Articles On Taruga Minerals (ASX:TAR)

Perth-based junior Taruga Minerals (ASX: TAR) is expecting exploration at its Target B area within the Green Rocks nickel-copper project in Western Australia will confirm the presence of nickel intercepts reported last month. The project is...

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...

Both ASX Small Cap and benchmark index are down about 0.5% A bleak forecast from Covid-stricken China hits resources stocks Appen in trading halt after jumping 30%     Local markets took a turn for the worse on Thursday after Chinese Prem...

Taruga Minerals and Peak Minerals have begun moving-loop electromagnetic surveys at the duo’s Target B prospect near Meekatharra in WA in the final step of exploration before drilling commences.

Moving Loop Electromagnetics surveys have begun at the Rixon, Lady Alma and Target B prospects with the latter being subject to an earn-in agreement between the two companies.

After Taruga Minerals (ASX: TAR) confirmed ionic adsorption clay (IAC) rare earth elements (REE) at its Morgan’s Creek prospect within its wider Mt Craig copper project in South Australia, the company will assess it further in a focused exp...

Aussie markets opened slightly ahead this morning after man of the moment Anthony Norman Albanese was sworn in as the 31st prime minister and posed for a happy ALP family pic, thus ended 10 years of conservative government. Throughout the d...

Discovery Alaska confirms lithium mineralisation at Coal Creek prospect Ragusa Minerals snaps up 570sqkm of lithium ground in the NT Besra (gold), BBX (gold) and Peak (nickel) up on no news Here are the biggest small cap resources winners...

After success in a second phase of air core drilling, explorers Taruga Minerals and Peak Minerals are fast-tracking exploration at the pair’s Meekatharra nickel-copper joint venture in WA’s Murchison region.

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...

After analysing samples enriched in high-value rare earth elements from its Morgan’s Creek prospect in SA, Taruga Minerals has locked onto a highly-coveted ionic adsorption clay style of deposit.

Taruga Minerals (TAR) receives testwork results for drill samples taken from its Morgan’s Creek prospect in South Australia Testwork indicated there’s a high concentration of readily soluble rare earth elements (REEs) in the samples which...

Taruga Minerals has swung a newly-purchased ground magnetics survey unit into action at its Mt Craig copper project. The new kit is being used in its program of surface reconnaissance exploration and mapping.

Taruga Minerals has its eyes locked onto three large mafic intrusions right next to where Chalice Mining and its joint venture partner Venture Minerals are hunting for the next big nickel-copper-PGE discovery.

Taruga Minerals Limited and its joint venture partner Peak Minerals Limited have recently fired up the rig for an air core drilling program at the duo’s Meekatharra nickel-copper project in Western Australia.

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...

Taruga Minerals has received final assay results from recent drilling displaying anomalies across a range of battery metals including copper, nickel, lithium and rare earths at its Morgan’s Creek project in SA.

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 ASX Emerging Companies Index (XEC) has recovered strongly on Wednesday, gaining 2.75%. The ASX200 also closed higher, gaining around 45 points or 0.6%. The market found its feet in afternoon trade, tech stocks leading the way. Look. Rat...

The S&P/ASX 200 gained 44.40 points or 0.62 per cent to 7,205.70. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine heightened overnight, with numerous nations, including Australia, imposing sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow’s decision...

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...

Last year, the price of copper rose 33%, but that was just the entree. Goldman Sachs reckons the red metal will hit a record US$12,000/t over the next month, up from ~$US9,700/t currently. That’s uncomfortably bullish, but even the more mil...

Taruga Minerals (TAR) raises up to $2 million from an “oversubscribed” share placement to help fund exploration activities at its Mt Craig copper project in South Australia The company says it will issue about 58.8 million new shares at a...

Taruga Minerals (TAR) places its shares in a trading halt while it plans the details of an upcoming capital raising The company will remain in the halt until February 14 or when an announcement is released with more details, whichever occu...

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...

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...

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...

The benchmark ASX 200 was up by 2% on the first day of trading in 2022. The ASX Emerging Companies Index (XEC) also rose in step, up by 1.6%. All eleven ASX sectors finished higher, with the energy and mining sectors leading the pack. In en...

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...

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...

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...

Taruga Minerals’ (TAR) subsidiary receives a $300,000 refund from the South Australian government The refund follows Strikeline Resources’ exploration at the Mt Craig copper project, which met the requirements of the grant awarded under an...

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...

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...

Taruga Minerals has recently launched a 2,000m RC drilling blitz across its Mt Craig project in South Australia, targeting several prospects that have displayed anomalous polymetallic mineralisation.

Taruga Minerals (TAR) begins a 2000-metre reverse circulation (RC) drilling program at the Morgan’s Creek prospect in South Australia Drilling will target Kipushi-Style and Burra-Style polymetallic mineralisation as well as critical metal...

Taruga Minerals has picked up a grab bag of rare earths, lithium, cobalt and zinc anomalies in rock chips collected at its Morgan’s Creek project in South Australia.

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 ASX 200 rose 0.64% on the first trading day of the month. All sectors were in the green except financials – a sector dragged down by Westpac (ASX:WBC) following its results. The best sectors were consumer discretionaries, telcos and uti...

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...

Peak Minerals (PUA) has entered a trading halt ahead of a capital raise The company recently completed the acquisition of private mining company, CU2 WA, which will give it access to 31 tenements in WA’s Meekatharra region Whether or not t...

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...