Top 10 at 11: Copper, gold and lithium have everyone dancing today

Good morning, and welcome to Stockhead’s Top 10 at shortly-before-11-ish, which is meant to highlight the best (and sometimes worst) performing ASX stocks in morning trade using live data, to provide a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers in percentage terms that have made announcements.

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

Briefly, here’s what’s been happening already this morning.

The ASX got off to a decent start this morning, opening around 0.7% higher, easing to +0.63 in the run up to 10.30am. Resources were leading the charge, with the recently beleaguered Energy sector enjoying some rare time in the sunshine as well.

However, Utilities and Tech stocks are in the dumps a bit, with both of those sectors in the red early in the session today.

WINNERS

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

Security	Description	Last	%	Volume	MktCap
E79	E79Goldmineslimited	0.056	64.7	19,361,270	$3,473,530
GMN	Gold Mountain Ltd	0.004	33.3	5,604,019	$9,533,230
NAE	New Age Exploration	0.004	33.3	5,467,499	$5,381,697
AGY	Argosy Minerals Ltd	0.043	26.5	23,440,350	$49,501,312
AON	Apollo Minerals Ltd	0.02	25.0	616,846	$11,141,486
EFE	Eastern Resources	0.005	25.0	100,000	$4,967,786
EMT	Emetals Limited	0.005	25.0	4,667,693	$3,400,000
LPD	Lepidico Ltd	0.0025	25.0	998,830	$17,178,250
POS	Poseidon Nick Ltd	0.005	25.0	250,000	$14,854,139
SHO	Sportshero Ltd	0.005	25.0	4,404	$2,471,331

E79 Gold Mines’ (ASX:E79) initial reconnaissance sampling program at Mountain Home has returned some promising rock chip assays, with the company announcing its found samples clocking in at 28.9% Cu, 0.16 g/t Au, and 0.11% Cu, 11.75 g/t Au.

Argosy Minerals (ASX:AGY) was up Friday morning on the back of a positive quarterly report, with the company’s flagship Rincon lithium project getting EIA regulatory approval for development of a 10,000tpa LCE production operation expansion, and the company’s finances in good order as well.

Eastern Resources (ASX:EFE) was up on news that it has retained Nagom, an experienced lithium consultancy in Perth, to handle a fresh round of metallurgical testwork on samples taken from its Lepidolite Hill project, which has already returned some positive samples earlier in the year, including 13m at 1.47% Li2O from 19m.

And eMetals (ASX:EMT) has jumped Friday morning on news that it has inked a deal to buy 80% of the ordinary shares in Sifang, which is the 100% legal and beneficial owner of the Mubende Gold Project and four exploration license applications located in central Uganda.

LAGGARDS

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

Code	Company	Price	%	Volume	Market Cap
NGSDA	NGS Ltd	0.02	-33.3	7	$1,224,542
AUH	Austchina Holdings	0.002	-33.3	3,000	$6,301,151
BGL	Bellevue Gold Ltd	1.36	-25.7	9,651,818	$2,154,535,587
GTR	Gti Energy Ltd	0.003	-25.0	6,206,250	$10,199,788
PUA	Peak Minerals Ltd	0.003	-25.0	1,744,740	$4,789,506
CAV	Carnavale Resources	0.004	-20.0	1,358,888	$17,117,759
88E	88 Energy Ltd	0.0025	-16.7	4,597,551	$86,678,016
PRX	Prodigy Gold NL	0.0025	-16.7	506,666	$6,353,323
AAU	Antilles Gold Ltd	0.003	-14.3	29,991	$5,114,997
EXL	Elixinol Wellness	0.003	-14.3	86	$4,624,138