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

On Stockhead today, the dirty truth about that Dundas discovery, China’s not-so dominant, and BHP’s bull case for steel.

But first, the day ahead.

Local shares are set to open higher today. At 8am AEST, the ASX 200 October futures contract is pointing up by 1.6%.

TRADING HALTS

The following companies went into trading halts yesterday and are expected out in the next few days:

Eagle Mountain Mining (ASX: EM2) – Eagle Mountain has a mineral resource update on the way, which we’re guessing should be with us tomorrow or Thursday

Beacon Minerals (ASX:BCN) – Material transaction

New Zealand Coastal Foods (ASX:NZS) – Material acquisition

Nanoveu (ASX:NVU) – Capital raising

COMMODITY/FOREX/ CRYPTO MARKET PRICES

Gold: $US1,725.20 (+1.53%)

Silver: $US21.05 (+1.41%)

Nickel (3mth): $US22,020/t (+3.58%)

Copper (3mth): $US7,687/t (+2.38%)

Lithium Carbonate, China (Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, Sept 14): $US71,500/t (+98.6% year-to-date)

Lithium Hydroxide, China (Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, Sept 14): $US70,550/t (+135.6% year-to-date)

Oil (WTI): $US86.27 (+3.16%)

Oil (Brent): $US91.55 (+3.02%)

Iron 62pc Fe: $US95.21 (+1.05%)

AUD/USD: 0.6505 (-0.1%)

Bitcoin: $US20,268 (+3.72%)

WHAT GOT YOU TALKING YESTERDAY?

ALL things lithium.

According to Saxo Bank market strategist Jessica Amir, lithium stocks gained some 10% yesterday and the ASX200 closed 3.6% higher, marking the best single-day gain since April 01, 2020.

– @SayonaMining and @PiedmontLithium launch PFS for NAL #lithium carbonate production
– @LarvottoR gains 23% on discovery of new lithium anomaly within Eyre Project
– @CygnusGold and @LatinRes both appoint big names to non-executive director roles https://t.co/nuk9wUz8x1 #ASX

— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) October 4, 2022

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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.

ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS

Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
ANL	Amani Gold Ltd	0.0015	50%	50,000	$23,693,441
SIH	Sihayo Gold Limited	0.003	50%	166,666	$12,204,256
CY5	Cygnus Gold Limited	0.37	48%	3,344,656	$36,796,329
TOY	Toys R Us	0.034	42%	1,370,929	$20,684,668
CBE	Cobre	0.19	41%	8,151,787	$27,500,774
DNA	Donaco International	0.065	38%	3,638,329	$58,063,301
AO1	Assetowl Limited	0.002	33%	214,270	$2,358,195
KEY	KEY Petroleum	0.002	33%	1,500,000	$2,951,892
ONE	Oneview Healthcare	0.12	33%	1,541,758	$46,699,767
DC2	Dctwo	0.053	33%	15,094	$2,117,096
RVS	Revasum	0.165	27%	153,015	$13,769,165
EFE	Eastern Resources	0.038	27%	164,820,419	$30,274,901
FCT	Firstwave Cloud Tech	0.049	26%	40,000	$64,831,803
LGM	Legacy Minerals	0.15	25%	28,334	$5,494,896
SXG	Southern Cross Gold	0.35	25%	5,661,940	$17,433,570
GLV	Global Oil & Gas	0.0025	25%	5,004,976	$3,746,709
MAU	Magnetic Resources	0.99	23%	62,536	$183,916,335
CM8	Crowd Media Limited	0.022	22%	453,795	$13,385,022
AAJ	Aruma Resources Ltd	0.066	22%	468,767	$8,475,921
GRE	Greentechmetals	0.17	21%	173,501	$4,379,200
LRV	Larvotto Resources	0.205	21%	873,756	$7,060,525
AXP	AXP Energy Ltd	0.006	20%	3,018,325	$29,060,903
CTO	Citigold Corp Ltd	0.006	20%	250,000	$14,168,295
LNY	Laneway Res Ltd	0.006	20%	625,600	$32,690,082
RMX	Red Mount Min Ltd	0.006	20%	715,417	$8,211,819

Southern Cross Gold (ASX:SXG), has surged on some freakin’ enormous drill results, which look like this:

Drill hole SDDSC046:

21.5 m @ 15.0 g/t AuEq (12.2 g/t Au and 1.7% Sb) from 183.6 m

and drill hole SDDSC043:

12.5 m @ 2.4 g/t AuEq (1.1 g/t Au and 0.8% Sb) from 241.0 m

But not as much as Cygnus Gold. All it had to do was appoint David Southam as a managing director to add $16m to its market cap.

ASX SMALL CAP LOSERS

Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks:

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Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
CCE	Carnegie Cln Energy	0.001	-50%	542,437	$30,205,147
PRM	Prominence Energy	0.0015	-25%	813,742	$4,849,218
LAW	Lawfinance Ltd	0.105	-25%	27,000	$8,915,329
NUC	Nuchev Limited	0.2	-22%	868	$13,194,821
ADR	Adherium Ltd	0.004	-20%	1,247,756	$12,809,249
MRI	My Rewards International	0.051	-19%	378,415	$10,384,951
TGH	Terragen	0.1	-17%	14,925	$23,282,308
MTH	Mithril Resources	0.005	-17%	1,302,886	$17,641,398
APW	Aims Pror Sec Fund	1.055	-16%	1,000	$56,199,885
AD1	AD1 Holdings Limited	0.017	-15%	126,886	$14,014,626
EDE	Eden Inv Ltd	0.006	-14%	10,389,324	$18,978,596
GTG	Genetic Technologies	0.003	-14%	500,000	$32,318,878
3DA	Amaero International	0.096	-13%	63,332	$28,146,442
ARO	Astro Resources NL	0.0035	-13%	358,750	$19,573,068
AVW	Avira Resources Ltd	0.0035	-13%	224,348	$8,475,160
KFE	Kogi Iron Ltd	0.0035	-13%	90,394	$6,470,311
FZO	Family Zone Cyber	0.28	-13%	345,203	$283,659,429
NIM	Nimy Resources	0.245	-13%	204,186	$15,453,055
DAL	Dalaroo Metals	0.11	-12%	130,000	$3,734,375
FIJ	Fiji Kava Limited	0.022	-12%	747,898	$4,961,007
TKM	Trek Metals Ltd	0.053	-12%	686,638	$18,636,609
SGI	Stealth Global	0.115	-12%	128,810	$12,961,000
OXT	Orexplore Technologies	0.077	-11%	2,357	$9,018,785
AL8	Alderan Resource Ltd	0.008	-11%	39,212	$5,204,395
BPP	Babylon Pump & Power	0.004	-11%	250,000	$11,059,971