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Following a 7.6% surge from late September, the price of gold briefly hit five-month highs of ~$US1,872/oz on fears that current high inflation levels are more than ‘transitional’. Gold is an ‘inflation hedge’; an investment that ostensibly...

Shares in Ardiden (ADV) have jumped this morning after the company secured a permit for drilling work at its Pickle Lake Gold Project in Canada A 4000-metre diamond drilling program will initially focus on the Esker gold prospect, before m...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.15am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest mov...

US tech stocks extend retreat The S&P 500 and Dow Jones ended up higher overnight, but tech heavy Nasdaq Composite index extended its retreat. The S&P500 was up 0.17%, the Dow rose by 0.55%, and Nasdaq slipped 0.5%. The fall in tech...

Following a 7.6% surge from late September, the price of gold is now sitting ~$US1,860/oz for the first time since June. The Aussie price is looking even better, which is great news for our local producers: USD (dark) and AUD (light) gold p...

Growing concerns about inflation could send gold prices soaring back above the US$2,000 ($2,746) an ounce mark it last reached back in 2020. Prices of the precious metal have already been rising steadily over the past fortnight, up some 3.7...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.15am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest mov...

Lithium-focused IPOs are performing very well – for obvious reasons — and comprise with 4 of the top 6 performing listings so far in 2021. These standouts include Lithium Energy (ASX:LEL) (+430%), Australasian Gold (ASX:A8G) (+245%), Global...

The Green Technology Metals Ltd (ASX: GT1) share price debuted on the ASX today, immediately surging 70%. The company’s prospectus offered shares in the lithium explorer and developer for 25 cents apiece but the market appears to see addit...

Lithium boom to continue in 2022: S&P Global Elon Musk under pressure to sell ~$US21bn worth of Tesla stock Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths,...

A global carbon taxation regime could slash gold miner profit margins by up to 45% unless an effort is made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Metals Focus says. Some countries, such as Canada and Sweden, already impose carbon taxes and th...

The ASX is readying itself to welcome a new face today. Shares in Green Technology Metals Limited (ASX: GT1) are set to hit the market at midday AEDT. The lithium explorer and developer is focused on its lithium-prospective Seymour Lake Pr...

The ASX rose 0.48% today to reach its highest point in the week. While energy lost 2% most other sectors were in the green with tech and financials gaining over 1%. Today’s gains came despite the Federal Reserve unveiling a tapering of stim...

ASX uranium stocks gain after Sprott removes another 700,000lb from the market Uranium play Paladin notes “increase in market queries from utilities and an increase in long term market pricing” Lithium joint venture formed to progress Ardi...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.15am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest mov...

The gold price may be in a holding pattern at ~$US1,800/oz, but Aussie gold miners continue to throw piles of cash at acquisitions and new developments. Westgold (ASX:WGX) looks increasingly likely  to hoover up struggling producer Gascoyne...

China’s ongoing energy shortage starts to affect domestic battery materials production Tesla ditches nickel, cobalt as prices soar Pilbara Minerals’ (ASX:PLS) third spodumene auction unofficially scheduled for October 26 Weekly small cap s...

Gold stocks are cheap, experts keep saying. Well-known analyst Jesse Felder has now demonstrated the “pathetic performance” of the US gold majors in handy chart form. The US listed BANG stocks (Felder’s play on FANG) include gold giants Bar...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium.   Lithium carbonate prices are going gangbusters off the back of limited supply and stable lithium-...

The +9Moz, ~350,000ozpa ‘Kyuchus’ field will be one of Russia’s biggest gold mining projects. Kyuchus was first discovered in 1963, but its isolation in the harsh Arctic climate of the Yakutia region has, so far, stymied numerous developmen...

Investors want to see gold miners wisely grow their production profile. Not like miners did during the last cycle, when some irrational, highly priced M&A action destroyed significant wealth. The big gold miners have a “lousy recent his...

After a positive start the ASX finished down over 0.5%. Today, APRA ordered the big banks to increase the home loan “serviceability buffer” from 2.5% to 3% from the end of October and hinted more regulation could be forthcoming. Also hittin...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium.   While the outlook for commodities like iron ore has deteriorated – and is expected to deteriorate...

There is a lot of uncertainty in the market due to tensions in China, rising interest rates and continuing economic recovery of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with investors fleeing for safe havens to park their cash in. Safe havens like gol...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and vanadium.   Due to hit the bourse Tuesday is PPK Group (ASX:PPK) spin out Li-S Energy (ASX:LIS) which may have developed a...

