Latest Resource Estimates News

Patagonia Lithium has corrected its Well 8 announcement, confirming a 72-hour pumping rate of about 2,043 litres per hour and rapid aquifer recovery at its Cilon project in Argentina. The pumped brine is estimated to have contained 29kg to 33.7kg of lithium, although the figure is an inferred assay-based estimate rather than a resource or production measure.

Astral Resources has more than doubled the Spargoville project’s mineral resource to 281,000 ounces after reinterpreting four deposits and applying a larger optimised pit shell. The update lifts the group’s reported mineral resource to 2.21 million ounces, but remains a resource estimate rather than an ore reserve or production declaration.

Pioneer Minerals is pursuing staged options over a 3,477-hectare Argentina gold-copper-silver project where historical drilling returned broad, high-grade polymetallic intervals. The proposed acquisition is paired with an A$1.8 million funding package, but both the transaction and most of the capital raise require shareholder approval.

Aurum Resources has reported further gold mineralisation across three Boundiali targets, including a high-grade 5.85-metre intercept at BMT3. The 60-hole program is designed to expand the resource, upgrade confidence and support a maiden estimate for BMT2 ahead of an early fourth-quarter update.

DPM Metals produced 97,000 gold equivalent ounces in the third quarter and now expects to reach the high end of its 2026 production guidance. Vareš is running ahead of expectations, but its growth plans remain exposed to an unresolved legal review in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Carnarvon Energy is lining up Ara as the likely firm well in its 2027 Bedout campaign, backed by a contracted rig, environmental approvals progressing and A$97 million in cash. The prospect carries 191 million barrels of oil equivalent in gross unrisked prospective resources, but only a 37% geological chance of success and uncertain fluid type.

High-Tech Metals will ask shareholders to approve a new identity, Beyond Discovery Limited, alongside a proposed ASX code change from HTM to BYD. The move signals a shift toward developing its Mt Fisher and Mt Eureka gold projects, but changes no assets, operations or capital structure.

Ballard Mining is seeking up to A$50 million to fund aggressive drilling, early infrastructure and feasibility work at its Mt Ida Gold Project. The raise gives the developer a larger runway towards a mid-2027 development decision, but comes with dilution and no guarantee the full amount will be secured.

Alvo Minerals has secured A$1 million from strategic and existing investors while reporting broad, near-surface dysprosium and terbium mineralisation at its Bluebush project in Brazil. The results strengthen the exploration story, but metallurgy, permeability and a maiden resource remain ahead.

Torque Metals has secured A$25 million from institutional investors to expand drilling and regional exploration at its Ritz Gold Project in Western Australia. The placement will lift pro forma cash to about A$32.7 million, but adds roughly 21% to the existing share count and leaves the company’s million-ounce ambition dependent on exploration results.

Prodigy Gold has launched a fully underwritten $7.92 million entitlement offer to fund exploration and project approvals, but the capital raising could also lift three existing substantial holders above their current voting stakes. The non-renounceable offer is priced at $0.047 a share, below the stock’s recent three-month low of $0.049.

Black Cat Syndicate has reported a 9.86-metre gold intercept grading 27.38g/t at the Lynx lode, including 0.60 metres at 186.27g/t, while initial drilling 600 metres away at Raisebore supports a parallel mineralised structure. Neither target has yet been added to Paulsens’ Mineral Resource, leaving further assays and modelling to do before the scale of the discoveries can be quantified.