Lepidico Lures Investors Into A New Galaxy Where Lithium Is Free
No one much cared earlier this year when there was a particularly nasty takeover battle between Lithium Australia (LIT) as the suitor and Lepidico (LPD) as the target.
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Meteoric Rise For Meteoric As It Pushes Into Canada
Until quite recently, the share price performance of Meteoric Resources (ASX:MEI) was anything but meteoric.
Read MoreIggy Seeks To Repeat His Lithium Trail-Blazing
Iggy Tan was ahead of his time when he set up Galaxy Resources (GXY) to prosper from the lithium-ion battery boom.
Read MoreKairos The Cheap Entry To Pilbara Nuggets Boom
Only a sad old grump wouldn’t be getting a buzz from the modern-day gold rush taking shape in the Pilbara.
Read MoreBlack Rock Shakes Off Tanzania’s Asset Grab
Interesting stuff for a company trading at 5.2c for a market cap of $19m. So what has that got to do with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Read MoreStavely Set For Crucial Drilling
Chatter about the re-emergence of a mining boom is all a bit premature. What is more certain is that exploration expenditure and activity is on the rise in response to the broad advance in most commodities and evidence of cohesive global economic growth.
Read MoreHear, Hear For Echo At Bronzewing
There are plenty of examples over the years of new owners of gold treatment plants getting excited by the moment and turning things on without a supporting resource base, leaving them to scramble for more ore – which inevitably leads to ruin.
Read MoreNew Century Set To Ride The New Zinc Wave
Zinc’s spectacular 48% price rise to $US1.40/lb from last (calendar) year’s average of 95c/lb is forcing a rethink on valuations across the bunch of near-development plays in the metal on the ASX.
Read MoreTolga Set To Come Out In Draig
Plus, London insto climbs aboard copper explorer Auris and a host of imminent newsflow could see emerging gold producer Explaurum re-rated.
Read MorePilbara Charging Up To Become A Battery-Powered Cash Machine
There is a huge disconnect between the emerging lithium producer’s market cap and its impending cashflow – but how long can it last?
Read MoreBooze & Good News Flow At A Rollicking Diggers
Kalgoorlie turned on the weather for this year’s Diggers & Dealers bash which was just as well given the difficulty which the more hardy of the 2200 delegates had finding a taxi after 2am.
Read MoreNorthern Star’s Upgrade Starts Flood Of Pre-Diggers Releases
Diggers & Dealers kicks off in Kalgoorlie next week with the biggest roll up in five years expected. The 2000-plus mining and finance types due to rock up are doing so with the hope of divining something they did not already know, thrown in with a liberal dose of bonhomie.
Read MoreCopper Fizzing At The Bungs As Supply-Demand Outlook Tightens
Rising price of the red metal puts spotlight on Avalon. Plus, Oklo shares get a wriggle on as first assays dribble in from its Mali gold project.
Read MoreRe-Charged Jervois Starts Its Engine With One Eye On The Battery Space
Jervois (ASX:JRV) has been knocking around the junior end of the mining market since before most of us were born.
Read MoreBauxite On Metallica’s Playlist
Rio Tinto is not spending $US1.9 billion on developing its Amrun bauxite project south of Weipa on Cape York Peninsula on a wing and prayer.
Read MoreStavely Results Dangle The Carrot Of A Big Victorian Copper Find
Exploration for porphyry-style copper/gold deposits with their potential for big and long- lived production is normally the preserve of the major miners. And more often than not their exploration effort is in far-flung places like the Andes and the Gobi.
Read MoreNzuri Goes Hunting For A Copper-Cobalt Monster
Ivanhoe neighbour Nzuri goes hunting for a copper-cobalt monster of its own….plus, Nusantara Resources comes to market seeking up to $20m to get its 1.74moz Awak Mas gold deposit moving towards production and Spitfire set for first assays.
Read MoreDraig Aims To Emulate Northern Star & Dacian
There are plenty of examples of ageing mines in Western Australia’s goldfields enjoying a second, third or fourth wind thanks to new resources being found at depth or in adjacent locations.
Read MoreWetar Better Than Bali For Finders’ Copper Cash Machine
It’s no Bali, but Indonesia’s Wetar Island in the Banda Sea north of Timor Leste is proving to be a happy stomping ground for the often over-looked copper producer Finders Resources (FND).
Read MoreBack To Where It Began For Acacia & Riversdale Team
Junior miners with sub-$10 million market caps going in to a trading halt pending a “material’’ announcement is a daily occurrence. More often than not the so-called material announcement turns out to be a bit of fizzer. Red faces all around.
Read MoreSpin-Off Starlets Ardea & Todd River Unlocking Hidden Value
Unlocking the value of hidden assets by spinning them off in to a separate and focussed ASX listing is proving fertile ground for the junior mining sector.
Read MoreShining A Light On Capricorn
Last year’s crack down by the regulators on what can be said about the scope of a project based on inferred resources – i.e. pretty much nothing – was frustrating stuff for the industry.
Read MoreGetting Misty Eyed on Boorara
Any day now, MacPhersons Resources (ASX:MRP) will be reporting the latest drill results from its Boorara gold project, all of 10km east of Kalgoorlie’s Golden Mile.
Read MoreEcho Sounding On Echo’s Break-Out
Gold’s initial buy-the-fact rally in response to the first of the three expected US interest rate rises this year was welcome stuff for the ASX gold sector, which has been showing signs of buying support fatigue.
Read MoreLeverage To The Hunt For The Next Nova
Here we are at the start of another exploration field season in Western Australia’s remote Fraser Range, home to the 2012 Nova nickel-copper discovery by Sirius Resources, now a producing mine and part of Independence (ASX:IGO) after its $1 billion cash and shares takeover in 2015.
Read MoreAttila In Company-Making Zinc Deal On Century
There is a whole bunch of ASX-listed junior zinc developers jostling for market attention as the prices for the galvanising metal continues its merry run in to 2017.
Read MorePlucky Panoramic Plots Return To Savannah
The rally in a broad sweep of commodity prices has not only benefitted the big end of town where the likes of BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have gone a long way in justifying their strong share price recoveries by posting big profit gains for the December half and 2016 calendar year respectively.
Read MoreVenturex’s Zinc Project Comes Up Trumps
John Nitschke, the well-credentialed chief executive of the lightly capitalised Venturex Resources (ASX:VXR), has been out and about telling the market that the group has the right metals from the right project at the right time.
Read MoreGold Takeovers To Step Up As Trump Tweets Gold Higher
Newcrest chief executive Sandeep Biswas has just taken to following Donald Trump on Twitter. The reason why is simple enough – Newcrest is Australia’s biggest gold producer and Trump’s penchant for off-the-wall daily tweets is fuelling fear-buying of the yellow metal, pushing it to three months highs.
Read MoreDisruption Fires Up Copper Bulls
There does seem to more good reasons for copper to march higher than there is for iron ore to hold on to price strength in the year ahead. The growing copper optimism is based on a rash of supply disruptions.
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