Under $150 million was spent exploring for metals as recently as 2017-18; that has risen each year to a touch under $400m last financial year.

If it wasn’t clear that Southern Cross is onto something special at its Sunday Creek project, maybe the discovery of a new gold zone might do the trick.

Another gold zone has been discovered during step out drilling at Southern Cross Gold’s Sunday Creek project in Victoria.

Southern Cross Gold Ltd has drilled further extremely high-grade gold intersections at the 100%-owned Sunday Creek Project in Victoria, Australia

Southern Cross has highlighted its understanding of the Sunday Creek project with drilling of a previously untested orientation returning further high-grade gold intersections as predicted.

Southern Cross Gold has announced a series of high-grade gold intersections from drilling at its wholly-owned Sunday Creek project in Victoria.