Top 10 at 10: It’s battery metals, critical minerals galore after US Gov cash splash

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.30am 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 commenced trading.

WINNERS

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

Novonix (ASX:NVX), Syrah Resources (ASX:SYR) and Piedmont (ASX:PLL) were among 20 battery-focused companies to receive a share of $US2.8bn of funding from the US Government.

Askari Metals (ASX:AS2) inked an agreement with $US1bn Chinese co Zhejiang Kanglongda to develop its Australian lithium assets.

Rimfire (ASX:RIM) has drilled “significant” nickel-cobalt-scandium from surface at the Avondale project in NSW

Taruga Minerals (ASX:TAR) has announced “exceptional” rare earths drilling results at Morgans Creek.

Geological mapping confirms there is lithium pegmatite at Shree Minerals’ (ASX:SHH) Dundas project, while Prospect Resources (ASX:PSC) has hit high grade spodumene in maiden drilling at the Step Aside project.

LOSERS

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