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

Today on Stockhead, We meet the one real threat to the lithium battery future – sodium ion – it’s cheaper, safer, longer lasting, and better in cold temps than lithium-ion, but…

And we chat with Bell Direct’s Grady Wulff on why whatever just happened during Black Friday through Cyber Monday was so critical to ASX retailers.

But first, to markets!

TRADING HALTS

Krakatoa Resources (ASX:KTA) – Pending the announcement of a capital raising

Titan Minerals (ASX:TTM) – Pending an announcement regarding an accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer

Aeris Resources (ASX:AIS) – Pending an announcement regarding a capital raising by way of an accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer

Hancock & Gore (ASX:HNG) – Pending the announcement of a capital raising

Turaco Gold (ASX:TCG) – Pending the release of an announcement in relation to a capital raising

Adelong Gold (ASX:ADG) – Pending the release of an announcement in relation to a capital raising

Legacy Minerals Holdings (ASX:LGM) – Pending the release of an announcement in relation to a capital raising

Norfolk Metals (ASX:NFL) – Pending the release of an announcement in relation to a volume query from the ASX and a material acquisition

Power Minerals (ASX:PNN) – Pending clarification in relation to the PEA for the Rincon Salta Lithium Project

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: US$2,013.40 (+0.59%)

Silver: US$24.72 (+1.85%)

Nickel (3mth): US$16,138/t (-2.89%)

Copper (3mth): US$8,428.50/t (+0.23%)

Oil (WTI): US$75.02 (-0.69%)

Oil (Brent): US$79.98 (-0.74%)

Iron 62pc Fe: US$130.42/t (-0.37%)

AUD/USD: 0.6606 (+0.32%)

Bitcoin: US$36,985 (-1.98%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING

Cool gold out of Kula.

Kula Gold has wasted no time doubling the size of its drill program to 2,000m at the Cobra lithium prospect within its Kirup project in WA on the back of intriguing intriguing visuals.https://t.co/JIwbfSDUw6 #ad #ASX @KulaGold

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) November 26, 2023

MONDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
SHN	Sunshine Metals Ltd	0.021	91%	143,839,744	$13,464,093
BP8	BPH Global Ltd	0.0015	50%	2,469,341	$1,615,563
PHO	Phosco Ltd	0.073	46%	480,182	$13,720,668
RGL	Riversgold	0.015	36%	50,607,653	$10,463,876
AVM	Advance Metals Ltd	0.004	33%	1,590,000	$2,167,040
CC9	Chariot Corporation	0.955	32%	1,892,875	$53,165,387
UBI	Universal Biosensors	0.25	32%	263,955	$40,350,193
TG1	Techgen Metals Ltd	0.105	27%	4,966,522	$6,404,967
WYX	Western Yilgarn NL	0.125	25%	117,856	$4,965,750
ATH	Alterity Therapeutics	0.005	25%	1,233,482	$9,759,590
EPM	Eclipse Metals	0.01	25%	1,632,244	$16,350,434
FGL	Frugl Group Limited	0.01	25%	1,536,667	$7,688,496
GTG	Genetic Technologies	0.0025	25%	205,268	$23,083,316
ME1	Melodiol Global Health	0.0025	25%	5,546,409	$8,436,084
BTH	Bigtincan Holdings	0.18	24%	2,940,318	$88,051,698
AUN	Aurumin	0.026	24%	989,960	$6,687,305
NFL	Norfolk Metals	0.315	24%	2,605,188	$7,732,874
RNE	Renu Energy Ltd	0.016	23%	686,700	$5,817,358
HIQ	Hitiq Limited	0.023	21%	29,206	$5,587,207
NAG	Nagambie Resources	0.03	20%	705,994	$14,543,158
SFG	Seafarms Group Ltd	0.006	20%	1,924,461	$24,182,996
SKN	Skin Elements Ltd	0.006	20%	300,000	$2,947,430
AGH	Althea Group	0.039	18%	750,204	$13,069,450
GIB	Gibb River Diamonds	0.039	18%	2,564	$6,979,812
4DX	4Dmedical Limited	0.92	18%	3,386,333	$270,244,018

Still on a roll after a fabulous week, last week is Sunshine Metals (ASX:SHN).

