Colin Hay
Colin Sandell-Hay is a multi-award winning resources, energy and business journalist. He has 50 years experience as an editor and journalist, with more than 30 of those years as a magazine editor in the business and resources sector.
Gateway Mining Launches Major Exploration Program at Glenburgh South Gold Project
Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) is preparing to undertake its first significant exploration activity at its newly acquired Glenburgh South gold project in Western Australia. The company has engaged MAGSPEC Airborne Surveys to undertake a high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric survey across 46,728 line kilometres at a 50m spacing, covering a total of approximately 620 sq km. […]
Boss Energy on Track to Meet 2026 Guidance after Record September Quarter
Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) is on target to match its 2026 guidance after booking a record-breaking September quarter. The company generated robust free cash flow with strong production from its Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia, and costs lower than the forecast annual guidance. Boss enters the new quarter with zero debt, $212.4 million in […]
Terra Metals Hits Multiple Sulphide Zones at Dante’s Southwest Prospect
Terra Metals (ASX: TM1) believes the Southwest prospect at its multi-element Dante project in Western Australia is emerging as a new cornerstone growth opportunity. The company has visually identified multiple zones of massive, semi-massive, and net-textured sulphides with diamond drilling at Southwest. Notably, the new sulphide intercepts occur outside and below the zone Terra covered […]
Advance Metals Flags Major Expansion Potential At Happy Valley after Deep Visible Gold Hit
Advance Metals (ASX: AVM) is preparing to accelerate exploration at the Happy Valley deposit at its Myrtleford project in Victoria’s goldfields after intersecting visible gold mineralisation in the deepest hole drilled there to date. The company is considering bringing in additional rigs as part of a follow-up exploration strategy to fully define the scale of […]
Mount Ridley Mines Identifies Major Gallium Resource at Namesake Project in WA
Mount Ridley Mines (ASX: MRD) has released a maiden gallium mineral resource estimate (MRE) for its namesake Mt Ridley project in Western Australia’s far south. The JORC-compliant mineral resource estimate (MRE) currently stands at 838.7 million tonnes at 29.3 parts per million for 24,584t, ranking it among the world’s largest known gallium resources. In anticipation of […]
Javelin Minerals Unveils New Gold and Copper Targets at Coogee Project in WA
Javelin Minerals (ASX: JAV) has identified a range of drilling targets through a desktop study of historical exploration information from its Coogee gold and copper project located near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The review has unearthed a number of large geophysical anomalies coincident with widespread gold and copper from shallow historical drilling at Coogee North and […]
Resolution Minerals Moving Quickly to Follow Up Gold Discovery at Horse Heaven Project
Resolution Minerals (ASX: RML) is fast-tracking follow-up drilling of a significant gold discovery at its Horse Heaven project in Idaho after a large near-surface gold discovery highlighted its significant precious metals potential. While Horse Heaven’s critical minerals upside has recently been attracting global interest, the early stages of Resolution’s first drill program at the Golden […]
Northern Minerals Raises $60.5 Million to Progress Browns Range Rare Earth Project
Northern Minerals (ASX: NTU) has confirmed the broad consensus that its Browns Range site is one of the world’s most significant undeveloped heavy rare earth element (HREE) projects with its successful completion of a $60.5 million capital raise. The company received binding commitments from new local and international institutions, along with sophisticated investors, for the heavily […]
Verity Resources Completes Key Survey Ahead of Drilling at Perseverance Prospect
Verity Resources (ASX: VRL) has completed a critical induced polarisation (IP) survey in the lead-up to drilling at the Perseverance prospect within the company’s Monument gold project in Western Australia. Results from the survey across 500 metres of strike will help define gold sulphide target zones from surface to 250m depth, and provide key data for […]
Encounter Resources Uncovers High-Grade Rare Earth Elements at West Arunta Project
Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) is confident the southern margin of the Green carbonatite complex is emerging as a highly prospective target zone for high-grade rare earth element (REE) mineralisation at its West Arunta project in Western Australia. The company has obtained further promising aircore drilling results at Green, intersecting high-grade niobium mineralisation over a one-kilometre strike […]
