Top 10 at 10: Copper tie-ups and lithium acquisitions lead the ASX winners on Monday

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at ~10.40am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX stocks in morning trade using live data.

It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms.

The market opens at 10am (eastern time) and the data is taken at 10:15am, once every ASX stock has started trading.

 

WINNERS

Stocks highlighted in yellow made market-moving announcements (click headings to sort).

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Armada Metals (ASX:AMM) will acquire Midwest Lithium, an explorer targeting hard rock deposits in the US.

Midwest, which was previously contemplating an ASX listing of its own, has ground in the spod-rich Black Hills of South Dakota.

READ: ‘Entire walls of just spodumene’: Here’s why lithium explorers fought tooth and nail for ground in the Black Hills of South Dakota

Australasian Metals (ASX:A8G) signed an option to acquire a high pure quartz project in the Northern Territory.

Metals Acquisition (ASX:MAC) and Polymetals (ASX:POL) formed a non-exclusive strategic alliance to extract greater value from both the Endeavor and CSA copper mines in the Cobar Basin of NSW.

MAC will also invest up to $5m @ $0.35/share in POL.

“Exceptional” high grade historical drill hits confirm the Tundulu rare earths project in Malawi as a significant asset, says DY6 Metals (ASX:DY6).

Highlights from the 7000m program in 2014 included 101m @ 1.02% TREO and 3.6% phosphate, from surface.

The State 16 SWSE 3054 development well at Blue Star Helium’s (ASX:BNL) Galactica helium project in Las Animas County, Colorado has been successfully drilled to its final total depth.

Upon successful final testing and analysis, the well will be completed for tie-in to production facilities. Commercial discussions with interested buyers have been ongoing since Q423.

And medtech Hydrix (ASX:HYD) signed a $2.3m contract with a European medical technology company.

 

 

LOSERS

Stocks highlighted in yellow made market-moving announcements (click headings to sort).

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