With lithium, gallium, germanium and copper projects across three continents, Battery Age Minerals is well-placed for the world’s push towards clean energy (reports Stockhead).

Sunstone Metals (ASX: STM) has announced an “outstanding” 269 metre intersection grading 1.05 grams per tonne gold equivalent (AuEq) at its high-grade Limon epithermal gold-silver discovery within the Bramaderos project in southern Ecuador (reports Small Caps).

Steve Parsons’ decision to join Auteco Minerals at a time to help it move into the Canadian copper space has got the nod from investors, with a share purchase plan being offered three times the cash sought (reports MiningNews).

Red 5 has now delivered its second solid quarter since mining started on the main orebody at its King of the Hill pit, feeding its modern facility, but the operation also appears to have delivered the aging Darlot mill a new lease on life (reports MiningNews).

Kin Mining and its largest shareholder have accepted Genesis Minerals’ offer for the Dacian Gold shares they own, marking a strong start to the Raleigh Finlayson-led company’s bid for total control of its fellow northern Goldfields goldminer (reports The West Australian).

Develop Global’s all-scrip takeover of Essential Metals has been waved through by shareholders in a deal likely to be valued at about $150 million (reports The West Australian).

DevEx has bolstered in uranium exploration portfolio, securing an earn-in agreement at the province-scale Murphy West tenements in the NT (reports Stockhead).

Pioneer Lithium (ASX: PLN) has made a positive beginning to its maiden exploration program identifying new outcropping pegmatites at Root Lake in northern Ontario, one of its three battery metals projects in Canada (reports Small Caps).

Does lithium extend all the way from the spodumene-rich Falcon Main to Falcon North areas? Battery Age Minerals is about to find out, following the acquisition of ground which makes Falcon Lake one contiguous project area (reports Stockhead).

The boss of Mark Creasy-backed CZR Resources believes the junior miner being in Rio Tinto’s sights would make “great sense”, following a feasibility study on a Pilbara project that delivered a share price surge (reports The West Australian).

Spartan has been rated a ‘Speculative Buy’ by two leading brokers on the back of its +720,000oz high-grade Never Never gold resource and potential for “exponential high-grade resource growth” (reports Stockhead).

Develop has reported a 40% increase in the high-grade copper-zinc resource at its Woodlawn project in New South Wales (reports MiningNews).

Bill Beament says the assets and capability assembled by his vehicle Develop make it a powerful business (reports MiningNews).

Subiaco-based Boss Energy has kicked off mining activities at its Honeymoon uranium project amid a nuclear “renaissance”, which the company’s leader says Australia risks missing out on (reports The West Australian).

Canadian explorer Pioneer Lithium has begun mapping and sampling work at Root Lake, directly between Green Technology Metals’ Root Bay, Morrison/McCombe, and La Grande lithium deposits in Ontario (reports Stockhead).  

James Bay Minerals (ASX: JBY) has discovered over 20 new pegmatite dykes as part of a maiden exploration campaign at the Aero prospect within its La Grande project in Canada (reports Small Caps).

Bellevue Gold managing director Darren Stralow says lithium may have stolen the limelight of late, but gold is making a comeback (reports MiningNews).

Boss Energy has added further strategic upside to its already significant South Australian uranium portfolio with the award of four highly prospective exploration tenements under a minerals rights sharing arrangement with copper developer Coda Minerals (reports Small Caps).

Influential proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services says it supports Develop Global’s takeover of lithium junior Essential Metals ahead of a shareholder vote this month (reports The West Australian).

Trigg Minerals has received a $1 million boost as it looks to progress its stalled Lake Throssell sulphate of potash project in the northern Goldfields (reports The West Australian).