Articles On Hammer Metals (ASX:HMX)

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...

M3 Mining (M3M) completes a soil sampling program at the Edjudina gold project The survey was completed across areas highlighted via a sub-audio magnetics survey completed in December Once results from the survey program have been receiv...

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...

The ASX Emerging Companies (XEC) index is busting out after a three-session losing streak that felt like ten days. I should know, I spent a week in Canberra one afternoon when I was about 15. Anyway, the index for sensational small caps is...

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...

Analysis of a previously reported drill hole at Hammer Metals’ (HMX) Ajax prospect has returned new assays, confirming it intersected a high-grade copper and gold zone The drill hole returned grades peaking at 13.2 per cent copper, 3.2 g/t...

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...

There were 0 producers in January’s Top 50 ASX resources stocks. In February there were 12, plus a handful looking to join their ranks by the end of the year. Why? Maybe reporting season underlined just how much money miners are making from...

Hammer Metals (HMX) has produced new drill targets within its Mount Isa exploration portfolio in northwest Queensland Hammer has reviewed historical IP survey data to assess potential drill targets within its 2,600sqkm exploration portfoli...

The ASX200 has come to a jerky halt, closing more than 50 points or 0.7% higher. The market is down 5.6% over the last 52 weeks. The ASX Emerging Companies (XEC) index ended 0.6% better. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are abroad on Mon...

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...

Hammer Metals (HMX) extends its Kalman polymetallic deposit, located 50 kilometres south-east of Mt Isa in Queensland, following a round of reverse circulation drilling The company says the round of shallow returned copper-gold-molybdenum...

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...

Hammer Metals intercepts shallow copper-bearing sulphides at the Ajax prospect within its Mt Isa project in Queensland Results from one reconnaissance reverse circulation drillhole returned 10 metres at 3.5 per cent copper from 25 metres d...

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...