Sponsored Content for Justin Virgin

Terrain Minerals has successfully converted multiple prospecting licences to a mining lease which will secure its exploration and planned mining activities in the area for 30 years. The newly granted mining lease will firmly cement Terrain's presence in the prospective extreme northwest of its Smokebush project tenement area, about 350 kilometres north of Perth and 65 kilometres west of Paynes Find in WA's Murchison region.

Terrain Minerals has kicked off a major RC drilling assault across its high priority Lightning and Wildflower gold and silver targets in Western Australia's Murchison gold province. The company says it will drill deeper and along strike of existing stand-out intercepts, potentially leading to a maiden resource at Lightning, slated for mid-next year. Terrain has also identified multiple gold targets extending over 800 metres at its Wildflower project associated with coincident structures highlighted by geophysics.

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.

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.

Terrain Minerals has uncovered a 66 square-kilometre shallow regolith clay basin prospective for rare earths using airborne electromagnetic (AEM) survey data at its Lort River project in the Albany Fraser belt of Western Australia, near the town of Esperance. The completed AEM survey mapped the extent, thickness and depth of the conductive regolith horizons, interpreting the scale of the basin to be 12km in length and 5.5km wide.

Terrain Minerals has reported high-grade gold assays alongside silver hits from its Lightning Prospect at the Smokebush Project in WA's Murchison, reinforcing a strong gold-silver correlation. One significant intercept of 22m yielded 2.87g/t gold from 105m, including 21m at 15.79g/t silver from 105m, 1m at 70.59g/t silver from 108m and 1m at 60g/t silver from 124m. Follow-up drilling is proposed to further develop the dual-commodity potential.

Terrain Minerals has kicked off a maiden scout soil sampling program at its Carlindie lithium project in WA's Pilbara region, targeting 15km of interpreted lithium-bearing pegmatite structures about 30km east of Wildcat Resources' Tabba Tabba deposit. The low-cost program aims to generate drill-ready targets from the region's felsic-hosted lithium potential within 14 days, with results expected in four weeks to inform the design of follow-up drilling next year.

Terrain Minerals' latest drilling results shine with 13m at 8.13g/t gold, including 2m at 48.22g/t and 1m at 18.04g/t at its Monza and Lightning targets in the company's Smokebush project, about 350km north of Paynes Find in WA. Eighty per cent of the reverse circulation drill holes jagged gold, with multiple thick zones, while IP surveys point to a possible big system that remains open along strike and to depth.

Terrain Minerals has fired the starter's gun on an induced polarisation geophysical survey at its Wildflower gold prospect in WA's Yalgoo-Singleton Belt, aiming to sniff out deeper sulphide-hosted gold beneath a string of shallow oxide hits. The program comes hot on the heels of a recent 11m hit grading 6.03g/t gold and 43.5g/t silver strike just down the road at the company's Lightning and Monza prospects.

Terrain Minerals has revealed a striking gold interval of 22 metres grading 2.71 grams per tonne gold at its Lightning prospect, part of the wider Smokebush Project in Western Australia's Mid West region. The latest drilling program followed up a compelling 600m-long induced polarisation anomaly from geophysical data and formed part of the company's exploration strategy.

Terrain Minerals' Larin's Lane gallium-rare earths project is fast advancing, with studies now underway as part of a WA industry and government-funded research project that ultimately aims to develop a reliable supply of REEs in the state. The Larin's Lane collaboration will also offer insights into the economics of emerging REE extraction techniques and the potential for strategic mineral by-products, which could benefit WA.

Terrain Minerals is on the cusp of launching a reverse circulation drilling program next week to follow up on the company's recent discovery of shallow high-grade gold and silver at its Lightning and Monza prospects. The two prospects lie in the northern extremity of its Smokebush project, 350km north of Perth. The drill program co-incides with Terrain's mid-May ex-date, $1.8M rights issue.

Terrain Minerals has just upped the stakes significantly at its Monza gold project east of Geraldton after nailing an 11m drill hit grading 6.03g/t gold and 43.5g/t silver just 50m from known mineralisation. The high-grade hit at the new prospect to the west of the project included standout 1m intercepts of 10.28g/t, 11.41g/t, and 10.37g/t gold, suggesting a strong near-surface mineralised system.

Terrain Minerals is busy pursuing three gold projects, including two in WA's Mid West region and a newish gold project in Queensland, along with gallium, rare earths and nickel-copper plays on the go in WA. It is currently planning new drilling campaigns for the three gold targets.

