Surging tungsten prices and tightening supply chains are pushing Australian projects such as EQ Resources’ Mt Carbine in far north Queensland and Group 6 Metals’ Dolphin mine on King Island towards higher output and accelerated development. Mt Carbine is ramping up from tailings retreatment to open-pit and underground ore, while Dolphin is restarting historic underground workings with a new processing plant targeting high-grade scheelite concentrates. For geotechnical and mining teams, the shift raises demand for hard-rock stoping, ground support in narrow, high-stress veins, and fine-tuning of gravity–flotation circuits for complex skarn ores.

Triton Uranium has started on-site development at its Atlas project in Uranium City, Saskatchewan, aiming to fast-track a near-surface, infrastructure-ready open-pit operation and is weighing a 2026 US stock exchange listing via SPAC, backed by nearly US$16 million in private funding. A 10,000-metre drill programme beginning June 2026 will test four priority zones, feeding resource estimates and a preliminary economic assessment later that year. The strategy targets compressed permitting and construction timelines versus typical decade-long uranium developments, leveraging historic workings and modern extraction and processing technologies.

Maple Gold Mines’ Douay and Joutel projects in Québec’s Abitibi belt have posted a major resource upgrade, with Douay now holding 17.3 million tonnes in-pit indicated at 1.31 g/t (731,000 oz) and 111.1 million tonnes inferred at 0.77 g/t (2.74 million oz), plus underground resources totalling 608,000 oz. Joutel adds 900,000 tonnes indicated at 4.53 g/t (126,000 oz) and 7.5 million tonnes inferred at 4.11 g/t (992,000 oz), a 77% indicated and 70% inferred ounce increase versus 2022. The 481 km² land package along the Casa Berardi deformation zone remains open, with a fully funded C$13.9 million 2026 exploration budget and a 32,000-metre drill programme feeding into scoping and engineering studies.