Here are the key ASX small cap winners and losers at lunch Monday, November 26.

The ASX Small Ords was pretty steady, down around 7.6 points — or 0.3 per cent — to 2,534.3 at 12:30pm AEST.

GOING UP

Diamond explorer Newfield Resources had a running start to the week, announcing a 7.4 million carat resource at its flagship Tongo project in Sierra Leone.

Investors are happy with the news — sending the Newfield (ASX:NWF) share price up almost 34 per cent to 16c by midday.

The company says this 7.4 million carat resource was limited to a certain depth and covered just four of the 11 targets at Tongo – which means it will probably get bigger.

Shares in Marindi Metals (ASX:MZN) are up 25 per cent today after the gold explorer announced extensions to the high-grade gold at its Great Southern prospect in Western Australia.

Marindi’s share price climbed to an intra-day high of 0.5c on the exchange of 1.7 million shares by 11.30am AEDT.

It said historical mines on its tenement produced parcels of ore at grades of up to 19.5 grams per tonne (g/t) and vein grades of up to 50g/t.

Anything over 5g/t is considered high-grade.

Paradigm Biopharma (ASX:PAR) also had a good morning, with its share price up almost 18 per cent to $1.12 on no news.

Earlier this month, osteoarthritis patients treated with Paradigm Biopharma’s repurposed drug are reporting significant reduction in knee pain ahead of a formal release of trial results expected before Christmas.

Paradigm is now up over 215 per cent over the past year.

Biotech dazzler Biotron (ASX:BIT) also jumped over 18 per cent this morning to 22.5c on no news – still a long way from the heady heights of 44.5c seen in October.

Biotron (ASX:BIT) hit 20-bagger status last month after announcing its flagship drug BIT225, had “significant immunological outcomes” in a Phase 2 clinical trial.

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks at 12.30pm Thursday 22 November: 

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ASX code Company Today's price change (12.15pm AEDT) Price Nov 19 (12.15pm ) Volume Market Cap
LKO Lakes Oil 100% 0.2c 2,500,000 $30.3m
ZYB Zyber Holdings 50% 1.5c 27,156,647 $6.5m
CLY Clancy Exploration 50% 0.3c 2,957,349 $7m
NWF Newfield Resources 42% 17c 384,028 $69.8m
WBE Whitebark Energy 33% 0.4c 4,641,858 $4.7m
MDI Middle Island Resources 33% 0.5c 1,724,800 $2.8m
AQI Alicanto Minerals 25% 3.5c 820,768 $3.7m
MZN Marindi Metals 25% 0.5c 1,747,986 $7.9m
GGE Grand Gulf Energy 25% 0.5c 14,510,038 $3.1m
MSI Multistack International 20% 0.6c 15,000 $560k
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GOING DOWN

The share price of gold explorer Minrex Resources (ASX:MRR) fell over 26 per cent this morning to 2.2c — a yearly low — after announcing less-than-impressive soil sampling results from its Deflector Extended gold project.

The assay results were “generally low”, the company said, with a highest value soil sample being 15 part per billion (ppb) of gold, and 0.13 grams per tonne gold in rock samples.

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks at 12.30pm Friday 23 November:

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ASX code Company Today's price change (12.15pm AEDT) Price Nov 19 (12.15pm ) Volume Market Cap
ITD ITL Health -50% 7.5c 93,674 $12.8m
AHK Ark Mines -35% 1.5c 92,000 $1.1m
RMI Resource Mining Corp -25% 0.9c 554,090 $3.6m
LCY Legacy Iron Ore -25% 0.3c 500,000 $5.9m
SDV Scidev -22% 0.7c 2,707,311 $5.7m
MDI Middle Island Resources -20% 0.4c 748,591 $3.5m
MAT Matsa Resources -19% 10.5c 238,706 $23m
CXZ Connexion Media -14% 0.6c 6,800 $5.9m
NWF Newfield Resources -14% 12c 150,193 $81.4m
IVO Invigor Group -14% 0.6c 1,353,847 $10.6m
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