On Stockhead today, Our Emma Davies reports that Uranium speculators – and is there any better job – could use the Sprott Physical Uranium Trust (SPUT) to push yellowcake prices sharply higher

SPUT currently has over 61.7 million pounds of U3O8 under lock and key – and is considered by the resources data firm Goehring and Rozencwajg as the barometer of uranium investor sentiment.

And if current uranium sentiment was an island measured by the presence of radioactive isotopes  it’d be an attol somewhere in the pacific under French administration and still probably guarded by French naval forces.

But first, the day ahead.

 

TRADING HALTS

The following stocks went into trading halts Monday and are expected out in the coming days:

Ronin Resources (ASX:RON) – Project acquisition and capital raising.

QEM (ASX:QEM) – Capital raising.

Noronex (ASX:NRX) – Capital raising.

Miramar Resources (ASX:M2R) – Capital raising.

Regional Express (ASX:REX) – Revised profit guidance incoming.

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1957.15 (+0.75%)

Silver: $US23.87 (-0.2%)

Nickel (3mth): $US24,025/t (+2.02%)

Copper (3mth): $US9002.50/t (+0.27%)

Oil (WTI): $US70.66 (+3.5%)

Oil (Brent): $US75.53 (+3.2%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US114.50/t (+0.44%)

AUD/USD: 0.6887  (+1.36%)

Bitcoin: $US25,380 (-1.53%)

 

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The hurly burly’s not done.

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MONDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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True North Copper (ASX:TNC) set the cat among the pigeons with what looked like a 370% gain in the AM, but it’s not quite what it looked like on the data charts.

True North Copper was the subject of a reverse takeover by Duke Exploration that started late last year, and the whole thing has taken quite a while to get resolved.

As Stockhead’s very own Josh Chiat explains it, a reverse takeover is “kind of like the alien spawn growing inside of Sigourney Weaver, which then bursts out and becomes a (more friendly) xenomorph.”

That xenomorph has emerged from the chest of the ASX today, with the whole rebranded thing assuming the value of both DEX and TNC, which was well above TNC’s price when the reverse takeover began, and so that’s why it looks like such a huge gain.

So, the “real” winner was Gold 50 (ASX:G50) up 36% on surprisingly slender volume this morning and on news that the company has intersected high-grade gold-silver mineralisation within several broad mineralised zones at its Golconda project in Arizona.

The intersects include 35m at 5.2g/t gold and 5.9g/t silver from 176.8m including 9m at 19.5g/t gold and 17.8g/t silver, and 11m at 1.2g/t gold, 399g/t silver, 0.31% copper and 0.55% zinc from 61.0m and immediately below historic underground workings.

Bastion Minerals (ASX:BMO)  was up 31% after it reported staking a strategic 115km2 REE exploration tenure near Gyttorp in South Sweden.

BMO says that rock chip samples “greater than 2.86% (28,600 ppm) and 3.64% (36,400 ppm) Total Rare Earth Oxide (TREO) are recorded in historic sampling with some detection limits exceeding the actual result will be greater than these figures”.

 

MONDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

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