Articles On First Au (ASX:FAU)

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 200 has touched a new high-water mark for 2022 Aussie Government sets aside $1.2 billion for Phase One of the national space mission Major movers today: Culpeo Minerals, Tesoro Resources, Latin Resources   The ASX 200 has touched a ne...

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...

First Au (FAU) will need another shareholder vote for the proposed Talga project joint venture and farm-in agreement with Octava Minerals Shareholders have previously voted in favour of Octava of earning up to 80 per cent interest in Talga...

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...

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 S&P/ASX200 is lower in late trade on Tuesday, dropping around 30 points or 0.4%, after iron ore futures plunged in Singapore. The SGX March booking shed a full 10% after lunch (Singapore time) on reports Beijing has just had it with...

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...

Eleven holes of the fourteen-hole program have been successfully drilled at First Au’s (FAU) Snowstorm gold project in East Gippsland, Victoria The company said drilling results from the first three drill holes are “highly encouraging” dem...

First Au (FAU) is set to acquire up to 100 per cent of the Mt Turner project which in Queensland The company entered a binding term sheet with Essex Minerals which allows it to earn an initial 51 per cent interest in the project through a...

It was a lacklustre session for local stocks in Tuesday trade, as the ASX 200 limped into the close with a fall of 0.77% while the microcap Emerging Companies index traded flat. In an environment of rising bond yields, the broader tone is s...

Local stocks made a cautious start to the week, following a fairly volatile trading period last week as jitters stemming from rising bond yields dimmed risk sentiment on global markets. The ASX 200 opened in the red before clawing back some...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.30am 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...

The ASX is down -0.3% today with the information technology sector taking the cake for the biggest dip at ~3%, followed by the healthcare sector at more than 1.5%. The ASX Emerging Companies Index (XEC) has flatlined. For the second day in...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

8 AU (8AU) lodges its prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) to raise up to $12 million under its initial public offering (IPO) Between 40 million and 60 million shares will be on offer, priced at 20 ce...

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...

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...

Gold and base metals explorer First Au (FAU) successfully raises $1.84 million via a share placement The funds were reaised via the issue of more than 153 million fully-paid ordinary shares to sophisticated and professional investors at 1....

The ASX 200 was unable to break free from its recent shackles, edging lower by 0.11% in the Wednesday session. But as a measure of a little more risk-on sentiment creeping back into markets, the microcap Emerging Markets index comfortably o...

Minerals260 (ASX:MI6), a spinoff from Liontown Resources (ASX:LTR), enjoyed a positive debut despite the ASX finishing down again. The ASX 200 retreated 0.26% to close at 7,821 points with all sectors in the red except consumer staples and...

The ASX retreated again as angst over inflation and the withdrawal of stimulus continued to weigh on global markets. The ASX 200 closed at 7,300 – 0.28% lower than Friday’s close. Tech was the biggest laggard, losing nearly 3% but energy an...

First Au (FAU) begins the week in a trading halt while it plans the details of an upcoming capital raising The company will remain in the halt until October 13 or when more details are released, whichever occurs first On September 22, Fi...

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...

ShareCafeFirst AU Limited (ASX: FAU) – Webinar Presentation Ryan Skeen – CEO – First AU is an Australian focused exploration company with exciting gold and base metal projects in Victoria and Western Australia. First AU Limited (ASX: FAU)...

ShareCafeWebinar Recap – FAU, AU1, NGS & Z2U Catch up on the full webinar with presentations from First AU Limited (ASX: FAU), The Agency Group (ASX: AU1), Nutritional Growth Solutions (ASX: NGS) & Zoom2U Technologies Limited (ASX...

The ASX limped into the close on Friday, in a fairly tame finish to a roller-coaster week. Evergrande contagion fears and jitters ahead of the US Fed meeting sparked a sharp selloff on Monday. But a week (or three days) is a long time in ma...

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...

The ASX was set for another negative day if futures and Wall Street’s drop were any guide — but even with a bad start, Australia’s bourse finished in the green. The ASX 200 fell as much as 0.50% in the first few minutes of trade but closed...

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...

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...