In Case You Missed It: Abundant spodumene crystals and solid Q3 gold production

Stockhead’s In-Case-You-Missed-It highlights today’s most interesting small cap stories that might have slipped beneath your radar.

Below is a wrap of the top 20 performing stocks, by percentage, who made announcements today.

ICYMI Leader Board

Code	Company	Price	% Today	Market Cap
FIN	FIN Resources Ltd	0.018	64%	$6,831,389
PCK	Painchek Ltd	0.059	23%	$67,503,490
KRR	King River Resources	0.012	20%	$15,535,249
CAI	Calidus Resources	0.16	19%	$82,063,781
MOB	Mobilicom Ltd	0.007	17%	$7,960,060
GGE	Grand Gulf Energy	0.008	14%	$13,067,502
BPH	BPH Energy Ltd	0.025	14%	$22,458,467
RTG	RTG Mining Inc.	0.035	13%	$33,664,435
AIS	Aeris Resources Ltd	0.185	12%	$114,006,023
AGR	Aguia Res Ltd	0.019	12%	$7,961,729
BRN	Brainchip Ltd	0.1675	12%	$266,258,722
CSX	Cleanspace Holdings	0.335	12%	$23,137,681
AX8	Accelerate Resources	0.029	12%	$9,895,646
SP3	Specturltd	0.02	11%	$4,064,128
GNX	Genex Power Ltd	0.16	10%	$200,850,685
ME1	Melodiol Glb Health	0.0055	10%	$14,736,602
NRX	Noronex Limited	0.011	10%	$3,783,018
SOP	Synertec Corporation	0.225	10%	$88,456,667
DRX	Diatreme Resources	0.025	9%	$85,784,460
PVT	Pivotal Metals Ltd	0.025	9%	$12,525,807

Maiden fieldwork at Fin Resources (ASX:FIN) Cancet West project in James Bay has identified “abundant spodumene crystals” within a large broad pegmatite outcrop.

Calidus Resources (ASX:CAI) says it’s on track to meet FY24 guidance, supported by start of mining at the Blue Bar deposit at the Warrawoona gold project in the March quarter – which contributed ~10,000 ounces to FY24 production – plus access to higher grade ore restricted by mining in cutback areas, which will be completed by the end of December quarter.

An extensive fieldwork program has highlighted encouraging gold and copper mineralisation along 6.5km of skarns and new structures within RTG Mining (ASX:RTG) Chanach project in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Aeris Resources (ASX:AIS) Tritton, Cracow and Mt Colin projects have met production targets for the September quarter, with production at the Jaguar project exceeding guidance with the site now on care and maintenance.

And Aguia Resources (ASX:AGR) says a review of rare earth elements in historical results in Rio Grande carbonatites has returned strong grades including 24.7m at 1.27% TREO from 10m.

More Top Small Cap Stories: Monday

Studies are showing no severe adverse reactions, no treatment-related deaths and point towards safe efficacy for PharmAust’s (ASX:PAA) ground-breaking treatment of canine lymphoma.

DevEx Resources (ASX:DEV) has signed a deal with private minerals explorer Transition Minerals to earn up to 75% of the Murphy West uranium project in the NT by spending up to $3.5 million within 5 years.

Melodiol Global Health (ASX:ME1) says its Canadian subsidiary Mernova has recorded its third consecutive quarter of revenue growth with A$1.85 million in unaudited sales.

Frontier Energy’s (ASX:FHE) acquisition of Waroona Energy could create a large-scale Aussie renewable energy company with generation capacity of more than 1GW.

Taiton Resources (ASX:T88) has got the green light from South Australia’s Department of Mines and Energy to drill a significant molybdenum anomaly at Merino, part of its district scale Highway project.

Lithium Energy (ASX:LEL) has commenced detailed evaporation and Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) testwork underway at its 3.3Mt LCE Solaroz project in Argentina’s Lithium Triangle.

Native Mineral Resources (ASX:NMR) ) has reported two assays of 2.25% and 2.77% Li20 from its newly acquired McLaughlin Lake lithium project in Manitoba, Canada.

MTM Critical Metals (ASX:MTM) has flagged diamond drilling results up to 2.27% TREO at its Pomme REE-niobium project in Québec, Canada.

Azure Minerals (ASX:AZS) says early test work returned grades of 5.59% Li2O spodumene concentrate with a recovery of 82.37% at its Andover project.

West Wits Mining (ASX:WWI) cornerstone investor Wingfield Partners has expressed formal interest in providing US$10m funding to help develop the Qala Shallows project.

Great Southern Mining (ASX:GSN) has secured an earn-in agreement with major producer Gold Fields, which will spend up to $15m to earn 75% of the Edinburgh Park project in Queensland.

Green Technology Metals (ASX:GT1) plans to deliver a vertically integrated scoping study in Q4 2023 as part of a staged development plan for initial spodumene concentrate production by 2025 from its Eastern Hub Seymour mine and concentrator in Ontario, Canada.

Copper Search (ASX:CUS) is planning a follow-up RC drill program in late October at Targets AC23 and AC24 at its Peake project in SA.

And Locksley Resources (ASX:LKY) has appointed Nathan Lude in the role of non-executive chairman effective immediately.

At Stockhead we tell it like it is. While PharmAust, Fin Resources, DevEx Resources, Melodiol Global Health, Frontier Energy, Taiton Resources, Lithium Energy, Native Mineral Resources, MTM Critical Minerals, Azure Minerals, West Wits Mining, Great Southern Mining, Green Technology Metals, Copper Search and Locksley Resources are Stockhead advertisers, they did not sponsor this article.