PC Gold has identified a new high-grade zone, North Link, north of the existing resource at its Spring Hill project in the Northern Territory. Drilling extended all three tested lodes beyond the current 1.51 million ounce resource, with Macau Extended now defined over 950 metres of strike and outcropping at surface. North Link results included 3 metres at 7.94 grams per tonne gold from 106 metres and 3 metres at 6.95 grams per tonne from 160 metres. The company has completed 32 reverse circulation holes for 5,340 metres, with assays pending for 10 holes.
Women hold just 12 percent of chief executive and head-of-business roles in Australian mining despite making up 23 percent of the workforce, according to the Gender Equity Insights 2026 report from the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, reported by Mining.com. Women held 24 percent of management roles in 2024-25. The report, covering 8,239 employers and 5.44 million workers, links the gap to limited part-time design of senior roles rather than promotion rates, where female mining managers in fact held a small advantage. This item is single-sourced to Mining.com’s report coverage.
In Liberia, the government is discussing a revamp of the Western Cluster iron ore project, per allAfrica, a follow-on to yesterday’s revenue story rather than a new fiscal announcement. Separately, Senator Konneh has asked the United States to sanction mining enablers and warned Liberia is at a dangerous point, also via allAfrica and single-sourced. Both items are watchlist material until terms or responses appear.
In Namibia, opposition figure McHenry Venaani is calling for mining royalties to flow to communities, reported by The Namibian. In Zambia, Vice President Mutale Nalumango called for regional unity to curb illegal mineral exploitation, reported by Lusaka Times. Neither item carries a policy instrument yet; both fit the regional pattern of resource benefit-sharing pressure.
The New York Times published a long read on Bougainville’s Panguna copper mine, the shuttered operation at the centre of a civil war, and whether reopening it could fund a new nation. No decision is reported; the piece is context for a long-running reopening debate, not a development milestone.
In India, Mining Weekly reported blackouts hitting factories as a coal crunch feeds into the wider economy. The item arrived via a Google News relay without a readable primary text in this run, so it is flagged here unverified rather than written as a full story.