Articles On New Age Exploration (ASX:NAE)

Australia’s biggest bank has upgraded its long-term iron ore and coking coal forecasts in response to Covid, Chinese commodity demand and Russia But high energy prices could drive investment in decarbonisation, clouding the outlook for the...

1 gram of gold can be recovered from about 41 recycled mobile phones Mint Innovation can recover $US12,000 worth of gold from one tonne of old circuit boards Gold trades sideways at ~$US1,850/oz Our Gold Digger column wraps all the news d...

New Age Exploration (NAE) confirms gold and lithium potential at its Brahman and Quartz Hill projects in WA’s Pilbara region Drilling at the Brahman project tested “Hemi-style” gold targets and several holes returned multi-element gold and...

Gold and lithium potential has been confirmed lurking beneath the Braham Project, with broad, coherent, and low order multi element pathfinder geochemical anomalism reported by New Age Exploration. Braham is around 20 to 30km north of De Gr...

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...

China’s Covid Zero policy has seen analysts knock down economic forecasts Bad news for sentiment in steel and raw materials, with iron ore futures tumbling in afternoon trade Coal prices remain freaking high A precipitous slide in Asian i...

WoodMac sees pathway for steel industry to reduce emissions 30% by 2050 Transition will require shift away from blast furnace to scrap-based electric arc furnace steelmaking Despite Chinese strong steel output in April, Commbank sees suppo...

US gold price down more than 10% or $200 from its peak But Aussie gold miners faring better due to weak AUD-USD exchange rate This week’s ASX standouts: Twenty Seven Co, OzAurum Resources Our Gold Digger column wraps all the news driving...

Iron ore miners have been looking fragile over the last week, clawing to hopes of a second half revival in the Chinese economy as the impact of its Covid lockdowns worsen. Prices remain relatively high compared to major producer margins, wi...

Stanmore has completed its ambitious US$1.2 billion ($1.7b) acquisition of BHP’s Poitrel and South Walker Creek coal mines Its founder Nick Jorss is aiming to repeat his success at new coal producer Bowen Coking Coal Jorss says steelmaking...

China’s steel output has shown signs of life, building throughout the first quarter of 2022 after collapsing to its slowest rate in four years in October and November 2021. That came despite widespread curbs on mill output due to the Winter...

With Tuesday trade in the casket, the ASX Emerging Companies (XEC) index has closed about 1% lower, while the ASX 200 (XJO) benchmark index is down 0.5%, Everywhere markets fell, but for Paris, which has breathed a rich, garlic-scented merd...

Iron ore and coal to drive $425 billion windfall for resources exports in 2021-22 according to Canberra forecasters India removes tariffs on Aussie coal exports as part of free trade deal Coal prices start to normalise (kinda), with premiu...

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...

Australian companies are lining up to deliver new high grade iron ore mines in a bid to capture tailwinds from the need to reduce emissions across the sector. This week no less than three studies have been released by ASX-listed juniors, ta...

Analysts tipping a major correction in the coal price by the end of 2022 have changed their tune after Russia’s war with Ukraine blew up the market. Prices have confounded belief, with tightness in the seaborne segment of the coal market bo...

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...

Coal prices have bounded to new record highs on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, extending the bonanza Australian based coal miners have enjoyed since the middle of last year. The stunning turnaround in metallurgical and thermal coal prices ha...

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...

The Manorburn project covers an area of 235.7sqkm situated immediately adjacent to the headline Bendigo-Ophir Gold Project in New Zealand’s most highly endowed, yet underexplored gold-bearing region. In one mega hit, New Age Exploration has...

Back before the last mining boom buying a tonne of iron ore was little more than a trip to the corner store, with the bulk commodity fetching prices in the range of US$30/t. When Chinese steel production and industrial growth began to overt...

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...

In one of the big iron ore headline makers of the past month the WA Government has released its new plan for Port Hedland, the world’s largest iron ore export hub. The Pilbara Ports Authority has already pushed its export rate beyond the 49...

Iron ore is in familiar territory right now. Talked down by analysts who predict it is due for a dive, the headline Australian commodity has been defiant in 2022 so far. Despite the column inches expended on the rise in crude oil prices so...

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...

The Pilbara iron ore miners are facing business pressures on a number of fronts, including the on again, off again story around the reopening of WA’s Covid border. The WA Government’s decision to delay its planned February 5 reopening inde...

The iron ore market does not offer the simple narrative that it did in the first two decades of the 21st century nor that of the suite of “green metals” like lithium, nickel and copper now hitched to electric vehicle sales and efforts to ma...

Local stocks end up posting a solid session on Monday, following some steady gains on Wall Street on Friday night. Things looked shaky early, but the ASX 200 steadied in afternoon trade to finish around 0.5% higher. ASX 200 tech stocks rose...

Gold and junior resources stocks were some of the only companies to stand out on Friday during a lacklustre session which saw the ASX 200 fall by 1.09%. The big end of town was outperformed by the microcap Emerging Companies index which edg...

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...

It was a lacklustre session for local stocks in Tuesday trade, as the ASX 200 limped into the close with a fall of 0.77% while the microcap Emerging Companies index traded flat. In an environment of rising bond yields, the broader tone is s...

The Australian share market has extended its fall from yesterday, with the Materials stocks the only sector to claw a marginal gain on the market. The S&P/ASX 200 Index has fallen 56 points, or 0.76 per cent, to 7390.40. Ten sect...

The Australian sharemarket opened down, extending its loss from the previous session, led by the Consumer Staples sector. The S&P/ASX 200 Index has fallen 53 points, or 0.72 per cent, to 7393.40. Ingham’s is one of the most hit s...

Riversgold picks up a tenement prospective for nickel Gold and lithium explorer New Age up 65% over the past 2 days on no news Alligator (uranium), Enterprise (gold, base metals) and Magnetite Mines (iron ore) up on no news Here are the b...

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...

Local stocks made a cautious start to the week, following a fairly volatile trading period last week as jitters stemming from rising bond yields dimmed risk sentiment on global markets. The ASX 200 opened in the red before clawing back some...

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....

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...

New Age Exploration (NAE) has completed a 1500-metre reverse circulation (RC) series at its central Pilbara gold tenements The company has since reported multiple high priority “Hemi-style” and structural gold targets for immediate drill t...

Coal mining is hardly popular but governments around the world, most of whom have promised to work to reduce the impacts of climate change, can’t get enough of it. It may be getting harder to finance and gain approval for mining coal, the b...

Iron ore has been unpredictable in 2021 and it would be a brave person to make a hard and fast call on where it will end up in 2022. In fact, with the whims of the Chinese Communist Party and vagaries of its economy one of the major factors...

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...

The topsy turvy data coming out of China’s steel sector continues to roll on after the world’s biggest steelmaker revealed iron ore imports hit a 13-month high in November despite sliding steel production. China’s appetite for iron ore roar...

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...

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...

Hancock Prospecting is making a big move into magnetite iron ore, this week inking an initial $9 million deal to farm into the Mt Bevan iron ore project owned by juniors Legacy Iron Ore (ASX:LCY) and Hawthorn Resources (ASX:HAW). It’s an in...

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...

Westpac is the latest major financial institution to knock down its iron ore forecasts after prices dived below US$100/t again on a slowdown in steel production in China it describes as the largest since 2008. It revised its price forecasts...

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...