Small Cap Watch: ASX small caps rally as a rush of mining news hits ahead of Diggers & Dealers

The S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index finished Friday connected a stronger footing, climbing 45.8 points, oregon 1.4%, to 3,314.60 arsenic investors returned to inferior mining and exploration stocks up of 1 of the sector's biggest yearly gatherings.

Despite the beardown decorativeness to the week, the scale remained 7.4 points, oregon 0.22%, little implicit the erstwhile 5 trading sessions.

Diggers & Dealers gets underway successful Kalgoorlie

While it has been a engaged greeting for tiny headdress news, the resources sector's attraction has present shifted to Kalgoorlie, wherever the 35th yearly Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum is being held from August 3 to 5.

The lawsuit brings unneurotic listed miners and explorers, brokers, bankers, investors, financiers and mining services companies from astir the world.

More than 159 exhibitors are taking part, portion firm presentations, networking events and determination excavation visits are expected to supply a level for companies to beforehand projects, prosecute with investors and prosecute backing opportunities.

Around 2,600 delegates attended the 2025 event, reinforcing Diggers & Dealers' presumption arsenic 1 of Australia's astir salient mining concern forums.

FireFly Metals confirms Green Bay mineralisation continuity

FireFly Metals Ltd (ASX:FFM, TSX:FFM, OTC:FFMFF) has reported further beardown drilling results from the Green Bay Copper-Gold Project successful Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

The six-rig underground drilling programme remains focused connected expanding information density wrong the higher-grade volcanogenic monolithic sulphide and Core zones.

Results volition beryllium incorporated into an imminent mineral assets update, which volition underpin concurrent economical studies.

A preliminary economical appraisal remains connected way for completion by the extremity of August 2026 and volition measure respective imaginable improvement scenarios for Green Bay.

D3 Energy spuds 2nd South African good

D3 Energy Ltd (ASX:D3E, OTCQX:DNRGF) has spudded the 2nd of 2 planned wells astatine Nooitgedacht NGT245 D wrong the ER315 licence successful South Africa's Free State.

The good forms portion of an exploration and appraisal programme aimed astatine expanding the company's reserve basal and progressing further exploration areas toward accumulation rights.

Riversgold advances Northern Zone approvals

Riversgold Ltd (ASX:RGL, FRA:RGV, OTC:RVSGF) has completed further enactment country clearance surveys astatine its Northern Zone Intrusive Hosted Gold Project, astir 25 kilometres eastbound of Kalgoorlie.

The practice and biology surveys screen entree and infrastructure corridors required for task development.