Viking Mines Limited (ASX:VKA) is an Australian mineral exploration company focused on gold and critical battery minerals including vanadium, nickel, copper, cobalt and iron; its primary assets comprise the Riverina East Project in the prolific Eastern Goldfields district of Western Australia, encompassing the historic First Hit Gold Mine with ~30koz historical production at ~7.7g/t Au and a 25km strike length along the Zuleika Shear, and the Canegrass Battery Minerals Project in the Murchison Region featuring a global inferred mineral resource estimate of 146Mt @ 0.70% V2O5, 31.8% Fe and 6.6% TiO2 plus a high-grade open pit resource of 61Mt @ 0.81% V2O5, 35.9% Fe and 7.6% TiO2 with ongoing metallurgical testwork yielding magnetic concentrates up to 1.44% V2O5, 59% Fe and 11.7% TiO2. The company, founded in 2007 and headquartered in West Perth, Western Australia, operates exclusively in that state targeting high-grade deposits for development. Recent activities include a major 6,000m reverse circulation drilling campaign at the First Hit Project launched in early 2025 targeting geophysical and geochemical anomalies at CDT and Bifrost zones with initial visible gold intercepts and high-grade results achieving 65% resource conversion, gold nugget discoveries at Riverina East in mid-2025 alongside commencement of further drilling, a drill-for-equity agreement with Topdrill to support exploration costs, and quarterly updates highlighting new gold anomalies and inferred resources as of June 2025.