Announcements

Middle Island Resources has outlined an extensive lead-zinc target in Serbia after its first soil-sampling program at the historic Tisovik lead mine returned a widespread anomalism. The company says the mineralisation remain open to the north where sampling lines near the projected strike of the “Tisovik limestone” - the same geological unit that historically produced exceptional lead grades during multiple mining phases dating back to the 1930's.

Larvotto Resources has unveiled a prospective and potentially lucrative third revenue stream at its Hillgrove gold-antimony project in NSW, with metallurgy delivering 90 per cent tungsten recovery adding another highly strategic resource to its inventory. The news follows recent assays from its Freehold prospect that delivered broad, high-grade antimony-gold zones alongside surprise tungsten grades, the company has begun painting the picture of a new tungsten system with some serious economics legs.

Aurum Resources has delivered more bonanza-grade gold hits, including a stunning 3.1 metres at 70.78 g/t gold from its drilling program at the company's 2.41 million ounce Boundiali project in West Africa. The intercept is part of a broader 5.10m intercept at 43.13g/t gold from just 112.9m that lies outside Aurum's current gold resource estimate for its 16.2 million tonne BMT3 deposit.

Dateline Resources has delivered a set of thumping gold hits at its Colosseum project in California with broad, consistent mineralisation uncovered beneath and within the current pit shell. The results support a major upgrade to the company's resource base, reinforcing confidence in the geology and giving fresh momentum to its bankable feasibility study as it moves the historic mine closer to a modern restart.

Moonlight Resources is preparing to step onto the ASX with a $10 million float designed to fast-track a maiden resource at its Clermont gold project in Queensland while exploring a vast rare earths and uranium frontier in the Northern Territory. With strong technical leadership, inherited datasets and drill-ready targets, the company is positioning itself to ride the gold and critical minerals wave.

Red Metal Ltd says it has made a major breakthrough in metallurgical testing of its rare earths ore from the company's Sybella project in Queensland that will result in less impurities and higher grades. The company has managed to replace the standard two-stage impurity removal process with a simple Ion exchange process that will lower costs and increase purities.

ASX listed Neometals has welcomed the backing of the Government of Finland which will contribute a €48.7M (A$86.8M) grant towards the building of a vanadium recycling plant in the Finish port of Pori. The plant will recycle vanadium industrial waste streams using technology developed by Neometals which owns 86% of the €400M project and a 2.5% royalty over it.

Terrain Minerals is getting set to launch a 4500m reverse circulation drilling program at its 100%-owned Lightning gold-silver prospect in WA's Murchison, targeting a maiden JORC resource by mid-2026. The 21-hole campaign aims to extend known high-grade zones, test new magnetic targets and will probe a potential repeat discovery at Lightning, with first assays due mid-February.

American West Metals has geochemically mapped a monster 4km-long copper anomaly at its Storm project on Somerset Island in Canada, confirming another parallel structural corridor to its known high-grade deposits. The new Chevron prospect, along with fresh sulphide hits at Squall, Tornado and Cyclone, is rapidly defining a district-scale opportunity across the Midway–Storm–Tornado corridor in Nunavut's Arctic copper fields.

Larvotto Resources has come out swinging at its Hillgrove project in NSW, with first pass diamond drilling at the Freehold prospect delivering broad, high-grade antimony-gold zones alongside a surprise tungsten hit. The early numbers confirm continuity along multiple lodes and hint at the rise of a new underground mining hub just 1.2km from the company's existing processing plant.

Augustus Minerals has expanded its push into PNG, home to multiple elephant sized mineral deposits, with an EL application covering 1906 sq km in the prospective Vanapa River region, 35km north of Port Moresby. The move follows a recent site visit by management, where local artisanal miners were extracting decent amounts of alluvial gold within the application area, part of the 2300km long New Guinea Metallogenic Belt.

The Bulls N' Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… antimicrobial waste warrior Zoono Group, which peaked 280 per cent higher after inking a deal with Africa's biggest packaging giant for its shelf-life extender. ReNerve announced its regenerative nerve-cuff had been green-lit across the US DoD's military hospitals and veteran wards driving its stock price skywards while Stealth Group shares also shone after the company bolted on a $22m hardware buying empire to create a Bunnings-busting wholesale beast. And copper-gold explorer Havilah Resources locked in a $240m deal with Sandfire to fast-track its Kalkaroo monster into production.

Perth-based Horizon Minerals has struck a binding heads of agreement to sell its 100 per cent-owned non-core Lake Johnston nickel project in Western Australia to emerging explorer Forrestania Resources for a total consideration of $35 million which includes a $30m cash component. The deal, expected to settle by the end of January, remains subject to Forrestania securing the funding via a capital raise, also includes Horizon receiving $5m in Forrestania shares.

Reach Resources has kicked off a 5000-metre reverse circulation drill program at its Murchison South gold project near Paynes Find in Western Australia. The work is centred around the company's flagship Blue Heaven deposit, where it already holds a handy resource of 681,000 tonnes at 2.8 grams per tonne gold for 61,300 ounces of relatively shallow gold.

Middle Island Resources has struck a multi-metal jackpot with a rich mix of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc at its historic Bobija mine in Serbia. Channel sampling from the pit floor delivered standout hits including 8.25g/t gold and 499g/t silver across four channels. The results mark the company's first major exploration success in the Western Tethyan belt and set up a strong platform for drilling.