Altair Minerals Expands Gold Exploration Program at Guyanese South Oko Prospect
Altair Minerals (ASX: ALR) has announced plans to double the size of its current field exploration program at the South Oko prospect in Guyana, which it finalised the acquisition of earlier this month. The expanded scope of works at South Oko will include approximately 1,200 additional soil samples, 500 auger holes, and more than seven kilometres […]
Verity Resources Unveils Major Gold Discoveries at Monument Project in WA
Verity Resources (ASX: VRL) has reported additional significant gold hits from a 54-hole infill drilling program at its Monument gold project in Western Australia’s Laverton goldfields. The company, which has so far only tested approximately 10% of a 20-kilometre strike with detailed air core and reverse circulation drilling, now has as many as 60 priority targets […]
Blue Energy’s Oversubscribed SPP a Sign of Investor Confidence in Gas Future
Blue Energy’s (ASX: BLU) run of success with its northern Australia gas developments has helped its share purchase plan (SPP) finish heavily oversubscribed. Blue’s board elected to increase the SPP from its initial target of $250,000 after receiving significant interest from retail shareholders, and the plan eventually brought in $2.6 million. The outstanding response to the […]
Thor Energy Partners with DISA Technologies to Remediate Abandoned Colorado Uranium Mines
Thor Energy (ASX: THR) has finalised plans with DISA Technologies to investigate the use of unique technologies to treat selected waste dumps at abandoned mines in Colorado, with the aim of recovering saleable uranium and other critical mineral concentrates. DISA recently became the first company in the US to receive a final service providers license (SPL) […]
International Graphite Secures Landholding to Expand Collie Micronising Facility
International Graphite (ASX: IG6) has achieved another milestone in its global “mine-to-market” strategy, with the signing of key contracts supporting the development of its graphite micronising facility at Collie in Western Australia. The company has completed an agreement with the WA government’s central land and development agency to acquire 6,000 square metres of land across three […]
St George Mining Reports High-Grade Drilling Success at Araxá Project in Brazil
St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has identified significant upside with high-grade diamond drilling results at its new Araxá rare earths and niobium project in Brazil. The company only acquired Araxá in late February, and through a calculated exploration strategy has already de-risked what it believes is a potentially world-class project in an area containing significant niobium mining […]
EcoGraf Advances Epanko Project with Key Resettlement Action Plan Milestone
EcoGraf (ASX: EGR) has achieved a key milestone in its development of the Epanko graphite project in Tanzania, completing the design of a critical community support program. The company is now preparing to submit an updated Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for Epanko to the local district council and other government authorities after two years of work […]
Resolution Minerals Partners with KPM, Tribeca to Advance Horse Heaven Antimony Project
Resolution Minerals (ASX: RML) has brought in a North American process management specialist to help define the development pathway for its Horse Heaven high-grade antimony project. As a key component of the company’s downstream strategy, the company has engaged Canadian firm Kingston Process Metallurgy (KPM) to undertake critical characterisation and concentration test work on samples from […]
Barton Gold Completes $15m Franklin Templeton-Led Placement, Commences SPP
Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) (OTCQB: BGDFF) has received significant international funding support for its aggressive South Australia mine development plans. The company has now finalised its placement led by American investment management company Franklin Templeton, in which Barton has raised $15 million for commissioning of ‘Stage 1’ production at its Gawler Craton gold operations. Franklin Templeton’s […]
Advance Metals Further Bolsters Leadership Team with Mining Veteran David O’Connor
Advance Metals (ASX: AVM) continues to add significant experience to its leadership team as it accelerates development of its high-grade Mexican gold and silver projects. Highly-regarded mining veteran David O’Connor is the latest senior appointment, bringing more than 40 years of experience to the role of non-executive chair. Advance announced the initial appointments of Douglas Coleman […]