Base Metals

Titan drills deep as gold climbs high and Hancock backs big copper bets in Ecuador's rising mining frontier

At the RIU Sydney Resources Round-up 2025, Titan Minerals Ltd revealed a resource growth story that's hard to ignore — a gold developer with copper upside, strong institutional backing, and a serious drilling campaign underway across multiple fronts in Ecuador.

Tasmania’s next big tin thing combines green power, high grade and smart tech to shake up the global supply chain and put old-school miners on notice

A high-grade underground tin project in Tasmania is shaping up to be one of the most technically efficient and METS-driven developments in the sector, combining smart drilling, ore sorting technology, and a 100 percent renewable power supply to redefine what "green mining" looks like in the post-carbon economy.

Wandanya puts Black Canyon on the map with high-grade manganese and iron discovery that’s turning heads and drill rigs in the Pilbara

Black Canyon (ASX: BCA) used the RIU Sydney Resources Round-up 2025 to showcase something that’s getting field geologists and metallurgists talking: a genuine greenfields manganese discovery in the Pilbara with direct shipping-grade iron in the mix.

Empire’s titanium unicorn breaks the mould with free-dig ore, no ilmenite, and a flow sheet that rewrites the TiO₂ playbook

Forget ilmenite—sediment-hosted, hydrothermally-altered titanium system in Western Australia is flipping the script on how high-grade TiO₂ feedstocks are found—and how they’re processed.