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South Australia uranium developer Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) continues to make strong progress on its planned reopening of the Honeymoon mine, with well field drilling now underway (reports Small Caps).

Bill Beament’s Develop Global has delivered a sizeable boost to total and indicated resources at its emerging Sulphur Springs base metal play, 112km southeast of Port Hedland in Western Australia’s Pilbara region (reports MiningNews).

Proxy adviser ISS has weighed into a stoush at aspiring mine developer TNG, backing the incumbent board over a group of dissident shareholders (reports The West Australian).

The Ken Brinsden-chaired Patriot has just unveiled its best drill hit yet, sending its shares on another run. And the results it is generating at its Corvette project in Canada’s James Bay highlight the potential for minnow Cygnus, which is preparing to drill its Pontax project in the Bay. Meanwhile, Essential is set to show how smaller lithium deposits can drive large valuations.

Interest rates are not alone in reaching for the sky. The mighty U.S. dollar is also rocketing up and when it comes to commodity prices the combination of higher rates and a higher dollar can be lethal, as seen in the sliding gold price.

Sandfire Resources boss Karl Simich believes the company’s Motheo copper development is just the start of a long life for the company in Botswana (reports MiningNews).

Mining the options to become Australia’s cleanest operator, Bellevue Gold is weighing up the power of solar, wind, batteries — and even gravity (reports AAP).

The new board at Kairos Minerals, under chair Klaus Eckhof and geologist Dr Peter Turner as managing director, has delivered a significant boost to resources at the company’s flagship Mt York gold project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region (reports MiningNews).

Sunstone has uncovered proof about the scale of its Brama-Alba porphyry discovery in Ecuador after intersecting a thick 202m intersection grading 0.88g/t gold equivalent (reports Stockhead).

Marketing, not discovery, can be the biggest test for a small company trying to enter a bulk commodities business, which is why iron ore hopeful CZR Resources (ASX: CZR) could have just got a leg up (reports Tim Treadgold on Small Caps).