In Case You Missed It: Lithium and gold project acquisitions and cheaper boron nitride nanotubes

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
PIM	Pinnacleminerals	0.15	67%	$2,301,750
BAT	Battery Minerals Ltd	0.037	48%	$2,990,112
RIM	Rimfire Pacific	0.0085	42%	$12,631,468
PPK	PPK Group Limited	1.105	35%	$73,217,220
KNM	Kneomedia Limited	0.0025	25%	$3,009,571
DCN	Dacian Gold Ltd	0.27	20%	$273,780,211
VHT	Volpara Health Tech	0.75	17%	$162,799,557
PKO	Peako Limited	0.007	17%	$3,162,508
ICR	Intelicare Holdings	0.017	13%	$3,133,731
CPM	Coopermetalslimited	0.13	13%	$6,120,030
PTX	Prescient Ltd	0.063	13%	$45,097,908
CNJ	Conico Ltd	0.0045	13%	$6,280,380
IEC	Intra Energy Corp	0.0045	13%	$6,643,126
SMS	Starmineralslimited	0.045	13%	$1,450,112
A1M	Aic Mines Ltd	0.2975	12%	$122,554,717
SPX	Spenda Limited	0.0145	12%	$47,804,024
EMP	Emperor Energy Ltd	0.01	11%	$2,419,762
RNX	Renegade Exploration	0.01	11%	$8,578,114
PFE	Panteraminerals	0.062	11%	$5,489,472
EV1	Evolutionenergy	0.16	10%	$21,840,625

Pinnacle Minerals (ASX:PIM) is set to acquire a 75% interest in the Adina East lithium project in the James Bay lithium district.

Battery Minerals (ASX:BAT) entered into a binding agreement to acquire the advanced Spur gold project, in the heart of the highly prospective Lachlan Fold Belt.

PPK Group (ASX:PPK) says subsidiary, BNNT Technology is significantly reducing the price of its Australian-made boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT) a “multi-use super material that can produce a ‘fibre’ 100 times stronger than steel but as light as carbon fibre, super flexible, more thermally conductive than copper, and able to sustain high temperatures of up to 1000 degrees without degrading” to around $150 per gram, down from the $400 per gram it was previously being sold at.

Volpara Health Technologies (ASX:VHT) has enjoyed its fourth consecutive positive net operating cash flow quarter, reporting NZ$1.2m.

And InteliCare (ASX:ICR) is undertaking its first pilot study in the healthcare sector with the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to assess the accuracy of a remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution in two specific settings to the current standard of care in hospital.

More Top Small Cap Stories: Tuesday

X-ray diffraction has confirmed spodumene content up to 29% at Raiden Resources (ASX:RDN) Andover South project.

St George Mining (ASX:SGQ) has secured a $3m strategic joint venture with lithium-ion battery producer, Amperex Technology Limited (ATL), for lithium exploration in WA.

Pantera Minerals (ASX:PFE) has increased its Smackover lithium brine acreage by 12% to now total 9,440 acres.

Greenvale Energy (ASX:GRV) has made a farm-in deal with Mosman Oil and Gas Ltd to acquire a 75% interest in the EP 145 Permit in the Amadeus Basin in Central Australia.

Sunshine Metals (ASX:SHN) has wrapped up first pass drilling at the Coronation prospect and is now commencing RC drilling targeting the Carrington gold-copper lode at the Liontown project.

Ionic Rare Earths (ASX:IXR) has completed phase 5 infill drilling at its flagship Makuutu project in Uganda, confident the pending assays will add to the resource update expected early next year.

First assay results from an expanded Phase 3 drilling program at Future Battery Minerals (ASX:FBM) Kangaroo Hills project in WA has confirmed an extensive, near-surface lithium pegmatite swarm at the Big Red and Rocky prospects.

Prescient Therapeutics (ASX:PTX) is gearing up to announce Phase 1b cancer trial results at the world’s largest haematology conference – the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in December.

Green Technology Metals (ASX:GT1) has flagged a 25% increase to its the Root Bay lithium resource estimate to 10.1Mt at 1.29% Li20.

Spartan Resources (ASX:SPR) has found a new gold discovery north of its Never Never gold deposit called Patient Wolf.

Vertex Minerals (ASX:VTX) has engaged a consultant to design the gold plant for the pre-feasibility study at its Reward gold mine in NSW.

Aura Energy (ASX:AEE) is looking to expand the existing 58.9Mlbs uranium resource at its Tiris project in Mauritania after spotting seven exploration targets extending from the resource.

And Greenstone Resources (ASX:GSR) and JV partner Conico (ASX:CNJ) expect to release the resource update and scoping study for the Mt Thirsty project a bit later than planned, in mid-late November.

At Stockhead we tell it like it is. While Raiden Resources, St George Mining, Pantera Minerals, Greenvale Mining, Sunshine Metals, Ionic Rare Earths, Future Battery Minerals, Prescient Therapeutics, Green Technology Metals, Spartan Resources, Vertex Minerals and Greenstone Resources are Stockhead advertisers, they did not sponsor this article.