Terrain Minerals has launched into an eagerly awaited reverse circulation drilling campaign early at its Lort River copper-nickel project in Western Australia's renowned Albany-Fraser Belt. The campaign will target two high-priority Nova-Bollinger-like sulphide conductors, hot on the heels of promising ground-based electromagnetic survey results completed last month.

Terrain Minerals has revealed an ambitious exploration roadmap for 2025, pitching a diversified drilling assault across WA on gold, nickel, copper and gallium targets. The company is gearing up for two significant reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaigns at its flagship Smokebush gold-gallium and Lort River nickel-copper projects which is set kick-off this month and continue through the quarter and beyond.

Terrain Minerals has kicked-off a ground-based EM survey to better define four very curious, potentially nickel-copper conductors at its Lort River project that sits in the same geological belt as IGO's huge nickel-copper discovery in the renowned Albany-Fraser Belt. Terrain believes a geophysical “eye” feature identified at Lort River shares strong similarities with IGO's “eye” that was identified prior to its discovery of the large producing Nova-Bollinger operation in the region in 2012.

In the wake of the recent Chinese ban on the export of critical minerals such as gallium that is used for semi-conductor chip manufacturing, a state government research institute is about to kick off a study that will examine the metallurgy of Terrain Minerals' curious gallium discovery in WA's Mid West region. The study will be done by the Minerals Research Institute of WA that is tasked with addressing knowledge and technology needs in the minerals industry.

Terrain Minerals' recent drill success at its Wildflower gold project in WA's Midwest has caused it to create a new geological model which it will put to the test with the drill bit in a planned December drilling blitz. The company says it will plough another 2150m of drilling into the Wildflower discovery next month that is located 150km east of Dongara in WA.

Terrain Minerals has leapt into a new drill campaign at its Wildflower gold project in Western Australia's Murchison province, with an air-core program of 41 holes for 2100m set to test its two high-priority targets – Wildflower and Cota. The AC drilling will target a significant 1000m-by-500m gold-in-soil geochemical anomaly consisting of a peak value of 246 parts per billion gold.

The race is still on for companies trying to crack the exploration code within Western Australia's rugged Albany-Fraser Orogen in the ongoing mission to reproduce the area's renowned – and only – Nova-Bollinger nickel-copper find. Despite some firms claiming to have defined the geological silver bullet they believed would shoot them to fame, the search for the elusive prize continues.

Terrain Minerals' geophysics have identified five conductors at its Lort River project near Esperance in Western Australia that show the potential for sulphide mineralisation analogous to IGO's renowned Nova-Bollinger deposits in the same mineral belt. Two of the conductors lie on the western periphery of a prominent “eye-shaped” aeromagnetic imagery feature that may also signify a mineralised mafic intrusive.

Terrain Minerals plans to test its promising Wildflower gold project in Western Australia later this month, with an air-core drill program for 41 holes comprising about 2100m. Drilling will test the company's two priority targets, Wildflower and Cota, where previous drilling and soil sampling produced encouraging results that management is keen to pursue at the project that sits within WA's Murchison gold province.

Terrain Minerals is poised to launch a multi-mineral exploration mission at two projects in Western Australia after bolstering its bank balance with a timely $1.045 million raise from sophisticated and professional investors. The raise, including $102,000 from executive director Justin Virgin, smashed its original $750,000 target out of the park as investors scrambled to be involved in the company's upcoming exploration plans.

Terrain Minerals will pocket $300,000 to fund its multi-mineral exploration focus after selling off its 100 per cent-owned Wildviper gold project in WA's Goldfields region to next door neighbour Northern Star. The company has entered into a binding sale and purchase agreement with the major miner to divest the project's exploration license that sits close to Northern Star's Bundarra gold deposit.

West Perth-based minerals explorer Terrain Minerals has added a new commodity of interest to its Smokebush gold exploration project in Western Australia's Mid West – lithium. Terrain has identified up to 20 pegmatite structures to date in a so-called “Goldilocks zone” for potential lithium mineralisation. Rock chip samples have been sent to a laboratory and results are expected in February.

Terrain Minerals' exploration at its Smokebush project is continuing to expand the footprint of its gold targets in WA's Murchison goldfield. Sampling north of the company's Monza discovery has now extended the mineralised envelope to almost a kilometre of strike, with recent exploration revealing additional old mine workings and returning assays of up to 4.78 grams per tonne gold.

