In Case You Missed It: Rare earths, copper and a dash of lithium

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
CDR	Codrus Minerals Ltd	0.092	31%	$5,305,300
MAG	Magmatic Resrce Ltd	0.066	27%	$15,896,025
EFE	Eastern Resources	0.01	25%	$9,935,572
DES	Desoto Resources	0.13	24%	$6,292,283
RDN	Raiden Resources Ltd	0.035	21%	$66,391,435
EMU	EMU NL	0.003	20%	$3,625,053
PVT	Pivotal Metals Ltd	0.019	19%	$8,713,605
CAV	Carnavale Resources	0.007	17%	$20,001,310
PRX	Prodigy Gold NL	0.007	17%	$10,506,647
SRZ	Stellar Resources	0.014	17%	$12,071,571
KGD	Kula Gold Limited	0.015	15%	$4,851,755
GCM	Green Critical Min	0.008	14%	$7,956,095
RMX	Red Mount Min Ltd	0.004	14%	$9,357,516
S3N	Sensore Ltd	0.28	12%	$9,098,310
AVA	AVA Risk Group Ltd	0.2	11%	$46,044,501
NMR	Native Mineral Res	0.052	11%	$9,472,174
SP3	Specturltd	0.021	11%	$4,289,913
TUA	Tuas Limited	2.09	10%	$883,423,850
EGR	Ecograf Limited	0.12	9%	$49,785,106
PEB	Pacific Edge	0.12	9%	$89,178,882

Codrus Minerals (ASX:CDR) says exploration drilling at its Karloning REE project in WA has returned some solid hits including a standout 29m at 5,915ppm TREYO from 12m, including 4m grading 12,366pmm (1.2%) from 24m.

Magmatic Resources (ASX:MAG) has recommenced diamond drilling at the greater Corvette and Kingswood prospect areas at its Myall copper project.

A program of work has been approved for drilling at Eastern Resources (ASX:EFE) Lepidolite Hill lithium project, which is adjacent to the Future Battery Minerals (ASX:FBM) Kangaroo Hills Lithium project.

Drilling at Desoto Resources (ASX:DES) Fenton project has hit the Fenton Shear Zone, an analogue to the +40Moz Lead gold deposit in South Dakota.

And Raiden Resources (ASX:RDN) has revealed a high-grade lithium and rubidium samples and a new 50m wide mineralised pegmatite at Andover South, grading up to 2.42% Li2O.

More Top Small Cap Stories: Tuesday

Strickland Metals (ASX:STK) hit a spectacular high-grade discovery of 31m grading 5.6 g/t gold at the newly identified Marwari trend at its Yandal project in WA.

Lithium Universe (ASX:LU7) has appointed Terry Stark as head of mining, Roger Pover as head of processing, Huy Nguyen as engineering manager and John Loxton as the head of lithium carbonate refinery today.

Ionic Rare Earths (ASX:IXR) has appointed DRA Global to review the Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for its 532Mt Makuutu rare earths project in Uganda.

Kula Gold (ASX:KGD) has drilled into stacked pegmatites at its Kirup project, down the road from the world-class Greenbushes lithium mine.

Ora Banda (ASX:OBM) has wrapped up the sale of its non-core Lady Ida tenements for $10 million, keeping the rights for all minerals other than gold and silver.

At Stockhead we tell it like it is. While Strickland Metals, Lithium Universe, Ionic Rare Earths, Raiden Resources, Desoto Resources, Kula Gold and Ora Banda are Stockhead advertisers, they did not sponsor this article.