Articles On Hawthorn Resources (ASX:HAW)

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...

Coal prices have bounded to new record highs on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, extending the bonanza Australian based coal miners have enjoyed since the middle of last year. The stunning turnaround in metallurgical and thermal coal prices ha...

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...

Major iron ore producers are shifting focus from traditional hematite to magnetite as the world moves towards sustainable, greener steel production The Yilgarn region in Western Australia tipped as the new tier-one for Magnetite, boasts ne...

Back before the last mining boom buying a tonne of iron ore was little more than a trip to the corner store, with the bulk commodity fetching prices in the range of US$30/t. When Chinese steel production and industrial growth began to overt...

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...

In one of the big iron ore headline makers of the past month the WA Government has released its new plan for Port Hedland, the world’s largest iron ore export hub. The Pilbara Ports Authority has already pushed its export rate beyond the 49...

Iron ore is in familiar territory right now. Talked down by analysts who predict it is due for a dive, the headline Australian commodity has been defiant in 2022 so far. Despite the column inches expended on the rise in crude oil prices so...

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...

The Pilbara iron ore miners are facing business pressures on a number of fronts, including the on again, off again story around the reopening of WA’s Covid border. The WA Government’s decision to delay its planned February 5 reopening inde...

The iron ore market does not offer the simple narrative that it did in the first two decades of the 21st century nor that of the suite of “green metals” like lithium, nickel and copper now hitched to electric vehicle sales and efforts to ma...

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...

Welcome back to Hot Money – 2022 edition. The weekly Stockhead article recaps ASX stocks that are “running hot” as deduced by the Relative Strength Index (RSI). The RSI is a technical gauge which measures how trading momentum is affecting t...

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...

Coal mining is hardly popular but governments around the world, most of whom have promised to work to reduce the impacts of climate change, can’t get enough of it. It may be getting harder to finance and gain approval for mining coal, the b...

Iron ore has been unpredictable in 2021 and it would be a brave person to make a hard and fast call on where it will end up in 2022. In fact, with the whims of the Chinese Communist Party and vagaries of its economy one of the major factors...

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...

The topsy turvy data coming out of China’s steel sector continues to roll on after the world’s biggest steelmaker revealed iron ore imports hit a 13-month high in November despite sliding steel production. China’s appetite for iron ore roar...

Each week, Stockhead recaps ASX stocks that are “running hot” as deduced by the Relative Strength Index (RSI). The RSI is a technical gauge which measures how trading momentum is affecting the price action. A reading of 70 is seen as the le...

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...

For the second month in a row the ASX was hit by a major sell-off in the last few days of the month and it took the bourse from what was then a 0.5% gain to a 1.56% loss in November. Just when we thought we were out of the worst of COVID, w...

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...

The ASX drifted sideways on Wednesday, as uncertainty continues to linger around the outlook for monetary policy, interest rates and broader market liquidity following the reappointment of Jerome Powell as US Fed chair. While the ASX 200 tr...

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 collapse in steel production in China over the past four months has been described as “unprecedented”. It comes after the country’s steel industry produced just 71.58Mt in October, 23.3% less than the same period in 2020 and off the bac...

Askari Metals pegs the ‘Red Peak’ and ‘Mt Deverell’ lithium projects in WA MinRex Resources also expanding its lithium portfolio, picking up at least 4 projects in the Pilbara Mark Creasy backed Galileo Mining could be scratching the surfa...

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...

Hancock Prospecting is making a big move into magnetite iron ore, this week inking an initial $9 million deal to farm into the Mt Bevan iron ore project owned by juniors Legacy Iron Ore (ASX:LCY) and Hawthorn Resources (ASX:HAW). It’s an in...

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...

In afternoon trade, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is out of form and tumbling lower. At the time of writing, the benchmark index is down 0.7% to 7,416.2 points. Four ASX shares that have not let that hold them back are listed below....

LCY is now up 164%, HAW up 76% since teaming up with Hancock Prospecting  to develop ‘Mt Bevan’ iron ore project A8G picks up high grade lithium off the ground at early stage ‘Mt Peake’ project in NT AQD’s longstanding strategic exploratio...

It has been a stunning couple of days for the Legacy Iron Ore Limited (ASX: LCY) share price. The iron ore explorer’s shares were up as much as 120% to 4.2 cents on Tuesday morning. When the Legacy Iron Ore share price hit that level, it w...

The ASX posted steady gains to start the week on Monday, with investors preferences leaning towards tech/consumer stocks and gold (unusual bedfellows) at the expense of the big banks and iron ore majors. Companies that specialise in the pre...

Eastern Iron cements deal with Chinese lithium giant Yahua to find and develop Aussie projects Hancock Prospecting to pay initial $9m to earn into Hawthorn Resources and Legacy Minerals’ ‘Mt Bevan’ iron ore project Ora Gold moves closer to...

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...

Westpac is the latest major financial institution to knock down its iron ore forecasts after prices dived below US$100/t again on a slowdown in steel production in China it describes as the largest since 2008. It revised its price forecasts...

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...

If there was any doubt about the importance of grade in iron ore, check out the latest numbers from Mineral Resources (ASX:MIN). Chris Ellison’s miner suffered a 48% discount to average Platts 62% iron ore prices in the September Quarter. T...

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...

Set against rumours of its demise, spot iron ore has remained stubbornly defiant, reminding investors again why forecasting is a fool’s errand by bouncing above US$135/t on Monday night. A broad consensus is forming around metals like 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...

It was a fairly turbulent night on global markets, but the ASX 200 put in a fairly solid day of trade on Thursday to snap a two-day losing streak. Risk-on sentiment held sway as the microcap Emerging Companies index rose more than 1%, while...

Is there any end to coal’s incredible price run in 2021? This week has seen thermal coal prices rise to record levels, with low volatility 6000kcal product from Newcastle soaring 5% to US$240/t yesterday. Twelve months ago, when China’s dip...

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...

Local stocks closed in the red on Wednesday (as expected), after US stocks posted their biggest fall since June overnight. The ASX 200 threatened to tank early but gained back some ground in afternoon trade to finish 1.08% lower. By sector,...

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 200 closed 1% higher at 7,370 points, a level that saw it nearly recoup losses made earlier this week. The ASX Emerging Companies Index rose 1.64% to close at 2,554 points. All sectors were in the green with the biggest winners bein...