Latest Nickel News

Gold Mountain Limited has raised $4.5 million from a new institutional investor to accelerate exploration of its rare earth and lithium projects in Brazil.

IGO Limited has secured full ownership of the Copper Wolf copper project in Arizona, expanding its battery minerals portfolio ahead of a planned drilling campaign in early 2027.

Verity Resources has kicked off a systematic soil sampling and geological mapping campaign across its 903km² PL123/2024 tenement in Botswana, targeting copper, nickel, cobalt, silver and gold mineralisation analogous to the nearby Selebi Ni-Cu mine.

Venus Metals has unveiled promising auger soil sampling results at its Henderson Gold Project and significant base metals anomalies at Youanmi, alongside initiating a titanium extraction research program with Murdoch University.

Lunnon Metals has greenlit a $13 million FY2027 exploration budget to aggressively test a conceptual 1.2-2.4 million ounce gold target at its Foster-Baker area within the St Ives gold camp, aiming to drill more metres than in any year over the past six decades.

New Frontier Minerals is ramping up exploration at its Harts Range Project, focusing on 40 untested geophysical targets with an initial spotlight on the Kings Cross magnetic anomaly. Recent independent research underscores the district-scale copper-nickel-PGE potential of the region, reinforcing the strategic value of NFM's tenure.

Alliance Nickel has begun vat leach testing on a bulk sample from its NiWest project, targeting a significant reduction in capital costs by replacing heap leaching with a lower-cost atmospheric process. Results are expected by late Q3 2026 and could reshape the project’s economics.

Pacific Nickel Mines continues mining at Kolosori under Glencore finance while progressing a conditional sale of its Solomon Islands assets to Green Rock Limited.

Terra Metals appoints Debra Bakker as Chair alongside Jeff Quartermaine and Jennifer Purdie to steer the company’s shift from exploration to development at its promising Dante Project in Western Australia.

Livium is positioning its Envirostream subsidiary to capitalise on the growing battery recycling needs from Australia's booming AI data centre sector, leveraging its EPA-licensed facilities and national network.

Alliance Nickel has pushed out the maturity of its unsecured loans by a year to June 2027, increasing the interest rate from 12% to 13%. This move provides ongoing funding as the company advances strategic discussions around its NiWest nickel-cobalt project.

Nickel Industries is investing US$169 million for a 17.5% stake in the PT Teluk Metal Industry HPAL project, aiming for production by September 2027 and leveraging its exclusive ore supply from Sampala.