Rise and Shine: Everything you need to know before the ASX opens

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On Stockhead today, can low-grade nickel producers come our our transition rescue, ASX food stocks are dining out on hungry China, and Seneca’s red-hot lithium pick.

But first, the day ahead.

TRADING HALTS

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

RTG Mining (ASX:RTG) – Capital raise

PharmAust (ASX:PAA) – Pharmacodynamic results from MND Phase 1/2 clinical trial

Theta Gold Mines (ASX:TGM) – Funding update

Manhattan Corp (ASX:MHC) – Assay results at Chebogue Lithium Project in Canada

Jervois Mining (ASX:JRV)– Announcement on outcome of institutional component of accelerated entitlement offer

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1907.20 (-0.31%)

Silver: $US22.16 (-0.90%)

Nickel (3mth): $US24,025/t (+2.02%)

Copper (3mth): $US9002.50/t (+0.27%)

Oil (WTI): $US69.27 (+2.1%)

Oil (Brent): $US74.13 (-0.94%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US115.50/t (+2.67%)

AUD/USD: 0.6596 (-1.26%)

Bitcoin: $US30,143 (-1.71%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING?

Magnis writes a letter, full of intent.

Magnis has executed a letter of intent for the Phase 1 anode active materials commercialisation facility in the US Southwest. https://t.co/DSIZgXJ22f #ad #ASX $MNS @magnisenergytec

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) June 30, 2023

Everyone deserves their own Buffett.

The gentle nonagenarian genius of @WarrenBuffett just seems like the kind of person I’d like the rest of you to be: https://t.co/uQ7XSNhwDE pic.twitter.com/VI5rQYAqJ7

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) June 30, 2023

And many of us also deserve a modular reactor.

Are small modular reactors safe enough to convince Australians to drop their phobia to nuclear energy? Or is that still a bridge too far? #nuclearenergy #nuclearpower #nuclear #powergeneration https://t.co/s32afcMjPq

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) June 29, 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 best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
AD1	AD1 Holdings Limited	0.005	25%	820,175	$3,290,276
APC	Aust Potash Ltd	0.009	29%	2,161,329	$7,270,753
AUZ	Australian Mines Ltd	0.016	23%	5,132,623	$7,849,691
BNL	Blue Star Helium Ltd	0.027	29%	9,707,772	$33,309,571
BOT	Botanix Pharma Ltd	0.1275	21%	8,018,276	$137,808,339
CCE	Carnegie Cln Energy	0.0015	50%	4,778,268	$15,642,574
CHK	Cohiba Min Ltd	0.003	20%	2,842,500	$5,283,110
ELT	Elementos Limited	0.165	22%	1,162,976	$26,289,911
EMP	Emperor Energy Ltd	0.015	25%	756,394	$3,226,350
ENR	Encounter Resources	0.45	29%	4,442,775	$138,434,023
FAU	First Au Ltd	0.003	20%	859,950	$3,629,983
HOR	Horseshoe Metals Ltd	0.023	28%	565,837	$11,582,616
HTG	Harvest Tech Grp Ltd	0.045	25%	2,597,623	$22,745,499
KEY	Key Petroleum	0.0015	50%	861,136	$1,967,928
MCT	Metalicity Limited	0.002	33%	337,257	$5,604,129
MI6	Minerals260Limited	0.77	19%	973,461	$150,930,000
NZS	New Zealand Coastal	0.0025	25%	1,362,903	$3,308,020
OPL	Opyl Limited	0.022	22%	12,500	$1,441,171
OPN	Oppen Negotiation	0.009	29%	335,546	$1,697,710
PPY	Papyrus Australia	0.031	29%	1,099,878	$11,744,822
RGL	Riversgold	0.016	23%	8,174,710	$12,366,399
SIX	Sprintex Ltd	0.037	19%	233,333	$8,298,317
TD1	Tali Digital Limited	0.0015	50%	1,562,022	$3,295,156
WC8	Wildcat Resources	0.13	24%	5,626,092	$69,879,004
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.003	20%	1,322,857	$1,548,122

Harvest Technology Group (ASX:HTG) led the ladder to end the week, up 36% after securing a juicy defence contract.

The company has received an initial order for its Nodestream technology for a Five Eyes defence customer (some Anglo country for sure), in the total amount of approximately US$180,000 – to assist the un-named defence force with “ultra-low-bandwidth, high-quality secure” remote operations and communications tech.

Also on the winners list Friday was Blue Star Helium (ASX:BNL) after announcing in-line with its chosen commercialisation strategy at the high-grade Voyager development, it has executed an MSA with IACX Energy for helium recovery services via the delivery and operation of an initial helium recovery plant at Voyager.

And finally, agricultural waste fibre technology company Papyrus (ASX:PPY) added 29%, a belated lift on Wednesday’s news that the company has executed a service agreement with BPE Investments and Union Pacific Equities, in a bid to help “advance its international business”.

TODAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LOSERS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
ADR	Adherium Ltd	0.0025	-17%	21,427	$14,998,225
AJY	Asaplus Resources	0.01	-50%	119,971	$2,720,000
ALM	Alma Metals Ltd	0.01	-17%	450,000	$13,248,009
AUK	Aumake Limited	0.003	-25%	2,956,121	$5,949,038
BP8	Bph Global Ltd	0.002	-33%	742,868	$3,854,189
CCO	The Calmer Co Int	0.003	-25%	2,626,971	$1,779,110
CPT	Cipherpoint Limited	0.005	-17%	78,149	$6,955,450
CRB	Carbine Resources	0.008	-27%	140,058	$4,259,655
DCX	Discovex Res Ltd	0.002	-20%	3,676,610	$8,256,420
DLM	Dominion Minerals	0.037	-23%	30,460	$9,940,824
EMU	EMU NL	0.002	-20%	323,534	$3,625,053
ERG	Eneco Refresh Ltd	0.01	-33%	307,833	$4,085,375
IGN	Ignite Ltd	0.045	-25%	2,100,000	$5,374,931
IRX	Inhalerx Limited	0.04	-17%	172,500	$9,108,814
IS3	I Synergy Group Ltd	0.007	-30%	211,111	$2,890,804
KNM	Kneomedia Limited	0.004	-20%	250,000	$7,523,927
MRI	My Rewards International	0.0155	-18%	3,802,218	$6,114,064
MRQ	Mrg Metals Limited	0.002	-33%	4,830,353	$5,957,756
OPA	Optima Technology	0.013	-19%	265,853	$4,021,472
R3D	R3D Resources Ltd	0.025	-17%	600,000	$3,516,155
ROG	Red Sky Energy.	0.003	-25%	45,451,141	$21,208,909
SNX	Sierra Nevada Gold	0.1	-31%	6,010	$6,036,040
WEL	Winchester Energy	0.002	-33%	489,054	$3,061,266
WFL	Wellfully Limited	0.002	-33%	384,699	$1,478,832