Latest Process Optimisation News

Freehill Mining’s aggregates business surged with a 59% jump in quarterly sales, while new copper project options promise to shift the company’s growth trajectory.

American West Metals reported a 20% increase in contained copper at its Storm Copper Project and intersected promising skarn mineralisation in initial West Desert drilling, highlighting significant exploration upside across its North American base metals portfolio.

Clean TeQ Water boosted its cash position and operational momentum in Q3 FY26, winning a A$10.4 million DESALX execution contract at Nyrstar Belgium, completing a uranium plant at Heathgate Resources, and advancing lithium and phosphate projects internationally.

PTR Minerals delivered standout assay results from its Rosewood Titanium Project, confirming extensive high-grade mineralisation and strong metallurgical performance, keeping its maiden JORC resource estimate on track for Q2 2026.

Southern Palladium reported a doubling in chromite recoveries at its Bengwenyama project, prompting a redesign of the processing plant and pushing the DFS completion to late Q4 2026 amid drilling delays and enhanced metallurgical work.

AdAlta has secured Australian manufacturing for its lead CAR-T therapy BZDS1901, which has shown rare complete tumour clearance in advanced mesothelioma patients. This move is a key step toward local clinical trials and boosts the therapy’s global commercial appeal.

Centaurus Metals has secured a binding offtake deal with Glencore and attracted up to US$320 million in financing offers for its Jaguar Nickel Project, while advancing exploration and pilot testing at its Brazilian copper-gold and iron ore assets.

1414 Degrees (ASX:14D) advances its SiNTL silicon anode technology, aiming to disrupt lithium-ion batteries in the rapidly expanding drone and UAV sector with higher capacity and faster charging.

Elevate Uranium Ltd pushes back its U-pgradeTM pilot plant results to August 2026 amid operational tweaks, while reporting a doubled resource grade at Marenica and a 76.2 Mlb uranium resource at Koppies.

Castile Resources has kicked off pilot plant bench scale testing for its Rover 1 project, integrating a 41% resource upgrade and higher metal prices into its Bankable Feasibility Study. The company also secured $8.4 million in funding and is preparing for exploration drilling amid regional consolidation.

Viking Mines has advanced its Linka Tungsten Project by completing a conceptual process flowsheet that incorporates recent metallurgical results and enables future processing upgrades. Preliminary engineering and cost evaluations are underway ahead of planned drilling in the June quarter.

Enova Mining has initiated a deep diamond drilling campaign at its Charley Creek Rare Earth Project in the Northern Territory, aiming to unlock the potential of deeper bedrock rare earth mineralisation following encouraging earlier air-core results.