Exploration often gets pushed to the side when you’re a big mining developer but for advanced junior stocks, the discovery phase is where the real opportunity lies (reports Stockhead).

Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) has reported a “highly productive” quarter which saw it move closer to its target of achieving first uranium production before year end at the re-started Honeymoon project in South Australia (reports Small Caps).

Alicanto Minerals has completed a geological review of data from the historic Falun copper-gold-zinc-silver-lead mine in Sweden which has flagged high-priority brownfields targets for testing in its upcoming diamond drilling program (reports Stockhead).

• Never Never gold discovery – current Resource of 303,000oz at 4.6gpt in WA

Bill Beament, the man who turned Northern Star Resources from a $1 million gold miner into a $10 billion company, says he saw this week how hot lithium really is (reports The Australian Financial Review).

ASX: CY5                                         Share Price: 30c
Shares on Issue: 214m            Market Cap: $66M

Bill Beament’s Develop Global has lobbed a takeover offer for Mineral Resources-backed Essential Metals, marking the company’s first foray into the red-hot lithium sector (reports The West Australian).

Brazilian nickel developer Centaurus Metals (ASX: CTM) is poised for a substantial re-rating, according to new research notes released by mainstream brokers in Australia and North America (reports Stockhead).

Junior explorer PolarX expects to see improved results from an in-progress scoping study for its Caribou Dome deposit in Alaska after its improved structural understanding has delivered it a substantially larger resource (reports MiningNews).

Bellevue Gold has received the final regulatory approval required to get into production (reports MiningNews).

Garimpeiro sent out the wrong message last year when he suggested it was a smart idea to pick up gold developers on the cheap to cash in on the market re-rating that would occur on first production being achieved (reports Barry FitzGerald on Stockhead).

Against this backdrop, small and mid-cap gold stocks offer investors leveraged exposure to what many analysts believe will be one of the hot share market themes of 2023.

The product’s white and the sector’s white-hot. But which lithium stocks offer the best way into one of the biggest commodity booms seen for years?

What do you get when you mix an energy crisis, underinvestment in old energy, and global net-zero targets? (reports Livewire)

Labyrinth Resources has struck visual gold in exploration outside its resource at its namesake project in Canada, giving confidence there is plenty more of the rich, high-grade goodness to be found in the Quebec deposit (reports Stockhead).

Mincor Resources boss David Southam says recent high-grade drill results between its Long and Durkin North mines provide increased opportunity to extend the five-year mine life of its Kambalda nickel operations (reports The West Australian).

As the seventh anniversary of its involvement in the Caribou Dam project ticks over, PolarX has reported excellent infill copper results ahead of scoping numbers (reports MiningNews).