Articles On Santana Minerals (ASX:SMI)

Santana Minerals (ASX:SMI) reports it has uncovered further ‘high-grade’ gold results at the Bendigo-Ophir Project located on the South Island of New Zealand. The company says these new results have come from the Rise and Shine (RAS) Deposi...

Central banks buying gold at the fastest pace on record Another gold bull signal for 2023 — the crypto collapse Global silver demand on course for record high in 2022 Our Gold Digger column wraps all the news driving ASX stocks with expos...

Gold could have steady path towards $US1,800 level if dollar weakness remains: OANDA ASX gold miners surging this week, led by Evolution Mining +30%, Capricorn Metals +27%, and Regis Resources +27% Weekly small cap standouts: Focus Mineral...

Just five miners/ near-term gold miners are in the green over the past 12 months They include Tietto Minerals, Ora Banda Mining, Emerald Resources, Capricorn Metals and Perseus Mining Top precious metals stocks this week: Hamelin Gold, Zul...

Since reaching its peak in the summer of 2020, silver has fallen ~35% Smart money is going net long on silver, speculators almost net short; a good sign for silver outlook say Goehring & Rozencwajg This week’s top ASX precious metals s...

USD gold price continues to fall, currently $US1,621/oz Mixed bag of results for gold producers in Q1: Perseus, Northern Star outperformers so far Weekly small cap standouts: Strickland metals, Medallion Metals. GBM Resources Our Gold Dig...

Retail investment in gold, silver has either hit new peaks or held up at multi-year highs, says Metals Focus 1 ounce gold Maple Leaf in the US commands a 40% premium at the retail level, for example This week’s top movers: Sihayo, Dacian,...

PGM demand will remain strong until about 2025, when it will start to fall off a cliff: Metals Focus Why 2025? Because that’s when electrification of transport really kicks up a gear However, Bridge Street Capital analyst Chris Baker belie...

Fitch has downgraded its gold outlook but expects prices to remain “elevated in the coming years compared to pre-Covid levels” Contrarian argument: “It is also a sector full of M&A possibilities as gold equities haven’t been this ‘chea...

TSX listed Korara Resources finds another massive nugget stash at the Beta Hunt mine near Kalgoorlie The new discovery just below the super-rich, 30,000oz Fathers Day Vein China imported more than 80 tons (or 2.56Moz) of gold worth $US4.4b...

New Age Exploration (NAE) granted a prospecting permit which covers the Marlborough gold project in New Zealand The permit expands the company’s position within the Central Otago and Marlborough Schist belt as it already holds the Lammerla...

EVN’s Jake Klein predicts US$2-US$3,000/oz gold price for this time next year Is a wave of merger and acquisition activity coming in the ASX gold space? Bounce back in vehicle production to boost PGM demand Gold price hits a four-week high...

Gold price hits three-week high post-FOMC rates decision ASX Quarterly Gold Wrap: producers hit a low bar, investors are pleased Gold demand falls in H1 as cost-of-living pressures bite, WGC says Our Gold Digger column wraps all the news...

ASX 200 is flat Small Caps index is flatter, let’s call it tepid Lots of fun rumours to dissect   So the Hang Seng Tech index lost nearly 2% when it opened this morning. And while most major indices across the Asia-Pacific ‘hood were inde...

Gold is down 5% for July and on a broader downward trajectory, Metals Focus says Aeris Resources’ Golden Plateau deposit could extend the mine life at Cracow Golden State Mining has kicked off drilling at the Yule project in WA   Our Gold...

New Age is itching to get a crack on further exploring its assets across the pond after expanding the gold potential of its Lammerlaw project in Otago, New Zealand. A review of newly reprocessed legacy geophysical data over all its Otago pe...

The US dollar looks set to reach 20-year highs, impacting gold’s safe haven status JP Morgan employees on trial in Chicago after ‘spoofing trades’ accusations PGM supply through the recycling of auto catalysts has taken a hit ‘cos Covid O...

The ASX 200 ends flat, XEC sheds 1.6% Gains in healthcare and supermarkets offsets losses for miners, materials, tech and gold ANZ: Consumer confidence is broke; is Belararox IPO of ’22?  The benchmark has given up wee gains to end flat....

The ASX 200 and XEC both down more than 1% It was tech and mining’s fault, and that was probably China’s fault Despite volatility big rises among small names  After some strong gains to close out last week’s upside surprises, both the res...

AUN hits 344m at 1.29g/t gold in first diamond hole at Central Sandstone Gold Project MI6 delivers an ‘outstanding’ new gold intersection at its Zest prospect near Julimar   KWR reels in 5m at 4.8g/t gold from 113.3m – its first significan...

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...

Swiss data shows the highest total January to May bullion shipments since 2018 On a year-to-date basis US gold imports surged by 170% to 103t US also the largest destination for Swiss silver bullion, accounting for ~30% of the total; up fr...

Newmont’s Tom Palmer says gold may have found new floor of ~US$1600/oz in the wake of inflation With small gold miners are struggling with rising supply chain and labour costs, Palmer says consolidation in the sector makes sense Drilling r...

Emerging companies fall 0.7% ASX200 0.8% lower Superior Resources (ASX:SPQ) jumps on copper system find, Galileo up … heaps in May   The Emerging Companies (XEC) index is lower on Thursday, weighed down by broad losses as Credit Suisse a...

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...

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...

The preferred, often heroic index of the Australian small cap, The Emerging Companies XEC has shed 2.4% today, to add to the haemorrhaging of the last four weeks. The ASX200 (XJO) has closed just 0.2% lower. If this is a cash rate thing, wh...

The preferred, often heroic index of the Australian small cap, The Emerging Companies XEC has shed 2.4% today, to add to the haemorrhaging of the last four weeks. The ASX200 (XJO) has closed just 0.2% lower. If this is a cash rate thing, wh...

In April, the mining and exploration cohort was going gangbusters, until it wasn’t. Hitting an all-time high of 19,321.70 points on April 19, the S&P/ASX 200 Materials index (XMJ) then plummeted ~11% in a week to erase a full month of g...

ASX gives back early gains on Wednesday Small caps whacked as Fed Hawks get hawky, bonds get toppy, coal prices surge, oil prices plunge… again And now the market news in briefs. Unlike the no-frills, straight-shooting ASX Emerging Compan...

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...

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...

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...

Santana Minerals (SMI) encounters further significant mineralisation at its Bendigo-Ophir Project in New Zealand Since September 2021, drilling has continued to extend the mineralisation down-plunge at the Rise and Shine (RAS) Deposit Resu...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Santana Minerals (SMI) says further significant assay results from its Bendigo-Ophir project in New Zealand extend mineralisation and confirm significant gold continuity The company says results continue to define the shape and grade of mi...

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...

When markets get the jitters, smaller companies are often in the firing line and ASX microcaps have copped the brunt of the impact from last week’s global stock selloff. The composite microcap Emerging Companies index slumped by more than 3...

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...

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...

Santana Minerals (SMI) announces bonanza drill grades in two drill holes at its Bendigo-Ophir project in New Zealand The results include 57.5 grams per tonne (g/t) gold, 47.3 g/t gold and 43.5g/t gold between 194.7 metres and 198.7 metres...

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...

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...

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...

The ASX drifted sideways on Wednesday, as uncertainty continues to linger around the outlook for monetary policy, interest rates and broader market liquidity following the reappointment of Jerome Powell as US Fed chair. While the ASX 200 tr...