Good morning everyone, and welcome to Friday, September 13, 2024 – an important date in the history of rock stars being completely awful people.

That’s because it was on this day in 1959 that a young US soldier, at a party in Bad Neuheim in Germany, met a young lady who caught his eye.

That young soldier was 24 year old Elvis Presley – and that young lady was like, super young… 14 year old Priscilla Beaulieu.

The pair started dating pretty much immediately, which is all different kinds of gross and wrong, and now I’m wondering how on earth everyone’s just okay with this?

Luckily for you, you won’t have to be a degenerate rockstar with the morals of an alley cat in order to get your hands on good pre-market info today.

That’s because – as always – we’ve worked super-hard to gather together lots of fiddly little things below, so you don’t need to go ferreting all over the internet for your ASX info this morning.

 

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: US$2,519.21/oz (+0.29%)

Silver: US$28.79/oz (+0.28%)

Nickel (3mth): US$15,866/t (+2.38%)

Copper (3mth): US$9.007/t (+0.81%)

Zinc: US$2,726/t (+2.78%)

Oil (WTI): US$67.85/bbl (+0.70%)

Oil (Brent): US$71.25/bbl (+0.75%)

Iron 62pc Fe: US$94.75/t (+2.17%)

AUD/USD: 0.6692 (+0.08%)

Bitcoin: US$57,879.36 (+0.28%)

 

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING

Is the potential Aussie pathway to the US lithium market about to close for China? Australia’s former ambassador to South Korea James Choi reckons that door is slamming shut.

 

 

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Yesterday’s Small Cap Winners included:

SenSen Tech (ASX:SNS) was winning on news that the company has secured a tender to provide mobile and fixed camera technology in The City of Calgary, Canada. The deal will see Sensen provide mobile and fixed lane enforcement systems with a first-year value of $1.9 million, with the entire contract worth a reported $4.6 million over five years, with two additional two-year extension options for a total potential length of nine years.

GTI Energy (ASX:GTR) was up on news that it has completed 66 of the proposed 76 drill hole exploration program at its Lo Herma ISR uranium project, located in Wyoming’s prolific Powder River Basin which the company says “confirms that uranium mineralisation continues north from the current mineral resource area with strong mineralised intercepts over good thicknesses encountered stretching at least 2km north along projected trends”.

Locksley Resources (ASX:LKY) has reported results of a holistic review of antimony potential outside of the known high-grade REE mineralisation within the Mojave Project, California which the company says has uncovered six rock chip samples grading >0.5% Sb, including two samples grading 11.2% Sb and 8.3% Sb.

AML3D (ASX:AL3) reports the signing of a new Manufacturing License Agreement, which allows the company to work with key suppliers and internal teams within the US Navy submarine industrial base through the exchange of technical assistance and data, facilitating an expansion of AML3D’s activities to support the US Navy.

Earlier, Belararox (ASX:BRX) was rising on news that the company has bought the rights to 4,286km2 of prospective tenure across 14 prospecting licenses on Botswana’s highly prospective Kalahari Copper Belt, through the acquisition of 100% of KCB Resources, including its subsidiaries Blackrock Resources and NI MG Northern Nickel.

The acquisition secures BRX a second significant copper-prospective project in a highly prospective and mining-friendly jurisdiction, close to Sandfire Resources’ (ASX:SFR) Motheo Copper Mine, MMG Limited’s Khoemacau Mine and Cobre’s (ASX:CBE) flagship Ngami Copper project.

Great Western Exploration (ASX:GTE) was moving well after announcing that it has identified a “large, robust and coherent niobium lag soil anomaly”, which it has named the Sumo Niobium Target, 70km south-east of Sandfire Resources’ DeGrussa Copper-Gold Project and within Great Western’s 100% owned Yerrida North Project.

MTM Critical Metals (ASX:MTM) has announced promising results from its new Flash Joule Heating (FJH) technology, which recovers gold from electronic waste with high efficiency. Initial tests have achieved up to 70% gold recovery without using toxic acids, by rapidly heating e-waste in a chlorine gas atmosphere to separate and collect the metals. This eco-friendly method is scalable and offers a more sustainable alternative to traditional, energy-intensive recycling processes. Given the large volume of e-waste produced globally, which contains valuable metals, MTM believes FJH could significantly improve recycling efficiency and reduce environmental impact.

Critical Resources (ASX:CRR) has confirmed its antimony credentials at tenure that abuts the southern boundaries of August’s best-performing ressie stock Larvotto Resources’ (ASX:LRV) Hillgrove project, which contains 93,000t Sb. The junior’s Halls Peak project is an 884,000t zinc, copper and base metals deposit with some silver and gold trimmings, yet it’s the nearology to Hillgrove that has the explorer excited at the moment. CRR non exec director Nigel Broomham says the Mayview Homestead prospect, just 2.7km east of Larvotto’s Hillgrove, stands out as particularly promising.

And, radiopharmacy developer Clarity Pharmaceuticals (ASX:CU6) says its prostate cancer trial has produced further evidence that its proposed therapy is safe to use, with “strong preliminary safety data” in the first multi dose cohort enrolled in the phase 1/2a safety study. The trial, called Secure, uses the copper isotope 64Cu/67Cu-SAR-bis to image – and possibly treat – metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer patients expressing the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA).

 

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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TRADING HALTS 

Antilles Gold (ASX:AAU) – pending an announcement in relation to completed metallurgical test work for the proposed La Demajagua gold-silver-antimony mine in Cuba.

RemSense Technologies (ASX:REM) – pending an announcement to the market in relation to the awarding of a service contract.

Northern Minerals (ASX:NTU) – pending the release of an announcement in relation to a capital raise.

Pengana Global Private Credit Trust (ASX:PCX) – pending an announcement in relation to a proposed capital raising.

 

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