Articles On Hammer Metals (ASX:HMX)

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...

The ASX fell again today, as risk-on sentiment continued to reign supreme in the markets. The ASX 200 fell 0.29 per cent, a smaller drop then yesterday but one that saw it close below 7,000 – at 6,997. Small caps fell by more, with the ASX...

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...

Stockhead’s Hot Money Monday analysis is based on the Relative Strength Index (RSI) — a technical gauge which measures how trading momentum is affecting the price action. A reading of 70 is seen as the level at which a company may have been...

The Hammer Metals Limited (ASX: HMX) share price is flying today. This comes after the company announced that it has been approved an additional drilling program at the Trafalgar prospect at its Mount Isa East Joint Venture. During morning...

Perth-based explorer Hammer Metals (ASX: HMX) has confirmed the discovery of new copper-gold intercepts during a second round of drilling at the Mount Isa East joint venture in Queensland. The December program was completed before the Chris...

The share price of Hammer Metals Ltd [ASX:HMX] has soared today thanks to newly identified broad copper-gold mineralisation at its Mt Isa East Joint Venture in Queensland. At time of writing, HMX shares are up 63.64% or 2.1 cents to trade a...

DRILLING by Hammer Metals and its joint venture partner has delivered a potentially significant copper-gold discovery in Queensland's Mount Isa ...

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...

There’s 191 ASX gold stocks on our list — from $25bn behemoth Newcrest (ASX:NCM) all the way down to $4.7m tiddler African Gold (ASX:A1G) – with a combined market cap of ~$82.8bn. Despite running out of puff in August and September the gold...

A quick wrap of the ASX’s key winners and losers on Monday, September 7. Data is taken after the market closes at 4pm AEST. Stocks highlighted in yellow made market-moving announcements during the day. Today 847 stocks rose, 575 declined an...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10 highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms. The market opens at 10am (easte...

The sudden drop in spot gold prices and reintroduction of COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand have hit the relevant ASX small caps this morning. After 100 days of being virus-free, four COVID-19 cases were detected in the country. New Zeal...

GTI Resources Ltd (ASX:GTR) has entered into binding agreements to acquire three prospecting licences in the Kookynie region of Western Australia’s goldfields. The agreements are subject to due diligence with shares to be issued as consider...

Gold has been on a winning streak not seen in years, prompting RBC Capital Markets to launch a new ‘high’ scenario where gold crosses $US3,000/oz ($4,216/oz). Uncertainty is high amongst global investors as the number of crises – health, po...

The Bellevue Gold Ltd (ASX: BGL) share price is on watch today after the company announced its intention to accelerate its project development with a significant capital raising.  On Thursday, many prominent gold explorers on the ASX saw a...

Want to know which stocks the fund managers have been putting their money in (and out) of? We’ve been keeping track so you don’t have to. Trading Places is Stockhead’s recap of substantial holder movements among ASX small caps in the last f...

The currency exchange rate continues to favour local companies with the Australian price of gold last trading at about $2,680.80 per ounce, which is up slightly from yesterday despite the US dollar spot gold price slipping slightly. Meanwhi...

While the newspaper headlines and television news cameras have focused on the thousands of workers in retail and services industries losing their jobs, the effects of the COVID-19 crisis have been creeping largely unnoticed through the rank...

The hunt for “new economy minerals” continues for mining exploration companies in North Queensland as they compete for $13.8 million in funding provided by the state government. The Queensland Government has so far granted close to a millio...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10 highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms. The market opens at 10am (easte...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10 highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms. The market opens at 10am (easte...

If there’s one commodity that has started the decade well, it’s oil. Brent oil has gained 5.2 per cent this week and crude oil has gained 4.2 per cent. In contrast, some of the top performing commodities of 2019 have been slower. Copper has...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10 highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms. The market opens at 10am (easte...

NEW Hammer Metals MD Daniel Thomas has signed off on a farm-out deal over ground in the Mt Isa district with Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National ...