Endurance Gold’s 2026 drilling at the Reliance project in southern British Columbia has returned high-grade step-outs outside the current resource, including 14.7 metres at 7.67 g/t gold and 0.13% antimony from 75.9 metres in DDH26-128 and 12 metres at 3.07 g/t gold from 98.2 metres in DDH26-129, a 60-metre step-out along the Eagle trend. The 8,000-metre diamond programme, with seven holes (1,899 metres) already completed at southern Eagle and two deep tests at Imperial, targets conversion of near-surface ounces and deeper Royal Shear extensions. Reliance currently hosts 19.6 million inferred tonnes at 2.3 g/t gold (1.45 million oz), with metallurgical work aiming to improve recoveries beyond earlier 84.7% gold to concentrate.

Caterpillar’s autonomous 794 AC haul truck fleet at Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper mine in Moquegua, Peru has passed 500 Mt of material moved, with Ferreyros supporting the deployment as Caterpillar’s local representative. The fully autonomous trucks operate on steep, high-altitude pit ramps typical of Andean copper operations, integrating with digital fleet management and high-precision guidance systems. The milestone signals growing confidence in large-scale autonomous haulage for greenfield copper projects, with implications for haul road design, traffic management rules, and maintenance planning.

NexMetals Mining has lifted the Selkirk copper-nickel-PGE project in Botswana to about 1.1 billion lb of indicated copper equivalent, with 78.2 million tonnes at 0.66% CuEq after extensive re-assaying and twin drilling converted a large portion of the inferred resource. A further 15.1 million inferred tonnes at 0.60% CuEq (200 million lb CuEq) remain, with the 63% increase in metal inventory versus 2024 driven mainly by improved metallurgical recoveries and adding cobalt, silver and gold as payable metals. Selkirk now sits alongside the nearby Selebi project (75 km away) as a core critical-metals asset on a 14.6 sq. km mining licence.