Public Company News

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.