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?

FRIDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

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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

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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”.