Articles On Encounter Resources (ASX:ENR)

Encounter Resources (ENR) confirms the arrival of the first diamond drill rig at the Elliot copper project under a joint venture agreement with BHP (BHP) in the Northern TerritoryThe diamond drill program is designed to advance the understa...

Encounter Resources has received commitments for a placement to raise $4 million, priced at 12 cents per share, to fund exploration at various projects in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. The company will focus primarily on its...

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...

Encounter Resources (ENR) taps investors for $4 million to advance copper, lithium and rare earth exploration across its Australian projectsThe company plans to place 33.3 million shares to private investors at 12 cents per share — a discou...

ASX 200 jumps on blue cap strength Small caps skulk around parity New Hope Coal: So. Much. New. Hope.   The benchmark is killing Tuesday, it’s up about 1.3% on big performances from the banks and the miners. The small cap XEC index is fla...

It was quiet in equity raisings on Tuesday morning after Tamboran’s $133 million raise on Monday, but a few resources juniors were venturing out with cash calls.

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...

Macquarie upgrades its quarterly average lithium price assumption by 2% to US$5,000/t The brokers top two lithium picks remain unchanged – Pilbara Minerals and IGO  Encounter Resources expansive land position in the North Arunta province i...

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...

Junior explorer Encounter Resources (ENR) kicks off a 1500-metre diamond drilling program at its Lamil project in Western Australia’s Paterson Province The program is designed to test the continuity of a copper-gold system struck in previo...

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...

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...

Encounter Resources (ENR) launches its diamond drilling program at the Yeneena copper-cobalt project in WA The company has been undergoing a substantial exploration program under a $15 million earn-in and joint venture agreement with fello...

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...

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...

Encounter Resources (ENR) has entered into two new farm-in and joint venture (JV) agreements with South32 (S32) to accelerate exploration in the Northern Territory The agreements focus on the Jessica copper project and Carrara copper-zinc...

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...

Benchmark collapses Small caps down 6% Hamelin brings hope   After a really terrific Queen’s Birthday long weekend, local markets already had a session of losses to catch up on at the open. Needless to say, they have. The benchmark took...

Drilling is ongoing across multiple prospects at Hamelin Gold’s flagship ‘West Tanami’ project Satellite imagery uncovers new targets at Eclipse Metals’ ‘Ivittuut’ multi-commodity project in Greenland Danakali (potash), Metals Hawk (gold,...

Investors keep winding up the commodity trade in 2022 with several ASX mining shares surging more than 20% during Australian market hours on Monday. Despite the S&P/ASX 300 Metals & Mining Index (ASX: XMM) sliding more than 109 b...

Tech stocks lead losses Culpeo Minerals in huge copper strike  Small cap index ends more than 1% lower   Down from the first bell, all the constituents on the ASX Emerging Companies (XEC) Index would probably like to have been Culpeo Min...

Culpeo Minerals up +90% after hitting 173m grading 1.05% copper Encounter Resources is on Garimpeiro’s list of ‘junior copper stocks to watch’ Drilling updates from First AU’s Dogwood porphyry copper project are pending Here are the bigge...

Garimpeiro wasted no time taking Goldman Sachs off his Christmas card list for the damage its call on lithium caused during the week. It’s not every day that a research note from an investment bank of some note swings a wrecking ball throug...

The ASX 200 is set to open higher this morning after a rally on Wall Street OPEC has decided to raise oil output Expert believes the RBA won’t stop hiking rates until the cash rate is at 1.5% Aussie shares are set to rise this morning, fo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Viking Mines (VKA) adds 60 square kilometres of prospective gold and lithium exploration tenure surrounding its First Hit Project in WA The new land includes two tenements and is only two kilometres away from First Hit The company can comm...

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...

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...

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....

Richard Laufmann, then the manager of Western Mining Corporation’s gold operations in Kambalda, remembers clearly a time in the late 1990s when members of the famous Australian mining company’s high-powered board descended on the rugged WA...

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...

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...

Encounter Resources (ENR) release copper assays for a six-kilometre strike at its Northern Territory based Sandover tenement ENR results confirm copper mineralisation up to 20.9 per cent of copper at four separate areas totalling the strik...

Venture Minerals pulls up ‘record breaking’ 147m-long tin intercept at Mount Lindsay project Exec director Grant Davey now owns 12.6% of this shell company Cradle Resources Ozaurum, Encounter announce promising early-stage exploration resu...

The Encounter Resources Ltd (ASX: ENR) share price is rocketing on Thursday. This comes after the company announced it has received positive assay results over the Sandover project in the Northern Territory. At the time of writing, the exp...

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...

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...

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...

BHP has recognised community engagement as equal in importance to the sheer volume of battery metals required by 2050. With the world’s light vehicle fleet set to reach about one billion electrified units by 2050, the need for battery mater...

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...

The hot debut of Evolution Energy Minerals (ASX:EV1) was not enough to save the ASX resources sector from falling today. The ASX 200 finished 0.67% down at 7,420 points. All sectors were down except tech, which gained 0.18%. In contrast, mo...

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...