Rise and Shine: Everything you need to know about the ASX before it opens on Monday

Good morning everyone. On Stockhead today, how Guy Le Page spots a lithium winner, ASX stocks that are cooking with gas, and who wins when Victoria bans gas connections?

But first, the day ahead…

TRADING HALTS

These stocks went into trading halts on Friday and should be out in the coming days.

Raiden Resources (ASX:RDN) – The company has an announcement pending, regarding first reconnaissance results from its due diligence exercise on the South Roebourne project. Trading resumption expected by Tuesday.

Strandline Resources (ASX:STA) – Capital raising.

Maximus Resources (ASX:MXR) – Mineral resource estimate update at its Wattle Dam Gold Project.

Reach Resources (ASX:RR1) – Capital raising.

Anax Metals (ASX:ANX) – Capital raising.

Centaurus Metals (ASX:CTM) – Capital raising.

RemSense Technologies (ASX:REM) – Capital raising.

MRG Metals (ASX:MRQ) – Capital raising.

Viridis Mining and Minerals (ASX:VMM) – The company has a project acquisition announcement brewing.

Starpharma (ASX:SPL) – An announcement is coming, regarding a partnered program.

Yowie Group (ASX:YOW) – In not very plain English, this one has something to do with “facilitating an orderly market in the company’s securities pending a revised announcement to the market release on 27 July 2023 titled ‘Yowie Secures Bluey Merchandise Agreement’”.

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1945.23 (-1.36%)

Silver: $US24.11 (-3.21%)

Nickel (3mth): $US21,755/t (+0.76%)

Copper (3mth): $US8,551/t (-0.77%)

Oil (WTI): $US79.65 (+1.1%)

Oil (Brent): $US83.59 (+0.81%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US112.90/t (+0.01%)

AUD/USD: 0.6709 (+0.00%)

Bitcoin: $US29,191 (-1.01%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING OVER THE WEEKEND

Madness. In Arizona.

Arizona Lithium has successfully rattled the tin to raise $10m for development of its projects and research centre, which includes a resource upgrade, pilot plant construction and tying up a pre-feasibility study. https://t.co/d5VJC8UAuT #ad #ASX @ArizonaLithium

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) July 28, 2023

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Also, be sure to check in preopen each day for ‘Market highlights and 5 ASX small caps to watch’, and 10.30am for our daily ‘10 at 10’ column — a live summary of winners & losers at the opening bell.

FRIDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
3DP	Pointerra Limited	0.205	116%	27,278,970	$64,391,589
CLE	Cyclone Metals	0.0015	50%	37,000	$10,264,505
CT1	Constellation Tech	0.003	50%	293,428	$2,942,401
MEB	Medibio Limited	0.0015	50%	806,481	$5,150,594
MTL	Mantle Minerals Ltd	0.0015	50%	12,766,804	$6,147,446
PET	Phoslock Env Tec Ltd	0.023	44%	10,486,896	$9,990,248
BFC	Beston Global Ltd	0.01	43%	3,417,980	$13,979,328
GTE	Great Western Exp.	0.062	38%	1,003,516	$11,371,415
MCT	Metalicity Limited	0.002	33%	2,000	$5,604,129
GLA	Gladiator Resources	0.015	25%	304,205	$6,554,039
ERL	Empire Resources	0.005	25%	600,200	$4,451,740
GTG	Genetic Technologies	0.0025	25%	284,000	$23,083,316
ICN	Icon Energy Limited	0.005	25%	328,539	$3,072,055
MXC	Mgc Pharmaceuticals	0.0025	25%	3,419,243	$7,784,719
DTM	Dart Mining NL	0.039	22%	5,128	$5,513,191
SDR	Siteminder	4.28	21%	3,064,032	$970,983,354
ABE	Ausbondexchange	0.175	21%	75,450	$5,619,200
BCC	Beam Communications	0.205	21%	302,622	$14,691,727
TMB	Tambourahmetals	0.33	20%	2,709,053	$11,624,031
AHN	Athena Resources	0.006	20%	8,938,516	$5,352,338
ATH	Alterity Therap Ltd	0.007	17%	117,979	$14,639,386
RIM	Rimfire Pacific	0.007	17%	1,811,333	$12,031,468
SIT	Site Group Int Ltd	0.0035	17%	125,000	$7,807,471
B4P	Beforepay Group	0.55	15%	12,645	$16,726,473
AD1	AD1 Holdings Limited	0.008	14%	324,717	$5,757,983

Pointerra (ASX:3DP): +100% > The SaaS tech company shot up today on news out of the US that existing Pointerra customer Entergy, a Fortune 500 company, has selected Pointerra’s US EPC partners for its 10-year, US$15 billion grid resilience CAPEX program. That deal will see Pointerra’s AI-driven analytics platform used to identify and prioritise grid assets requiring remediation or replacement across the 10-year term of the program.

Phoslock (ASX:PET): +50% > Phoslock delivered its June quarterly on Friday, revealing a net cash outflow from operating activities of $0.62 million – much better than the prior quarter, which recorded approximately $3.2 million in operating cash outflow.

Great Western Exploration (ASX:GTE): +37.8% > GTE’ rose last week following Monday’s news that the company had kicked off RC drilling at the Firebird gold project, testing a large soil anomaly.

The ‘large Ultrafine+ soil anomaly’ has an extent of 3.7km x 450m, with the current round of RC drilling designed to test below recent anomalous broad-spaced aircore drill results from highly weathered Archean Greenstone volcanic sediments and mafic units.

FRIDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
JAL	Jameson Resources	0.051	-28%	25,288	$27,797,288
EEL	Enrg Elements Ltd	0.008	-27%	14,079,132	$11,101,577
CCE	Carnegie Cln Energy	0.0015	-25%	2,720,665	$31,285,147
MTM	MTM Critical Metals	0.069	-25%	6,656,297	$8,928,299
HXL	Hexima	0.019	-21%	1,081,339	$4,008,951
GFN	Gefen Int	0.004	-20%	55,889	$641,399
ADD	Adavale Resource Ltd	0.016	-19%	8,854,052	$11,071,703
1AG	Alterra Limited	0.009	-18%	6,758,549	$7,662,078
8IH	8I Holdings Ltd	0.023	-18%	232,198	$10,005,968
NME	Nex Metals Explorat	0.014	-18%	701	$5,993,053
RML	Resolution Minerals	0.005	-17%	4,563,029	$7,543,751
SFG	Seafarms Group Ltd	0.005	-17%	260,000	$29,019,595
AQX	Alice Queen Ltd	0.016	-16%	1,726,651	$2,403,782
PEB	Pacific Edge	0.135	-16%	233,183	$129,658,435
BCB	Bowen Coal Limited	0.11	-15%	16,012,421	$277,678,164
RGS	Regeneus Ltd	0.011	-15%	2,536,851	$3,983,680
GED	Golden Deeps	0.0085	-15%	22,547,581	$11,552,267
DM1	Desert Metals	0.053	-15%	149,506	$4,497,547
DOU	Douugh Limited	0.006	-14%	1,013,110	$6,887,289
HAR	Harangaresources	0.12	-14%	60,588	$7,113,963
HCT	Holista CollTech Ltd	0.012	-14%	332,416	$3,903,201
INP	Incentiapay Ltd	0.006	-14%	144,001	$8,855,445
NMR	Native Mineral Res	0.03	-14%	160,636	$5,143,770
PRX	Prodigy Gold NL	0.006	-14%	3,654,261	$12,257,755
CCA	Change Financial Ltd	0.049	-14%	578,893	$35,776,699