Articles On Matsa Resources (ASX:MAT)

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...

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...

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...

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...

Highlights Engineering services firm TEK-Ocean Group has made a lacklustre ASX debut. Flight Centre Travel Group shares witnessed an uptick on forming a JV with Japan’s NSF Engagement. Senex Energy has signed a gas sales agreement wit...

Highlights The Australian benchmark ASX 200 index declined 1.2% in broad-based sell-off. All 11 sectors were bleeding in red, while materials declined the most due to fall in iron ore prices. BHP, CSL, NIB Holdings, Woolworths, Deterr...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The ASX 200 index closed near its lows Thursday, falling by 0.39% on lower-than-normal volume. Nine out of 11 sectors were lower, led by Health Care, which lost 1.44%. The Materials sector – which includes chemicals and plastics, constructi...

• Former Fintech stock Ookami back with a bang as a global minerals explorer • Dateline Resources soars on rare earths potential at Colosseum gold mine • Canadian coal developer Atrum recovers ground   OOKAMI LTD (ASX: OOK) Back in the mini...

The ASX finished Hump Day nearly a third of one per cent higher. The ASX 200 closed at 7,355 which is 0.31 per cent higher than yesterday while the ASX Emerging Companies Index closed 0.14 per cent higher at 2,193. It was a mostly positive...

Fresh Equities is on the street for Matsa Resources, raising $2.24 million for its gold projects.

The biggest news out of big caps today came out of Wesfarmers (ASX:WES), which put a $680 million takeover offer on the table for Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (ASX:API) for $1.38 a share. According to Wesfarmers, the rationale behin...

A wrap of all the news from the ASX’s biggest miners. Major miners were well in the green on Monday, despite the iron ore price retreating at the end last week on steel output and supply concerns. China, which despite trade tensions still c...

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 Scr...

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 Scr...

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...

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...

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...

Apollo Consolidated’s flagship Lake Rebecca gold project 145km east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia already looks like it will become a mine, but the picture keeps improving as exploration rolls along.  Apollo (ASX: AOP) released the lat...

The Matsa Resources Limited (ASX: MAT) share price is surging today after the company started drilling at its Devon and Lake Carey gold projects. Matsa shares are trading 9.2% higher at 8.3 cents at the time of writing, recovering on losse...

Sampling results indicate gold anomalism in soil at Devon with three samples returning above 1 g/t gold, including one sample in excess of 10 g/t.

The capital raisings boom on the ASX is continuing in 2021 with nearly $10 billion raised in the first four months of the year. Across 325 deals, ASX companies have raised $9.878 billion in capital amidst IPOs, placements and rights issues....

This fortnight’s list of directors who traded over $100,000 in shares included a trio from NSW-focused copper explorer Peel Mining (ASX:PEX). Peel undertook a rights issue and James Simpson bought $101,801, Simon Hadfield bought $100,150 an...

“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...

All the interesting news was in the US, where President Joe Biden managed to keep most of Congress awake in his first address to a joint session. Almost. Ted Cruz is in the joint address KNOCKED out pic.twitter.com/eKTOJorcwY — philip lewi...

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...

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...

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...

IGO has inked a $7 million agreement with ASX-listed explorer Matsa Resources for the Symons Hill nickel project in the Fraser Range, Western Australia. IGO can spend a minimum of $3.5 million to earn a 70 per cent interest in Symon Hills o...

There seems to be no shortage of action from microcap Aussie explorers this week as Discovex Resources Ltd [ASX:DCX] joins the list of big gainers. The gold explorer/developer’s share price is up 125% this morning, trading at 0.9 cents per...

Australian explorer DiscovEx Resources (ASX: DCX) has confirmed the potential for a major new discovery in WA’s prolific Laverton district following positive results from a sampling program at its flagship Edjudina gold project. A recently-...