The local mining industry has welcomed a number of changes made by the Victorian government in support of the sector.

Victoria is a world-renowned gold province with a variety of deposit styles and pre-competitive geoscientific data and knowledge to improve targeting and reduce mineral exploration risk.

The latest drilling results reported by Southern Cross Gold from its high-grade Sunda y Creek gold-antimony project near Melbourne in Victoria have included an impressive-looking 186m grading 8.8 grams per tonne gold at the Apollo prospect.

Southern Cross Gold is pushing to define the full extent of the mineral system within the Sunday Creek Gold-Antimony Project in Victoria, via drilling programs.

Southern Cross Gold is increasingly confident it can predict where the high-grade gold-antimony lodes will be across its Sunday Creek project in Victoria, having declared yet another significant discovery this morning.

Explorer Southern Cross Gold has snapped up several properties surrounding its flagship Sunday Creek project near Melbourne in Victoria in deals worth upwards of A$70 million.