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TNG Ltd (ASX: TNG) has secured a $3.7 million research and development tax rebate as it rapidly advances its wholly-owned Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron operation for global markets (reports Small Caps).

Another record price for Pilbara Minerals’ product prompts MD Ken Brinsden to question analysts’ price assumptions. And Sandfire chief Karl Simich also has a message for the market: forget costs, focus on margins.

Australian investors crept out of their foxholes yesterday after a confidence-sapping week under a barrage of heavy fire that included news of soaring inflation, slowing growth, rising interest rates and higher taxes

With open pit and underground mining underway on schedule at its flagship King of the Hills redevelopment in Western Australia, Red 5 is now describing the first gold pour as “imminent” (reports MiningNews).

Minerals 260 boss David Richards says the gold and copper hits the Liontown Resources spin-out company is getting at its Moora project shows how much of WA’s mineral wealth is yet to be discovered (reports The West Australian).

Mincor Resources boss David Southam says recent volatility in the nickel market has distracted investors from the healthy underlying fundamentals of the battery metal (reports The West Australian).

A series of “outstanding” high-grade hits at Stavely Minerals’ namesake copper-gold project in western Victoria have paved the way for an initial mineral resource this quarter (reports Small Caps).

RareX has put drill rigs on the ground at Cummins Range critical minerals project, right as Federal Government support for critical minerals ramps up (reports Stockhead).

Labyrinth’s strategy to convert the existing foreign resource at its namesake project to JORC standards has received a leg-up with drilling returning some impressive high-grade golds (reports Stockhead).

Batteries – and more precisely battery metals – are poised to replace chips as the new bottleneck for the auto industry (reports The Washington Post).