In Case You Missed It: Copper, gold and lithium the top scorers today

Stockhead’s In-Case-You-Missed-It highlights some strongest performing ASX stocks that might have slipped your notice today.

It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing some of the biggest movers in percentage terms.

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Stocks highlighted in green have made market-moving announcements (click headings to sort).

Code	Company	Price	% Today	Volume	Market Cap
GBZ	GBM Rsources Ltd	0.036	29%	3,177,344	$15,768,496
GRL	Godolphin Resources	0.0765	18%	154,191	$7,694,014
OMA	Omegaoilgaslimited	0.31	17%	13,681,786	$40,524,897
BTR	Brightstar Resources	0.015	15%	3,301,303	$10,824,175
DCC	Digitalx Limited	0.046	15%	6,473,376	$29,820,762
CZN	Corazon Ltd	0.016	14%	1,230,923	$8,544,628
EMT	Emetals Limited	0.009	13%	11,881,581	$6,800,000
WWI	West Wits Mining Ltd	0.018	13%	5,960,893	$34,546,889
STK	Strickland Metals	0.042	11%	979,221	$59,087,293
VSR	Voltaic Strategic	0.021	11%	3,461,494	$5,838,704
AQI	Alicanto Min Ltd	0.043	10%	603,528	$17,402,331
EM2	Eagle Mountain	0.165	10%	4,523,886	$45,745,029
IG6	Internationalgraphit	0.275	10%	461,009	$21,997,027
VAR	Variscan Mines Ltd	0.022	10%	15,000	$6,362,418
PAT	Patriot Lithium	0.28	10%	162,401	$15,526,313
NWC	New World Resources	0.051	9%	6,909,212	$98,958,126
SGQ	St George Min Ltd	0.051	9%	2,483,180	$39,503,996
OBM	Ora Banda Mining Ltd	0.1625	8%	3,031,603	$241,632,137
CUS	Coppersearchlimited	0.26	8%	100,512	$12,670,775
CHR	Charger Metals	0.34	8%	179,503	$13,770,026
ALM	Alma Metals Ltd	0.014	8%	1,218,978	$11,882,010
PEX	Peel Mining Limited	0.14	8%	149,435	$75,499,823
HGO	Hillgrove Res Ltd	0.058	7%	4,492,033	$82,190,843
SP3	Specturltd	0.029	7%	50,000	$5,421,192
ERW	Errawarra Resources	0.15	7%	7,215	$8,470,560
GLN	Galan Lithium Ltd	1.125	7%	882,051	$322,261,175
CVV	Caravel Minerals Ltd	0.305	7%	2,217,319	$136,567,546
BC8	Black Cat Syndicate	0.47	7%	925,965	$117,288,359
ARD	Argent Minerals	0.016	7%	5,927,967	$17,647,218
TGM	Theta Gold Mines Ltd	0.08	7%	593,971	$46,500,680
DTR	Dateline Resources	0.018	6%	1,059,636	$10,944,933
LNR	Lanthanein Resources	0.018	6%	4,855,980	$19,066,785
GSM	Golden State Mining	0.038	6%	215,057	$4,212,511
VMS	Venture Minerals	0.019	6%	3,315,136	$31,800,737
LEL	Lithenergy	0.63	5%	94,090	$36,090,000
CPH	Creso Pharma Ltd	0.0105	5%	3,223,857	$21,365,077
IPX	Iperionx Limited	0.965	5%	566,462	$158,850,066
ATC	Altech Batt Ltd	0.11	5%	9,669,270	$149,810,416
KLI	Killiresources	0.067	5%	20,000	$2,148,800
ASN	Anson Resources Ltd	0.1775	4%	3,585,611	$207,634,210
NC6	Nanollose Limited	0.048	4%	163,230	$6,848,773
SOR	Strategic Elements	0.125	4%	206,045	$53,632,012
EUR	European Lithium Ltd	0.078	4%	3,226,881	$111,692,938
LKE	Lake Resources	0.4625	4%	5,872,840	$632,987,895
HOR	Horseshoe Metals Ltd	0.027	4%	451,511	$16,612,795
BKT	Black Rock Mining	0.145	4%	193,455	$138,038,417
EYE	Nova EYE Medical Ltd	0.295	4%	392,147	$47,563,077
NKL	Nickelxltd	0.062	3%	26,990	$4,786,000
GT1	Greentechnology	0.65	3%	288,178	$120,165,188
PSC	Prospect Res Ltd	0.165	3%	849,614	$73,961,514
STM	Sunstone Metals Ltd	0.033	3%	24,876,724	$83,854,285
HHR	Hartshead Resources	0.038	3%	27,742,864	$84,829,239
POD	Podium Minerals	0.08	3%	344,968	$26,251,596
NWM	Norwest Minerals	0.041	3%	220,860	$9,894,848
LRS	Latin Resources Ltd	0.1075	2%	1,353,656	$231,173,766
HCH	Hot Chili Ltd	1.09	2%	219,878	$127,209,144
M2R	Miramar	0.045	2%	68,081	$3,437,357
VTM	Victory Metals Ltd	0.23	2%	133,701	$12,109,207
DEG	De Grey Mining	1.7	2%	4,913,556	$2,599,342,913
ARU	Arafura Rare Earths	0.495	2%	10,662,137	$1,024,836,925
BNL	Blue Star Helium Ltd	0.0305	2%	9,364,865	$47,585,102
REE	Rarex Limited	0.063	2%	855,336	$35,921,968
OCN	Oceanalithiumlimited	0.335	2%	7,810	$12,400,245
PGD	Peregrine Gold	0.39	1%	21,863	$18,513,598
RNU	Renascor Res Ltd	0.2275	1%	3,180,043	$571,366,687
AZL	Arizona Lithium Ltd	0.0465	1%	1,401,141	$123,784,423
PTX	Prescient Ltd	0.098	1%	306,064	$77,940,925
FHE	Frontier Energy Ltd	0.445	1%	133,169	$111,009,901

