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By Barry FitzGerald| Outlook is good news for Kingsland and its NT graphite find, which has hallmarks of becoming a world-class orebody. Plus, Rio is sure to be looking at strong DFS numbers on CZR’s neighbouring Pilbara iron ore project.

By Tim Treadgold| Investors shrugged off the first week of the latest war in the Middle East but it might be wise to look ahead for future effects on three key wartime commodities, gold, oil and copper, which could all surge higher as the fighting continues.

DevEx has bolstered in uranium exploration portfolio, securing an earn-in agreement at the province-scale Murphy West tenements in the NT (reports Stockhead).

Pioneer Lithium (ASX: PLN) has made a positive beginning to its maiden exploration program identifying new outcropping pegmatites at Root Lake in northern Ontario, one of its three battery metals projects in Canada (reports Small Caps).

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).