Junior explorer Stavely Minerals (ASX: SVY) has launched a $5.5 million capital raising to fund the next stage of exploration and resource definition drilling at its namesake copper-gold project in western Victoria (reports Small Caps).

Extensional drilling at New World Resources’ (ASX: NWC) Antler deposit has uncovered more wide and high-grade copper mineralisation at depth in several targets, which could boost the current resource and project development economics (reports Small Caps).

Pilbara Minerals continues to benefit from booming demand for lithium as battery makers race to secure supplies of the vital battery ingredient (reports The West Australian).

A decision seven months ago to dedicate a few holes to double-check the historical Gilbey’s North aircore anomaly by Gascoyne Resources chief geologist Graham Gadsby has again proven its worth by opening up a new target (reports MiningNews).

Alicanto Minerals managing director Peter George has never one to spare superlatives when describing the company’s flagship Sala lead-zinc-silver project in Sweden, but now he can back those words up with some hard numbers (reports MiningNews).

Kairos Minerals has confirmed the presence of spodumene-bearing pegmatite within its Mt York gold project, in WA's Pilbara, just 4km from Pilbara Minerals' Pilgangoora lithium-tantalum mine (reports MiningNews).

Boss Energy's long-term plans to ambition an even larger, longer-life in-situ recovery uranium development at Honeymoon in South Australia have been given a boost with drilling intersecting mineralisation outside the resource envelope such as 6m at 581 parts per million from 84.5m, including 2.5m at 1342ppm at the Brooks Dam Extensional area and 3m at 431ppm from 74m at Eaglehawk Dam (reports MiningNews).

Tony Ottaviano is relishing his relatively new role as managing director of lithium developer Liontown Resources, his first time running a company (reports MiningNews).

Emerging gold miner Calidus Resources says after just two months of being in production that is in the final push to completing the transition to steady state production at its A$120 million Warrawoona gold project in WA’s Pilbara (reports MiningNews).

Calidus Resources is enjoying its status as Australia’s newest gold producer (reports MiningNews).

With the growing importance of rare earths, the 104% increase in resources at Australian Rare Earth’s Koppamurra project is well-timed indeed (reports Stockhead).

Red 5 has reported positive progress from both of its Western Australian gold operations (reports MiningNews).

PolarX has stuck paydirt encountering two styles of mineralisation with its first 10 RC holes into the Star Canyon prospect, within its Humboldt Range project in Nevada (reports MiningNews).

Nordic Nickel has revealed its MRE (mineral resource estimate) for the Hotinvaara prospect, which sits at 133.6Mt at 0.21% nickel and 0.01% cobalt for 278,520t of contained nickel and 12,560t cobalt (reports Stockhead).

Gascoyne Resources has become the latest Australian gold producer to navigate the choppy waters of inclement weather and significantly increased COVID-19 cases to deliver its full-year production guidance (reports MiningNews).

You might not never know it but us green-talking Australians have been involved in matters of nuclear importance ever since some idiot split an atom (reports Stockhead).

Shares in Chalice Mining jumped 13 per cent after the company reported positive early indications from drilling in the Julimar State Forest north of its celebrated Gonneville polymetallic discovery near Toodyay (reports The West Australian).

Liontown said it would develop its Kathleen Valley lithium mine after it struck an offtake deal with US car manufacturing giant Ford for up to 150,000 dry metric tonnes of spodumene concentrate – a source of lithium essential in key EV battery chemistries – for five years, beginning in 2024.

Strong lithium market conditions have given Pilbara Minerals the confidence to proceed with a circa A$300 million expansion of its Pilgangoora operation in Western Australia (reports MiningNews).

Liontown Resources has pushed the button on its Kathleen Valley lithium project after striking a crucial $300 million debt funding agreement with US car giant Ford (reports The West Australian).