Articles On Encounter Resources (ASX:ENR)

Encounter Resources (ENR) release copper assays for a six-kilometre strike at its Northern Territory based Sandover tenement ENR results confirm copper mineralisation up to 20.9 per cent of copper at four separate areas totalling the strik...

Venture Minerals pulls up ‘record breaking’ 147m-long tin intercept at Mount Lindsay project Exec director Grant Davey now owns 12.6% of this shell company Cradle Resources Ozaurum, Encounter announce promising early-stage exploration resu...

The Encounter Resources Ltd (ASX: ENR) share price is rocketing on Thursday. This comes after the company announced it has received positive assay results over the Sandover project in the Northern Territory. At the time of writing, the exp...

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...

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...

BHP has recognised community engagement as equal in importance to the sheer volume of battery metals required by 2050. With the world’s light vehicle fleet set to reach about one billion electrified units by 2050, the need for battery mater...

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...

The hot debut of Evolution Energy Minerals (ASX:EV1) was not enough to save the ASX resources sector from falling today. The ASX 200 finished 0.67% down at 7,420 points. All sectors were down except tech, which gained 0.18%. In contrast, mo...

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...

BHP is looking at investing in additional early-stage development projects as the company aims to grow its copper and nickel portfolio. BHP chief executive officer Mike Henry spoke at the company’s annual general meeting on Thursday, sugges...

Some are Mork & Mindy (good) and others are Joanie Loves Chachi (depressingly bad), but like the offspring of TV’s classic Happy Days, ASX companies have been giving berth to more spin offs than a warren of rabbits in 2021. The latest t...

Some are Mork & Mindy (good) and others are Joanie Loves Chachi (depressingly bad), but like the offspring of TV’s classic Happy Days, ASX companies have been giving birth to more spin offs than a warren of rabbits in 2021. The latest t...

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 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...

Copper is back in vogue after ending months of malaise to return toward record price levels on Friday, rising above US$10,000/t for the first time since May. Prices fell 18% from the all time high of US$10,724/t seen on May 10 to just US$87...

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...

Dr Copper is in rude health this morning, rising 2.5% to US$9760/t to counter concerns that the energy and property crises in China would dull demand for the base metal. The International Monetary Fund had conflicting messages for the coppe...

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...

SPINIFEX: Encounter Resources’ spin-out Hamelin Gold will be well capitalised to explore its vast West Tanami project in remote WA.

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...

Once again the energy sector determined the direction of the market but unlike yesterday where it gained, today it finished in the red. The ASX 200 retreated 0.27% to close at 7,417 points, although the ASX Emerging Companies Index rose 1.3...

It was another day of gains for the ASX led by the energy sector. The ASX 200 rose by 0.116% to close at 7,437 while the ASX Emerging Companies Index rose 0.56% to close at 2,527. Although there was an even number of winners and losers amon...

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...

The ASX 200 rose 0.07%, closing at 7,529 points while the ASX Emerging Companies Index climbed 1.21% to close at 2,461. Energy lost 1.68% and resources lost 1.09% but most other sectors gained with the best being tech which rose 1.15%.   TO...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 Scrol...

The new financial year is underway, so it is time for Garimpeiro to update his list of junior exploration and development stocks worth watching in the coming months. Garimpeiro’s last list of five stocks to watch appeared on November 23. 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 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...

RareX (ASX:REE) has strengthened its executive team to help drive development of its Cummins Range rare earths project and exploration work. The company has appointed James Durrant as its general manager of projects to oversee studies at th...

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...

It is not often the activity of criminals provides an investment idea, but when they start stealing copper wire from power stations, or from building sites, then you know it’s time to brush up on copper miners. Kingston in South Australia,...

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...

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...

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...

BHP has entered a joint venture (JV) with Encounter Resources to develop the Elliot copper project in the Northern Territory. The JV will involve an exploration program that includes seismic surveys and drilling which is set to progress rap...

Summary Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) and BHP Group (ASX: BHP) have entered into an earn-in and joint venture agreement to develop the Elliott copper project. BHP will have the right to earn up to a 75% interest in the project. The c...

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...

Summary The ASX 200 is set to close the week with narrow gains, led by a strong rally in healthcare and tech stocks. The top five gainers on the ASX are EML Payments, A2 Milk Company, Webjet, Nuix and Xero. Bitcoin staged a smart reco...

The Encounter Resources Ltd (ASX: ENR) share price is surging today. At the time of writing, shares in the mineral exploration company are trading for 17.5 cents each – up 29.63%. The massive price rise comes after the company announced BH...