The top player today was GBM Resources (ASX:GBZ) who announced they’re ready to kick off diamond drilling at the Mount Margaret copper-gold project, part of its 45% owned Cloncurry Project Farm in/Joint Venture with Nippon Mining of Australia (NMA) – who’re fully funding exploration.

A ground-based electromagnetic (EM) geophysical survey in 2022 detected a strong and relatively deep conductor at the FC4 prospect, 7km north of the large Ernest Henry copper-gold mine (EHM).

Drilling is scheduled to commence this week with a single deep diamond drill hole to test for the presence of Eloise-type Iron Sulphide Copper Gold mineralisation (ISCG) within the same magnetic belt that hosts the EHM.

Evergreen Lithium (ASX:EG1) also had a very decent day, reporting a new substantial holder in Kim Wainwright, founder of exploration firm Xplore Resources and chair of the Queensland Exploration Council.

Also scooping up an 8.7% stake was Cadence Minerals (AIM:KDNC), an early stage investment and development company which also has/had investments in lithium companies like European Metals (ASX:EMH) and Charger Metals (ASX:CHR).

EG1’s flagship Bynoe lithium project is adjacent to Core Lithium’s (ASX:CXO) ramping up Finniss mine in the NT, which has a maiden 3500t shipment ready to go at Darwin port.

It also has a WA lithium project called Kenny, where results of an augur drilling project are due in the next few weeks.

Over in Africa, West Wits Mining (ASX:WWI) nabbed approval of power supplies from Johannesburg’s city grid – which it says will lead to a massive saving on energy at its 4.28Moz Witwatersrand Basin gold project, in a major boost for its economics.

Joburg City Power’s Planning Evaluation Committee has given approval for the supply of 7.5MVA bulk power to the company’s Phase-1 Qala Shallows development at a cost estimated to be “around 75% less expensive than using diesel power generators,” CEO and MD Jac van Heerden said.

And dual listed Copper Mountain Mining (TSX:CMMC, ASX:C6C) will be acquired by Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE:HBM) to create Canada’s third largest copper producer (150,000tpa).

Each C6C shareholder will receive 0.381 of a Hudbay share for each C6C share held — a 23% premium to C6C shareholders based on both companies’ 10-day volume-weighted average share prices on April 12, 2023.

The C6C board has unanimously approved the deal, which will be voted on by shareholders.

“This transaction provides Copper Mountain shareholders with an attractive premium and the opportunity to participate in a more diversified portfolio of three operating assets and a leading organic copper growth pipeline,” C6C chair Edward Dowling said.

At Stockhead we tell it like it is. While GBM Resources and West Wits Mining are Stockhead advertisers, they did not sponsor this article.