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Kali Metals has expanded its Marble Bar gold pipeline after reporting shallow high-grade drilling and nine additional targets identified after quarter end. The explorer also ended September with $5.242 million in cash and a binding agreement for up to $700,000 of JX Advanced Metals-funded exploration in the Southern Lachlan Fold Belt.

Critical Resources has secured exclusivity to acquire 90% of a 29 km² Suriname exploration project just 4 km from Zijin’s producing Rosebel mine. The strategic land position expands the company’s prospective Suriname portfolio, but the project has no reported exploration results, resources or reserves.

Mount Ridley has lodged a second provisional patent application for an adapted Selectro chemistry targeting industrial metal feedstocks, following first-pass bauxite recoveries of 92% aluminium and 97% iron. Gallium results are still pending, and the process has not yet been optimised for bauxite.

Falcon Metals has struck 12 metres at 2.8g/t gold from surface in the first hole at its Olsen Well prospect, including 4 metres at 4.7g/t. The result has confirmed bedrock mineralisation beneath a 5.8-kilometre soil anomaly, but four nearby holes were only weakly anomalous and the geometry remains unresolved.

Mount Ridley Mines says its patent-pending Selectro process recovered 91.9% of aluminium and 96.7% of iron from a third-party bauxite sample at below 100°C. The test produced a small, pH-neutral silica-rich residue instead of conventional red mud, but product purification, economics and scale-up remain unproven.

Discovery Alaska has secured commitments for a A$900,000 placement and says Boulder Creek is ready for drilling, but its reported cash balance covers only about 2.07 quarters at the latest spending rate. The company is also progressing its proposed Cuddingwarra acquisition, with several key steps still requiring approval or completion.

Javelin Minerals has advanced its proposed all-scrip takeover by FirstAU while securing Eureka’s final mining approval and reporting further gold intersections. The deal offers a broader exploration portfolio, but the loss of Eureka’s processing pathway and a cash runway of about 2.57 quarters remain material constraints.

MB Gold has secured up to $220,000 in Western Australian government co-funding for a 2,000-metre diamond drilling campaign at its Murphy Well Prospect. The program will test three previously untested geophysical anomalies, with assays expected in the first quarter of 2027.

Minerals Exploration has shifted decisively into New Zealand gold and tungsten, but its annual report flags a $2.66 million loss and a material uncertainty over its ability to continue without further funding. Exploration results are encouraging, though the company has yet to establish a mineral resource or economic discovery.

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.

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.

Piche Resources has extended the mapped footprint of its Cerro Chacón epithermal system in Argentina, with surface rock-chip samples returning up to 10.41 g/t gold and 553.42 g/t silver. The results support continuity between La Javiela and Toro Hosco, but drilling is still needed to test grade continuity at depth.