Doug Bright

Ora Banda has delivered a standout half-yearly result, with stronger gold prices and higher sales volumes. A successful ramp-up of its second underground mine, Sand King, also contributed to the numbers, driving record revenues, earnings and cash generation compared with the previous corresponding period. Revenue for the six months surged 80 per cent to $336.3 million, underpinned by total equivalent gold sales of 62,583 ounces.

Dateline Resources has taken a slice of a US company with a grab bag of US critical minerals projects and picked up 100 per cent of a high grade rare earths project south of its existing Colosseum project in California known as Music Valley. The new project is showing early signs of the more lucrative rare earths yttrium, dysprosium and neodymium, among others.

Lindian Resources has received independent confirmation from Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation that monazite concentrate from its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi is exempt from radioactive transport classification under the IAEA's SSR-6 framework. The ruling simplifies logistics and strengthens Lindian's pathway to market.

Moonlight Resources has launched a phase two reverse circulation drilling program to chase up near-surface phase one gold hits at its Leo Grande prospect, part of its Clermont gold project in Queensland. The new drilling program will sink 70 holes for 5000 metres, following a successful maiden phase one campaign in 2025, which delivered big intercepts of gold mineralisation in every one of the 14 holes drilled, with all of them from or near-surface.

Lindian Resources has added some serious operational muscle to its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi, appointing a heavyweight process plant specialist to guide the project through commissioning, first production and a looming expansion phase. With stage one construction advancing and stage two studies underway, the timing could hardly be better as the company sharpens its focus on delivery and reliability.

BMG Resources has sharpened its edge by hiring a seasoned mining executive as general manager to oversee project development and help steer the company's Abercromby gold project in WA's Agnew-Wiluna greenstone belt towards the earliest possible production timeline. Gareth McArthur has landed with 25 years of mining credentials, including project leadership across operational, technical and construction roles at Rio Tinto and smaller developers in WA.

Aurum Resources has delivered a whopping resource upgrade at its Boundiali gold project in West Africa, increasing the total gold for the project to 3.03 million ounces at one gram per tonne gold. The total resource has grown 26 per cent to 99.7 million tonnes at 1.0g/t gold, driven by infill and extension drilling at the company's BST1, BDT2, BDT3 and BMT3 deposits.

Peninsula Energy has confirmed its Lance uranium project in Wyoming, USA, remains on track to meet its production guidance of 400,000 to 500,000 pounds of yellowcake this year. The central processing plant's capacity of 2 million pounds of uranium oxide per year and the company's strong progress in developing its Mine Unit 4 are expected to deliver around 60 per cent of forecast output in 2026 and 2027.

Neometals Limited has unearthed a fresh copper hotspot at its fully owned Barrambie gold project near Sandstone in WA. Recent surface rock-chip and grab sampling has confirmed high-grade copper grades up to 24.4 per cent copper at the historic Rinaldi workings. Historic production at Rinaldi in 1944 and between 1956 and 1961 delivered about 1407 tonnes at 9.8 per cent copper.

Horizon Minerals has thrown the switch on a serious gold growth plan after scoping studies confirmed its Black Swan processing hub near Kalgoorlie could churn out more than 100,000 ounces a year. With strong economics, a short payback period and fresh funding locked in, the company is lining up to transform legacy infrastructure into a new WA gold powerhouse.

Aurum Resources has delivered another strong round of diamond drilling results from its ongoing 100,000-metre program at the company's 2.41-million-ounce Boundiali gold project in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. The latest assays from 30 holes for 7208m of drilling have wrapped up the final data batch for the company's Boundiali mineral resource estimate (MRE) update, which is due later this month.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has chalked up encouraging results from maiden diamond drilling of its Kirgella Gift and Providence deposits at the company's Pinjin gold project, 140 kilometres northeast of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia's prospective Laverton Tectonic Zone. While good gold was intercepted in all holes, the real kicker is confirmation that the Pinjin system doesn't end shallow, with primary orogenic mineralisation extending well beyond previous drill limits.

Horizon Minerals has delivered a timely boost to its gold credentials, lifting its total mineral gold inventory by 6.5 per cent to a chunky 1.88 million ounces. A buoyant gold price has allowed the company to redraw its economic lines, capturing a swathe of lower-grade ounces and strengthening the development runway for its Kalgoorlie-centred Black Swan gold processing hub.

Dateline Resources has reported strong step-out drilling results at its Colosseum project in California. Best hits included 150m at 1.39g/t gold from surface, featuring a 55-metre section grading 2.83g/t gold. The hole targeted the northeast extension of the North Pipe breccia system beyond the current mineral resource boundary and ended in mineralisation, confirming the system remains open at depth.

BMG Resources is set to kick off a major 10,000m diamond drilling resource expansion program this month at its Abercromby gold project, 30km southeast of Wiluna in WA's eastern goldfields. The program is primarily aimed at expanding the existing 518,000 ounce gold resource estimate at the project and will be the first significant drilling at the project since the definition of the maiden resource estimate in 2023.

Early drilling results from Estrella Resources' Werumata limestone project in Timor-Leste have pointed to a bounty of clean, high-purity limestone, with intersections up to 55 metres thick, averaging a rich 84 per cent calcium carbonate. The broad, consistent intersections support the company's push towards its objective of defining an inferred mineral resource of at least 500 million tonnes from the interpreted large-scale calcite deposit.

