The Pre-Start
OMG.V (C$1.5B) - Omai Gold filed an NI 43-101 supporting its August PEA for Wenot open pit and Gild underground deposits (351kozpa, US$4B NPV5 at US$3,600/oz Au, 24% IRR)
ALDE.V (C$590m) - Aldebaran drilled 1,729m of 0.45% CuEq from 141m (0.41% Cu, 0.03 g/t Au & 1.34 g/t Ag), including 756m of 0.68% CuEq (0.61% Cu, 0.03 g/t Au & 2.12 g/t Ag) at the Altar project in San Juan, Argentina | ▲ 18%
TRE ($322m) - Toubani remains on track for first gold from Kobada in Q3 2027, with CIL tank erection underway
MM1 ($278m) - Midas reported 22.6m at 6.01% CuEq from 347.5m at T-13, with T-13, Deblin and Spaatzu MREs due Q1 CY27
GBR ($191m) - Great Boulder reported 9m at 4.17 g/t gold from 6m at Enigma within Peak Hill
AEU ($142m) - Atomic Eagle's heap leach work at Muntanga East achieved 81–86% uranium recovery with 3 kg/t acid on 167 ppm U₃O₈
SHN ($122m) - Sunshine extended gold mineralisation at Sybil, with 4m at 11.1 g/t gold from 62m
DEV ($121m) - DevEx reported 1.7m at 1,116 ppm eU₃O₈ from 169m at Nabarlek Uranium project; hyperspectral mapping will guide follow-up drilling
AVL ($88m) - Australian Vanadium secured an AICIS certificate enabling industrial-scale vanadium electrolyte production
WCN ($88m) - White Cliff hit 76.5m at 2.01% Cu from 49.5m at Danvers 1, plus visible sulphides to 240m
DRE ($74m) - Dreadnought reported 7m at 8.6 g/t Au from 8m at Metzke’s North, Illaara project | ▲ 8%
RTR ($70m) - Rumble pushed the Western Queen Scoping Study to October, with a key approval outstanding and debt term sheets pending
TNR.V (C$63m) - Eucalyptus has dropped its BC Supreme Court petition, giving TNR’s board time to complete its strategic review
FLG ($58m) - Flagship secured three mineral claims, expanding Whipsaw Copper by ~132% to ~66km²; a spin-out is in preparation
GSN ($26m) - Great Southern reported 9m at 3.4 g/t gold from 127m at Golden Boulder, WA, extending mineralisation 50m down-dip
High Grade It
South Africa’s Sasol tops EM peers on oil-from-coal bonanza (Bloomberg) Top performing EM stock outside Asia, +120%
Barrick secures 15-year mining licences for North Mara in Tanzania (Mining.com) Does ~250kozpa attributable
South Korea, U.S. ink massive nuclear energy plan: Can it work? (NB) US$120B in allocated funding
London gold body seeks to boost finances with higher fees (Bloomberg)
Westwin selected Mississippi for a US$502m class 1 nickel refinery (BW)
KGL ($409m) - KGL received US$16m from Wheaton, completing US$32m early deposit; US$243m and US$25m overrun facility available
KZR ($53m) - Kalamazoo entered a trading halt pending a capital raise
UM1 ($25m) - Unity will issue 1-for-2 SPP attaching options at 22.5c expiring Oct '28, subject to shareholder approval
Wiluna launches $180m IPO to revive WA's infamous gold mine (Australian) Must be the 28th article on this IPO?
Masan High-Tech seeks approval for 5% private placement to fund tungsten expansion at Nui Phao in Vietnam (Mining.com)
Word on the Decline
We’ve all heard South32 is scouring the globe for its next copper development project, from Central Africa to the Americas and even Europe. It may not need to look much further than 13.6%-owned Aldebaran.
Overnight, Aldebaran added ~18% to its market cap after hole ALD-260 punched high-grade mineralisation hundreds of metres beneath the existing Altar resource pit shell, adding decades to its eventual mine life.

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Ownership & Oversight
In the Weeds
China Just Published Its 15th Five-Year Plan Energy Blueprint. Here’s What’s In It (Sinamin) Watch what the party does… 1,500 GW of new capacity
Thousand-Bagger in Uranium (Big Score) Wild story of Stephen Roman & the creation of Denison
VADER: a Market-Implied Measure of Geopolitical Risk (White paper) Let the market tell you the risk
Gold takes a peek into the abyss (Dryblower)
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