Latest Porphyry Systems News

Sunstone Metals has uncovered extensive high-grade gold-copper mineralisation at surface within its Bramaderos Project in Ecuador, setting the stage for a significant resource expansion. Drilling is imminent to convert a large exploration target into a defined resource, underpinning the company’s growth ambitions.

FMR Resources has extended its latest diamond drillhole at the Llahuin Project’s Target C, intersecting visual copper and molybdenum mineralisation linked to a key geophysical anomaly. This marks a promising step towards pinpointing the core of a significant porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum system.

FMR Resources has extended its second diamond drillhole at the Southern Porphyry target within the Llahuin Project JV in Chile, uncovering visual copper and molybdenite mineralisation linked to a key geophysical anomaly. This advancement sharpens the focus on the core of a significant porphyry system.

Riversgold Limited has reported robust gold mineralisation from the final 16 drillholes of its 2025 campaign at the Northern Zone near Kalgoorlie, confirming expansion of the shallow oxide gold footprint. The company is set to commence its 2026 drilling program to further extend the resource.

Lodestar Minerals has acquired sole access rights to the Los Loros copper-molybdenum-gold porphyry project in Chile, setting the stage for a maiden drilling campaign in April 2026. The project features significant historical mineralisation and is strategically located near key infrastructure in a prolific mining region.

Speculative money piled into new discoveries and tight-supply metals, while a handful of small caps were sold hard on thin liquidity. The week’s biggest moves came from PGMs and tungsten on the way up, and micro-cap gas on the way down.

Lodestar Minerals has secured a binding option to acquire the Virgin Mountain Heavy Rare Earth Elements project in Arizona and defined a significant gold exploration target at Ned’s Creek, while gearing up for its first Chilean drill program.

Renegade Exploration has reported significant progress across its North American and Australian mineral portfolios, highlighting high-grade gold, silver, and critical mineral results and planning a maiden drill program at its Yukon Myschka Project in 2026.

Ballymore Resources reports significant progress in Queensland with high-grade gold and silver-lead-zinc discoveries, advancing underground development and preparing for new drilling campaigns.

Superior Resources has refreshed its Steam Engine Gold Project resource estimates and secured $2 million in funding to advance drilling and feasibility studies, while also progressing high-grade copper exploration at Greenvale.

Culpeo Minerals reports promising high-grade copper intersections at its La Florida Prospect and secures A$3 million to fund upcoming drilling at Vista Montana, advancing its Chilean copper exploration ambitions.

Solis Minerals has made a decisive leap in its Peruvian copper-gold exploration with the acquisition of the Cucho Project and a successful $5.9 million capital raise, setting the stage for an active 2026 drilling campaign.