New Frontier Minerals (LSE:NFM), an ASX and LSE-listed explorer focused on heavy rare earth elements, niobium and tungsten, will mobilise geological field teams to its Harts Range Project in the Northern Territory in July, with 40 of the project's 46 geophysically defined priority targets still untested.
The project sits approximately 140 kilometres north-east of Alice Springs, and the upcoming programme is the first systematic field push since NFM completed its maiden reverse-circulation drilling campaign in early 2026, which covered only six targets.
The July programme will focus initially on the Kings Cross Prospect, an untested magnetic anomaly approximately 150 to 200 metres in diameter at a comparable depth, hosted within a calc-silicate package and spatially associated with an east-west-trending fault.
Field activities will include geological mapping, rock-chip sampling and ground-truthing to evaluate the anomaly's mineralisation potential, with electromagnetic surveying under consideration as a follow-up step depending on initial results.
A separate regional catalyst adds context: BHP Xplor-backed research released by ASX-listed Litchfield Minerals has reframed the broader Harts Range belt as a district-scale copper-nickel-PGE mineral system, providing independent validation of the area's prospectivity.
"Recent BHP Xplor-backed research has reframed the broader Harts Range as a district-scale Copper-Nickel-PGE mineral system, independently validating our long-held view of the region's prospectivity," Chairman Gerrard Hall said.
Mapping and assay results will be reported as they become available.
