Astral Resources NL (ASX: AAR) has taken a major step toward bringing the Mandilla Gold Project into production with a heavily oversubscribed A$65 million placement. The funding provides a meaningful runway for completing the Mandilla Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS), progressing early-works, and continuing exploration. All projects sit immediately south of Kalgoorlie — one of Australia’s most productive gold jurisdictions.

Lion Rock Minerals Ltd (ASX: LRM) has reported further high-grade rutile and heavy mineral (HM) results from its Minta Rutile and Monazite Project, located in central Cameroon (Figure 1). The latest drilling confirms the scale, grade, and consistency of residual and alluvial rutile mineralisation across a vast exploration footprint, while reinforcing strategic alignment with global mineral sands producer Tronox Holdings plc.

E79 Gold Mines Limited (ASX: E79) has moved decisively to secure full control of the Cue Gold Project in Western Australia's Murchison region. The Project sits within the historic Day Dawn Goldfield, immediately south of the renowned Great Fingall Mine, an area long recognised for its high-grade quartz-reef–hosted gold systems. The Company has now exercised its Option Agreement to acquire six tenements, opening the door for immediate, project-wide exploration.

Heavy Rare Earths Limited (ASX: HRE) has reported encouraging reconnaissance rock chip sampling results from its Radium Hill Project in South Australia’s Curnamona Province (Figure). The work has outlined an extensive, 8 km-long structural corridor associated with the historic Radium Hill uranium mine, highlighting significant enrichment in scandium, yttrium, rare earth elements (REEs), uranium, and vanadium.

The discussion focused on tungsten, antimony, and gold, but more importantly, on mineral systems thinking—how deposits form, why certain geological settings matter, and why Pioneer’s ground selection in Idaho, USA, was anything but random. As someone who has followed tungsten closely, this was a conversation that went well beyond commodity hype and into the fundamentals of discovery.

Sun Silver Limited (ASX: SS1) has delivered yet another step-change in the scale of its cornerstone Maverick Springs Silver–Gold Project, located in northeast Nevada, approximately 85km from Elko and proximal to the world-renowned Carlin Trend. The latest Mineral Resource upgrade increases the total Inferred Mineral Resource to 539Moz silver equivalent (AgEq) at 71 g/t AgEq, representing an additional 59Moz AgEq uplift from the 2025 exploration and re-assay program.

OD6 Metals Ltd (ASX: OD6) has commenced a Downhole Electromagnetic (DHEM) survey at the Gulf Creek Copper Project, located near Barraba in northern New South Wales (Figure 1). The program marks a significant technical step forward in assessing the project’s volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) copper potential, following the completion of four diamond drill holes and earlier reverse-circulation (RC) drilling completed in 2025.

Algorae Pharmaceuticals Ltd (ASX: 1AI), headquartered in Melbourne, has reported a significant technical milestone with the independent preclinical validation of its AI-driven drug-combination platform, AlgoraeOS v1 (AOS1). The validation, completed at the Victorian Centre for Functional Genomics (VCFG) at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, provides the first external confirmation that AOS1 can identify synergistic drug pairs with real biological impact.

Pioneer Minerals Ltd (ASX: PMM) (formerly Pioneer Lithium Ltd) is advancing its North Pine Project in Idaho, USA, a region renowned for its Tier-1 critical minerals endowment (Figure 1). The latest field program has delivered multiple high-grade tungsten and gold results from the Springfield Prospect, alongside the identification of a new polymetallic precious-metal system at Silver Cliffs. These results materially expand the exploration proposition across the broader North P

Critical Resources Limited (ASX: CRR) has completed the acquisition of the Cap Burn Gold Project in the Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island (Figure 1), securing Ministerial approval for the transfer of exploration permit EP60300. The Company has also finalised the transfer of the land access agreement with the local landowner, clearing the way for an inaugural drilling program to commence in the coming weeks.