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

Good morning everyone, and – as hard as this might be to believe – it’s Friday already!

Why, it seems like only yesterday that it was Thursday, and only a couple of days before that we were all celebrating together that we’d all managed to survive another Monday.

There’s a big tranche of info for you to digest before local markets open, and as always, the Stockhead team has been hard at work putting together all manner of wonderful stories to help you get your head around what’s happening.

For instance, Emma Davies has taken on the mammoth task of unpicking the lithium scene in Africa, and I’ve been busy digging into the ASX-listers lighting up the mobile gaming scene.

Meanwhile, Josh Chiat’s sped off to get you the good oil on what effect an estimated 400 million EVs on the road by 2030 could have on BHP’s nickel digs.

That should be enough to keep you busy ‘til the bell rings, but just in case, here’s all the data and digits to bring you completely up to speed for the day.

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%)

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
R3D	R3D Resources Ltd	0.04	60%	441,200	$2,950,759
XTC	Xantippe Res Ltd	0.0015	50%	3,634,514	$11,480,100
RGS	Regeneus Ltd	0.011	38%	1,781,611	$2,451,495
ADS	Adslot Ltd.	0.004	33%	5,265,941	$9,799,851
DDT	DataDot Technology	0.004	33%	1,351,192	$3,632,858
ROG	Red Sky Energy.	0.004	33%	372,130	$15,906,682
PAC	Pacific Grp Ltd	10.31	32%	656,123	$402,275,125
TTT	Titomic Limited	0.0155	29%	7,584,807	$10,363,373
OJC	The Original Juice	0.105	27%	496,131	$20,301,036
AJQ	Armour Energy Ltd	0.0025	25%	64	$9,842,684
RBL	Redbubble Limited	0.59	22%	1,328,912	$134,694,308
ICG	Inca Minerals Ltd	0.04	21%	342,150	$16,005,329
MOH	Moho Resources	0.012	20%	300,000	$2,595,778
ASM	Ausstratmaterials	1.4	19%	1,580,902	$196,712,168
G50	Gold50Limited	0.225	18%	4,742,731	$10,819,170
AEI	Aeris Environmental	0.027	17%	55,185	$5,649,825
AUR	Auris Minerals Ltd	0.014	17%	1,047,428	$5,719,511
CXU	Cauldron Energy Ltd	0.007	17%	1,044,582	$5,589,412
DOU	Douugh Limited	0.007	17%	278,585	$5,903,390
OPN	Oppenneg	0.007	17%	640,000	$6,700,078
YPB	YPB Group Ltd	0.0035	17%	812,000	$2,230,384
VBS	Vectus Biosystems	0.5	16%	4,607	$22,871,493
C1X	Cosmosexploration	0.43	16%	422,912	$16,455,750
PEC	Perpetual Res Ltd	0.022	16%	9,074,885	$10,364,195
CUF	Cufe Ltd	0.015	15%	125,000	$12,559,461

Yesterday’s Small Caps standouts were:

R3D Resources (ASX:R3D): +60% > The small miner announced it had completed the refurbishment of a solvent-extraction crystallisation process plant at its 45,000t Tartana copper heap leach project in Queensland. It’s charging the circuits for imminent first copper sulphate pentahydrate production. That’s expected to begin in the coming week.
Pacific Current Group (ASX:PAC): +30% > The asset manager has a non-binding indicative proposal ready for submission that would see CQC Partners acquire all of the issued ordinary shares in PAC. This is a good thing for PAC investors, apparently, which you can read more about here.
The Original Juice Co. (ASX:OJC): +21% > The high-quality juicer and wellness beverage company is up on a positive quarterly cash flow report.

YESTERDAY’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%	678,089	$20,529,010
PAN	Panoramic Resources	0.0555	-40%	54,954,426	$188,684,088
MEB	Medibio Limited	0.001	-33%	1,206,111	$7,725,891
MTH	Mithril Resources	0.0015	-25%	720,000	$6,737,609
NSB	Neuroscientific	0.089	-23%	150,000	$16,499,239
CCO	The Calmer Co Int	0.004	-20%	285,083	$2,820,388
CTO	Citigold Corp Ltd	0.004	-20%	3,491,993	$14,368,295
VAL	Valor Resources Ltd	0.004	-20%	101,218	$19,015,174
ATH	Alterity Therap Ltd	0.0065	-19%	294,811	$19,519,181
NET	Netlinkz Limited	0.009	-18%	2,976,225	$38,835,812
BUB	Bubs Aust Ltd	0.195	-15%	12,346,697	$172,812,204
SKY	SKY Metals Ltd	0.043	-14%	1,091,824	$22,727,840
8VI	8Vi Holdings Limited	0.215	-14%	36,769	$10,477,856
BCB	Bowen Coal Limited	0.125	-14%	17,084,223	$309,717,952
DYM	Dynamicmetalslimited	0.22	-14%	230,233	$8,925,000
WMG	Western Mines	0.51	-14%	1,099,369	$35,578,670
BM8	Battery Age Minerals	0.385	-13%	590,691	$32,655,992
ODA	Orcoda Limited	0.28	-13%	390,303	$54,130,262
A8G	Australasian Metals	0.15	-12%	55,258	$8,860,484
FMS	Flinders Mines Ltd	0.45	-12%	423	$86,112,774
RVT	Richmond Vanadium	0.415	-12%	44,957	$40,517,669
ADG	Adelong Gold Limited	0.008	-11%	2,132,688	$5,366,901
BFC	Beston Global Ltd	0.008	-11%	17,224,481	$17,973,422
IBG	Ironbark Zinc Ltd	0.008	-11%	554	$13,201,058
IEC	Intra Energy Corp	0.004	-11%	1,559,848	$7,293,517

TRADING HALTS

Red Mountain Mining (ASX:RMX) – Capital raising.

Strike Energy (ASX:STX) – An announcement is being drafted regarding a proposed material transaction. They’re fact checking and going through it for typos but that info will be hitting the ASX soon enough.

Talon Energy (ASX:TPD) – Talon saw what Strike’s doing and said “snap”, we’ll do that, too. A proposed material transaction announcement is on its way.

Hazer Group (ASX:HZR) – Capital raising.

Arizona Lithium (ASX:AZL) – Capital raising.

Narryer Metals (ASX:NYM) – Capital raising.

Caravel Minerals (ASX:CVV) – Capital raising.

Brightstar Resources (ASX:BTR) – Capital raising.

Astral Resources (ASX:AAR) – Capital raising.

Kincora Copper (ASX:KCC) – An announcement regarding a proposed acquisition. Oh… and some capital raising.