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

On Stockhead today, M stands for Manganese, who’s sharing the love for Canadium lithium, and we’ve got a gut feeling about Microba.

But first, to the day ahead.

TRADING HALTS

These companies went into trading halts on Friday and are due out in the coming days:

Element 25 (ASX:E25) – Capital raise

Top Shelf International Holdings (ASX:TSI) – Capital raise

Sprintex (ASX:SIX) – Capital raise

Astral Resources (ASX:AAR) – Pending a court application in relation to its “inadvertent failure” to lodge a cleansing notice relating to its issue of shares on May 9, 2023

Harvest Technology Group (ASX:HTG) – Capital raise

Titanium Sands (ASX:TSL) – Capital raise

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1910.43 (-0.36%)

Silver: $US22.71 (-1.69%)

Nickel (3mth): $US21,160/t (-0.22%)

Copper (3mth): $US8,277/t (-0.50%)

Oil (WTI): $US71.86 (+0.10%)

Oil (Brent): $US76.48 (-0.22%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US112.27/t (+0.38%)

AUD/USD: 0.6626 (+0.0%)

Bitcoin: $US30,196 (-0.76%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING?

Who’s on the US Critical Minerals Good Boys and Girls list?

Which ASX stocks have the critical minerals the US Department of Defense needs? https://t.co/RKKARczDZR

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) July 6, 2023

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
GED	Golden Deeps	0.011	57%	123,607,782	$8,086,587
TMB	Tambourah Metals	0.225	55%	4,731,977	$5,972,927
GMN	Gold Mountain Ltd	0.013	44%	49,060,975	$17,729,394
ARV	Artemis Resources	0.02	43%	21,827,668	$21,978,857
SIT	Site Group Int Ltd	0.004	33%	250,000	$7,807,471
WYX	Western Yilgarn NL	0.16	33%	421,346	$5,958,900
AYT	Austin Metals Ltd	0.009	29%	1,392,218	$7,111,123
NET	Netlinkz Limited	0.01	25%	2,348,623	$28,244,227
XTC	Xantippe Res Ltd	0.0025	25%	3,488,425	$22,960,199
PET	Phoslock Env Tec Ltd	0.021	24%	3,332,313	$10,614,639
1AD	Adalta Limited	0.037	23%	5,401,117	$11,000,386
SNG	Siren Gold	0.1	22%	146,358	$11,113,089
VMC	Venus Metals Cor Ltd	0.145	22%	665,938	$22,535,721
CAV	Carnavale Resources	0.006	20%	21,579,987	$13,667,759
NSX	NSX Limited	0.049	20%	589,892	$16,441,682
TOY	Toys R Us	0.013	18%	4,105,157	$9,493,953
ICL	Iceni Gold	0.11	17%	625,061	$19,605,714
AHN	Athena Resources	0.007	17%	3,275,233	$6,422,805
AOA	Ausmon Resorces	0.0035	17%	1,000,000	$2,907,868
AVM	Advance Metals Ltd	0.007	17%	410,499	$3,531,352
CBY	Canterbury Resources	0.028	17%	209,999	$3,468,565
M4M	Macro Metals Limited	0.0035	17%	147,511	$5,961,233
OAR	OAR Resources Ltd	0.0035	17%	462,000	$7,713,114
RIM	Rimfire Pacific	0.007	17%	1,721,946	$12,031,468

Golden Deeps (ASX:GED) rose 57% after uncovering germanium and gallium at the Nosib vanadium-copper-lead-silver discovery in Namibia, days after major producer China imposed export restrictions on the critical metals used in computer chips and semiconductors.

GED said examination of one drillhole returned hits like 8.70m @ 128g/t Ga, 11.3g/t Ge (1.84% Cu, 1.88% V2O5, 10.2% Pb, 3.6g/t Ag) from surface.

The company said the market price of germanium is currently ~US$2,450/kg and gallium is ~US$230/kg, compared to vanadium (V2O5) at US$16.60/kg, copper at US$8.25/kg and zinc at US$2.41/kg.

Also on the winners list Friday was clinical stage drug maker AdAlta Limited (ASX:1AD) after announcing new data supports the potential efficacy of its AD-214 treatment in humans with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and other fibrotic diseases.

The new data links CXCR4 receptor occupancy with CXCR4 inhibition to provide direct evidence – suggesting that administration of AD-214 every two weeks could be clinically feasible.

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
CLE	Cyclone Metals	0.001	-50%	3,546,725	$20,529,010
MRD	Mount Ridley Mines	0.002	-33%	218,400	$23,354,649
MRQ	Mrg Metals Limited	0.002	-33%	500,032	$5,957,756
TIG	Tigers Realm Coal	0.005	-29%	304,643	$91,466,917
FGL	Frugl Group Limited	0.008	-27%	283,557	$10,516,682
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.003	-25%	22,719	$2,973,846
RGS	Regeneus Ltd	0.013	-24%	6,283,192	$5,209,428
BDM	Burgundy D Mines Ltd	0.23	-23%	14,450,289	$424,811,966
AD1	AD1 Holdings Limited	0.004	-20%	100,029	$4,112,845
BKG	Booktopia Group	0.1325	-20%	667,037	$22,664,284
CUS	Copper Search	0.225	-20%	171,216	$14,782,571
R8R	Regener8 Resources NL	0.175	-17%	24,152	$5,387,813
CCO	The Calmer Co Int	0.0025	-17%	162,263	$1,692,233
CPT	Cipherpoint Limited	0.005	-17%	714	$6,955,450
OAU	Ora Gold Limited	0.005	-17%	46,713,005	$23,621,551
TAR	Taruga Minerals	0.011	-15%	2,512,323	$9,178,348
AIS	Aeris Resources Ltd	0.415	-15%	14,599,079	$338,563,342
AVC	Auctus Invest Grp	0.755	-15%	20,000	$66,922,265
BUR	Burley Minerals	0.175	-15%	77,557	$15,297,060
ADS	Adslot Ltd	0.003	-14%	65,351	$11,433,159
EDE	Eden Inv Ltd	0.003	-14%	1,161,950	$10,489,305
BFC	Beston Global Ltd	0.0095	-14%	3,791,908	$21,967,516
MKR	Manuka Resources	0.057	-14%	578,870	$35,697,424
EMP	Emperor Energy Ltd	0.013	-13%	249,340	$4,032,937
ARL	Ardea Resources Ltd	0.62	-13%	1,118,507	$122,904,762

Ora Gold (ASX:OAU) is on the loser list after announcing it was raising $3 million at 4 cents/share, a 33% discount the last traded price.

The explorer said there was strong demand for the placement “following recent exceptional exploration results from the Crown Prince Prospect at the Garden Gully Gold Project”.