Articles On Hammer Metals (ASX:HMX)

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...

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...

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...

The ASX has extended its market gains this morning, boosted by US inflation statistics and a sweetened bid from Blackstone to Crown. Australian shares are 0.6 per cent or 44.6 points higher at 7,483.50, boosted by strong advances in the...

ASX investors evidently shrugged off omicron fears in December, with the last month of the 2021 being the second best of the year. Ultimately, the market finished 2021 13% higher than it started. Patience pays off, unless you got in at the...

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....

NexGen’s high grade ‘Rook I’ uranium project is at the pointy end of development cycle Superior Resources now up ~43% since announcing big copper hit at ‘Bottletree’ Lithium stock Morella Corp continues to edge higher after relisting on th...

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...

Hammer Metals (HMX) has recently completed reverse circulation (RC) drilling at the Bronzewing gold deposit in the Yandal belt of WA Unfortunately for the company, no significant results were received from the 13 holes drilled However, res...

Hammer Metals (HMX) begins drilling at its Mount Isa Projects in Queensland The drilling program will test prospects at Sunset, Lakeview, Neptune and Kalman, plus the Trafalgar trend within the Mount Isa East joint venture with Sumitomo Me...

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...

Geologist Ian Warland has had a long and varied career since cutting his teeth in copper and gold mines in Queensland three decades ago. His success as an explorer is underlined by the Explorer of the Year gong he took out in 2006 in the te...

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...

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...

AIC Mines (ASX:A1M) led a group of 30 stocks running hot this week, amid another spate of big mining hits, M&A deals and clean energy winners. Each week, Stockhead recaps ASX stocks that are “running hot” as deduced by the Relative Stre...

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...

Hammer Metals (HMX) gets the final batch of results from drilling at the Lakeview prospect within the Mount Isa project in Queensland Drilling has intersected further copper and gold mineralisation which HMX finds encouraging ahead of an u...

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...

Hammer Metals (HMX) spikes in early trade after releasing more strong copper hits from drilling at its Mt Isa project in Queensland The best results, which come from the Lakeview prospect, include an 18-metre hit grading 1.7 per cent 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...

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...

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...

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...

Stockhead’s Market Movers video series features one-on-one interviews showcasing the major announcements of emerging ASX companies. In this instalment, veteran resources journalist and ‘Garimpeiro’ columnist Barry FitzGerald interviews Dani...

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...

Local markets continued their strong form on Wednesday as the ASX rose for the third straight session. Reporting season threw up some big-name winners as markets responded to the latest round of full-year results. While the ASX 200 edged hi...

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...

Hammer Metals (ASX: HMX) has scored big, with Japanese mining and refining Sumitomo Metal Mining set to take over Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation’s (JOGMEC) joint venture with the copper-gold explorer. It’s kind of a big deal...

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...

Summary The prices of precious metals retreated on Monday, driven by a higher-than-expected US July jobs report. The US non-farm payroll report showed the addition of 943,000 jobs in July month. Various ASX-listed precious metal stock...

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...

Another gold IPO — and another float concerning increasingly fashionable NSW gold — is here with Koonenberry Gold in the market with a promising project in the northwest corner of the state. The namesake project comprises 12 exploration lic...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Summary The ASX 200 is expected to open flat after two days of continuous rally The dollar index rose 0.622 points, or 0.69%, to 90.531 after falling around 1.6% in May. Gold slid as much as 2.3% as robust US employment data, and serv...

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...

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...

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...

After a couple of days in the red, the ASX rebounded into positive territory today. The ASX 200 rose 0.83 per cent closing at 7,055 while the ASX Emerging Companies Index closed 0.22 per cent higher at 2,095. Most sectors were positive with...