Maritana Minerals Limited (ASX: MRT) has delivered a comprehensive progress update earlier this month on the Black Swan Processing Hub (BSPH), located roughly 50km from Kalgoorlie in the heart of the Western Australian Goldfields.

Rimfire Pacific Mining (ASX: RIM) is sharpening both its ownership position and its geological understanding of the Fifield District in central New South Wales. The company has confirmed it will move to a 60% interest in the Avondale Project after its exploration partner, Golden Plains Resources (GPR), gave notice of its intent to vest a 40% interest under the terms of the Avondale Earn-In Agreement. The move leaves Rimfire holding the majority stake and operational control

Iron Bear Resources (ASX: IBR) is developing a 13.6Bt Vale-backed magnetite project in Canada's Labrador Trough, producing DR-grade iron ore for green steel.

SEDEX systems are the world’s most important source of lead and zinc and rank among the largest, richest orebodies on earth. Miramar Resources Limited (ASX: M2R) confirmed it had completed its first-ever auger drilling programme at the Joy Helen copper-lead-silver prospect, part of the 100%-owned Chain Pool project in Western Australia's Gascoyne region. The drill program rides on the back of the project's similarities with Sedimentary Exhalative (SEDEX) deposits in the Macar

An independent look at the Aventine Resources IPO — a $15–20m ASX gold-copper float in WA's Paterson Province, backed by Greatland Resources.

Lion Rock Minerals Limited (ASX: LRM), formerly Peak Minerals, announced one of the more striking leadership reshuffles seen on the small-cap mineral sands board this year, installing two former Sierra Rutile executives — Theuns de Bruyn as Chief Executive Officer and Grant Scott as Chief Operating Officer.

The company has released the results of an extensive re-assay program over its 100%-owned Cardea 1 Project, situated along the Darling Range north of Perth in Western Australia.

Historic data from Union Carbide's drilling and metallurgical testwork have added geological and processing support to OD6 Metals’ Quinn Fluorspar Project, positioning the Nevada asset as a developing US critical minerals opportunity.

In this episode of Coffee with Samso, I sat down with David Edgecombe, the geologist who was instrumental in the discovery of the Challenger Gold Deposit in outback South Australia. David is not simply a man who happened to drill a good hole. He is a geologist's geologist — one who understood the rocks, trusted the science, and applied a methodology that was, at the time, genuinely groundbreaking in this part of the world.