Episodes
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Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) managing director and chief executive officer Duncan Craib joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s dramatic growth surge with project success in Australia and the US.
Closer to home, Boss’ Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia continues to ramp up its production numbers towards nameplate capacity.
In 2011 Honeymoon became Australia's second operating in-situ recovery uranium mine and earlier this year and it became the nation’s newest uranium producer when Boss leveraged the significant high-quality infrastructure to re-start the valuable asset.
The project’s key metrics continue to be in line with Boss’ targets and the mine is on track to meet the company’s FY25 production guidance.
In the US, Boss is also seeing strong progress at its 30%-owned Alta Mesa project in South Texas.
The recent start-up of production at Alta Mesa is driving ongoing growth and increasing cashflow.
With both projects ramping up production at a time when uranium prices remain strong, Boss is ideally placed to capitalise on the positive outlook for the nuclear sector.
Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/boss-energy-strong-progress-honeymoon-alta-mesa-uranium-projects/
https://smallcaps.com.au/boss-energy-further-high-grade-drilling-success-alta-mesa-uranium/
https://smallcaps.com.au/boss-encore-energy-officially-re-open-alta-mesa-uranium-project/For more information on Boss Energy:
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Elevate Uranium (ASX: EL8) managing director and chief executive officer Murray Hill joins Small Caps to discuss the upcoming activities at the company's flagship Koppies uranium project in Namibia.
The company is well funded for the next phase of development at Koppies and its U-pgrade™ uranium ore beneficiation process after receiving binding commitments to raise $25 million.
Elevate plans to use the funds to complete a bench-scale metallurgical testwork program on Koppies ore followed by the design, construction and operation of an U-pgrade™ demonstration plant at the project.
The results of which will be used to complete a Koppies scoping study.
The funds will also be used for approximately 100,000 metres of resource and exploration drilling across its Namibian and Australian tenement portfolio.Koppies' potential was highlighted in a recently announced upgrade of the deposit mineral resource estimate from inferred to indicated status, resulting in 78% of the 66.1 Mlb resource being reported in the indicated category.
Elevate's total Namibian mineral resource has been increased to 112.1 million pounds of uranium.
Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/elevate-uranium-boosts-koppies-resource-raises-development/
https://smallcaps.com.au/elevate-uranium-capital-raise-accelerate-koppies-development/
https://smallcaps.com.au/elevate-uranium-upgrades-koppies-resource-indicated-status-78-percent/For more information on Elevate Uranium:
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Green Critical Minerals (ASX: GCM) managing director Clinton Booth joins Small Caps to discuss the company's move to acquire a very high-density (VHD) graphite technology.
The innovative technology offers a transformational leap in graphite production and is expected to reach commercialisation within the next 12 months.
Utilising a revolutionary process, the technology produces VHD graphite in just 24 to 36 hours at significantly lower temperatures than conventional methods, providing substantial cost and environmental advantages over competitors.
The addition of the new technology is seen as a “game-changer” for Green Critical Minerals, providing it with the opportunity to make significant strides in the global graphite market.
The company has already identified a path to bring the technology to market as soon as possible.
Green Critical is utilising a deferred structure which ties payments to revenue milestones of $5 million, $20m and $50m in gross revenue to acquire the breakthrough technology.
Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/green-critical-minerals-acquire-revolutionary-vhd-graphite-technology/For more information on Green Critical Minerals:
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Stormeur (ASX: STR) chief executive officer and chairman Vivek Eranki joins Small Caps to discuss the company's $7 million IPO to fund new Cosmetique clinics on Australia's east coast as part of its growth strategy.
The company recently announced the IPO offering 35 million shares at $0.20 each, aiming to raise funds for clinic expansion, marketing, and potential acquisitions.
Stormeur, which operates 17 clinics across five states, plans to increase its network to 100 clinics by 2025, offering high-end non-surgical cosmetic treatments.
The group has also achieved national safety accreditation, positioning itself as a leader in Australia’s growing non-invasive cosmetic procedure market.
The company plans to list on the ASX under the ticker code 'STR'.
Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/stormeur-ipo-asx-str-non-surgical-cosmetics-empire/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Australian Rare Earths (ASX: AR3) managing director and chief executive officer Travis Beinke joins Small Caps to discuss the company's continued success at the promising Koppamurra project in South Australia.
The company recently released a 27% increase to the high-grade project's mineral resource estimate of to 236 million tonnes (Mt) at 748 parts per million total rare earth oxides, up from to 186 million tonnes at 712 parts per million total rare earth oxides.
