In Case You Missed It: US$100m manganese funding and cap raises left right and centre

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, that made announcements today.

ICYMI Leader Board

Code	Company	Price	% Today	Market Cap
LBT	LBT Innovations	0.019	138%	$9,247,203
EMN	Euromanganese	0.135	35%	$24,581,548
BMR	Ballymore Resources	0.145	32%	$16,081,699
GML	Gateway Mining	0.021	31%	$5,303,721
EPX	Ept Global Limited	0.022	29%	$7,580,533
TMR	Tempus Resources Ltd	0.006	20%	$1,714,614
MRL	Mayur Resources Ltd	0.21	17%	$60,400,312
TPW	Temple & Webster Ltd	7.435	15%	$794,255,075
G88	Golden Mile Res Ltd	0.023	15%	$6,587,790
IVR	Investigator Res Ltd	0.048	14%	$60,361,141
TCG	Turaco Gold Limited	0.12	14%	$52,785,250
ACR	Acrux Limited	0.05	14%	$12,719,442
TNC	True North Copper	0.125	14%	$36,199,741
BPH	BPH Energy Ltd	0.034	13%	$30,765,374
WML	Woomera Mining Ltd	0.026	13%	$27,454,975
BUY	Bounty Oil & Gas NL	0.009	13%	$10,964,008
GSR	Greenstone Resources	0.009	13%	$10,944,908
MAY	Melbana Energy Ltd	0.07	11%	$212,322,859
TTI	Traffic Technologies	0.01	11%	$6,819,032
CBE	Cobre	0.052	11%	$13,484,817

Euro Manganese (ASX:EMN) has nabbed US$100m in funding support from Orion Resource Partners towards the development of its Chvaletice manganese project in the Czech Republic.

Ballymore Resources (ASX:BMR) has raised $1.8m via a placement/entitlement offer – plus another $1.5m from mining royalty firm Taurus – to advance the Dittmer gold mine in QLD to production.

Tempus Resources (ASX:TMR) plans to undertake a an underwritten non-renounceable entitlement offer at $0.005 per share to raise around $1.714 million to evaluate potential new acquisitions and realise value from the Blackdome-Elizabeth assets.

Off the back of recent metallurgical results at its Quicksilver nickel-cobalt project in WA, Golden Mile Resources (ASX:G88) is now looking into the gold potential of the project.

And Investigator Resources (ASX:IVR) has commenced an extensive gravity survey over its Molyhil tungsten-molybdenum project in the NT.

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Iltani Resources (ASX:ILT) is about to commence stage 2 drilling at its Orient silver-indium project in Northern Queensland.

Greenstone Resources (ASX:GSR) has kicked off a strategic review aimed at assessing the potential for near-term mining at its Burbanks and Phillips Find gold projects near Coolgardie, WA.

GreenTech Metals (ASX:GRE) is on the hunt for lithium pegmatites in maiden diamond drilling at the Osborne JV in WA with Artemis Resources (ASX:ARV), with the first hole completed.

Several new priority targets have been identified at Firetail Resources (ASX:FTL) Yalgoo project after a review of remote sensing data highlighted potential lithium-bearing pegmatites.

Pioneer Lithium (ASX:PLN) has found 61 pegmatite outcrops – including a 40m long outcrop – at the recently optioned Benham project in Canada.

Bubalus Resources (ASX:BUS) has identified several potential pegmatite targets at its newly acquired Yinnietharra project, just over the fence from where Delta Lithium has proven up a 1.6km-long spodumene-hosted lithium find.

A Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) of Power Minerals (ASX:PNN) Rincon salar at its Salta lithium project shows the potential to produce high-purity, battery-grade lithium carbonate with an impressive internal rate of revenue (IRR) of 42%.

Galan Lithium (ASX:GLN) says it’s receiving approaches for offtake and strategic financing for Phase 2 development at Hombre Muerto West project in Argentina.

A follow-up work program has kicked off on high-grade rare earth elements (REEs) on the north block of Locksley Resources’ (ASX:LKY) Mojave project in California, USA.

Aura Energy (ASX:AEE) plans to significantly expand its Tiris project in Mauritania, Africa with a province-scale 13,000km tenure application.

Belararox (ASX:BRX) has commenced infill soil sampling along 5kms of lithium soil anomalies at its Bullabulling project in WA.

First assay results from Tambourah Metals’ (ASX:TMB) RC program at the World’s Fair prospect of its namesake Pilbara project have returned up to 8.6g/t gold.

Charger Metals (ASX:CHR) says rock chip samples from a newly discovered pegmatite outcrop have confirmed high grade lithium up to 4.2% Li2O at the Lake Johnston project in WA.

Venture Minerals (ASX:VMS) has reported assay results including over 7,000 ppm TREO from maiden Reverse Circulation drilling at the new Jupiter REE target at its Brothers project in WA.

ADX Energy (ASX:ADX) has cleared the last regulatory hurdle in the way of drilling the potentially transformational Welchau-1 gas well in Upper Austria after receiving environmental clearance.

New Age Exploration (ASX:NAE) has commenced drilling to test high priority LCT pegmatite targets at the Quartz Hill project in WA.

Krakatoa Resources (ASX:KTA) has received firm commitments to raise $1.6m via a placement at $0.043 per share to advance the 6,000m drill program at its King Tamba lithium project in WA.

Ionic Rare Earths (ASX:IXR) says the final administrative stages of the mining licence approval for its Makuutu rare earths project is underway, after the Ugandan Government representatives from the Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines (DGSM) have completed the on-site verification processes.

Recent lithium discoveries, in the Lake Johnston area, together with an internal review, have prompted Vertex Minerals (ASX:VTX) to undertake a soils program across its Lake Johnston, Taylor Rock tenement E63/2058 in WA.

Titan Minerals (ASX:TTM) is undertaking an accelerated non-renounceable pro rata entitlement offer at $0.03 per share to raise up to $7.6m for resource drilling at the Dynasty gold project in Ecuador.

And Elevate Uranium (ASX:EL8) MD Murray Hill has shown his confidence in the company with the purchase of 3.6m shares at $0.17 per share.

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