Appointed last year to boost Alicanto Minerals market traction, managing director Rob Sennitt has made comparisons between Alicanto’s Sala deposit in Sweden and the much, much higher valued Rupice deposit in Bosnia and Herzegovina owned by Adriatic Metals (reports MiningNews).

Alicanto Minerals (ASX: AQI) believes it is on to a winner at the historic Falun gold-zinc-silver-lead mine in Sweden, with its due diligence revealing extensive mineralisation remains at the world-class project (reports Small Caps).

It has been an unusually rough week for the dual listed lithium high-flyer Patriot Battery Metals (writes Barry Fitzgerald on MiningNews).

Nimy Resources (NIM) continues to close in on highly valuable nickel sulphides, with the latest exploration results confirming several targets and identifying new ones (reports Stockhead).

Scoping study values Essential Metals’ Pioneer Dome lithium project near Norseman at $367 million

The new boss of a lithium-focused battery metal company has backed in Canada as one of the hottest markets for the critical mineral as miners race to secure assets to meet a surge in demand for electric vehicles (reports The West Australian).

Centaurus Metals appears to have the 1 million tonnes of contained nickel-milestone well within hand following latest step out drilling results from Brazil (reports MiningNews).

It has long been the forgotten half of the lithium-ion battery but proponents of graphite believe the mineral is about to have its moment in the sun (reports The West Australian).

Sandfire Resources’ Motheo copper mine in Botswana is nearing the end of the construction phase (reports MiningNews).

Thick, high-grade intercepts have been reported by Red 5 as the gold miner seeks to refine its mine plan over the next 18 months at its flagship King of the Hills project in Western Australia (reports MiningNews).

Liontown Resources says the commencement of open pit mining at its Kathleen Valley lithium project signifies its transition from explorer to mine operator (reports The West Australian).

Kambalda nickel producer Mincor Resources (ASX:MCR) will need to see production lift by at least 300% in the second half of fiscal 2023 to meet its financial year guidance as its WA nickel sulphide operations continue to ramp up (reports Stockhead).

Emerging uranium producer Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) has announced two key appointments for its Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia as construction ramps up towards commissioning (reports Small Caps).

Strandline Resources has confirmed it has completed its second shipment of heavy minerals from its wholly-owned Coburn project in Western Australia (reports The West Australian).

A host of strong drilling results has set the scene for an imminent resource upgrade at Australian Rare Earths’ (ASX: AR3) Koppamurra project in South Australia (reports Small Caps).

Nimy Resources (NIM) has made a potentially-lucrative addition to the exploration riches emerging at its Mons project in WA, with soil sampling outlining a large lithium anomaly (reports Stockhead).

It’s unlikely that many Australian investors are following the travels of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (reports The Australian Financial Review).

Assays from drilling at Cosmo Metals' high-priority Minjina target appear to have confirmed a new volcanogenic massive sulphide-style base metals discovery within its Yamarna project, 150km east of Laverton in Western Australia (reports MiningNews).

RareX continues to highlight just how much room its Cummins Range rare earths and phosphate project has to grow in after drilling returned thick mineralised intercepts (reports Stockhead).

With its newly commercial King of the Hills operation in Western Australia humming along, gold miner Red 5 is studying an expansion plan (reports MiningNews).