Articles On Volt Resources (ASX:VRC)

This appointment supports the company's strategy of broadening its overseas investor base to engage with European investors.

Highlights Biotechnology firm Mesoblast extended its loss on disappointing earnings and dropped 5%. Graphite producer Volt Resources dropped despite successfully raising capital via share placement. Medical data and technology firm He...

Strong demand for the placement from existing shareholders new sophisticated investors, funds and institutions saw the final amount raised exceed the original target of $4 million.

Highlights The ASX 200 declined as much as 1% by lunchtime as investors awaited June quarter GDP figures. Australia’s Q2 GDP rose 0.7% in the June quarter. Barring energy, all indices were trading in the red, while healthcare declined...

The ASX 200 rose 0.41% to close at 7,535 while the ASX Emerging Companies Index gained another 1.36% to close at 2,362 points. All sectors were in the green except energy and utilities which lost 1.44% and 1.19%. The best performing sectors...

It was a positive start to the week for the Australian bourse. The ASX 200 rose 0.22% to 7,505 while the ASX Emerging Companies Index gained nearly 2% and closed at 2,331 – a two week high following a 6% drop in the week before last. The ga...

The company’s shares will remain in a trading halt until Wednesday, September 1, or when an announcement is released to the market.

Revamped ASX-listed batteries play Volt Resources will be pitching equity investors for fresh funds on Monday. 

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...

The acquisition will immediately transform Volt into one of the few ASX-listed graphite producers, positioning the company well ahead of most of its peer graphite companies

“Introduction of this flowsheet will allow us to not only convert a significant portion of our graphite into battery-ready anode material for lithium-ion batteries but will also generate a range of ultra-high purity by-products for use in b...

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...

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...

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The  Volt Resources [ASX:VRC] has joined the European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA), sending the VRC share price higher. At the time of writing, VRC shares were up 6%. The post Volt Resources Shares Up, Joins European Raw Materials Alliance...

“Membership of the two key EU sponsored battery materials alliances provide the opportunity to build relationships and obtain access to capital to support the expansion and product development plans for the European graphite business,” says...

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...

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...

“Volt now has the potential to become a key market participant in the supply of graphite and battery anode materials into the growing European market with excellent access to other markets in the USA and the Middle East,” says MD.

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 past fortnight has been quieter for ASX directors trades but two trades from Malaysian directors of United Overseas Australia (ASX:UOS) made up $38 million of the total. United Overseas Australia is a Malaysian property group founded in...

Volt is set to become one of the few ASX-listed graphite producers without the usual time and risk related to complete greenfield project financing, construction, commissioning and ramp-up.

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...

The ASX 200 just closed 0.92 per cent up at 7,380 points  —  a new record high. The ASX Emerging Companies Index however fell 1.66 per cent, closing at 2,180. The best sector on the ASX was health which gained over 2 per cent while consumer...

The ASX ended the week on a high note, finishing up 0.13 per cent with most sectors in positive territory. The index touched a record high of 7,334 today but failed to keep the momentum and eventually closed at 7,312. For the week, the inde...

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...

The company has been granted a trading halt until the start of trading on Wednesday, June 16, or when an announcement is released to the market.

Summary The ASX 200 hit a new all-time high of 7300.5 in intraday trade on Friday, breaching Thursday’s intraday high of 7,281.8. The index closed higher for the third session, adding 35.30 points or 0.49% at 7,295.40. Bitcoin, Ether...

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...

The acquisition is anticipated to be completed next week and will instantly transform the company into one of the few ASX-listed graphite producers.

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...

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...

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...

The Full 180 is a fortnightly look at ASX capital raisings. We are entering our fourth week (or so) of a quiet/consolidation period for capital raisings. We are chugging along at a pace of four to six share placements per day, with volumes...

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...

The ASX had a mixed day but closed narrowly in the green with a 0.03 per cent gain to 7,095 points while the ASX Emerging Companies Index gained 0.25 per cent to 2,164 points. While more sectors were down rather than up, it was offset by te...

The facility will go towards the funding of the acquisition of a 70% interest in the Zavalievsky group of companies and related expenses, as well as working capital.

Large and small caps had diverging fates on the ASX today with the former closing 0.32 per cent down from yesterday at 7,093 points while the ASX Emerging Companies Index rose 1.21 per cent to close at 2,159. The various ASX sectors were al...

The proposed acquisition of a controlling 70% interest in the ZG Group will transform the company from a graphite explorer and developer into one of the few ASX-listed graphite producers.