Articles On Ardea Resources (ASX:ARL)

Panther Metals has achieved more than the average small cap in its first year as an ASX-listed company, having unearthed a significant nickel-cobalt resource as well as serving up multiple bonanza grade gold hits.  As junior Aussie explore...

Ardea Resources has made a processing breakthrough with bench-scale metallurgical test work on ore samples from the company’s proposed Kalgoorlie nickel project Goongarrie Hub in the Goldfields region of WA.

Gold could have steady path towards $US1,800 level if dollar weakness remains: OANDA ASX gold miners surging this week, led by Evolution Mining +30%, Capricorn Metals +27%, and Regis Resources +27% Weekly small cap standouts: Focus Mineral...

Energy transition metal ETFs a way for retail investors to get exposure to a variety of future-facing metals and stocks Examples on the ASX include CLNE, GMTL, XMET This week’s top battery metals stocks: Trek Metals, Winsome Resources Our...

Just five miners/ near-term gold miners are in the green over the past 12 months They include Tietto Minerals, Ora Banda Mining, Emerald Resources, Capricorn Metals and Perseus Mining Top precious metals stocks this week: Hamelin Gold, Zul...

Since reaching its peak in the summer of 2020, silver has fallen ~35% Smart money is going net long on silver, speculators almost net short; a good sign for silver outlook say Goehring & Rozencwajg This week’s top ASX precious metals s...

USD gold price continues to fall, currently $US1,621/oz Mixed bag of results for gold producers in Q1: Perseus, Northern Star outperformers so far Weekly small cap standouts: Strickland metals, Medallion Metals. GBM Resources Our Gold Dig...

Pilbara Minerals sells 5,000t of lower grade (5.5%) spodumene for a record $US35.5m via Battery Material Exchange “We could see a bit of an M&A frenzy with producers like Pilbara, Allkem and IGO looking to secure strategic assets of sc...

Ardea Resources plans to test a suite of open mineralised channels at its Binti prospect and complete a regional assessment at its proximal Emu Lake nickel sulphide target about 70km northeast of Kalgoorlie.

Retail investment in gold, silver has either hit new peaks or held up at multi-year highs, says Metals Focus 1 ounce gold Maple Leaf in the US commands a 40% premium at the retail level, for example This week’s top movers: Sihayo, Dacian,...

Ardea Resources (ARL) has reported that all diamond holes drilled at its Emu Lake project in WA intersected nickel sulphide mineralisationThe company completed two drill programs which included a combined 11 holes at the Binti prospect to f...

China will extend its dominance in cathode production, increasing market share from 78% in 2022 to 87% in 2030: Benchmark And yet this will mostly be from Tier 3 producers, which currently do not supply EV market Tier 1 production — those...

PGM demand will remain strong until about 2025, when it will start to fall off a cliff: Metals Focus Why 2025? Because that’s when electrification of transport really kicks up a gear However, Bridge Street Capital analyst Chris Baker belie...

Investor sentiment for rare earths stocks is flying There is about 750g of magnet rare earths on every EV motor, about 2 tonnes in offshore wind turbines  EVs, wind turbines are exponential growth sectors Our High Voltage column wraps all...

At least 384 new graphite, lithium, nickel, and cobalt mines are needed in the next 12 years, Benchmark predicts 97, 56,000tpa natural flake graphite mines will need to be built 74 new lithium mines with an average size of 45,000 tonnes LC...

Fitch has downgraded its gold outlook but expects prices to remain “elevated in the coming years compared to pre-Covid levels” Contrarian argument: “It is also a sector full of M&A possibilities as gold equities haven’t been this ‘chea...

Ardea Resources aims to significantly increase initial stage nickel-cobalt processing at its proposed Kalgoorlie nickel project Goongarrie Hub with plans to develop a 3.5 million tonne per annum operation.

The ASX will open higher on Friday Fed’s Powell warns of more rate hikes ECB makes a historic 75bp rate increase Local shares are set to open higher today. At 8am AEST, the ASX 200 September futures contract is pointing up by 0.10%. Thous...

ASX lithium miners are raking it in, a trend set to continue for a while yet CATL’s new batteries travel an impressive +1,000km between each charge Last week’s top ASX performers: Anson, White Cliff, Dart Mining  Our High Voltage column w...

Ford slashes 3,000 jobs as shift to EVs gathers pace At least 2 significant producers in Sichuan have suspended lithium production, while another has halved output due to the heatwave-driven powercrunch: Fastmarkets Last week’s top ASX per...

TSX listed Korara Resources finds another massive nugget stash at the Beta Hunt mine near Kalgoorlie The new discovery just below the super-rich, 30,000oz Fathers Day Vein China imported more than 80 tons (or 2.56Moz) of gold worth $US4.4b...

Emerging semi-solid battery technology uses a lot more lithium; battery metal shortfall may hamper rollout Are weakening cobalt prices about to get a boost? ASX lithium stocks bouncing back as more evidence emerges of long term supply shor...

EVN’s Jake Klein predicts US$2-US$3,000/oz gold price for this time next year Is a wave of merger and acquisition activity coming in the ASX gold space? Bounce back in vehicle production to boost PGM demand Gold price hits a four-week high...

An Aussie nickel miner has enough in reserve to put 147 million electric cars on the world's roads, and is lining up a strategic partner to get started.

ASX mining/exploration stocks rebound in July, kinda Those explorers with exciting tales to tell last month did very well, regardless of commodity A closer look at July’s top 5: Cobre, Prospect, Ora Banda, MC Mining and Tyranna July was a...

