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Australia’s great AI hope just hit a speed bump

Its plan to double Australia’s data centre computing power may have fallen over but ASX-bound Firmus’ backers – from a Canberra air-conditioning family to billionaires – aren’t worried.

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ASX gains, led by miners and property stocks; oil prices steady

The Australian sharemarket advanced on Tuesday, fuelled by a tech-led rally on Wall Street as investors largely shrugged off concerns about bond yields at multi-decade highs.

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Barkly scores near-perfect drill hit rate at huge NT rare earths play

Barkly Rare Earths has struck rare earths in 43 of 44 holes at its NT project. Mineralisation now spans a huge 23km, with high-grade hits including 0.5m at 5156 ppm TREO.

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Aguia hits Colombia gold record and breaks even

Aguia Resources has set a gold production record in Colombia, with September revenue of A$218,000 covering its local corporate and operating costs for the first time.

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TMK smashes gas flow records as Mongolian drilling gears up

TMK Energy set a new gas production record at its Mongolian coal seam gas project, with September flows up 8% and multiple wells hitting new highs across its 1.2Tcf resource.

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Gateway maps twin 4km gold soil anomalies in WA Gascoyne

Gateway Mining has defined two gold-in-soil anomalies from first-pass soil sampling at its Glenburgh South gold project in WA’s Gascoyne region, next to Benz Mining’s recent tier-one gold discovery.

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Manhattan strikes high-grade polymetallic pay dirt in Canada

Manhattan Gold Corp has hit high-grade copper, gold, silver and zinc in maiden drilling at its Spectre prospect in Canada, including 6.1m at 3.18% copper and 1.37g/t gold.

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Rogue pilots may be the most dangerous threat to passengers. They’re ‘just about impossible’ to stop

The insider threat risk has been part of the international aviation security framework for many years. But the options for confrontation remain limited.

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Flagship puts bigger fence around Canadian copper giant

Flagship Minerals has more than doubled its Canadian Whipsaw copper footprint, chasing extensions to its large-scale porphyry play ahead of a potential spin-out.

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McLaren drilling nails high-grade titanium from surface

McLaren Minerals has hit more high-grade titanium sands from surface at its WA project, with results up to 17.99% heavy minerals, as it moves to upgrade its 529Mt resource.

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RHB optimistic about Singapore banks even as OCBC sheds S$8 billion in value

Customers sent rogue message as major fashion retailer caught in apparent hack

Australia’s great AI hope just hit a speed bump

ASX gains, led by miners and property stocks; oil prices steady

Barkly scores near-perfect drill hit rate at huge NT rare earths play

Aguia hits Colombia gold record and breaks even

TMK smashes gas flow records as Mongolian drilling gears up

Gateway maps twin 4km gold soil anomalies in WA Gascoyne

Manhattan strikes high-grade polymetallic pay dirt in Canada

Rogue pilots may be the most dangerous threat to passengers. They’re ‘just about impossible’ to stop

Flagship puts bigger fence around Canadian copper giant

McLaren drilling nails high-grade titanium from surface

Rewriting Retirement

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