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Alicanto Minerals managing director Peter George has never one to spare superlatives when describing the company’s flagship Sala lead-zinc-silver project in Sweden, but now he can back those words up with some hard numbers (reports MiningNews).

Kairos Minerals has confirmed the presence of spodumene-bearing pegmatite within its Mt York gold project, in WA's Pilbara, just 4km from Pilbara Minerals' Pilgangoora lithium-tantalum mine (reports MiningNews).

Boss Energy's long-term plans to ambition an even larger, longer-life in-situ recovery uranium development at Honeymoon in South Australia have been given a boost with drilling intersecting mineralisation outside the resource envelope such as 6m at 581 parts per million from 84.5m, including 2.5m at 1342ppm at the Brooks Dam Extensional area and 3m at 431ppm from 74m at Eaglehawk Dam (reports MiningNews).

Tony Ottaviano is relishing his relatively new role as managing director of lithium developer Liontown Resources, his first time running a company (reports MiningNews).

Promising drill hit 10km north of its world-class Gonneville nickel-copper-PGE find, and one from Caspin 30km further along, set investors’ juices flowing again. Plus, last week’s words of rare earths wisdom were bang on the money, as Australian Rare Earths proved, and iron ore junior Genmin defies the odds with US$10m in funding from Anglo American

Most commodities continued to fall this week, taking share prices with them, including gold, which hit a nine-month low, though gold’s decline of US$70 an ounce to US$1744/oz was offset by an eye-catching increase in deal flow.

Emerging gold miner Calidus Resources says after just two months of being in production that is in the final push to completing the transition to steady state production at its A$120 million Warrawoona gold project in WA’s Pilbara (reports MiningNews).

Calidus Resources is enjoying its status as Australia’s newest gold producer (reports MiningNews).

With the growing importance of rare earths, the 104% increase in resources at Australian Rare Earth’s Koppamurra project is well-timed indeed (reports Stockhead).

Red 5 has reported positive progress from both of its Western Australian gold operations (reports MiningNews).