Brightstar Resources is upgrading its legacy Beta mill near Laverton into a 1.5 Mtpa gold processing hub, targeting ore from its Cork Tree Well, Menzies and Laverton projects in Western Australia’s north-eastern Goldfields. The refurbishment includes modern gravity and CIL circuits, new crushing and screening equipment, and structural repairs to the existing plant rather than a greenfield build. For mine planners and process engineers, the hub-and-spoke model reduces haul distances to a central mill and enables staged feed blending from multiple open pits and underground sources.

High-grade copper and zinc intercepts from recent drilling at 29Metals’ Golden Grove mine in Western Australia are boosting confidence in extending mine life and upgrading resources. Step-out and infill holes around the Gossan Hill and Scuddles lenses have returned multiple thick sulphide zones, including massive and stringer mineralisation with grades reported as well above current reserve averages. The results support further underground development targeting deeper extensions of the volcanic-hosted massive sulphide system, with planning now focused on converting inferred tonnes and optimising sequencing of copper- versus zinc-dominant stopes.

Tivan Limited has completed acquisition of the Molyhil tungsten–molybdenum project in the Northern Territory, positioning it as a core feed source for its planned central Australian critical minerals hub. The company is integrating Molyhil with its existing Speewah vanadium–titanium–iron project and the TIVAN hydrometallurgical process, which targets higher recoveries from complex ores than conventional roasting–leaching flowsheets. Concentrate from remote mine sites is expected to be trucked to a central processing facility, shifting value-add and permitting focus from multiple pit locations to a single downstream plant.