Latest Surface Sampling News

IRIS Metals is gearing up for a substantial tungsten drilling campaign in Montana while delivering a fresh lithium-rubidium resource estimate for its South Dakota project, underpinning its North American critical minerals ambitions.

Enova Mining has unveiled significant rare earth element mineralisation at its Santo António Do Jacinto Project in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with initial auger drilling returning high-value grades averaging 25% NdPr in near-surface saprolite.

Bison Resources (ASX: BSR) has launched its maiden exploration campaign across four Nevada projects following a $5.5 million IPO, revealing a promising 1.5-kilometre arsenic-antimony anomaly at Bald Peaks indicative of a Carlin-type gold system.

Red Mountain Mining has launched systematic rock chip sampling at its Pioneer Tungsten Project in Montana, aiming to define drill targets after initial assays confirmed tungsten mineralisation comparable to nearby major deposits.

Patronus Resources is rapidly advancing exploration at its Pine Creek Project in the Northern Territory, unveiling a new 3km-long Golden Wall gold target and expanding multiple large-scale anomalies. Active drilling and high-grade sampling underpin a growing pipeline of prospects across its 1,500km² tenure.

Taruga Minerals secured key exploration licences at its Weioko Gold Deposit in Papua New Guinea, paving the way for the first drilling since 2009. Concurrently, the company formalised land access at Kol Mountain and identified multiple high-priority copper-gold targets as field programs ramp up.

Minerals Exploration Limited has completed its first phase of diamond drilling at the historic Jubilee Gold Mine within the Waitekauri Gold Project, confirming multiple quartz-mineralised zones and exceptional high-grade rock chip assays. Exploration continues with promising results at the Invincible Gold and Glenorchy Tungsten projects.

Tambourah Metals has teamed up with CSIRO to apply advanced remote sensing and machine learning techniques across its Pilbara lithium projects, aiming to sharpen target identification and cut exploration costs.

Delta Lithium delivered high-grade lithium drilling results at Mt Ida and uncovered significant fluorite mineralisation at Yinnetharra, while securing key tenement acquisitions and maintaining a strong cash position of $49.6 million.

Bayan Mining has launched its first-ever drilling program at the Desert Star Rare Earth Project, confirming key mineralisation and signing a strategic MoU with US Critical Materials to develop processing technologies.

Patronus Resources has confirmed that high-grade gold mineralisation extends well below the historical Tally Ho pit and outside the current Mineral Resource at its Pine Creek Project in the Northern Territory, following final assay results from a four-hole diamond drilling program.

eMetals Limited has significantly grown its Mineral Range Tungsten Project in Utah, securing all mineral claims and reporting multiple high-grade tungsten samples, while completing a 10:1 share consolidation.