Australian mining company Bindi Metals will commence its first drilling programme at the Ravni high-grade gold project in Serbia’s southwestern Raska mining district in May, after securing land access across priority drilling locations, the company confirmed in an ASX filing on Wednesday.
The maiden diamond drilling programme has been designed to test multiple high-priority targets across the Drenjak and Rujak prospects as well as several scout drilling locations. At Drenjak, the programme will focus on high-grade surface mineralisation, while Rujak will be tested for broad mineralised zones. Serbian contractor Reflex Drilling has been engaged to carry out the work.
Ravni covers 30 square kilometres of tenure within the Western Tethyan Magmatic Belt — a prolific geological corridor that hosts numerous significant gold, copper and base metal deposits, including the Rogozna project in Serbia and the Vares deposit in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bindi Metals began exploration at Ravni in November following a binding agreement with Belgrade-based Red Creek to acquire up to an 80% interest in the project.
Beyond Ravni, Bindi Metals holds two further Serbian assets acquired from Apollo Minerals in 2024 — the Lisa antimony-gold project and the Mutnica antimony-copper project — giving the company a multi-commodity exploration portfolio across one of Europe’s most active mining jurisdictions.