Dalaroo Metals has enlisted rare earths industry pioneer Greg Barnes as a special advisor for its Greenland critical minerals project amid plans to pursue a secondary listing on the US Venture market. Barnes is best known for founding two of Greenland's most significant rare earths projects, the Kvanefjeld deposit and the Tanbreez project.

The latest geochemical results from Novo Resources' Wyloo gold-silver-antimony project in WA's southern Pilbara have confirmed multiple targets, paving the way for the company's first drilling of the project. Recent work has significantly upgraded the Wyloo SE prospect, where a confirmed polymetallic vein system carrying silver, antimony, arsenic, zinc and lead warrants early testing.

Exceptional metallurgical test results from Reach Resources' Murchison South gold project in Western Australia, showing up to 97 per cent recoveries, have confirmed that its proposed ore is free-milling, relatively soft and highly amenable to conventional gravity and cyanide leach processing. The results have demonstrated that the material is ideal for third-party toll milling or ore purchase agreements at nearby facilities.

Dateline Resources is homing in on what could be the deeper heart of its Colosseum gold and rare earths project in California after a suite of new geophysical surveys lit up the ground beneath the old pits. With gravity, magnetics, radiometrics and earlier IP data now converging, the company is about to put the theory to the test with diamond rigs.

Xpedra Resources has secured final NSW Government approval for its proposed maiden drilling program at its fully-owned Springfield gold deposit near Gulgong, about 210km northwest of Sydney. The drill rig is set to mobilise in the coming weeks once it completes its current task, with a mid-to-late February start, marking the first drilling program at the project since 1999.

St George Mining's Araxá project in Brazil is starting to look like the gift that keeps on giving. Fresh drilling has punched out more thick, high-grade rare earths and niobium from surface. The results have reinforced the project's status as one of the standout carbonatite-hosted critical minerals plays in the Western world and strongly hint that a much bigger resource may be taking shape.

Terrain Minerals has kicked off diamond drilling at its wholly owned Smokebush gold and silver project, about 350km north of Perth, in WA's prospective Yalgoo mineral field. The program plans to target the company's new Lightning prospect and is aimed at firming up geological information to support the company's proposed maiden JORC mineral resource estimate slated for the second quarter of the year.

BMG Resources has landed a $2.5 million placement at 2.1 cents per share, backed by cornerstone investor Tribeca Investment Partners - an internationally recognised firm specialising in high-growth resources plays - along with European strategic participants and strong retail support. The raise will fuel an expanded exploration push across the company's WA gold portfolio and comes amid today's 29.17 per cent share price hike.

Gold Fields is gearing up to re-start drilling at Great Southern Mining's extensive Edinburgh Park project in north Queensland, chasing the kind of large-scale gold systems that built some of the state's biggest mines. With multiple targets already showing the right geological fingerprints and encouraging results from one target so far, 2026 is shaping up as a pivotal year in this heavyweight exploration joint venture.

Ora Banda Mining has signed off on $63 million in key investments to crank up capacity across processing, mining and camp infrastructure at its fully-owned Davyhurst project in WA's goldfields. The centrepiece is a $10 million commitment to advance the proposed three-million-tonne-per-year standalone processing plant from its definitive feasibility study towards front-end engineering design.

Dalaroo Metals is charging ahead with a high-octane 2026 exploration blitz at its flagship Blue Lagoon critical minerals project in Greenland, hot on the heels of a knockout reconnaissance program in 2025. Results from that work have lit a fire under the stock, positioning Dalaroo as a serious contender in the global scramble for secure, conflict-free supplies of rare earths, zirconium, hafnium and niobium.

Dateline Resources has loaded its war chest, banking $35 million in fresh funding to push the accelerator on its Colosseum gold project in California. With permits in hand, a bankable feasibility study due this year and stratospheric gold prices, the company is positioning itself to move swiftly from study mode into construction, backed by robust economics and growing US strategic interest.

Dateline Resources has loaded its war chest, banking $35 million in fresh funding to push the accelerator on its Colosseum gold project in California. With permits in hand, a bankable feasibility study due this year and stratospheric gold prices, the company is positioning itself to move swiftly from study mode into construction, backed by robust economics and growing US strategic interest.

Estrella Resources has fired the starting gun on what could be Timor-Leste's first economic mining, with diggers onsite to mine up to 30,000 tonnes of high-grade manganese ore from its Ira Miri project. The latest activity follows the company's recent agreement with the country's national mineral authority, authorising the extraction of ore from Estrella's project for market appraisal purposes.

Peninsula Energy is gaining traction at its Lance uranium project in Wyoming, with Mine Unit 4 ramping up, wellfields delivering early wins and revised US uranium policy sharpening the outlook for producers. With Mine Unit 4 outperforming early expectations and a revamped processing plant now humming, the company's long-awaited production reset is finally beginning to show its teeth.

St George Mining has secured extra runway in its push to feed US rare earths demand with a year's extension of its alliance with REalloys, a key US supplier of magnets to US defence and energy labs. The original MOU with REalloys set a 120-day window to nail down a definitive offtake deal for up to 40 per cent of future production from St George's flagship Araxá project in Brazil.