Briggs Zone Extended

Briggs Zone Extended

The eastern contact zone at the Briggs central deposit has been extended to ~500m with depth outlined to over 200m. Drilling to upgrade resource confidence to start in early Q2 2024.

 Closing Bell

Closing Bell

The benchmark ended Thursday significantly higher, with IT stocks rising by a science fiction-like 6.6pc. Discover how ASX embraces Star Tech and Return of the Jobless.

 Alma Extends Copper Moly Zone

Alma Extends Copper Moly Zone

Alma Metals has extended the higher-grade copper-molybdenum mineralisation strike at the Central Zone within its Briggs project in Queensland to about 500m, with new drill hits including 161m at 0.29 per cent copper and 71 parts per million moly from…

 High Grade Copper Moly

High Grade Copper Moly

The latest drillhole intersected a good thickness of high-grade copper-moly mineralisation from surface to a downhole depth of 136.3m. Management believes the high-grade, near-surface results that occur just above the base of oxidation most likely reflect a modest “bonanza zone”…

 Expanded Flagship Project

Expanded Flagship Project

Explorer Alma Metals is using its porphyry copper expertise to advance its recently expanded flagship project the Briggs joint venture in Queensland - already in the top 10 of undeveloped copper projects in Australia.

 Alma Metals Expands

Alma Metals Expands

Alma adds new ground and expands the Briggs, Mannersley and Fig Tree Hill joint venture it shares with Canterbury Resources in central Queensland by grabbing two new exploration permits adjacent to the project.

 ASX Small Caps Lunch Wrap

ASX Small Caps Lunch Wrap

Local markets are largely flat this morning... so first to some exciting space news - the Australian Space Agency has opened up a poll to let the public help decide the name of the first all-Aussie lunar rover.

 Alma Assays

Alma Assays

New Alma drill core assays define thick copper-moly zone. Two diamond-core holes drilled by Alma Metals into the thick central zone of its Briggs porphyry copper-molybdenum project in Central Queensland have defined thick mineralisation...

 Bargain Barrel

Bargain Barrel

Here's a list of nine undervalued copper stocks with a sub $15m market cap who are making a solid effort to prove up their resources and move their projects further along the development pathway and up the value curve.

 Make A Dent

Make A Dent

Here are the stocks looking to make a dent in the supply deficit. Experts agree, we need a lot more copper to reach net zero but with supply from large orebodies declining, little discoveries are not going to cut it.

 Sunny Upside

Sunny Upside

Soil sampling at the Briggs porphyry copper-molybdenum project in Queensland confirms upside with a large anomaly now measuring 2,300m long and up to 1,000m wide at >500ppm copper.

 Resources Top 5

Resources Top 5

Critical Resources hit best-ever 74.4m of continuous spodumene-bearing pegmatite at 8Mt Mavis Lake project, Titan Minerals unveils monster 3.1Moz gold, 22Moz silver maiden resource at the Dynasty project and Alma Metals’ Briggs porphyry project is now in the Top 10…

 New Killer App

New Killer App

The social media landscape is about to undergo a bit of a shake-up, because Meta Platforms, the lumbering world-destroying behemoth that Mark Zuckerberg has built from its early incarnation of a college girl creepshots platform – is about to launch…

 In Case You Missed It

In Case You Missed It

Cancer diagnostics company Pacific Edge (NZX, ASX:PEB) today welcomed the delay of a decision to stop Medicare coverage of Cxbladder in the US on 17 July 2023. Global lithium producer SQM (NYSE:SQM) will spend up to $3m on exploration to…

 Screaming Out For Copper

Screaming Out For Copper

Copper prices might be a bit askew but if there's one thing commodity strategists, analysts and ASX company directors all agree on, it's that demand for the red metal is here to stay - for as long as it takes…

 Grow Bigger Resources

Grow Bigger Resources

Alma's final assays from core drilling at its Briggs copper project in Central Queensland have proven beyond a doubt that a substantial upgrade to current resource is on the cards in the third quarter.

 Outside Copper Resource

Outside Copper Resource

Alma Metals' latest assays from core drilling at the Briggs copper project in Central Queensland have confirmed broad zones of copper-molybdenum sulphide mineralisation well outside the existing inferred resource.

 Grade Not King

Grade Not King

ASX miners are taking the leap to mine low-grade copper. The idea that copper producers require >1% copper grades to make projects viable is by all means historically accurate...

 Closing Bell

Closing Bell

On the winners list today is shipbuilder Austal (ASX:ASB), which has announced its US subsidiary Austral USA has been awarded a contract worth up to US$3.195 billion from the US Navy.

 Rock Yarns

Rock Yarns

Peter and Frazer discuss the Briggs project in Queensland as it expands the copper-molybdenum mineralisation a third time in as many months, plus more.

 Porphyry Potential

Porphyry Potential

Alma is increasingly certain that it has intersected a large copper porphyry deposit at its Briggs project in central Queensland after a second hole intersected multiple porphyritic intrusions.

