Battery metals-focused explorer Trek Metals (ASX: TKM) has confirmed the presence of high-grade lithium within an extensive and undrilled pegmatite system at its wholly-owned Tambourah project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region (reports Small Caps).

Junior explorer Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) has reported “strong” gold results from a drilling campaign targeting extensions to known mineralisation along the Caledonian-Montague Shear system at its flagship Montague gold project in Western Australia (reports Small Caps).

Sandfire Resources has appointed South32 lead team member Brendan Harris as its new managing director and CEO (reports MiningNews).

Strandline Resources boss Luke Graham says the timing of the company’s $260 million Coburn minerals sands project is still ideal despite “jittery” global markets (reports The West Australian).

An initial ore reserve for the LN04a discovery will extend the life of Mincor Resources’ newly restarted Kambalda operations to six years, the company has announced (reports The West Australian).

New gold miner Calidus Resources has largely overcome early production issues at its Warrawoona mine in the Pilbara, according to managing director Dave Reeves (reports MiningNews).

COVID absenteeism and unplanned processing plant downtime have hampered the ramp-up of production at the King of the Hills mine, but Red 5 remains confident it will achieve commercial gold production at the Leonora operation this quarter (reports The West Australian).

Bellevue Gold says workers’ mental health and wellbeing was a high priority in the design of its 343-person camp which has just been completed (reports The West Australian).

The delineation of two strong anomalies at both the Ichucollo and Huancune targets has increased the total strike length to 6km following the completion of two surveys in September (reports Stockhead).

Having delivered a disastrous quarterly production report on Friday, Gascoyne Resources managing director delivered some good news this morning, suggesting its new Never Never lode discovery has all the hallmarks of a major gold system (reports MiningNews).

Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) has reported strong intercepts grading up to 5.6 grams per tonne gold from a new and large-scale mineralised zone at the Achilles deposit, within the Montague project in Western Australia (reports Small Caps).

Pilbara Minerals boss Dale Henderson says his phone is switched to silent as a constant stream of car and battery makers try to secure supplies of lithium, and he doesn’t expect the calls to stop any time soon (reports The Australian Financial Review).

Red 5’s commissioning of its flagship King of the Hills operation has not gone entirely to plan with ramp-up issues and unplanned downtime at its mill, but the miner still expects to reach commercial production by the end of December (reports MiningNews).

Drilling within Hammer Metals’ portfolio in Queensland’s prospective Mt Isa region has delivered more evidence of copper mineralisation at two prospects this week (reports MiningNews).

Chalice Mining says it is considering a strategic minority joint venture partner or partners to develop a mine at Gonneville, part of the Julimar project, 70km out of Perth (reports MiningNews).

Is De Grey Mining (ASX:DEG) Chairman Simon Lill about to strike it rich again (reports Stockhead).

Kin Mining and its major German shareholders have further increased their shareholding in Genesis Minerals-controlled Dacian Gold (reports MiningNews).

Sunstone’s imminent maiden resource for its Bramaderos copper-gold project in southern Ecuador could be pretty meaty if the further wide drill intersections are anything to go by (reports Stockhead).

TSX-listed international rare earths producer Neo Performance Materials has signed a memorandum of understanding that could see it become a vital partner to pioneering explorer Australian Rare Earths and its flagship Koppamurra project along the Victorian and South Australian border (reports MiningNews).

Scoping work at the Alaska Range copper-gold owned by mini-cap PolarX has pointed the company towards doing more drilling to expand the resource (reports MiningNews).