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On Stockhead today, where will you be when the gold gap closes, is this REE junior onto something ever rarer, and met coal M&A still steals the show.

 

But first the day ahead.

 

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: US$2,174.34/oz (-0.40%)

Silver: US$24.41/oz (-0.02%)

Nickel (3mth): US$18,377/t (+2.03%)

Copper (3mth): US$8,653.00/t (+0.86%)

Oil (WTI): US$78.23 (+0.40%)

Oil (Brent): US$82.58 (+0.46%)

Iron 62pc Fe: US$110.50/t (-5.96%)

AUD/USD: 0.6616 (+0.03%)

Bitcoin: US$72,076 (-0.10%)

 

TRADING HALTS

These stocks went into trading halts yesterday and are expected out in the coming days:

Appen (ASX:APX) – ASX price query letter

Resource Mining Corporation (ASX: RMI) – release of a corrective announcement

Arrow Minerals (ASX: AMD) – capital raising

Sky Metals (ASX: SKY) – capital raising

Asara Resources (ASX: AS1) – capital raising

Red Hawk Mining (ASX: RHK) – capital raising

Tivan (ASX: TVN) – capital raising

Vertex Minerals (ASX: VTX) – capital raising

Painchek (ASX: PCK) – capital raise

 

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are Tuesday’s best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code Company Price % Volume Market Cap
RMI Resource Mining Corp 0.037 131% 4,167,300 $9,477,565
NYM Narryer Metals 0.059 111% 463,511 $1,343,820
JAV Javelin Minerals Ltd 0.002 100% 250,000 $2,176,231
GCR Golden Cross 0.003 50% 3,086,372 $2,194,512
PKO Peako Limited 0.006 50% 11,182,101 $2,108,339
NYR Nyrada Inc 0.145 45% 15,117,633 $15,600,870
WIN Widgienickellimited 0.075 34% 981,426 $16,684,923
AUK Aumake Limited 0.004 33% 1,383,480 $5,743,220
MTL Mantle Minerals Ltd 0.002 33% 3,629,736 $9,296,169
RIE Riedel Resources Ltd 0.004 33% 250,046 $6,671,507
TKL Traka Resources 0.002 33% 3,604,907 $2,625,988
VPR Volt Power Group 0.002 33% 538,500 $16,074,312
APX Appen Limited 1.08 30% 17,856,416 $181,970,752
CPO Culpeo Minerals 0.045 29% 4,708,563 $5,767,611
AMM Armada Metals 0.019 27% 22,200 $3,120,000
ESK Etherstack PLC 0.245 26% 35,831 $25,737,465
CCO The Calmer Co Int 0.005 25% 14,781 $4,730,787
EDE Eden Inv Ltd 0.0025 25% 3,314,137 $7,356,542
H2G Greenhy2 Limited 0.01 25% 100,000 $3,350,047
RMX Red Mount Mining 0.0025 25% 31,832 $5,347,152
RFA Rare Foods Australia 0.036 24% 150,153 $5,943,530
MSB Mesoblast Limited 0.395 23% 23,827,108 $324,909,516
FTL Firetail Resources 0.05 22% 359,866 $6,105,128
RIM Rimfire Pacific 0.04 21% 12,324,092 $73,268,076
AQC Auspac Coal 0.0665 21% 2,307,385 $28,213,218
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Small cap battler Resource Mining Corp (ASX:RMI) caught a rocket in early trade after pXRF soil sampling defined nine big copper-gold targets at the newly acquired Mpanda project in Tanzania.

pXRF is used by explorers to analyse the composition of soils and rocks in minutes, instead of the weeks it takes to get assays back from the lab.

It is no substitute for lab assays though, which are far more accurate.

It might be RMI’s failure to mention this which forced the company into a Trading Halt while it works on a “corrective announcement”.

Narryer Metals (ASX:NYM) stonked +100% after announcing plans to buy 70% of two lithium projects, Big Hill and Fran, in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

Big Hill shares a boundary with $200m capped Li-FT Power (TSXV:LIFT) which is drilling into thick, high grade lithium across multiple pegmatites you can see from space.

NYM has completed a $1m cap raise at a 43% premium (unheard of!) to fund initial exploration.

 

YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS

Here are Tuesday’s worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code Company Price % Volume Market Cap
AXP AXP Energy Ltd 0.001 -50% 101,123 $11,649,361
MRQ MRG Metals Limited 0.001 -50% 25,000 $4,942,682
IS3 I Synergy Group Ltd 0.01 -29% 367,055 $4,257,125
SLZ Sultan Resources Ltd 0.02 -26% 3,618,724 $4,001,131
1AG Alterra Limited 0.003 -25% 150,000 $3,482,763
1MC Morella Corporation 0.003 -25% 1,265,359 $24,715,198
NES Nelson Resources. 0.003 -25% 1,300,000 $2,454,377
NRZ Neurizer Ltd 0.003 -25% 15,959,702 $6,005,643
SFG Seafarms Group Ltd 0.003 -25% 2,064,344 $19,346,397
RLG Roolife Group Ltd 0.007 -22% 221,778 $6,503,023
AN1 Anagenics Limited 0.012 -20% 44,069 $6,286,993
CF1 Complii Fintech Ltd 0.02 -20% 434,761 $14,198,013
BNL Blue Star Helium Ltd 0.008 -20% 14,131,189 $19,422,653
GCM Green Critical Minerals 0.004 -20% 7,275 $5,682,925
NAE New Age Exploration 0.004 -20% 91,560 $8,969,495
PRX Prodigy Gold NL 0.004 -20% 871,984 $8,755,539
ROG Red Sky Energy. 0.004 -20% 1,446,217 $27,111,136
TMX Terrain Minerals 0.004 -20% 10,160,209 $7,158,353
EVR Ev Resources Ltd 0.01 -17% 11,924,682 $15,855,258
M4M Macro Metals Limited 0.005 -17% 37,012,429 $16,872,467
MSI Multistack Internat. 0.005 -17% 814,969 $817,824
TX3 Trinex Minerals Ltd 0.005 -17% 1,900,000 $8,922,148
VRC Volt Resources Ltd 0.005 -17% 564,659 $24,780,640
CR1 Constellation Res 0.11 -15% 25,000 $6,487,705
IMC Immuron Limited 0.11 -15% 3,769,965 $29,613,785
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The precipitous fall of once great lithium developer Lake Resources (ASX:LKE) continues.

Worth ~$2.7bn at $2.11/sh in April 2022, the struggling stock has now announced a $20m raise at just 7c per share to keep the lights on.

The issue price represents a massive 39.1% discount to the last closing price of A$0.115 on 8 March 2024 and a 42.3% discount to the 5-day VWAP of A$0.121.

Meanwhile, Blue Star (ASX:BNL) will pause development at the Voyager project after being “disappointed” with the performance from the first two helium development wells.

Voyager was spruiked as a capex light development “projected to deliver high returns and maximum product market pricing and flexibility”.