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Kambalda nickel miner Mincor Resources is at risk of defaulting on its debt, warning it expects one of its financial covenants to be breached at the end of the financial year (reports The West Australian).

Strandline Resources has confirmed its place among the world’s key mineral sands exporters with its sixth cargo waved off from its flagship Coburn project in Western Australia (reports MiningNews).

Plus, the lack of share price response to Gascoyne Gold’s bumper results at Never Never becomes curiouser and curiouser. But Bellavista’s 7.5% zinc hit in WA is garnering interest.

By Barry FitzGerald

It wasn’t easy to find good news this week as New Zealand kicked off what looks to be another round of interest rate increases, but beneath the gloom there was a little glitter, with lithium shining even as most share prices drifted lower.

By Tim Treadgold

Hammer Metals tested almost two dozen targets in Queensland last year, many for the first time, but it was the unique nature of its Hardway discovery that convinced it to drill another dozen RC holes (reports MiningNews).

By Mining News

Trek Metals is ramping up its efforts to explore its patch of Western Australia’s Pilbara for lithium and refine its manganese processing options (reports MiningNews).

Two of the most bullish presentations at last week’s Resources Rising Stars conference on the Gold Coast were from companies in the long-suffering uranium sector (reports MiningNews).

Kingsland Minerals is off to a solid start at its Leliyn project in the Northern Territory, with first four RC holes intersecting up to 150m downhole of graphitic schist (reports Stockhead).

Microcap explorer Kingsland Minerals made its mark on the Resources Rising Stars conference last week, rising 63% after its first public presentation (reports MiningNews).

WA’s next gold miner Bellevue has struck a deal with a leading independent power provider to help it become Australia’s first net-zero producer of the precious metal (reports The West Australian).