Terrain Minerals is back on the ground at its Smokebush project in WA, with the company firing up the drill rigs and embarking on a 17-hole, 2,100 metre program of reverse circulation drilling. The latest program will extend the current drill pattern over the Monza prospect and jump into a maiden four-hole program over its new Paradise City discovery.

Terrain Minerals is getting set to resume gold drilling at its Smokebush project in WA. A successful campaign at the Monza prospect last year will be followed-up in the renewed campaign, with the Paradise City prospect, on newly acquired tenure, to also be drill tested. Last year Monza the delivered some solid numbers including 4 metres grading 4.46 grams per tonne gold.

Terrain Minerals has earned its 80 per cent holding in the joint venture tenements at its Smokebush gold project in WA, with ownership of the tenure having now been transferred to the company. Terrain has ploughed over $250,000 into its exploration of the five joint venture tenements and has also issued the vendors 5 million shares in the company, meeting the conditions of the earn-in arrangement.

Terrain Minerals is hunting down a wealth of newly defined gold targets in WA's Murchison Goldfield, with geophysical surveying at its Smokebush project highlighting key prospects for drill testing. The company recently completed detailed ground magnetic surveys across the Monza, Paradise City and Wildflower targets with each of the developing prospects having previously returned anomalous gold results.

Terrain Minerals has more than tripled the size of its ground holding at the Smokebush gold project in WA. The company has pegged a new exploration licence which covers approximately 26 square kilometres, linking its two existing ground holdings in the region and picking up the high-grade Paradise City prospect, where historical surface sampling returned rock chips grading over 38 grams per tonne gold.

Terrain Minerals has lit a fire under its Smokebush gold project revealing a swag of high-grade gold hits, with first-pass drilling at the Monza prospect producing a number of impressive intercepts including 4m at 4.46 g/t gold with 1m at 10.3 g/t gold from only 51m down-hole.

Terrain Minerals continues to kick goals across its auriferous project area's in WA with recent sampling smoking out a series of high-grade gold samples from the Murchison region, north of Perth. Rock chip and surface sampling along strike from the recent drilling over the Smokebush project has returned a string of gold-rich results weighing in at up to an astounding 100 g/t gold.

Terrain Minerals is off and running at its promising Smokebush gold project in WA. Drilling is now underway over the Monza and T13 prospects following up on a historical drill hits and high-grade sampling, including 2 metres at 11.3 g/t gold. Terrain farmed into the project in December 2019 and can earn an 80 per cent interest in the tenure by spending $250,000 over a two-year period.

Terrain Minerals is showing impeccable timing, launching a new drill campaign at its Wild Viper gold project in WA, just as the gold price reaches for the stars. The company is set to complete 1,000 metres of reverse circulation drilling across two key targets within the project area north of Leonora. With $2 million in the bank and a bag full of gold targets throughout WA's rich Goldfield region, Terrain looks set to power through the second half of 2020.

Surface trench sampling has commenced at Terrain Minerals' Wild Viper gold project near Leonora, WA, where rock chip sampling unearthed up to 4.67g/t gold in stockwork quartz veining in March. The company will complete four long trenches for 640m across the 382-shear prospect, which will assist in siting future drilling locations, over a prospective 2.5km long structure that has not been targeted by exploration in the past.

Terrain Minerals is gearing up to complete a surface trenching program across a high-grade zone identified on its Wild Viper tenement near Leonora, WA, to follow up a rock chip sample of 4.67g/t gold returned from the 382-shear prospect in March. The exploration target is located just south of the Great Western gold mineral resource and has been interpreted to strike over more than 2.5 kilometres.

Terrain Minerals has generated a high-grade grab sample of 4.67g/t gold from its new 382-shear prospect, located just south of its flagship Great Western gold resource, near Leonora, WA. The target is interpreted over more than 2.5km of strike and the company is planning a follow-up field program of shallow trenching, geological mapping and surface sampling to delineate potential drill targets along the prospective structure.

Terrain Minerals has outlined a number of new gold exploration targets on its Wild-viper exploration licence that completely surrounds its Great Western gold project, north of Leonora in W.A. The company will shortly commence reconnaissance geological mapping and soil sampling programs over the areas of interest. Terrain also said this week that drilling results from its RC drill program at the Red Mulga exploration play near Geraldton are imminent.