Sunstone Metals (ASX: STM) has continued to highlight the substantial potential of
its Limon epithermal discovery in southern Ecuador with the receipt of further high-
grade gold-silver assays (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).

By Barry FitzGerald | Plus, Stavely flags its Kimberley nickel prospect next to IGO’s hot hit, S2 about to drill alongside the rich Fosterville gold mine and CZR poised to release DFS on a high-margin iron ore project.

By Tim Treadgold | Markets suffered a bad case of financial flashbacks this week as the reality of interest rates staying higher for longer rocked investor confidence, leaving unanswered a tricky question: is it time to go bargain-hunting?

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).

Emerging minerals explorer Nimy is on the battery metals hunt in WA, primarily nickel (but also lithium), and is frothing today over a promising nickel-copper sulphide hit in its broad holdings (reports Stockhead).

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).

By Barry FitzGerald | Newly listed explorers James Bay Minerals and Pioneer Lithium lead the charge at the junior end. Plus, some light finally at the end of the tunnel for the struggling rare earths sector, which is good news for juniors like Codrus.

By Tim Treadgold | Uranium starred again this week against the backdrop of a flat Australian market as the price of the nuclear fuel hit US$70 a pound, a 12-year high, driving local uranium stocks to fresh price peaks while also masking a series of significant deals in other sectors.

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).

When Russia invaded Ukraine, panic gripped Europe’s nuclear experts—the civilian variety, that is (reports The Economist).

As with many executives, Evion Group’s Tom Revy believes his company is undervalued, and while he’s not game to say exactly where the emerging graphite producer should be capitalised today, he left the audience at the MiningNews Select conference in Perth with a clear idea of where he sees the company heading (reports MiningNews).