Mount Ridley Mines Ltd (ASX:MRD) has unveiled a substantial heavy rare earth resource at its Mount Ridley Project in Western Australia, highlighting a high-value mix of magnet metals including dysprosium and terbium.
The company reported an Inferred Mineral Resource of 122.5Mt at 889ppm TREO, containing 108,954 tonnes of total rare earth oxides, including 44,610 tonnes of heavy rare earth oxides (HREO) at a 300ppm cut-off.
Janus Electric Holdings Ltd (ASX:JNS) has appointed Ton van Hoof as chief financial officer, with the role taking effect from March 23, 2026.
Van Hoof joins the company with more than 20 years of finance leadership experience across listed and private businesses in the transport, aviation, technology and payments sectors. Most recently, he served as CFO and deputy CEO of A2B Australia Ltd, where he was involved in the company’s turnaround, delisting and acquisition.
Percheron Therapeutics Ltd (ASX:PER, OTC:PERCF) has opened its non-renounceable pro rata entitlement offer to eligible shareholders, making the prospectus and personalised entitlement and acceptance forms available from today.
The company said eligible shareholders have until 5:00pm AEST on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, to take up their entitlement in full or in part under the offer.
Australia’s growing reliance on imported oil has left the economy increasingly exposed to global supply shocks, with electrification — particularly in transport — emerging as the most viable long-term solution, according to a new briefing from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).
The report warns the world is facing “the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market”, with the Iran conflict and closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatening key supply routes and pushing prices higher.
Kalamazoo Resources Ltd (ASX:KZR) has reported strong early results from Phase 1 growth drilling at its Ashburton Gold Project in Western Australia, with initial assays confirming extensions to mineralisation below the existing Mt Olympus resource.
Results from five of the first eight diamond holes have returned broad and high-grade gold intersections, supporting the potential to expand the current 1.44Moz resource base and reinforcing confidence in the company’s geological model.
Two sizeable transactions in oncology — spanning diagnostics and drug development — are underscoring how large healthcare companies are deploying capital across very different parts of the market.
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) is set to complete its US$21 billion acquisition of Exact Sciences (NASDAQ:EXAS) on Monday, adding established cancer screening and precision diagnostics assets to its portfolio. And on Friday, Novartis AG (ADR) (NYSE:NVS) announced it has moved to acquire a portfolio of early-stage PI3Kα inhibitor programs, targeting the next wave of breast cancer therapies.
D3 Energy Ltd (ASX:D3E, OTCQX:DNRGF) has secured firm commitments to raise $6.12 million through a placement to institutional and sophisticated investors, with the money to advance drilling, development studies and exploration across its South African and Australian assets.
The company will issue 17,000,000 new shares at $0.36 each, with the placement attracting strong support from both new and existing investors. The capital raise marks D3 Energy’s first since listing in May 2024 and provides funding certainty to progress key growth initiatives.
Amplia Therapeutics Ltd (ASX:ATX, OTCQB:INNMF)'s ACCENT trial has reached an important milestone after an independent central review confirmed five complete responses in patients treated with narmafotinib alongside gemcitabine and Abraxane in first-line advanced pancreatic cancer.
The company said the updated result from the 64-patient Phase 1b/2a study represents a complete response rate of 7.8%, which it believes is unprecedented in this setting.
Wiluna Mining Corporation Ltd has appointed mining executive Victor Rajasooriar as managing director, with the appointment to take effect on May 1, 2026.
Rajasooriar brings more than 25 years of experience across underground and open-pit mining operations, having held senior leadership roles including managing director, chief executive officer and chief operating officer at a number of ASX-listed resource companies.
Dundas Minerals Ltd (ASX:DUN) has started a new reverse circulation (RC) drilling program at its Rockland Gold Project near Kalgoorlie, targeting extensions to a recently defined gold system following encouraging results from its maiden 2025 campaign.
The program will comprise up to 15 holes for approximately 2,500 metres and is designed to step out along strike and at depth from previously identified mineralisation. Drilling will focus on extending the north-south trending gold system, which was outlined over roughly 1 kilometre in earlier work, and remains open in multiple directions.
Yandal Resources Ltd (ASX:YRL) has kicked off a large-scale 2026 exploration campaign across its Ironstone Well–Barwidgee (IWB) Gold Project in Western Australia, with drilling now underway as the company looks to extend recent discoveries and unlock new targets across the Yandal Greenstone Belt.
A fully operational 21-person exploration camp and core yard is now supporting the program, with reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling already in progress and additional rigs set to mobilise in the coming weeks.
Cyprium Metals Ltd (ASX:CYM, OTCQB:CYPMF) has completed Tranche 2 of its two-tranche placement, finalising a broader capital raising that brought in about A$41 million before costs to support growth plans at the Nifty Copper Complex in Western Australia.
The copper developer, which is pursuing a phased restart of Nifty in the Paterson region, said it had issued 676,924 shares to company directors following shareholder approval on March 9, 2026.
Lindian Resources Ltd (ASX:LIN, OTC:LINIF) has marked a key step forward at its flagship Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi, bringing its on-site accommodation camp online and enabling the next phase of construction and workforce mobilisation.
The Tipume accommodation camp is now operational, with initial units completed and occupied ahead of schedule, establishing a permanent on-site presence and removing a key logistical bottleneck as the project transitions into full execution.