Liontown Resources spin-out Minerals 260 has struck a deal with mining entrepreneur Brian Rodan to buy a 3900sqkm project prospective for rare-earths, lithium and base metals in the hot Gascoyne region (reports The West Australian).

Bellevue Gold has signed a native title agreement with the Tjiwarl Aboriginal Corporation as it continues on its path to production at its $252 million namesake project near Leinster (reports The West Australian).

Bellevue Gold says it will be the first gold miner to have 80 per cent of its power generated by renewable energy after signing up for an off-grid hybrid power station for its namesake $252 million project near Leinster (reports The West Australian).

RareX says diamond core assays from drilling of its Cummings Range rare earth and phosphate deposit have shown the mineralisation persists down to at least 500m below the surface (reports MinngNews).

BlackEarth Minerals is putting the finishing touches into a feasibility study which will lay out the pathway to developing one of Africa’s next major graphite mines (reports Stockhead).

New World Resources says the latest assays from three deep exploration holes at its Antler copper deposit in Arizona, USA, have further expanded the deposit 150m down dip (reports Stockhead).

A volatility vortex of strength rarely seen whipped financial markets into a frenzy this week and almost broke the Bank of England.

E79 Gold Mines (ASX: E79) will expand its Jungar Flats gold and base metals project a further 25km south towards the Big Bell gold mine, which is the largest mine in the Murchison region of Western Australia (reports Small Caps).

Leonora junior Kin Mining has acquired a stake in takeover target Dacian Gold.

Latest assays from El Palmar in northern Ecuador have further expanded the area of known mineralisation with compelling new targets also defined for drill testing in October (reports Stockhead).

Labyrinth Resources’ move into Canada last year has produced its first milestone, a 500,000-ounce JORC-compliant inferred resource as well as the promise of more to come (reports MiningNews).

Results of the first diamond holes at Godley provide a wealth of information, taking the Mons Project in Western Australia forward and vectoring towards higher grade nickel sulphides (reports Stockhead).

The Rio Tinto executive charged with developing its lithium assets says critical minerals are becoming diamond-like in terms of the focus on provenance (reports The Australian Financial Review).

Gateway Mining is a little closer to its goal of defining one million ounces of gold, with a maiden resource for its recent Julias discovery putting it just above the halfway mark (reports MiningNews).

A commodities expert says its unclear what China can do to put the brakes on lithium prices with EV sales continuing to grow, after Pilbara Minerals set yet another record price for lithium raw materials (reports Stockhead).

Analysts tip Sandfire to be a big winner, especially if BHP takes over OZ, leaving Sandfire as the biggest ASX copper producer. Plus, there’s leverage galore in $22m Labyrinth with maiden JORC Resource imminent at its Canadian gold project.

Yawning gaps in asset-value estimates have emerged as a key measure of the uncertainty gripping global markets as central banks tighten the interest-rate screws.

By the law of things what goes up must come down, but we seem to be waiting a long time for that to happen when it comes to lithium prices after Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS) smashed another record with its latest spodumene auction (reports Stockhead).

The US$1.8 billion acquisition of the MATSA copper complex in Spain gave Sandfire Resources a dominant position in one of the world’s most prolific mineral belts (reports MiningNews).

The owners of three of the best metal discoveries in recent times have been doing it hard on the market – along with the rest of the mining sector (reports Barry FitzGerald on MiningNews).