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

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

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume
TAR	Taruga Minerals	0.105	78	145,369,804
NWE	Norwest Energy NL	0.01	54	189,911,529
ANL	Amani Gold Ltd	0.0015	50	8,920,037
KEY	KEY Petroleum	0.005	43	16,507,057
ALK	Alkane Resources Ltd	0.96	31	10,451,944
MEY	Marenica Energy Ltd	0.205	28	4,154,095
ICN	Icon Energy Limited	0.017	21	994,000
WJA	Wameja Limited	0.12	20	56,211
EVE	EVE Investments Ltd	0.006	20	10,700,338
VMG	VDM Group Limited	0.003	20	750,000
XST	Xstate Resources	0.006	20	114,966,774
BBX	BBX Minerals Ltd	0.31	19	1,747,378
EMD	Emyria Limited	0.255	19	2,285,694
SE1	Sensera Ltd	0.066	18	3,556,069
TEG	Triangle Energy Ltd	0.04	18	10,203,826
ALT	Analytica Limited	0.0035	17	367,000
GES	Genesis Resources	0.014	17	12,239,510
VAL	Valor Resources Ltd	0.014	17	40,480,112
MSG	Mcs Services Limited	0.052	16	2,410,539
CIO	Connected Io Ltd	0.008	14	2,688,866

Junior explorer Taruga Minerals Ltd (ASX:TAR) led out of the gates and closed 78 per cent higher, after flagging a high-grade copper hit at its Wyacca prospect in South Australia.

Also rising strongly was Norwest Energy (ASX:NWE), which didn’t have any operational news but released a Form 604 to advise that major shareholder Mineral Resources had acquired an additional 204,606,160 shares on-market, bringing its stake in the company to 19.88 per cent.

In a good day for energy stocks, Marenica Energy (ASX:MEY) also rose strongly, posting a gain of 28pc to close at new all-time highs of 20.5c.

LOSERS

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume
TMS	Tennant	0.022	-56	14,471,341
CAQ	CAQ Holdings Ltd	0.015	-40	437,431
UUV	UUV Aquabotix Ltd	0.002	-33	18,407,814
CE1	Calima Energy	0.007	-30	246,268,284
IXR	Ionic Rare Earths	0.028	-26	188,910,294
AAU	Antilles Gold Ltd	0.07	-26	1,397,735
MSI	Multistack International	0.062	-23	1,815,904
WHK	Whitehawk Limited	0.17	-21	5,787,795
DDD	3D Resources Limited	0.004	-20	5,678,887
NPM	Newpeak Metals	0.002	-20	1,170,000
PCL	Pancontinental Oil	0.002	-20	715,130
CAD	Caeneus Minerals	0.009	-18	25,702,877
IRD	Iron Road Ltd	0.24	-17	789,168
FAU	First Au Ltd	0.02	-17	4,443,599
FGO	Fargo Enterprises	0.005	-17	12,271,032
T3D	333D Limited	0.0025	-17	2,410,174
STK	Strickland Metals	0.021	-16	1,217,038
RAN	Range International	0.016	-16	8,627,876
HMD	Heramed Limited	0.135	-16	1,172,302
RVS	Revasum	0.355	-14	157,365
AOA	Ausmon Resorces	0.006	-14	2,470,504