Top 5 Australian Mining Stocks This Week: Taruga Minerals Climbs on Acquisition of Gold-Copper Projects

2025-12-18 17:00:00 ET

Welcome to the Investing News Network's weekly round-up of the top-performing mining stocks listed on the ASX, starting with news in Australia's resource sector.

Gold and copper both remained in the spotlight, joined by rare earths and other base and precious metals.

Many of this week's top stocks jumped on news of project acquisitions.

Project acquisition news were among the highlights of the week, including our top stock of the week Taruga Minerals’ (ASX:TAR) 100 percent acquisition of its Papua New Guinea gold and copper portfolio.

Other top stocks of the week such as Alicanto Minerals (ASX:AQI) and Liberty Metals (ASX:LIB) also made significant acquisitions of their own, gaining full interests in a gold asset and a Brazilian portfolio respectively.

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