Latest Surface Sampling News

Wildcat Resources ended September with A$76.1 million in cash after completing the first tranche of a A$60 million placement, giving it room to push Tabba Tabba towards its definitive feasibility study. Drilling also continued to expand Bolt Cutter Central ahead of a maiden resource targeted for Q4 2026.

Cooper Metals is pursuing an 85% interest in the Colet Copper Project in the Philippines, anchored by a large but unvalidated historical copper estimate. The acquisition would more than double the company’s share count and requires shareholder approval alongside a A$4.85 million capital raising.

Kaoko Metals has confirmed broad, shallow copper-silver mineralisation at Otniel after its first two diamond holes returned strong grades, including intervals above 3% copper. The early results support expanded drilling across the 400km² Chalkos project, but true widths, continuity and metallurgy remain unresolved.

Daly Resources has emerged from its June ASX debut with $11.05 million in cash, a 6,500 km² Northern Territory exploration portfolio and a growing list of drill targets. The catch is familiar for early-stage explorers: the company has yet to define a mineral resource or reserve, while its strongest Huckitta results remain surface sampling rather than drilling.

AuMEGA Metals has uncovered a 100.5 g/t gold float sample at its Intersection Project in Newfoundland, the second-highest-grade sample recorded across its regional portfolio. Two further samples above 23 g/t strengthen the surface signal, although the results remain early-stage and most assays are still pending.

Sunshine Metals has extended gold mineralisation at its Sybil project in North Queensland, led by a 4-metre intersection grading 11.11g/t gold at Francis Creek. The company plans a further 2,600 metres of drilling from mid-October across existing and untested targets.

Mamba Exploration has secured a $6.0 million placement, attracted a $500,000 investment from New Murchison Gold and added former Westgold founder Peter Cook as a strategic adviser. The funding will support drilling at Meeka East and a staged earn-in over the early-stage Poison Hills project, where selective rock chips returned high silver, gold, copper and lead grades.

Patriot Resources has completed 38 surface samples at its Tassa silver-gold project in Peru, where mapping identified a 120-metre breccia interpreted as the upper part of a preserved epithermal system. The company is now moving south into the newly acquired Tassa 5 tenement while its maiden drill permit application progresses.

Patriot Resources has established a 31.4 million-ounce silver-equivalent inferred resource at its Tassa project in Peru, but the company's annual report warns that further capital raising is required to sustain operations. The explorer recorded a $4.82 million loss and remains dependent on final drilling approvals.

Piche Resources has identified a broad gold-silver system at Toro Hosco in Argentina after completing its maiden 5,911-metre drilling campaign. The exploration progress came alongside a $5.27 million annual loss, $5.22 million operating cash outflow and reliance on post-year-end equity funding.

Ragnar Metals has identified at least five interpreted mineralised shoots at its Harnäs gold project in Sweden, but the exploration-led company ended FY2026 with only $233,220 in cash. The annual report also restates FY2025 after previously omitted Kaiser Reef options were recognised at $779,288.

Noronex Limited (ASX:NRX) swung to a A$1.145 million statutory profit in FY2026, but the result was driven mainly by tenement disposal gains while operating cash outflows increased sharply. The auditor also highlighted material uncertainty over the explorer’s ability to continue without further funding.