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Reenergised ASX Stock Set to Revitalise Extensive Base Metals Portfolio

Next Investors Archived Feb 08, 2017

Investors and analysts alike are busy scouring the commodity plains for resource companies that tick all the desirable boxes such as commodity type, resource size, location and underlying asset prices. Companies such as today’s ASX junior explorer. This little ASX stock is gearing up to make a major purchase of a state-of-the-art nickel and copper processing plant in the mining heavy Pilbara region, and it comes with significant nickel, copper and zinc resources nearby.

LIT Produces Battery Grade Lithium Carbonate Ahead of Mexican Drilling

Next Investors Archived Feb 08, 2017

Tesla founder, Elon Musk is concerned that there won’t be enough lithium available to meet Tesla’s demand. And that’s while the full potential of lithium-ion batteries is still in its early stages – in coming years uses of the technology have the potential to skyrocket. So, if lithium supply is to keep up with demand, new sources of lithium and cost-efficient technologies to extract the metal are crucial. Lithium Australia (ASX: LIT) plans to help solve both of these issues.

Mantle Reviving a Forgotten Goldfield: Mine Set for Restart and High Grade Exploration

Next Investors Archived Feb 06, 2017

Any aspiring ASX company that can build a strong economic case for gold production in this current gold climate has our attention – as success has a lot to do with how economically viable exploration and potential production is.

WRM’s Path to Gold Production Continues: DFS Now Underway

Next Investors Archived Jan 25, 2017

A ‘Game-changer for White Rock’ is what White Rock Minerals (ASX: WRM) management dubbed the company’s $4.9M capital raising late last year. The funds allow $11.6M-capped WRM to advance a Scoping Study at its Mt Carrington gold-silver project in northern NSW. The study involves completion of a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) and obtaining its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIS) for Mt Carrington.

3000m of Lithium Drilling Starting Immediately: Permits are in for LRS

Next Investors Archived Jan 25, 2017

It’s the news patient Latin Resources (ASX: LRS) investors have been waiting for. Drill permits have finally been received, clearing the way for LRS to start a 3000m RC drilling campaign, across 30 prospects, in the lithium hot spot of Argentina.

RMX Bolsters Nevada Lithium Land Package: Next Comes Drilling

Next Investors Archived Jan 24, 2017

Lithium is driving the energy industry into the future. You only have to look at the emergence of Tesla to realise just how important rechargeable lithium batteries have become. Tesla founder Elon Musk said for the company to meet its target of 500,000 cars a year, “we would basically need to absorb the entire world’s lithium-ion production”.

FGR Unveil the BEST Battery: One Tenth the Weight, Super Quick Recharge

Next Investors Archived Jan 23, 2017

Graphite has been parsing everyone’s lips (and some investors’ portfolios) over the past year or two, now that this once simple pencil-dwelling mineral is being rejigged and recomposed into lithium-ion batteries.

PSM Post High Grade Graphite Results in Battery Hub of South Korea

Next Investors Archived Jan 19, 2017

Peninsula Mines (ASX: PSM) has one eye to the blue sky and the other on the calculator as it looks to entrench itself in contemporary projects with the best available assets. This up-and-coming explorer has exposure to multiple hot commodities – graphite, lithium, zinc, silver and gold.

Cobalt Leverage? ASX Micro Cap to Drill in Coming Weeks

Next Investors Archived Jan 17, 2017

The superalloy cobalt is one of only three naturally occurring magnetic metals, along with iron and nickel and has long been valued for its colour and its versatile properties – it’s rust resistant and retains its properties at high temperatures. Ancient civilisations used cobalt in ceramics and glass, and more recently its use has been […]

Discovery of multiple surfaces of gold mineralisation at Irvine prospect

Finfeed Archived Jan 16, 2017

NML has updated the market following the receipt of further results from drilling at its Stawell Corridor Gold Project in Western Victoria.

Auroch Minerals expands highly prospective Namibian lithium holding

Finfeed Archived Jan 12, 2017

AOU has strengthened its position in Namibia by negotiating an option and JV agreement that will extend its landholding.

Quantum strengthens financial position and releases promising exploration results

Finfeed Archived Dec 21, 2016

After completing mapping and assay work, Quantum Resources (ASX: QUR) has confirmed the existence of lithium mineralisation at Thompson #5.

ASX Stock Fast Tracks Phosphate BFS with Funding Pathway Secured

Next Investors Archived Dec 16, 2016

There are approximately 7.5 billion people on the planet and they all have one thing in common: they need to eat. As the global population continues to grow, so do people’s appetite for much more energy intensive foods – such as meat. This places much greater demands on the agriculture industry to produce ever higher yielding crops.

Positive scoping study prompts Prospect Resources to fast track Arcadia development

Finfeed Archived Dec 14, 2016

Emerging lithium producer PSC has released the Scoping Study for its Arcadia lithium project in Zimbabwe.

Peninsula Mines makes good progress on gold and zinc fronts

Finfeed Archived Dec 13, 2016

In the last 24 hours, South Korean focused Peninsula Mines (ASX: PSM) has announced some promising early stage exploration results from its gold and zinc operations in South Korea.

Further upside for nickel in 2017

Finfeed Archived Dec 09, 2016

An in-depth look at Nickel – who is mining it, who is buying it and what the future holds for this important metal.

In the Coming Days, this $8M Capped ASX Stock is Spudding a Well in an Oil Hot Spot

Next Investors Archived Dec 08, 2016

One $8M capped oil and gas producer and explorer is just a few days away from spudding a well offering near term production potential in a highly prolific onshore hydrocarbon region of Indonesia. The low cost Amanah Timur-1 well is scheduled to spud around the 12th December on an underexplored block that is on trend with major oil fields in the region.

Don’t write off zinc in 2017

Finfeed Archived Dec 06, 2016

Zinc was the best performing base metal in 2016 and many stocks exposed to the commodity have rerated strongly over the last 12 months.