In Case You Missed It: Medicare milestone and provisional ports approval

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.

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Proteomics International Laboratories (ASX:PIQ) announced a major milestone in the commercialisation of its predictive test for diabetic kidney disease, PromarkerD, with the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) setting a national reimbursement price for the test in the US of US$390.75.

CZR Resources (ASX:CZR) has nabbed conditional support from the Pilbara Ports Authority for its Port of Ashburton Consortium JV to develop a multi-user bulk mineral export facility with an export capacity of 5Mtpa – which the company said paves the way for completion of its definitive feasibility study next month.

Core Lithium (ASX:CXO) has delivered a maiden profit for FY23 in its annual report today on shipments of just 5423dmt of spodumene concentrate and 14,774dmt of direct shipped lithium ore, with revenue of $50.6m, EBITDA of $14m, and Net Profit After Tax of $10.8m.

Bowen Coking Coal (ASX:BCB) senior and subordinated lenders, Taurus Mining Finance and coal producer New Hope (ASX:NHC) have given it a stay on its debt repayment, deferring principal returns for 12 months.

And Xstate Resources (ASX:XST) has wraped up the sale for its 35% working interest in its Alberta Plains assets to Blue Sky Resources for C$1,575,000 (~A$1,750,000).

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Encounter Resources (ASX:ENR) has found a new, large scale niobium-REE carbonatite at the Hurley target at its Aileron project in WA. 

Vulcan Energy (ASX:VUL) has upgraded the resources at its Zero Carbon Lithium project in Germany by more than 4% to 27.7Mt LCE.

Antilles Gold (ASX:AAU) has completed a $4.9m cap raising at $0.023 per share to fund ongoing development at its Nueva Sabana mine and La Demajagua copper-gold mines in Cuba. 

And Metalicity (ASX:MCT) has moved to an 80% interest in the the Kookynie and Yundamindra gold joint venture in WA with Nex Metals Exploration (ASX:NME) retaining the remaining 20% 

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