Which Exploration Milestones Are Next for ACDC Metals (ASX:ADC), Auris Minerals (ASX:AUR) and Parbo Resources (ASX:PRB)?

Sonal Goyal

06 November 2026 11:39 AM AEDT

Which Exploration Milestones Are Next for ACDC Metals (ASX:ADC), Auris Minerals (ASX:AUR) and Parbo Resources (ASX:PRB)?

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Key Highlights

ACDC Metals started a CSAMT survey and civil works at Mount Jackson ahead of a permitted 2,500 metre drill program.
Auris Minerals returned 4 metres at 1.87g/t gold from 75 metres at Jacques East in one-metre resampling.
Parbo Resources completed 54 aircore holes for 5,460 metres and is starting an 11-hole, 2,450 metre RC campaign.
Auris said fire assay and cyanide leach results indicate low potential for nuggetty gold at the two prospects tested.

Three ASX-listed explorers released field updates on 6 November 2026. ACDC Metals (ASX:ADC) began work at its Nevada project, Auris Minerals (ASX:AUR) reported resample results from Western Australia, and Parbo Resources (ASX:PRB) completed aircore drilling and moved to reverse circulation drilling.

ACDC Metals Starts Field Work at Mount Jackson

ACDC Metals commenced field work at the Mount Jackson Gold-Silver Project in the Walker Lane of Nevada. A Controlled Source Audio Magnetotellurics survey has begun to refine targets defined by an earlier aeromagnetic and radiometric survey, and civil works are under way to prepare drill pads and access tracks. The company holds a Bureau of Land Management environmental permit, reported on 1 October 2026.

The permitted program covers up to 2,500 metres of RC drilling across 15 holes, contracted to FTE Drilling USA, with drilling targeted for the fourth quarter of calendar 2026. It will test extensions at the Pegasus Zone, where a historic hole returned 25 metres at 2.14g/t gold, and carry out the first drilling at the 3 Shaft Zone, where a rock sample returned 14.9% copper. Final hole positions will be set after the survey results.

The survey follows an aeromagnetic and radiometric survey reported on 22 July 2026 and a drilling agreement announced on 19 August. The Walker Lane is a mineralised belt with a long history of gold and silver production. ACDC also holds the Goschen Central rare earths and mineral sands project in Australia.

Auris Minerals Reports One-Metre Resamples

Auris received one-metre resample results from air core drilling at the Jacques East and Frenchys South prospects at its Morck Well Project, 130 kilometres north of Meekatharra in the Bryah Basin. Resampling covered zones that returned at least 0.1g/t gold in earlier five-metre composites, with 74 samples at Jacques East and 30 at Frenchys South, analysed by fire assay and cyanide leach.

Better results at Jacques East included 4 metres at 1.87g/t gold from 75 metres in hole JEAC0039, 3 metres at 1.6g/t from 67 metres in JEAC0029 and 13 metres at 0.72g/t from 25 metres in JEAC0030. At Frenchys South, hole FRAC0014 returned 9 metres at 0.45g/t from 36 metres. Because the fire assay and cyanide leach results were comparable with each other and with the composites, the company said the potential for nuggetty gold at both prospects appears low.

The initial five-metre composite results were reported on 14 September 2026. The program was designed to assess whether any nuggetty gold mineralisation was being under-represented in composite sampling.

Parbo Resources Moves to RC Drilling

Parbo completed its second aircore program, 54 holes for 5,460 metres at the Oddjob and Goldfinger prospects at Mount Padbury, where logging identified sheared and altered mafic rocks consistent with greenstone beneath cover. Samples have been sent for assay.

An 11-hole, 2,450 metre RC campaign was due to begin that week. Five deeper holes will test gravity anomalies at GoldenEye, Oddjob and Goldfinger along the interpreted Plutonic-Marymia structure. Six holes will then test geophysical targets at Narracoota in the Bryah Basin considered prospective for DeGrussa-style copper-gold mineralisation, with down-hole electromagnetic work to follow. Assays are also pending from aircore programs at Mount Padbury and Brians Mill, and any follow-up RC drilling at Brians Mill will depend on those results. Chief Executive Tim Campbell noted the work follows the company's listing on the ASX only weeks ago.

Chief Executive Tim Campbell said early logging supports the view that the Mount Maitland greenstones extend beneath the tenure, and that modern geophysics suggests historical drilling at Narracoota may have narrowly missed the primary target zones.

What to Watch

ACDC's next steps are survey results and the start of drilling, Auris has completed this round of resampling, and Parbo's assay results from two aircore programs are pending alongside new RC drilling.

FAQs

Q: How many holes has ACDC Metals permitted at Mount Jackson?

A: 15 holes, totalling up to 2,500 metres of RC drilling, with drilling targeted for the fourth quarter of calendar 2026.

Q: What did Auris Minerals conclude about nuggetty gold?

A: Comparable fire assay and cyanide leach results indicate low potential for nuggetty gold at Jacques East and Frenchys South.

Q: What will Parbo's RC program test?

A: Gold targets at GoldenEye, Oddjob and Goldfinger at Mount Padbury, and copper-gold targets at Narracoota.

Q: Are Parbo's aircore assays available?

A: No. Samples have been dispatched and assays are pending.

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