Mining

The first production blast at Hualilán changed everything for Challenger Gold (ASX:CEL) — shifting the company from developer to producer in a single detonation and setting the stage for toll-milled gold revenues to fund a billion-dollar standalone processing plant in Argentina.

On the remote Forrestania greenstone belt, Classic Minerals (ASX:CLZ) is doing something rarely attempted at its market capitalisation level — operating its own processing plant. The modular Gekko gravity system at Kat Gap has already poured doré; the challenge now is sustaining throughput on …

Capricorn Metals (ASX:CMM) just ticked off a major engineering milestone — the Karlawinda Expansion Project completed on time and within budget — putting the S&P/ASX 200 gold producer on track for 150,000 ounces a year from a single mine, while A$535 million in cash …

A 60% takeover premium from a major ASX gold producer is a powerful statement of intent — and Evolution Mining's all-scrip bid for Carnaby Resources (ASX:CNB) is precisely that, putting a tier-1 valuation on the Greater Duchess copper-gold project in northwest Queensland ahead of …

Coppermoly (ASX:COY) sits on two porphyry copper-gold assets in Papua New Guinea's West New Britain province that individually eclipse the financial capacity of a A$3.53 million micro-cap — making the farm-in pursuit not just a strategy, but an operational necessity for unlocking their full …

Cooper Metals (ASX:CPM) is drilling for discoveries that could one day feed into the regional processing mills operated by some of Australia's largest miners — and the high-grade results emerging at King Solomon and Brumby Ridge are starting to build a compelling case for …

Nuclear fuel and permanent magnets are among the defining commodities of the energy transition — and Core Energy Minerals (ASX:CR3) is positioning on both fronts simultaneously, with a uranium joint venture in Namibia and clay-hosted rare earth discoveries across Brazil that are beginning to …