Articles On Lepidico (ASX:LPD)

The ASX started the week on a downward note with tech leading the laggards despite one of Australia’s major unicorns joining the bourse and gaining over 30%. SiteMinder (ASX:SDR), a hotel commerce platform, listed on the ASX at $5.06 per sh...

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...

What happened to the most talked about metals and minerals in October? Investor sentiment for commodities went ballistic, almost across the board. Copper was back in vogue, rising above US$10,000/t for the first time since May. The close of...

Local stocks posted a solid session on Wednesday ahead of this week’s main event on global markets later tonight — the US Fed’s latest policy decision. After plenty of forward guidance, the Fed is expected to formally announce the taper of...

The ASX finished in the green by just 0.03%. Today’s gain was spurred by a 1.34% rally in tech shares as well as a rally in Crown (ASX:CWN) shares in the wash-up of the Victorian government’s royal commission. Despite the report finding the...

China’s ongoing energy shortage starts to affect domestic battery materials production Tesla ditches nickel, cobalt as prices soar Pilbara Minerals’ (ASX:PLS) third spodumene auction unofficially scheduled for October 26 Weekly small cap s...

Aldoro Resources could be sitting on a jewellery box of rubidium and lithium at its Wyemandoo project, saying the pegmatite fairway boasts “world class potential”. Shares in Aldoro Resources (ASX:ARN) shot up on high grade rubidium rock chi...

Western Australian explorer Aldoro Resources (ASX: ARN) reports a review of rock chip samples from its recently acquired Wyemandoo project has found “exceptionally high” assays over nearly 9km of outcropping strike. A total of 52 samples fr...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium.   Lithium carbonate prices are going gangbusters off the back of limited supply and stable lithium-...

Wall Street falls as IMF warns of inflation US stock markets fell for the third consecutive day, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cuts its global growth projection from 6.5% to 5.9%, and warned about inflation. The IMF told the BBC...

Lepidico (LPD) demonstrates it can produce catalyst-grade caesium compounds Samples of both caesium sulphate and caesium hydroxide have been generated and are in the process of being sent out to customers for assessment The company says st...

Lepidico (LPD) secures land for its phase one chemical plant within the Khalifa Industrial Zone in Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) for an initial term of 25 years LPD has secured the land for its 57,000-square-metre plant by executing the Musataha Agree...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium.   While the outlook for commodities like iron ore has deteriorated – and is expected to deteriorate...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and vanadium.   Due to hit the bourse Tuesday is PPK Group (ASX:PPK) spin out Li-S Energy (ASX:LIS) which may have developed a...

Yesterday, Aussie hard rock lithium miner Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS) went to an all-time high off the back of its second Battery Material Exchange auction. The miner sold an 8,000t SC5.5 spodumene cargo for an extraordinary $US2,240/t. That...

Local stocks struggled for traction in Wednesday trade, as the major indexes drifted sideways following a weak lead out of the US. Banks and energy stocks were up, offsetting falls in resources and consumer staples. There were few major cat...

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...

Roskill forecasts demand for nickel chemicals to grow by over 500% between 2021 and 2030 It’s not just metals: battery makers are also getting hit with sharp price rises and supply shortages for non-active materials Several lithium players...

Major brokers are starting to pay more attention to lepidolite plays as a low cost source of lithium minerals and Pan Asia Metals (ASX:PAM) believes that can only be positive. Shaw and Partners had placed a buy recommendation with a target...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and vanadium. Last week, ASX lithium stocks went mental. The spark was Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS)  with its announcement that t...

Local stocks tracked higher on Friday in a relatively calm session to end the week. The ASX200 traded flat, edging higher by 0.36% into the close. Those gains were comfortably outpaced by the small end of town, as the microcap Emerging Comp...

What happened to the most talked about commodities in July? Gold bounced back from recent lows to record a solid 2.54% gain (that’s +4.12% in Aussie dollar terms). The base metals suite – aluminium, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc – all...

Despite much of Australia spending some or all of July in lockdown, the ASX 200 rose 1.7% and the top 50 winners all gained 45% or more. And that wasn’t the only joy during the month. Our Olympians are doing us proud bringing home 33 medals...

The ASX rebounded from yesterday’s losses but short of an all time high. The ASX 200 closed at 7,503 points, 0.38% up from yesterday but 6 points behind its intraday high. Meanwhile the ASX Emerging Companies Index gained 0.63% at 2,240 poi...

The ASX closed in negative territory despite a solid gain in tech stocks. The ASX 200 closed 0.23% down at 7,474 points although the ASX Emerging Companies Index rose 1.06% to close at 2,226 points. Despite tech stocks gaining 4.38%, as inv...

