Articles On Ausgold (ASX:AUC)

Ausgold (AUC) enters a farm-in deal with ASX-listed mineral explorer Cygnus Gold (CY5) to earn up to 85 per cent of the Stanley gold project The Stanley gold project in WA’s Wheatbelt and shares the same prospective greenstone belt as Ausg...

Ausgold (AUC) receives “excellent” gold recovery results from metallurgical testwork at the Katanning gold project in WA Preliminary leach extractions show an average total gold recovery of between 88 and 94 per cent for the Central Zone o...

Gold price to hit $US2,200 as stagflation fears take hold U.S. and allies officially prohibit all transactions with Russia involving gold, one of its financial lifelines. Will it work? Gold price rebounds over past week to $US1,960/oz Our...

War gossip/news remains the main driver of gold prices. The precious metal is having one of those volatile weeks where unless they timed their entry and exit perfectly, investors probably had a tough time whether long or short, says OANDA s...

Ausgold has raised $16.6 million in a two-tranche placement to advance its Katanning gold project.

Ausgold (AUC) receives binding commitments to undertake a $16.6 million share placement A total of 415 million new shares will be issued to institutional and sophisticated investors at 4.3 cents The placement was cornerstoned by two instit...

A good week for gold, which is up 1.04% to ~$US1,940/oz at time of writing. History shows us war doesn’t usually trigger an extended rally, but news flow – or lack thereof – coming out of Ukraine continues to be the biggest influence on the...

Highlights The ASX 200 plunged 0.59% in the first 15 minutes of opening trade. Wall Street's main indices continued their volatile session on Thursday, ending in the red. The IT sector is leading the fall with a 2.62% cut. The Aus...

And it’s back-to-back gains for the ASX 200 after commodity prices and buying more stuff in December led to a smart 3.4% gain in quarterly GDP. Heading into the close, US futures are on the up. Iron ore is smashing it – up almost 4% to a Ch...

Ausgold (AUC) places its shares in a trading halt in regards to an upcoming capital raising announcement The company’s shares will remain in the halt until March 4 or when the announcement is released, whichever occurs first On February 25...

Ausgold (AUC) receives more drill results which have identified near surface, high-grade gold mineralisation in the Central Zone of the Katanning gold project in WA Drilling intersected a new high-grade shoot within the White Dam lode with...

Investors generally buy gold as a way of diversifying risk when s..t hits the proverbial fan. That’s why the precious metal appears to perform well in times of war or political instability. Conversely, stocks and bonds perform best in a sta...

Drilling at Ausgold’s (AUC) Katanning gold project in WA has extended gold mineralisation 900 metres to the south beyond the current resource Mineralisation is open along strike and the ongoing drilling program will test the strike towards...

After listing on the ASX in 2016, Great Boulder has seen its market cap grow 12-fold from around $8 million to the ~$55 million it is today. One reason for this, Great Boulder (ASX:GBR) managing director Andrew Paterson says, can be attrib...

Amid the rush of junior explorers heading to the ASX these days not many can lay claim to having the most highly accomplished exploration expert to have ever worked in the district on their side. That is a clear point of difference for base...

Alas. After teasing gold bugs with a push through $1,840/oz over the past week, we are now back below ~$US1,800/oz. Gold stocks can’t seem to catch a break. What gives? I don’t get it. PM miners didn’t even get the windfall of the market w...

Global silver demand hit ~1.02 billion ounces in 2021, the first time it has breached 1 billion since 2015, according to the Silver Institute. Of that, industrial demand hit a new high of 524 million ounces. And of that, photovoltaic (solar...

Gold is holding steady above US$1,800/oz – currently trading at US$1816.60. Some players are confident the gold market will trend net positive next year as the market digests the reality of the past 24 months. But commodity analysts at J.P....

With gold spending most of the past week hovering around the US$1,800/oz (A$2,485/oz) mark, speculation has turned away from whether the precious metal can hold its gains to asking if it can test hit the US$1,850/oz mark. Gold is currently...

It’s been fairly choppy for precious metals this year, with economic recovery, rising nominal yields and the potential for rate hikes dampening investors’ appetite for gold. But on the flip side, new virus variants, fears of stagflation and...

Ausgold (AUC) increases the total contained ounces at its WA-based Katanning gold project by 19 per cent The MRE now stands at 46.14 million tonnes at 1.24 grams per tonne (g/t) of gold for 1.84 million ounces The expansion comes off the b...

After trading down for most of the day, the ASX ultimately closed higher despite a big sell off in tech. The ASX 200 closed at 7,245 points which was 0.05% higher than Friday. Tech retreated 2.2% over inflation fears but gains of over 1.9%...

The ASX closed the fourth last week before Christmas up for the day, but once again down for the week. The ASX 200 closed 0.22% higher at 7,241 but down 0.52% for the week – the fourth straight week it has finished down. Energy was the top...

US Fed chair Jerome Powell finally admitted that inflationary pressures weren’t going to be as sh­­ort-lived as perhaps expected. Earlier this week Powell surprised markets by suggesting it would be appropriate to drop the phrase “inflation...

Highlights The ASX 200 shot up 0.31% or 22.4 points to 7,250.2 in early trade. The energy sector was the top gainer, surging 1.22% as crude oil sharply recovered from lower levels. Wall Street recouped losses from previous session's s...

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...

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...

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 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...

Junior explorer PNX Metals (ASX: PNX) has commenced reverse circulation drilling at the eastern zone of the recently-acquired Glencoe gold deposit, located north of its Fountain Head gold project in the Northern Territory. Drilling will foc...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Maiden drilling at PNX Metals’ (ASX: PNX) newly-acquired Glencoe gold deposit near Pine Creek in the Northern Territory has intersected multiple zones of near-surface, high-grade mineralisation. A program of 27 reverse circulation holes for...

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...

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...

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...

While today was a better day for the ASX than the past two days, the bourse still finished slightly in the red After dropping by nearly 1% yesterday, the ASX 200 traded slightly higher for most of the day but closed 7,502 points, which was...

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...

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...

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...

PNX Metals (ASX: PNX) has begun drilling at the recently acquired Glencoe gold deposit, which is just 3km north of its flagship Fountain Head project in the Northern Territory’s Pine Creek region. The company is undertaking a 2,000m reverse...

It is no longer just lip service — to create max value for shareholders, miners know they need good Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) credentials. Failing to maintain good relationships with stakeholders (like governments, local co...

Gold had its worst month since November 2016 in June, down 7% to $US1,779/oz. Mining and exploration stocks have followed suit. This bearish trend creates a buying opportunity, experts say. Boutique investment advisory firm head Frank Holme...

The market giveth and the market taketh. Truer words have never been spoken with gold prices diving nearly US$100 in less than a day after the US Federal Reserve signalled higher inflation and that interest rates could rise twice by 2023. G...

Gold is re-starting its bull rally as two major obstacles — higher US Treasury yields and Bitcoin — fizzle. “Strong headwinds from parabolic Bitcoin and rising bond yields appear to have run their course,” Bloomberg Intelligence senior comm...