Articles On S2 Resources (ASX:S2R)

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...

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...

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...

Another red day for the ASX to close out the week. The ASX 200 closed 0.05% down from yesterday at 7,461 points, 2.2% lower than a week ago. The ASX Emerging Companies Index meanwhile dropped 2.09%, closing at 2,187 points which is over 5%...

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...

The broader ASX continued its losing streak, shedding another 0.5% while the benchmark ASX 200 closed at 7,465 points, which is 2.2% lower than last Friday’s close. Health and consumer discretionary goods were rays of sunshine with gains of...

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...

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...

Despite a solid start to the day the ASX closed Monday at the same point it closed on Friday. After gaining as much as 0.3% by 11am the ASX 200 closed flat at 7,538 points. The ASX Emerging Companies Index finished slightly higher, by 0.03%...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 S&P/ASX 200 scaled a new high on Thursday, ending 0.6% up at 7260.1. The index gained as much as 0.9% to hit a fresh intraday high of 7281.8. Australian engineering company Worley was the top gainer, rising 8.13% to AU...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

WELL-regarded explorer S2 Resources has added another project to its portfolio, this time picking up nearly 3000sq.km of ground in New South ...

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...

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...

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...

By 2030, UBS predicts we’ll need a lot of manganese, lithium, cobalt, rare earths, nickel and copper if car makers are to hit some very ambitious production targets. They estimate EV penetration increasing from 4 per cent currently to 20 pe...

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...

Our High Voltage column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with exposure to lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, rare earths and vanadium.   Fun fact: There have been a dozen +11-bagger ASX battery metal stocks over the past 12 months. The...

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...

VW Group aims to reduce the cost of battery technology by 50 per cent ‘We aim to reduce the cost and complexity of the battery and at the same time increase its range and performance’ – VW Germany-based company plans to build 6 battery gig...

Galileo Mining Ltd (ASX:GAL) has completed one diamond drill hole at its Lantern South prospect in Western Australia’s Fraser Range region. The Fraser Range project spans 602km2 of prospective ground across two zones: Lantern and Delta Blu...

S2 Resources overcomes opposition to Finland nickel exploration licence Metals Australia expands battery metals assets with WA nickel sulphide project ... Read More The post Nickel prices edge back from seven-year high; S2 Resources Lapland...

Electromagnetic (EM) surveying over Galileo Mining Ltd’s (ASX:GAL) Delta Blues Prospect in the Fraser Range region of Western Australia has yielded promising results. Three large and strong conductors have been modelled from the EM data at...

The company is encouraged by the fact that two of the four holes in which high-grade gold has been identified are some 575 metres apart.

The S2 Resources Ltd (ASX: S2R) share price was up by nearly 6% in early morning trading today, before giving back its gains throughout the day to finish flat. The share price movement comes following this morning’s announcement of promisi...

Western Australia’s Fraser Range is highly prospective for nickel sulphides — a key battery metal ingredient that’s in increasing demand. The region holds particular promise and huge exploration potential, having seen less than eight years...

A quick wrap of the ASX’s key winners and losers on Monday, August 17. Data is taken after the market closes at 4pm EST. Stocks highlighted in yellow made market-moving announcements during the day. Today 658 stocks rose, 689 declined and 7...

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...

A quick wrap of the ASX’s key winners and losers on Monday, August 10. Data is taken after the market closes at 4pm EST. Stocks highlighted in yellow made market-moving announcements during the day. Today 909 stocks rose, 492 declined and 7...

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...

ASX companies continued to raise money in July, with over $4bn shelled out by investors, taking 2020’s total above $30bn. According to Bloomberg, there has been $32.3bn worth of cash raised between January 1 and August 3. This is well ahead...

On Wednesday, the S2 Resources Ltd (ASX: S2R) share price rose by 23.81% to $0.13 after the company announced that it had commenced drilling at its Finland site.  What was in the announcement? The company announced that initial diamond dri...

The only certainty in mineral exploration is this: if you aren’t drilling, you won’t find anything. Today, a number of  gold explorers announced new drilling programs in the hunt for that elusive ‘company maker’. Mark Bennett-led S2 Resourc...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is starting to be felt by resource explorers that have operations overseas, with Australia now putting a blanket ban on any overseas travel. “That is the first time that has ever happened in Australia’s h...