Articles On Encounter Resources (ASX:ENR)

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...

BHP is looking at investing in additional early-stage development projects as the company aims to grow its copper and nickel portfolio. BHP chief executive officer Mike Henry spoke at the company’s annual general meeting on Thursday, sugges...

Some are Mork & Mindy (good) and others are Joanie Loves Chachi (depressingly bad), but like the offspring of TV’s classic Happy Days, ASX companies have been giving berth to more spin offs than a warren of rabbits in 2021. The latest t...

Some are Mork & Mindy (good) and others are Joanie Loves Chachi (depressingly bad), but like the offspring of TV’s classic Happy Days, ASX companies have been giving birth to more spin offs than a warren of rabbits in 2021. The latest t...

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...