridor open in all directions.

Krakatoa Resources is gearing up to resume drilling at its Zopkhito antimony-gold project in Georgia, buoyed by strong 2025 results and a two-year extension to its exploration license.

Eclipse Metals has unveiled high-grade fluorite alongside a suite of critical minerals including gallium and rubidium at Greenland’s Ivigtût mine, repositioning the asset beyond its historic cryolite legacy.