Top 10 at 10: Lithium nearology and a beleaguered copper play

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 started trading.

WINNERS

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

Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
EMN	Euromanganese	0.16	60%	8,329,584	$24,581,548
EMU	EMU NL	0.0015	50%	473,027	$1,667,521
WEL	Winchester Energy	0.003	50%	407,803	$2,040,844
ATH	Alterity Therap Ltd	0.004	33%	4,612,500	$7,319,693
MCT	Metalicity Limited	0.002	100%	9,400,000	$6,376,629
LBT	LBT Innovations	0.01	25%	92,804	$9,247,203
BMR	Ballymore Resources	0.135	23%	2,509	$16,081,699
ZNO	Zoono Group Ltd	0.06	20%	289,670	$9,496,384
WCN	White Cliff Min Ltd	0.013	18%	7,716,333	$14,042,153
PHL	Propell Holdings Ltd	0.02	18%	4,328	$2,046,044

Euro Manganese (ASX:EMN) has locked in a US$100m funding package from global asset management firm Orion to help build the Chvaletice manganese project in the Czech Republic.

Ballymore Resources (ASX:BMR) has raised $1.8m via placement/ entitlement offer – plus another $1.5m from mining royalty firm Taurus – to advance the Dittmer gold mine to production.

And nearology play White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) is “delighted” to announce that a review into its Lake Johnson project – near Rio Tinto, Charger Metals and TG Metals — indicates it is “highly prospective for spodumene bearing pegmatites”.

LOSERS

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

Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
CHK	Cohiba Min Ltd	0.002	-33%	50,000	$6,639,733
ZMI	Zinc of Ireland NL	0.016	-16%	150,000	$4,049,741
R3D	R3D Resources Ltd	0.038	-16%	192,500	$6,856,721
ZNC	Zenith Minerals Ltd	0.13	-13%	82,695	$52,857,132
GCX	GCX Metals Limited	0.047	-13%	1,250	$12,732,049
AIS	Aeris Resources Ltd	0.125	-13%	1,454,267	$99,330,603
NTM	Nt Minerals Limited	0.007	-13%	22,054	$6,879,223
PXX	Polarx Limited	0.007	-13%	1,100,003	$12,476,934
DKM	Duketon Mining	0.19	-12%	40,763	$26,249,399
FFG	Fatfish Group	0.0125	-11%	3,263,750	$16,663,356

Heavily battered copper-gold producer Aeris Resources (ASX:AIS) – which was trading at 79c per share in February — has raised ~$22m at 11c per share to shore up the balance sheet.

A retail entitlement offer is expected to raise another $7.7m.