The valuations of major gold miners remain weak despite falling debt and record dividends, according to the latest Metals Focus Gold Peer Group Analysis. Australia’s largest gold miners Newcrest (ASX:NCM), Northern Star (ASX:NST), and Evolu...

It’s been a frustrating few months for gold bulls. As an investment hedge, gold shines during periods of poor or volatile market sentiment. It loves drama like pandemics, civil wars, or the unprecedented failure of the Lehman Brothers in 20...

Yesterday, Aussie hard rock lithium miner Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS) went to an all-time high off the back of its second Battery Material Exchange auction. The miner sold an 8,000t SC5.5 spodumene cargo for an extraordinary $US2,240/t. That...

Gold continues to consolidate around $US1,800/oz which, if we went back in time to July 2020, would be cause for celebration. Back then $US1,800/oz was an eight-year high and bullish sentiment was nudging even the shittiest exploration stoc...

August was another month of lockdown for much of Australia’s East Coast but lockdowns and even a 2% drop in the middle of the month couldn’t stop the ASX from producing another winners list. The ASX 200 ultimately finished August 1.9% highe...

Local stocks struggled for traction in Wednesday trade, as the major indexes drifted sideways following a weak lead out of the US. Banks and energy stocks were up, offsetting falls in resources and consumer staples. There were few major cat...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.15am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest mov...

Gold bugs would be breathing a sigh of relief this week as the price stabilises just shy of $US1,800/oz ($2,463/oz Aussie) thanks to Monday’s healthy 1.5% gain. While there are plenty of other red hot sectors attracting investor dollars rig...

Roskill forecasts demand for nickel chemicals to grow by over 500% between 2021 and 2030 It’s not just metals: battery makers are also getting hit with sharp price rises and supply shortages for non-active materials Several lithium players...

The gold price itself had 12 months of consolidation. Now we are entering a new stage of a bull market which Barry Dawes of Martin Place Securities believes “will take it much, much higher”. In the big scheme of things, the pullback we have...

The ASX 200 finished lower for the second consecutive day, falling lower by 0.94% today as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Australia and across the globe. Health Minister Greg Hunt however said that more than 10 million Australians have...

On Sunday, a chaotic ‘flash crash’ saw the gold price plummet into the $US1600s per ounce before staging a mild recovery. Experts mostly point to a better than expected jobs report out of the US for heavy selling that saw the traditional he...

The ASX closed today at a new record high. The ASX 200 closed at 7,563 points, 0.32% higher than yesterday. The best sector was tech which gained over 1.5%, while industrials retreated over 1%. The rise of the market came despite NSW reachi...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and vanadium. Last week, ASX lithium stocks went mental. The spark was Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS)  with its announcement that t...

Despite a solid start to the day the ASX closed Monday at the same point it closed on Friday. After gaining as much as 0.3% by 11am the ASX 200 closed flat at 7,538 points. The ASX Emerging Companies Index finished slightly higher, by 0.03%...

Positive share price momentum for lithium stocks continues into new week Explorers mentioned in Stockhead’s  ‘Cheapest lithium-facing stocks on the ASX’ yarn making market-leading gains Winners include Ardiden, Aruma, Reedy Lagoon, Charger...

Local stocks tracked higher on Friday in a relatively calm session to end the week. The ASX200 traded flat, edging higher by 0.36% into the close. Those gains were comfortably outpaced by the small end of town, as the microcap Emerging Comp...

As an uncorrelated asset – value not tied to larger fluctuations in the traditional markets — gold has had “its lunch cut a bit” by crypto, PCF Capital’s Liam Twigger says. “There is an article in the last Economist asking, ‘what happens if...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.15am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest mov...

Strong consumer buying and modest institutional investment helped create gold demand of 955.1 tonnes over Q2 – a 9% rise from Q1 2021, and in line with the equivalent period last year. While both consumers and retail investors were purchasi...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.15am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest mov...

Ardiden Resources has secured a $500,000 improvement to a joint venture agreement on its hard-rock lithium projects in north-west Ontario, Canada. New partner Green Technology Metals is set to acquire an 80 per cent interest in the assets f...

It took a full five years for electric vehicle sales to reach 1 million in 2015. Since then, things have gone exponential. In 2021, we are hitting those numbers in weeks and months, not years. In China about 235,000 plug-ins were sold in Ju...

The Aussie share market has fallen for two consecutive days, down by 0.46% today. Seven sectors were down, while four rose. Utilities and Mining were the worst peforming sectors, while Healtcare and IT were the best. In big cap news today,...

Lithium’s future is bright. If this wasn’t clear before, here’s your reminder that it’s a good time to be in the lithium space. For starters, lithium companies made up more than 14% of Stockhead’s top 40 resource winners in June. And just a...