Closing Bell: Today’s biggest small cap movers on the ASX

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest movers – the winners and losers alike.

Data is taken at the market close – at 4pm AEDT.

Stocks highlighted in yellow rose after making announcements.

WINNERS

Code	Company	Price	%	Volume
BAS	Bass Oil Ltd	0.002	100	2492524
CCE	Carnegie Cln Energy	0.002	100	16214754
VPR	Volt Power Group	0.0035	75	20641033
HWK	Hawkstone Mng Ltd	0.018	38	128541167
OEQ	Orion Equities	0.175	35	381258
OEL	Otto Energy Limited	0.013	30	11471869
VUL	Vulcan Energy	6.44	29	4643752
VAL	Valor Resources Ltd	0.007	27	86974682
BRL	Bathurst Res Ltd.	0.054	26	4703497
LIT	Lithium Australia NL	0.099	25	51441549
MBK	Metal Bank Ltd	0.015	25	5793613
FPL	Fremont Petroleum	0.005	25	23681506
ARR	American Rare Earths	0.1	23	10776969
CDX	Cardiex Limited	0.09	23	9929500
CYC	Cyclopharm Limited	3.1	23	102543
TTB	Total Brain Ltd	0.44	22	1086306
REE	Rarex Limited	0.14	22	11307945
RNE	Renu Energy Ltd	0.063	21	3317536
EGY	Energy Tech Ltd	0.145	21	559567
RNU	Renascor Res Ltd	0.018	20	26700771

High flying lithium play Vulcan (ASX:VUL) gained another 30 per cent today.

Today’s catalyst for its rise was a Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) on its Zero Carbon lithium project in Germany, which shows “reasonable” Phase 1 construction costs of about $1.09 billion.

Thanks to low operator costs, it would take just five years to pay that back.

Uranium play Valor Resources Ltd (ASX:VAL) rose off the back of no company news leading to a price query.

In response to the ASX, it mentioned Tolga Kumova’s reference to the company in his Stockhead interview as a possible reason for the move.

LOSERS

Code	Company	Price	%	Volume
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.003	-25	67171271
WOO	Wooboard Tech Ltd	0.002	-20	312434
TIG	Tigers Realm Coal	0.009	-18	16178963
HNR	Hannans Ltd	0.005	-17	5934210
MGL	Magontec Limited	0.016	-16	922508
XST	Xstate Resources	0.006	-14	12185082
RDS	Redstone Resources	0.013	-13	428616
MRD	Mount Ridley Mines	0.0035	-13	12128696
OVT	Ovato Limited	0.007	-13	3716149
AVC	Auctus Invest Grp	0.745	-12	29050
PXX	Polarx Limited	0.036	-12	1216163
SAN	Sagalio Energy Ltd	0.029	-12	2395452
TYR	Tyro Payments	2.32	-12	7430869
AFW	Applyflow Limited	0.008	-11	7446129
PRM	Prominence Energy NL	0.008	-11	10362925
COS	Cosol Limited	0.63	-10	96948
FFC	Farmaforce Ltd	0.09	-10	19274
PWN	Parkway Minls NL	0.009	-10	146866
TMK	Tamaska Oil Gas Ltd	0.009	-10	1596557
VAR	Variscan Mines Ltd	0.028	-10	80000
SRZ	Stellar Resources	0.019	-10	250357

It was tough week for large cap EFTPOS company Tyro Payments (ASX:TYR).

Earlier this week it announced its merchant customers have been experiencing an issue with 15 per cent of Tyro’s terminal fleet since Tuesday.

It fell another 12 per cent today before entering a trading halt pending a response to a report that it claimed made false assertions about the situation.