Gold price hits three-week high post-FOMC rates decision ASX Quarterly Gold Wrap: producers hit a low bar, investors are pleased Gold demand falls in H1 as cost-of-living pressures bite, WGC says Our Gold Digger column wraps all the news...

Gold is down 5% for July and on a broader downward trajectory, Metals Focus says Aeris Resources’ Golden Plateau deposit could extend the mine life at Cracow Golden State Mining has kicked off drilling at the Yule project in WA   Our Gold...

The US Department of Energy’s loan programs office is open to Aussie producers Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm wants to reduce reliance on China’s battery metals Rimfire Pacific Mining gains full control of the Broken Hill Cobalt Projec...

The US dollar looks set to reach 20-year highs, impacting gold’s safe haven status JP Morgan employees on trial in Chicago after ‘spoofing trades’ accusations PGM supply through the recycling of auto catalysts has taken a hit ‘cos Covid O...

The Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC) has launched its flagship project — the Cathode Precursor Production Pilot Plant —in Western Australia. Backed by 19 industry, research and Government participants, the lau...

Effective battery recycling will be crucial to meeting future metals demand ASX battery recycling stocks include Neometals, Hannans, and Lithium Australia Weekly small cap standouts: Panther Metals, Odessa, Flynn Gold Our High Voltage col...

Battery producers look to increase energy density and drive down raw material costs CATL’s Qilin battery is 13% more powerful than the one planned by Tesla Stellantis adds 5 years to lithium offtake agreement with Vulcan Energy   Our High...

Swiss data shows the highest total January to May bullion shipments since 2018 On a year-to-date basis US gold imports surged by 170% to 103t US also the largest destination for Swiss silver bullion, accounting for ~30% of the total; up fr...

Aussie-listed lithium pure plays Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS) and Allkem (ASX:AKE) are down 40% and 10%, respectively, year-to-date Both are pulling in record revenues Meanwhile, lithium contract prices are still rising Our High Voltage col...

Newmont’s Tom Palmer says gold may have found new floor of ~US$1600/oz in the wake of inflation With small gold miners are struggling with rising supply chain and labour costs, Palmer says consolidation in the sector makes sense Drilling r...

ShareCafeKalgoorlie Gold Mining’s Riches Lie Close to Home As its moniker suggests, the recently listed Kalgoorlie Gold Mining sees no reason to stray beyond what chief executive Dr Matt Painter dubs “one of the world’s most prolific gold p...

Benchmark gives four reasons why Goldman Sachs is wrong on lithium oversupply claims Chinese lithium — Goldman’s most significant source of new supply — is low quality and expensive Lithium contract pricing continues to rise Our High Volt...

Ardea Resources will turn its attention to metallurgical test work as the company looks to convert an eye-watering 210,371 metres of drilling into data for an upcoming DFS for its Kalgoorlie Nickel Project.

ASX lithium stocks suffered selldown after major investment bank Goldman Sachs called top of battery metals boom Cowen disagrees, models 19% deficit to demand from 2023-2030 Stock prices don’t reflect current high lithium prices: Jefferie...

You’ll find plenty of big-cap ASX shares involved in gold, iron ore, or coal. But most of the ASX shares exploring for and producing cobalt are on the microcap and small-cap end of the spectrum. We look at three of the larger companies bel...

Sans coal and oil, battery metals are blowing the rest of the commodities complex away in 2022 Lithium carbonate and hydroxide are up 85% and 127% respectively A breakdown of 2022’s five most popular ASX battery metals stocks Our High Vol...

1 gram of gold can be recovered from about 41 recycled mobile phones Mint Innovation can recover $US12,000 worth of gold from one tonne of old circuit boards Gold trades sideways at ~$US1,850/oz Our Gold Digger column wraps all the news d...

Ardea Resources says results from diamond drilling at its Goongarrie Hill nickel-cobalt deposit closely match mineralisation models, providing confidence for a mass excavation nickel laterite mining operation.

Cobalt deficit starts to widen from 2024, with no end in sight Labor’s election victory good for “battery material stocks, hydrogen, or new technology”: Far East Capital Booming EV sales will still fall well short of 2050 targets, IEA says...

High prices for raw materials like lithium and nickel add ~$US12,600 to cost of Silverado EV Carmakers, battery makers increasingly investing in cheaper, better solid-state tech This week’s biggest ASX movers: Galileo, Conico, Greenstone...

Ardea Resources (ARL) confirms high-grade, near-surface nickel-cobalt mineralisation at the Goongarrie South deposit in WA Ardea completed drilling last year to support metallurgical work ahead of a definitive feasibility study (DFS) for t...

US gold price down more than 10% or $200 from its peak But Aussie gold miners faring better due to weak AUD-USD exchange rate This week’s ASX standouts: Twenty Seven Co, OzAurum Resources Our Gold Digger column wraps all the news driving...

To find 10-bagger stocks investors often go “where the industry is less comfortable”: Rick Rule But risks abound. Lithium favourite AVZ is the latest ASX stock to potentially come unstuck in a Third World jurisdiction Global energy transit...

Carnavale Resources (CAV) has begun a ground-based survey at its Grey Dam project in WA The moving-loop electromagnetic (MLEM) survey aims to define conductors that could represent nickel sulphides under transported cover The mafic/ultrama...

Carnavale has pulled out the big guns with a ground-based moving loop electromagnetic survey (MLEM) to delineate Kambalda-style nickel sulphide drill targets at its Grey Dam project in WA. CEO Humphrey Hale’s team are seeking targets associ...