The $24 million micro cap may have struck paydirt in a gold and copper rich feeder zone to its 2.3Mt zinc, gold, copper, lead and silver VMS resource at the Liontown deposit of the Ravenswood Consolidated Project in North Queensland.

Another 11 holes have already been drilled to target these feeder zones and footwall lodes, with assays due in December this year.

ClearVue Technologies (ASX:CPV) rose quickly on Monday on no breaking news, however the sustainable materials company last week struck a new distributor deal, expanding its footprint into large parts of the US mid-west – via Colorado, Missouri and Arizona.

Riversgold (ASX:RGL) jumped on Monday after making headlines late in the week having acquired ‘a key 74 square kilometre tenement application directly along strike – just 8km northeast of the major Andover lithium (spodumene) pegmatite discovery of Azure Minerals (ASX:AZS).’ That’s the spot in the lithium-famous Andover Corridor where AZS struck spodumene glory with drilling intersections of up to 209.4m at 1.42% Li2O.

Consultants will start exploration ‘in earnest within the week,’ RGL said last week.

Haranga Resources (ASX:HAR) was also up on no news in particular other than the cut of its jib – well managed, well located and in the right business, at the right time – the uranium spot price last week punching through the US$80/lb mark for the first time in 12 years.

Haranga’s difference here might be the Saraya uranium project in Senegal where a major auger drilling program is currently under way.

As my Stockhead colleague Michael Washbourne lays bare in this casual cracker of an update – it’s make and break time for HAR…

MONDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are the day’s worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
CSS	Clean Seas Ltd	0.265	-25%	1,836,682	$58,748,777
MRD	Mount Ridley Mines	0.0015	-25%	521,001	$15,569,766
BUB	Bubs Aust Ltd	0.13	-21%	10,015,791	$124,265,466
YOJ	Yojee Limited	0.004	-20%	51,300	$6,527,426
AKM	Aspire Mining Ltd	0.061	-19%	43,647	$38,072,774
ADVDB	Ardiden Ltd	0.195	-18%	96,863	$14,785,844
C1X	Cosmos Exploration	0.12	-17%	413,284	$6,883,875
GHY	Gold Hydrogen	0.8	-17%	2,151,259	$54,646,102
PAB	Patrys Limited	0.0075	-17%	7,526,404	$18,517,026
CT1	Constellation Tech	0.0025	-17%	11,200	$4,413,601
NGY	Nuenergy Gas Ltd	0.02	-17%	656,413	$35,542,932
NRX	Noronex Limited	0.011	-15%	540,182	$4,917,923
SHO	Sportshero Ltd	0.017	-15%	13,501	$11,500,022
HYD	Hydrix Limited	0.018	-14%	218,077	$5,338,596
CTN	Catalina Resources	0.003	-14%	366,566	$4,334,704
ETR	Entyr Limited	0.006	-14%	1,058,385	$13,881,727
HCD	Hydrocarbon Dynamic	0.006	-14%	680,003	$4,547,661
AR3	Austrare	0.16	-14%	598,258	$28,520,703
AMM	Armada Metals	0.052	-13%	700,518	$10,354,084
PRM	Prominence Energy	0.013	-13%	324,116	$2,308,146
CYG	Coventry Group	1.175	-13%	9,101	$128,235,684
ZEU	Zeus Resources Ltd	0.011	-12%	842,841	$5,741,013
MHK	Metalhawk	0.2	-11%	326,123	$18,050,750
DDT	DataDot Technology	0.004	-11%	1,413,647	$5,449,288
KP2	Kore Potash PLC	0.008	-11%	58,941	$6,021,518