Minerals industry updates for February and March 2026

We scan ASX announcements and company websites for updates on exploration and mining activity. Here are the releases for February and March 2026.

We scan ASX announcements and company websites for updates on exploration and mining activity.

Here are the releases for February and March 2026.

Advance Metals

24 March 2026 – Drilling expands gold footprint at Happy Valley

Agnico Eagle

12 February 2026 – Update on 2025 exploration and 2026 exploration plans

Alkane Resources

25 February 2026 – Costerfield’s Kendal Deposit hits high-grade antimony-gold

Astron Limited

9 February 2026 – Astron in agreement with traditional owners for Donald rare earth and mineral sands

10 February 2026 – Aston seals agreement with Traditional Owners for Donald project

3 March 2026 – Astron builds case for Donald heavy earths production with resource and reserve update

Aureka

3 February 2026 – Irvine Project drilling – further tenacity gold intercepts

25 February 2026 – Newly identified high grade silver component to St Arnaud

Australian Rare Earths

16 February 2026 – Testwork optimisation delivers high recoveries of REE

Bubalus Resources Limited

5 February 2026 – Gold bearing system confirmed at Avon Plains

Dart Mining

17 March 2026 – Binding agreement to sell Buckland Gold Project

17 March 2026 – $7m non-binding term sheet for sale of Victorian projects

ECR Minerals

2 March 2026 – Award of Tambo South tenement

Falcon Metals

16 February 2026 – Blue Moon extended 80m along strike hitting 0.4m @ 167g/t Au

Gippsland Critical Minerals

9 February 2026 – East Gippsland recognised in Australian Critical Minerals Prospectus

18 February 2026 – Minister confirms ESS for redesigned Fingerboards Project

24 February 2026 – Commonwealth recognises Fingerboards with Major Project Status

Great Plains Metal Corp (formally Norrland Gold)

2 March 2026 – GPS commences drilling program at Everton, Victoria

Kaiser Reef

11 February 2026 – Union Hill Waste Dump drilling results & stockpile estimate

16 February 2026 – Strategic plan for Henty & Maldon

Kalamazoo

12 February 2026 – Extensive gold-antimony anomalism defined at Mt Piper Gold

Leviathan Metals

12 March 2026 – Leviathan Metals announces sale of Timor Gold Project

Nagambie Resources

9 February 2026 – Update: Proposed Alkane and Nagambie joint venture

North Stawell Minerals

6 February 2026 – Mineralisation extended at Darlington West

13 February 2026 – Surface geochemistry confirms mineralised trend at Caledonia

10 March 2026 – Air core commences at Caledonia and Darlington Projects

Novo Resources

11 February 2026 – Updated Belltopper exploration target - Australia

S2 Resources

23 March 2026 – Gold-antimony anomalies at Silver Spoon

Southern Cross Gold

18 February 2026 – SX2 extends Golden Dyke 200m west and 16 new vein sets

16 March 2026 – Southern Cross drills 17.3m @ 15.3g/t Au at Apollo

Stavely Minerals

17 March 2026 – Major increase in mineral resource estimate to 60Mt

17 March 2026 – Major increase in mineral resource estimate to 60Mt – Updated

VHM Ltd

23 March 2026 – VHM to progress 5Mtpa Rare Earths and Mineral Sands Project