 Resources Top 5

Resources Top 5

If you believe the hype, uranium's renaissance is imminent. $50m capped stock Toro Energy is leading a pack of ASX uranium stocks up in early trade today; Alma Metals hits monster 441.5m intersection at 0.21% copper from just 8m depth.

 Drilling Extends Size

Drilling Extends Size

Porphyry deposits are known for their large volumes and recent core drilling has provided more evidence that this is very much true of Alma’s Briggs copper project in central Queensland.

 Got 90 Seconds?

Got 90 Seconds?

Got 90 seconds? Then listen to Managing Director, Frazer Tabeart tell us about their company news. Alma Metals (ASX:ALM) is a mineral explorer with a primary interest in copper and copper-gold projects in Australia.

 On the Hunt

On the Hunt

Alma has raised $1.75m through a share placement and is wasting no time putting the funds to work with preparations now underway for drilling at its Briggs copper deposit in Queensland.

 Ready To Hunt

Ready To Hunt

Alma is cashed up and ready to hunt more copper at Briggs and is wasting no time as preparations are now underway for drilling at its Briggs copper deposit in Queensland.

 Rise and Shine

Rise and Shine

Everything you need to know before the market opens. The following companies went into trading halts on Friday and are expected out in the next few days...

 Resources Top 5

Resources Top 5

ASX juniors up the stakes as rare earths becomes the new lithium. Diamond play Odessa Minerals officially diversifies into the red-hot lithium and rare earths sectors.

 Closing Bell

Closing Bell

How to bank $1.5bn doing sweet bugger all on your arse in a deck chair. Mineral Resources (ASX:MIN) which cranked out a 12.4% jump simply because there are rumours that it’s looking into turning its lithium side hustle into something…

 Top 10 at 10

Top 10 at 10

Investors can't get enough of these ASX rare earths stocks. Here are the highlights of the best (and worst) performing ASX stocks in morning trade using live data.

 Copper Play

Copper Play

Alma has exercised its option to earn up to 70% in the Briggs, Mannersley and Fig Tree Hill copper project in central Queensland by spending $15.2m over nine years.

 Hydrogen Cars

Hydrogen Cars

A new study out of UK-based research consultancy, Juniper Research, has suggested hydrogen vehicles could be taken up like hot potatoes and become a viable alternative to battery electric vehicles (BEV) by 2027.

 Resources Top 5

Resources Top 5

Iron ore junior Freehill Mining says first sales are imminent from their Chile project. It will also look to sell ‘waste’ rock as aggregate to construction, cement and brick making companies.

 The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff

Alma's metallurgical test work has returned copper recoveries of between 92% to 95% for the three types of mineralisation at the Briggs copper deposit in Queensland.

 Copper Boom

Copper Boom

The positive outlook for copper prices as the world begins the long but accelerating transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy will unlock deposits previously thought uneconomic.

 Resources Top 5

Resources Top 5

Investors scoop up cheap copper and gold stocks. Auking Mining hits "phenomenal" 105m at 1.94% copper and 55g/t silver from 46m while Lefroy intercepts hit thick, high grade gold underneath a salt lake at emerging "Burns" discovery.

 Closing Bell

Closing Bell

Local stocks posted a strong session on Thursday, as the ASX 200 climbed by around 1% while the microcap Emerging Markets index jumped again (+1.9%).

 Resources Top 5

Resources Top 5

These three small cap winners confirm lithium fever is alive and well. RDT now up +140% since revealing lithium potential at ‘Mt Ida’ gold project yesterday; Castillo has secured Aussie lithium projects in two sought after neighbourhoods and Gold focussed…

 Resources Top 5

Resources Top 5

Vulcan Energy's "Zero Carbon" base metals spin-out explodes on ASX debut. Vulcan Energy's Norway projects have been rolled into spinout Kuniko, which listed today at 20c per share.

 Small Cap Lunch Wrap

Small Cap Lunch Wrap

Who's resting on their laurels today? The ASX 200 is managing a small improvement of 10 points or 0.14% to 7,251 around midday, having been down as much as 41 points or just over 0.5% at its opening lows.

 Resources Top 5

Resources Top 5

Copper and gold plays out to impress. Canterbury inks JV over "Briggs" copper project with African Energy Resources and newly listed Torque hit thick, shallow and high grade gold.

 Resources Top 5

Resources Top 5

Supercharged lithium stocks and an enormous copper porphyry discovery. Sunstone hits copper porphyry in its very first hole at "El Palmar" from surface and ASX lithium stock valuations continue going mental across the board.

 Resources Top 5

Resources Top 5

These small cap stocks are the gold standard in morning trade. Traka hits 9m at 9g/t gold at Mt Cattlin project in WA and Sunshine Gold to acquire project in 20moz gold district.

 Copper Prices Flying

Copper Prices Flying

Copper prices are flying, but the best is yet to come. Red-hot copper prices surged 22 per cent in the September quarter — well above pre-COVID-19 levels — for their highest quarterly increase since mid-2009.

 Energy Takeover

Energy Takeover

Zenith Energy gets a $150m takeover offer; shares fly 40pc. It has become the latest target of leveraged buyout private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners (PEP), receiving a $150m takeover proposal.