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

On Stockhead today, will Bod be the OTC winner in the CBD race, Rio Tinto’s monster lithium hunt begins and investing in proprietry tech.

But first, to the day ahead.

TRADING HALTS

These companies went into trading halts and are due out in the coming days:

Lotus Resources (ASX:LOT) – Proposed Scheme of Arrangement

GreenX Metals (ASX:GRX) – Capital raise

Eroad (ASX:ERD) – Response to Brillian’s non-binding indicative offer

Optima Technology Group (ASX:OPA) – Update on company’s financial arrangements

COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1957.39 (+1.32%)

Silver: $US24.11 (+4.40%)

Nickel (3mth): $US21,575/t (+4.21%)

Copper (3mth): $US8,513.50/t (+2.29%)

Oil (WTI): $US75.81 (+1.31%)

Oil (Brent): $US80.15 (+0.95%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US110.61/t (+1.16%)

AUD/USD: 0.68 (+0.3%)

Bitcoin: $US30,352 (-0.73%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING?

Peter Strachan’s skinny on long-term energy storage got Australian Vanadium talking:

Several resource companies, including Australian Vanadium, through its subsidiary @VSUNEnergy, have expressed interest in supplying vanadium pentoxide to vanadium flow batteries.https://t.co/flPZpr29CM #vanadium #LDES #batterystorage #VFB $AVL #ATVVF @StockheadAU

— Australian Vanadium (@AusVanadium) July 12, 2023

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Also, be sure to check in preopen each day for ‘Market highlights and 5 ASX small caps to watch’, and 10.30am for our daily ‘10 at 10’ column — a live summary of winners & losers at the opening bell.

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
AXP	AXP Energy Ltd	0.002	100%	10,917,285	$5,824,681
NIS	Nickel Search	0.0895	60%	29,129,263	$5,334,581
GCR	Golden Cross	0.003	50%	400,000	$2,194,512
WCN	White Cliff Min Ltd	0.01	43%	16,639,335	$8,100,530
EMC	Everest Metals Corp	0.355	42%	5,343,217	$32,358,277
ENV	Enova Mining Limited	0.007	40%	260,940	$1,954,647
ADY	Admiralty Resources	0.008	33%	2,646,507	$7,821,475
KNM	Kneomedia Limited	0.004	33%	125,000	$4,514,356
PR1	Pure Resources	0.335	31%	455,751	$6,540,752
ICG	Inca Minerals Ltd	0.029	26%	998,914	$11,155,230
SWP	Swoop Holdings Ltd	0.3	25%	168,108	$49,702,241
AUH	Austchina Holdings	0.005	25%	835,111	$8,311,535
IPB	IPB Petroleum Ltd	0.01	25%	1,000,000	$4,520,980
ABE	Australian Bond Exchange	0.21	24%	36,651	$6,588,028
FXG	Felix Gold Limited	0.105	24%	781,592	$9,461,044
DC2	Dctwo	0.024	20%	100,000	$2,614,322
MKL	Mighty Kingdom Ltd	0.024	20%	105,715	$6,524,392
SIS	Simble Solutions	0.006	20%	369,519	$3,014,754
ICE	Icetana Limited	0.051	19%	428,002	$8,571,122
VN8	Vonex Limited	0.032	19%	581,728	$9,769,373
MAY	Melbana Energy Ltd	0.1175	18%	23,255,755	$337,020,410
PV1	Provaris Energy Ltd	0.07	17%	4,555,779	$32,956,833
ADS	Adslot Ltd	0.0035	17%	2,093,684	$9,799,851
AHN	Athena Resources	0.007	17%	1,000,000	$6,422,805
AL8	Alderan Resource Ltd	0.007	17%	2,184,767	$3,700,168

Topping the winners list yesterday was NickelSearch (ASX:NIS) with news of “massive sulphide mineralisation” at the Sexton prospect within the wider Carlingup project.

The latest results confirm nickel mineralisation continues 60m along strike, extending the total strike length to 250m.

Everest Metals Corporation’s (ASX:EMC) targeted VTEM diamond drilling program identified Degrussa style mineralised system at the Revere Gold Project.

Three holes (1038m) of diamond drilling were completed over a 8.5km target area. EMC said Portable XRF results (ruh-roh) indicate up to 5.7% copper and up to 4.2% zinc at varying intersections.

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
AJQ	Armour Energy Ltd	0.003	-25%	179,681	$19,685,368
MOB	Mobilicom Ltd	0.016	-24%	20,125,650	$27,860,211
GTG	Genetic Technologies	0.002	-20%	72,000	$28,854,145
MTB	Mount Burgess Mining	0.004	-20%	38,509,764	$4,415,856
SFG	Seafarms Group Ltd	0.004	-20%	551,600	$24,182,996
WFL	Wellfully Limited	0.004	-20%	4,442	$2,464,721
SRJ	SRJ Technologies	0.061	-19%	26,070	$7,898,704
DCL	Domacom Limited	0.033	-18%	137,000	$17,420,071
AUZ	Australian Mines Ltd	0.029	-17%	5,191,901	$22,300,450
WWI	West Wits Mining Ltd	0.0175	-17%	41,032,747	$47,103,362
MPG	Many Peaks Gold	0.175	-17%	59,300	$7,638,540
1ST	1St Group Ltd	0.005	-17%	504,335	$8,501,947
AVE	Avecho Biotech Ltd	0.005	-17%	40,000	$12,972,982
PNX	PNX Metals Limited	0.0025	-17%	50,000	$16,141,874
RXL	Rox Resources	0.245	-16%	2,735,716	$96,962,735
ODE	Odessa Minerals Ltd	0.011	-15%	23,069,363	$12,312,454
IRX	Inhalerx Limited	0.04	-15%	9,999	$8,919,047
OLL	Openlearning	0.029	-15%	28,729	$9,107,549
BXN	Bioxyne Ltd	0.018	-14%	152,619	$39,934,553
CXU	Cauldron Energy Ltd	0.006	-14%	12,740,835	$6,520,981
TOY	Toys R Us	0.012	-14%	1,233,420	$12,083,213
HAS	Hastings Tech Met	1.335	-14%	921,183	$200,378,811
CI1	Credit Intelligence	0.125	-14%	17,000	$12,107,378
RBX	Resource B	0.1525	-13%	703,698	$12,962,220
ADX	ADX Energy Ltd	0.007	-13%	6,981,941	$28,881,710