Articles On Taruga Minerals (ASX:TAR)

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...

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...

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...

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...