Don’t look now, but Lepidico (ASX:LPD) is sizing up for another run. Never one to shy away from novel and divergent takes on what it takes to actually get an asset into production, Lepidico announcements make for interesting reading. If we...

It took a full five years for electric vehicle sales to reach 1 million in 2015. Since then, things have gone exponential. In 2021, we are hitting those numbers in weeks and months, not years. In China about 235,000 plug-ins were sold in Ju...

The ASX clawed back initial gains to start the week, closing virtually flat today. The ASX 200 closed at 7,394 which was neck and neck with the point it closed at on Friday despite gaining as much as 0.3% in early trade. Meanwhile, the ASX...

Australian shares have extended gains for the second day in a row, rising by 0.91% despite more COVID cases across states. All 11 sectors were in the green, except for Healthcare. Mining and Energy led the gains, rising by 2% each, buoyed b...

Piedmont Lithium (ASX:PLL) has regained some of yesterday’s losses after partially addressing claims the company repeatedly delayed seeking approval from Gaston County in North Carolina for its proposed lithium mine. “We confirmed last nigh...

Aussie shares rebounded today following rises in the US and Europe overnight, after having fallen for the previous two days. The ASX 200 regained 0.78%, with all 11 sectors in the green except for Industrials and IT. Healthcare and financia...

Lithium’s future is bright. If this wasn’t clear before, here’s your reminder that it’s a good time to be in the lithium space. For starters, lithium companies made up more than 14% of Stockhead’s top 40 resource winners in June. And just a...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel and vanadium.   Only four battery gigafactories — super-sized producers of lithium-ion battery cells — were being planned in 20...

As a vast, varied land spanning 54 sovereign nations and eight major regions, painting the investment potential of Africa with a singular brush does no justice to its diversity of mineral prospects and jurisdictions. Historically, it has be...

Commodities earmarked for the green transition – like cobalt, lithium, copper, tin, and manganese – will likely benefit from intensified demand in the medium-to long term. That’s well established. Africa, with its rich mineral reserves, wil...

Pan Asia is accelerating work to define a JORC resource at its Reung Kiet lithium project in Thailand after drilling returned very encouraging results. Assays from the 13 diamond holes drilled to date at the Bang I Tum and Reung Kiet prospe...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX battery metals stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium.   The structural shift from fossil fuels to green energy is all but locked in. Now t...

Low cost operations that are close to both industrial inputs and target markets are the drawcards of Pan Asia’s lithium and tungsten projects in Thailand. Pan Asia Metals (ASX:PAM) is South East Asia’s only lithium explorer with its Reung K...

The price difference between electric vehicles and their conventional petrol/diesel peers – a key obstacle to widespread EV adoption – is closing at an accelerated rate. Affordability = more EVs on the roads = more demand for battery metals...

Biotech Global Health (ASX:GLH) topped this week’s Running Hot list, in the wake of more steady gains in May which has seen its share price rise by almost 500 per cent over the past 12 months. Each week, Stockhead recaps ASX stocks that are...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade. WINNERS Scrol...

ADVANCED lithium contender Lepidico has launched a partially underwritten circa A$10 million fund raising for initial developments at its planned ...

The lithium sector has been on a tear in recent months with prices in China doubling since the beginning of 2021 while Australia’s Orocobre (ASX:ORE) and Galaxy Resources (ASX:GXY) are coming together in a $4bn merger to form the world’s fi...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths, and vanadium. With some 85 per cent of the world’s cobalt originating from jurisdictions with higher levels of co...

Wall Street mixed as iron ore climbs to record high Wall Street moved modestly overnight. The Dow Jones gained 0.01%, S&P500 lost 0.02%, while tech heavy NASDAQ also fell by 0.34%. Tesla was the biggest name to fall, dropping 4.5%, as y...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade. WINNERS Scrol...

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...

US stocks slip as earning season kicks in All three major indices in the US slipped last night – Dow Jones fell 0.16%, S&P500 fell by 0.02%%, while tech heavy NASDAQ also finished lower by 0.36%. The pullback snapped a three-day winning...

According to Roskill Information Services, demand for lithium-ion batteries will increase more than ten-fold over the decade to 2029. This will inevitably lift demand – and prices – for the minerals required to make the batteries. And this...

Active restocking by battery manufacturers has sent prices of battery-grade lithium chemicals soaring thanks to tight supplies. Fastmarkets noted that domestic Chinese lithium hydroxide prices climbed 4.1 per cent in a week to between 73,00...