Articles On New Age Exploration (ASX:NAE)

Local stocks made a cautious start to the week, following a fairly volatile trading period last week as jitters stemming from rising bond yields dimmed risk sentiment on global markets. The ASX 200 opened in the red before clawing back some...

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...

New Age Exploration (NAE) has completed a 1500-metre reverse circulation (RC) series at its central Pilbara gold tenements The company has since reported multiple high priority “Hemi-style” and structural gold targets for immediate drill t...

Coal mining is hardly popular but governments around the world, most of whom have promised to work to reduce the impacts of climate change, can’t get enough of it. It may be getting harder to finance and gain approval for mining coal, the b...

Iron ore has been unpredictable in 2021 and it would be a brave person to make a hard and fast call on where it will end up in 2022. In fact, with the whims of the Chinese Communist Party and vagaries of its economy one of the major factors...

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...

The topsy turvy data coming out of China’s steel sector continues to roll on after the world’s biggest steelmaker revealed iron ore imports hit a 13-month high in November despite sliding steel production. China’s appetite for iron ore roar...

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...

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...

Hancock Prospecting is making a big move into magnetite iron ore, this week inking an initial $9 million deal to farm into the Mt Bevan iron ore project owned by juniors Legacy Iron Ore (ASX:LCY) and Hawthorn Resources (ASX:HAW). It’s an in...

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...

Westpac is the latest major financial institution to knock down its iron ore forecasts after prices dived below US$100/t again on a slowdown in steel production in China it describes as the largest since 2008. It revised its price forecasts...

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...

If there was any doubt about the importance of grade in iron ore, check out the latest numbers from Mineral Resources (ASX:MIN). Chris Ellison’s miner suffered a 48% discount to average Platts 62% iron ore prices in the September Quarter. T...

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...

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...

Set against rumours of its demise, spot iron ore has remained stubbornly defiant, reminding investors again why forecasting is a fool’s errand by bouncing above US$135/t on Monday night. A broad consensus is forming around metals like 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...

Sampling along the Lammerlaw Ridge southern EM lineaments to test new targets will also begin as part of the ridge and spur sampling program. New Age Exploration (ASX:NAE)  has kicked off soil sampling work at its Lamerlaw Gold Project in...

Is there any end to coal’s incredible price run in 2021? This week has seen thermal coal prices rise to record levels, with low volatility 6000kcal product from Newcastle soaring 5% to US$240/t yesterday. Twelve months ago, when China’s dip...

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...

Local stocks closed in the red on Wednesday (as expected), after US stocks posted their biggest fall since June overnight. The ASX 200 threatened to tank early but gained back some ground in afternoon trade to finish 1.08% lower. By sector,...

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...

Coking coal prices have gone a wee bit crazy in recent weeks, presenting a once in a generation opportunity for ASX-listed companies who looked sickly as the 2021 financial year wrapped up. According to Fastmarkets MB, supply remains tight...

The ASX closed higher today and it was all thanks to the latest moves in the uranium sector. Spot prices have reached ~7 year highs with the latest catalyst being the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust buying up more physical uranium and spot pr...

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...

RockTalks is a Stockhead video series featuring a roundtable of resources experts discussing a new macro topic each week. The program is sponsored by Bridge Street Capital Partners, a leading ECM and principal investment firm focused on min...

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...

Is Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) going to disappoint on shipments yet again? The gaffe-prone Pilbara miner, which was carried by stratospheric iron ore prices to a US$9.1 billion dividend at the half year, appears likely to miss its ambitious guidanc...

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...

Andrew Forrest said he wouldn’t bet against the price of iron ore this week as he addressed media and analysts in a lap of honour for Fortescue Metals Group’s (ASX:FMG) transformative 2021. That was driven by record high iron ore prices thr...

New Age has completed the acquisition of highly-prospective gold tenements in Western Australia’s Pilbara region from Canada’s Monterey Minerals. The three tenements are located north and about 50km from De Grey Mining’s play-opening Hemi d...

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...

How’s that Aussie coal ban going for China? Prices of imported premium coking coal in the Middle Kingdom soared to record highs of US$384 per tonne while China looks around every nook and cranny to source the product it once got from our ea...

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...

BHP (ASX:BHP) has taken advantage of 2021’s astonishing boom in iron ore prices to shower shareholders with a record dividend and kickstart the transformation of the world’s biggest mining house. Its final payout of US$2 per share came off...

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...

Iron ore prices fell to their lowest level in two and a half months on the back of noise about steel production cuts in China on Friday, only to moderate on Monday. A 7% flop in iron ore prices to a little over US$180/t to end last week wou...

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...

Are Chinese steel margins on the way back up? Sliding and eventually negative steel margins in June led many analysts to the conclusion that high prices for iron ore would slide rapidly in the second half of the year as steel producers look...

Tasmanian iron ore producer Grange Resources (ASX:GRR) has become well known for the quality of its iron ore and, while small in volume, makes up for it in tactical nous by supplying pellets that grade around 65%. The Caleb Daniel of the ir...

New Age is progressing its Lammerlaw project in New Zealand’s South Island by applying for an exploration licence that will pave the way for drilling to begin. The application follows the receipt of additional assay results from infill soil...

Pilbara gold explorer New Age Exploration has consolidated virtually all of its promising Quartz Hill Gold Project near De Grey Mining’s massive Hemi discovery after securing three new exploration licences. The grant of E47/5724, E47/5725 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...

In spite of China’s complaints about commodity prices, iron ore was relatively steady in June after a volatile May, with benchmark 62% fines opening the first full week of the new financial year above US$220/t. Those price levels, up from a...