Corazon Mining has lodged a strategic tenement application to expand its Two Pools gold project in WA's Gascoyne region, targeting a hidden northeast extension of its high-grade Two Pools gold mineralisation. The project features historical high-grade gold intercepts, with one hole delivering 12m at 8.89g/t gold from 79m including 3m at 34.25g/t gold from 80m.

Siren Gold has unearthed several old workings and taken samples of outcrops in a first pass field program at its Queen Charlotte antimony and gold project in NZ along strike from historical antimony mines. The company has identified a mineralised strike potential of 8kms within a 12km long shear zone in New Zealand's south island. Hangingwall and footwall reefs offer a parallel doubling of potential.

American West Metals has expanded its North American footprint by commencing trading on the OTCQB Venture Exchange under the ticker AWMLF. The move gives US investors direct access to the company behind Utah's West Desert critical minerals project which holds the nation's largest indium resource and has growing gallium potential, positioning it at the heart of America's minerals supply chain revival.

Thunderbird Resources is on the hunt for large gold-antimony deposits in New South Wales and has prioritised its exploration focus on ground within several of Australia's most noteworthy orogenic belts. The company pivoted its exploration efforts this year to focus on gold-copper-antimony and recently jumped at the chance to lock-in its now-flagship Springfield gold deposit, part of the Slashers Flat project near Gulgong in NSW.

Novo Resources has nailed strong gold and antimony results from exploration programs across the company's projects about a sling-shot from Northern Star Resources' world-beating Hemi gold operation in the Pilbara region of WA. The company's rock-chip sampling program at its Teichman area returned eye-opening gold grades of 77.5 grams per tonne and 51.4g/t. An impressive total of 11 samples returned greater than 10g/t gold.

Video technology company Atomos Ltd, has turbocharged its sales and projected earnings for the current financial year after continued strong demand for its Shinobi and Ninja video product ranges. In its latest trading update, improvement to the company's financials were further boosted by its updated marketing strategy, which targets digital marketing, direct-to-customer and retail media platforms.

NeuroScientific Biopharmaceuticals has reached another clinical milestone, with a fourth Crohn's disease patient now receiving its patented StemSmart stem cell therapy for the chronic bowel disease under Australia's Special Access Scheme. The company says data from the real-world program will directly inform the design of its upcoming phase two trial, slated to begin in the second half of 2026.

Meeka Metals has delivered another batch of high-grade gold intercepts from its Turnberry South deposit in the producing Murchison gold project, further reinforcing near-mine resource growth and extending the Stage 1 open pit beyond its initial two-year mine life. Standout results include 8m at 14.79g/t gold from 44m in the best hole which features a welcome 2m core going 53.05g/t gold.

Terrain Minerals' latest induced-polarisation survey has kicked-up a suite of potential gold targets within large chargeability zones stretching more than 800 metres at its Wildflower prospect, part of the wider Smokebush project about 350 kilometres north of Perth. The company plans to spin the drill-bit in January next year to test three new prospects across three large-scale structures revealed in the survey.

Aurum Resources recent diamond drilling has delivered an intercept of 5m assaying 11.07g/t gold from 200m depth among other promising high-grade gold intercepts from its ongoing 100,000m drilling program at the company's 2.41 million ounce Boundiali gold project in West Africa. The infill and extensional campaign is targeting resource expansion and confidence upgrades at the company's BDT2 deposit.

The Bulls N' Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Mont Royal Resources, after it exploded back from merger purgatory with a Canadian rare-earths relisting. Mount Ridley Mines doubled down on gallium glory revealing new management for Australia's largest gallium resource that was found hiding in untested historic drill hole results. HitIQ crunched a Monash University deal for its concussion detection mouthguards and XPON Technologies flipped cash-burn into black-ink bliss from its recent marketing acquisition.

Neometals Limited has delivered a stellar set of early metallurgical results from the company's Ironclad gold deposit, part of its Barrambie project, achieving up to 98 per cent overall gold recoveries alongside gravity recoveries as high as 71 per cent. The results point to a simple, low-risk processing route and mark a major leap forward for the company's revived gold push in Western Australia's Murchison region.

Altech Batteries says batteries utilising similar technology to its sodium-nickel-chloride batteries deployed in South Africa up to 15 years ago have exhibited failure rates of just 0.6% to 1.5%. The company says those rates blitz the failure rates of lithium and lead-acid batteries.

Novo Resources has jagged numerous high-grade gold rock chips at its Tibooburra project in northwest New South Wales, grading up to a punchy 39.9g/t at its Pioneer North prospect. The company says a string of double-digit gold assays have lit up its undrilled Pioneer prospects, highlighting numerous targets for maiden drilling.

Great Southern Mining has lit up its Duketon Gold Project in Western Australia with shallow, high-grade hits peaking at 23.9 grams per tonne gold across a 4.5km strike at its Amy Clarke prospect. The discovery sits just 8km from Regis Resources' Garden Well mill, adding another promising chapter to the company's growing Laverton-area gold portfolio.

Larvotto Resources has locked in PYBAR Mining Services to drive a four-year underground development campaign at its Hillgrove antimony-gold project in New South Wales. The deal covers 20km of decline and lateral work across the Metz, Garibaldi and Clarks Gully zones, marking another major milestone as the company accelerates towards production in 2026.

Thunderbird Resources has kicked off its first grid-based soil sampling exploration program at its 100 per cent-owned Rockvale gold-antimony project in New South Wales. The initial program is focussed on sampling at the Achill prospect, which lies 13km along strike and within the Hillgrove-Chandler fault corridor extending from Larvotto Resources' flagship Hillgrove gold-antimony mine.