Articles On Battery Minerals (ASX:BAT)

XEC down 2.7% XJO down 1.8% Dateline Resources (ASX: DTR) hits the trifecta    Markets across Asia are mostly heading downtown following Wall Street’s latest sell-off.  Tech names are in the biggest mess thanks to the latest inspired chao...

Indonesia ramping up efforts to establish a nickel-based EV battery supply chain, Benchmark Minerals Intelligence says Growth in Indonesian nickel supply has put downward pressure on prices in the past Battery nickel prices topsy turvy as...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.30am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX stocks in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers...

ASX Emerging Companies (XEC) Index is about 0.2% lower ahead of the close on Tuesday Iron ore maintains US$160, AUD steadies around 75.4 US cents Major movers today: Payright (ASX:PYR), Sovereign Metals (ASX:SVM)   The ASX200 had a nasty...

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...

Trek Metals (TKM) sells its 20 per cent interest in the Kroussou zinc-lead project to Apollo Minerals (AON) The sale follows the Earn-In Agreement (EIA) signed with Apollo in 2019 for AON to earn up to an 80 per cent interest in the projec...

ASX to rise as Wall Street rallies ASX is set to open 0.6% higher today, extending its 3% gain from last week despite the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the Covid situation in China. On Wall Street, US stocks finished the week much higher...

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...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.30am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX stocks in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers...

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...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.30am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX stocks in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers...

The ASX Emerging Companies index (XEC) ran free on Tuesday, climbing over 3%, apparently unrestrained by the various macro or geopolitical issues bothering the rest of us. That said, the more gown up ASX200 also lifted on Tuesday, gaining a...

The Rio Tinto Ltd (ASX: RIO) share price closed up 1.2% yesterday. Shares in the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) mining giant finished the day trading at $119.87. The Rio Tinto share price is in focus today after the company posted record...

Battery Minerals (BAT) defines a broad anomalous copper zone at its Stavely-Stawell Project in Victoria Aircore drilling at the copper-gold project restarted in January, forming part of a 15,000-metre program to assess multiple targets for...

ASX to fall, oil climbs towards US$100 US stock markets came back from the long weekend break and immediately fell from the opening bell. All three major US benchmarks dipped as the US and Europe began sanctioning Russian banks and elites,...

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...

The ASX Emerging Companies (XEC) index was climbing at 4pm (Sydney time) up 1.8% and outpacing the S&P/ASX 200 index (XJO), weighed down as it is by a few of those unwieldy iron ore giants after China’s favourite rock fell 9% ‘cos Chine...

Last year, the price of copper rose 33%, but that was just the entree. Goldman Sachs reckons the red metal will hit a record US$12,000/t over the next month, up from ~$US9,700/t currently. That’s uncomfortably bullish, but even the more mil...

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...

Battery Minerals (BAT) set for strong start to 2022 with new Managing Director Peter Duerden starting this week The new MD has over 20 years of experience in mining and exploration Exploration programs in place for Stavely-Stawell in Victo...

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...

Highlights  Battery Minerals has received firm commitments for ~AU$2.7 million in a share placement, valued at 1.1 cents per share. BAT will complete the placement in one tranche out of the company’s 15% capacity. Proceeds will be use...

Battery Minerals (BAT) receives firm commitments to raise almost $2.7 million through a share placement to fund exploration programs at its Australian projects Battery Minerals will issue the shares at 1.1 cents each in one tranche, which...

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...

While US markets rose after the Fed outlined plans to gradually withdraw stimulus, our markets did not follow suit even amidst a sea of deals. Leading the charge today was IGO (ASX:IGO) which after months of negotiations looks to have inked...

J-Pow and the gang are back on deck with a bang later tonight, and ASX investors appeared to buckle up in the safety seat ahead of the all-important Fed meeting. The ASX 200 finished around 0.7% lower, with a steeper fall of 1.4% in the mic...

Battery Minerals (BAT) enters a mid-week trading halt while it plans the details of an upcoming capital raising The company will remain in the halt until December 17 or when more details are released, whichever occurs first On December 7...

Most people are familiar with graphite because of its use in the humble pencil or in anodes for lithium-ion batteries, but it seems graphite has plenty more to offer. Several new and diverse applications, as well as a global supply squeeze...

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...

Battery Minerals (BAT) confirms previous results following the completion of drilling at two prospects within its Stavely-Stawell Copper-Gold project in Victoria At the Nine Mile and Kent Road prospects, BAT has completed 5,737 metres of a...

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...

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...

After climbing into midday trade, the ASX 200 lost ground in the afternoon to finish 0.14% lower. There were sharper falls in the ASX microcap Emerging Companies index, which fell by 1.63% — its worst session since September 20. At the big...

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...

Wall Street ends winning streak US stocks slid overnight to end their eight-day winning streak. All three major benchmarks were down – the Dow Jones by 0.31%, the S&P 500 by 0.35%. and tech heavy Nasdaq by 0.6%. The falls came ahead of...

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...

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...

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 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...

Wall Street down for third consecutive day All three major US stock market benchmarks have dipped lower for the third consecutive day. The Dow Jones fell by 0.43%, the S&P 500 by 0.46%, and tech heavy Nasdaq by 0.25%. Moderna jumped by...