Articles On Encounter Resources (ASX:ENR)

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...

Copper is back in vogue after ending months of malaise to return toward record price levels on Friday, rising above US$10,000/t for the first time since May. Prices fell 18% from the all time high of US$10,724/t seen on May 10 to just US$87...

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...

Dr Copper is in rude health this morning, rising 2.5% to US$9760/t to counter concerns that the energy and property crises in China would dull demand for the base metal. The International Monetary Fund had conflicting messages for the coppe...

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...

SPINIFEX: Encounter Resources’ spin-out Hamelin Gold will be well capitalised to explore its vast West Tanami project in remote WA.

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...

Once again the energy sector determined the direction of the market but unlike yesterday where it gained, today it finished in the red. The ASX 200 retreated 0.27% to close at 7,417 points, although the ASX Emerging Companies Index rose 1.3...

It was another day of gains for the ASX led by the energy sector. The ASX 200 rose by 0.116% to close at 7,437 while the ASX Emerging Companies Index rose 0.56% to close at 2,527. Although there was an even number of winners and losers amon...

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...

The ASX 200 rose 0.07%, closing at 7,529 points while the ASX Emerging Companies Index climbed 1.21% to close at 2,461. Energy lost 1.68% and resources lost 1.09% but most other sectors gained with the best being tech which rose 1.15%.   TO...

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...

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...

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...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade. WINNERS Scrol...

The new financial year is underway, so it is time for Garimpeiro to update his list of junior exploration and development stocks worth watching in the coming months. Garimpeiro’s last list of five stocks to watch appeared on November 23. 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...

RareX (ASX:REE) has strengthened its executive team to help drive development of its Cummins Range rare earths project and exploration work. The company has appointed James Durrant as its general manager of projects to oversee studies at th...

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...

It is not often the activity of criminals provides an investment idea, but when they start stealing copper wire from power stations, or from building sites, then you know it’s time to brush up on copper miners. Kingston in South Australia,...

Gold’s rally ran out of puff this week, with the precious metal dropping about 2% below ~$1US1,870/oz at Thursday close. Kitco’s Jim Wyckoff calls it “routine profit taking”. “Importantly, the price uptrend in gold on the daily chart remain...

Over the past two months the gold price has turned a corner, up ~12.7% to a high of $US1898/oz. That’s a four month high, erasing almost all of 2021’s losses. The share prices of local gold stocks have responded in kind. Over the past month...

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...

BHP has entered a joint venture (JV) with Encounter Resources to develop the Elliot copper project in the Northern Territory. The JV will involve an exploration program that includes seismic surveys and drilling which is set to progress rap...

Summary Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) and BHP Group (ASX: BHP) have entered into an earn-in and joint venture agreement to develop the Elliott copper project. BHP will have the right to earn up to a 75% interest in the project. The c...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade.   WINNERS Scr...

Summary The ASX 200 is set to close the week with narrow gains, led by a strong rally in healthcare and tech stocks. The top five gainers on the ASX are EML Payments, A2 Milk Company, Webjet, Nuix and Xero. Bitcoin staged a smart reco...

The Encounter Resources Ltd (ASX: ENR) share price is surging today. At the time of writing, shares in the mineral exploration company are trading for 17.5 cents each – up 29.63%. The massive price rise comes after the company announced BH...

Are large Bitcoin investors moving back into precious metals? In a note to clients, JPMorgan said large institutional investors are dumping bitcoin in favour of gold, reversing a trend that’s played out over the last two quarters. “The bitc...

BHP has exercised an option to enter into a A$22 million farm-in and joint venture over Encounter Resources' Elliott copper project in the Northern ...

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...

Risk on sentiment returned to the ASX following yesterday’s 1.9 per cent drop. The ASX 200 closed 1.27 per cent higher at 7,020 points while the ASX Emerging Companies Index closed 0.78 per cent higher at 2,101. The rebound was led by tech...

The ASX fell nearly 2 per cent in a broader equity market sell off. The ASX 200 closed at 6,932, which was 1.9 per cent lower than yesterday although the ASX Emerging Companies Index only fell 0.58 per cent, closing at 2,085 points. Every s...

The recovery in the gold price from its early March lows — ~$1,670s to over $1,825 currently — was mostly driven by the decline in real interest rates and, more recently a poor US jobs report and increasing inflation. US core inflation in A...

“When you stop growing you start dying,” is a saying the ASX’s largest gold miners have apparently taken to heart. While hopefully remaining cognisant of the expensive, value-destroying deals which occurred when gold last peaked in the 2010...

The gold price traditionally thrives on geopolitical drama. Heightened tensions in eastern Ukraine, the recent incident at an Iranian nuclear site, and news of an unofficial US delegation visiting Taiwan are recent reminders that 2021 will...

Gold continues to trend upwards on the back of US dollar’s ongoing weakness and concerns about inflation, so it’s unsurprising that the majority of gold plays on our watchlist have marked gains this week. The previous metal is currently tra...

The gold price may have languished slightly in 2021, but the number of gold IPOs certainly has not. Here’s what the newest ASX gold explorers are doing, where they are doing it, and why investors should care.   KINCORA COPPER (ASX:KCC) The...

Strange to think that it is a year since the world was turned upside down when the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic in mid-March 2020. In the week that followed the price of gold tumbled nearly $US200 to $US1...

A recent round of support for gold has seen the price consolidate above $US1,700 an ounce. However, with policy support from central banks, US stimulus and employment growth — underpinned by big infrastructure projects — you’d “expect gold...

Newcrest Mining has withdrawn from its joint venture (JV) with Encounter Resources at the Aileron copper-gold-rare earths project in Western Australia. Encounter now retains full control of the Aileron project, with Newcrest to hold no rema...

For goldies, 2020 was a year when good news was rewarded, and great news celebrated. The precious metal has gained about 22 per cent year-to-date despite treading water since mid-August. And there’s a strong chance 2021 will start off with...