Articles On Taruga Minerals (ASX:TAR)

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...

Mineral exploration company, Taruga Minerals has snared a $900,000 allocation of exploration credits via the federal government’s ‘Junior Minerals Exploration Incentive’ scheme. The credits may be distributed to eligible shareholders as a t...

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...

Junior explorer Taruga Minerals has kicked off a 500m diamond drilling program at its Mt Craig copper project in SA to follow up on recent reverse circulation drilling that returned encouraging intersections including 7m at 1.8 per cent cop...

Taruga's Flinders Project is unique in that IOCG-style mineralisation has been mapped and sampled at surface and not under several hundred metres of sedimentary cover.

Taruga Minerals continues to deliver significant copper hits from its Wyacca discovery at the company’s Mt Craig project in SA, including 5m at 1 per cent copper from 121m. Drilling has now grown the mineralised area to a hefty 2.1km by 1.1...

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...

Taruga Minerals has added to the ultimate potential of its Mt Craig copper project in South Australia by delivering multiple broad and high-grade rare earth element hits at the Morgan’s Creek prospect. Other critical battery metals such as...

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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...

Taruga Minerals is set to join the expanding field of hopefuls hunting for a repeat of Chalice Mining’s spectacular Julimar nickel/platinum discovery in the south west mineral terrane of Western Australia, with company putting its foot on k...

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...

Guy on Rocks’ is a Stockhead series looking at the significant happenings of the resources market each week. Former geologist and experienced stockbroker Guy Le Page, director and responsible executive at Perth-based financial services prov...

Taruga Minerals has completed a follow-up RC drilling program at the promising Wyacca copper prospect in SA. It comes after the company caused punters’ pulses to quicken a couple of months ago when it unveiled high-grade copper drill hits a...

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...

Auroch is building up its exploration muscle with the appointment of Matthew McCarthy as exploration manager. His appointment comes as Auroch Resources (ASX:AOU) ramps up activity at the Nepean Deeps nickel operation along with the upcoming...

Taruga Minerals has kicked off a maiden 2,000m RC drilling program at Morgan’s Creek in South Australia where it recently found copper grading up to 14.5 per cent in rock chips collected over a wide area overlaying gravity and magnetic anom...

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...

Taruga Minerals has confirmed continuation of mineralisation along strike to its recent Wyacca copper discovery at the Mt Craig project in South Australia. A new copper zone some 1km from the main Wyacca trend has also been identified.

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Taruga Minerals has now posted a trifecta of copper discoveries at its Mt Craig project, north of Adelaide in South Australia. Whilst the company’s main focus is the Wyacca prospect in the north of its tenure, Taruga has now also outlined a...

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...

Taruga Minerals is off and racing at its Mt Craig copper project in South Australia, with a second round of drilling underway at the Wyacca discovery and high-grade samples from its Morgans Creek prospect generating new targets for drill te...

Investors – where to put your money when everything looks so bloody good? Iron ore touched $200/t once again to close out a volatile month in positive territory. Gold bounced back to record its biggest month-on-month gain since July last ye...

Taruga Minerals has launched a second phase of drilling at its Wyacca copper discovery in South Australia, following up on recent impressive results which included intervals grading up to 9.5 per cent copper and chasing targets along more t...

Last month, the ASX finally reached its pre-pandemic high, went in circles for a couple of weeks then reached it again. What else happened in May? Well, the phase “To the moon” obtained its traditional meaning once more. While the phase has...

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...

Taruga Minerals may have a tiger by the tail in South Australia, with geophysical surveys showing the company’s Wyacca copper discovery could extend along more than 7km of strike. Recent drilling hits included 5 metres at 2.4 per cent copp...

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...

If you want to know which ASX stocks fund managers and famous investors are putting their money into we’ve been keeping track of substantial holder buys (and sells). Trading Places is Stockhead’s recap of the substantial holder movements am...

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...

Auroch Minerals (ASX:AOU) is poised to recommence a soil and surface rock chip sampling program at its Arden copper-zinc project in South Australia. Notably, the company has marked the unsampled eastern region of the project, which is adjac...

Summary Exploration company Alligator Energy and Traxys North America LLC have formed a strategic partnership to develop projects further and explore market opportunities. As part of the partnership, Traxys will offer uranium marketing...

Taruga Minerals has snapped up 100 per cent of the private company who owns and operates its key copper projects in South Australia. Taruga exercised its option to acquire 100 per cent of Strikeline Resources after striking a 12-month optio...

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Peak has picked up fresh ground surrounding its highly prospective Copper Hills project in Western Australia, giving it control over a previously unidentified copper province.   Peak Minerals (ASX:PUA) is establishing itself as a first move...

Taruga Minerals has found high-grade copper in its first five reverse circulation (RC) drillholes at the Mt Craig copper project in South Australia. The company uncovered the high-grades at Mt Craig’s Wyacca prospect. One of the high-grade...

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...