Notably the new mineral resource includes 68 million tonnes grading over 1000 parts per million total rare earth oxides, up 70% on the previous estimate.
Recent exploration has also confirmed higher-grade subsets containing defined thicker areas of continuous higher-grade mineralisation within the resource.
The improved grade and higher-grade tonnage, reinforces AR3’s belief in the project's potential to become a strategically important, long-life supplier of critical rare earths.
In addition, the company has received approval for an exploration program at the southern extension of the Overland uranium project.
The program will include additional high priority targets in its plans for its first drill campaign set to commence in the coming days.
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Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the robust results obtained from the company's pre-feasibility study into its Bécancour refinery in Quebec, Canada.
The PFS confirmed the viability - even in a low pricing environment - of this key infrastructure element in Lithium Universe's critical metals development strategy.
The study further confirmed the value of Lithium Universe's counter-cyclical design where it will be able to develop projects at times of low prices that will be well placed when there is a recovery.
The company has also confirmed it is making good progress with offtake discussions with parties interested in its Lithium Conversion Gap strategy.
The company is now focussed on completing a full definitive feasibility study as it closes in on a Final Investment Decision for Bécancour.
Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/lithium-universe-robust-becancour-refinery-pfs-results/For more information on Lithium Universe:
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Black Rock Mining (ASX: BKT) managing director and chief executive officer John de Vries joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent signing of a major financing agreement to fund development of the Mahenge Graphite Project in Tanzania.
A consortium of African banks have come together to provide approximately $260 million in loan and bank guarantee facilities to fund Mahenge.
The financial institutions include The Development Bank of Southern Africa, The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa and Tanzanian lender CRDB Bank.
The new facilities are in addition to around $73 million of previously agreed support from South Korean trading house POSCO, including a $58 million equity investment in Black Rock.
The funding support of the African banks is a major de-risking milestone for Black Rock towards funding the development of the Mahenge project.
Black Rock’s definitive feasibility study for the project has defined a four-stage construction schedule to deliver up to 340,000 tonnes per annum of 98.5% graphite concentrate for 26 years of 98.5% premium graphite flake concentrate with the ability to produce Ultra Purity flake of 99%.
Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/black-rock-mining-mahenge-debt-financing-facility-african-banks/For more information on Black Rock Mining:
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Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company's successful completion of its drilling at the Tambourah Gold project in Western Australia's far north.
The 11 hole RC and diamond drilling program targeted high-grade gold at the historic Tambourah King, Federal and Kushmattie prospects.
A Western Australian government co-funded diamond hole also tested gold mineralisation at the World’s Fair prospect.
The company is expecting assay results from the program to arrive early next month after noting promising geology during the drilling program.
At the same time Tambourah is progressing planning for an RC drill program at the Cheela Gold project and undertaking data analysis and drill targeting of the Bryah Copper-Gold project in WA’s Murchison region.
Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/tambourah-metals-maiden-drilling-program-namesake-gold-project-wa/For more information on Tambourah Metals:
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Anatara Lifesciences (ASX: ANR) executive chair Dr David Brookes joins Small Caps to discuss the company's progress with its Stage 2 pivotal GaRP irritable bowel syndrome trial.
The company has made good strides with recruitment for the trial, with over 30 participants enrolled and approximately 20 potential participants currently in the final screening to determine suitability for enrolment.
The company has added additional sites in Adelaide and the Sunshine Coast, while it is receiving sustained levels of interest at existing sites in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
The Stage 2 trial is designed to confirm the highly encouraging and clinically meaningful interim results from Stage 1 of the GaRP-IBS clinical trial.
GaRP is considered to have the potential to be a disease-modifying treatment that aims to positively impact a substantial proportion of the population suffering from the debilitating symptoms of digestive disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome.
Anatara recently received more than $626,000 from the Australian Taxation Office under the Federal Government’s Research and Development (R&D) tax incentive scheme for FY2024.
Those funds will support Phase 2 of the clinical trial of GaRP.
Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/anatara-lifesciences-on-track-recruitment-stage-2-garp-ibs-trial/
https://smallcaps.com.au/anatara-lifesciences-stage-2-garp-trial-ibs-treatment-gains-momentum/For more information on Anatara Lifesciences:
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Terra Uranium (ASX: T92) executive chairman Andrew Vigar joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent deal with ATHA Energy and its sizeable Canadian uranium portfolio.
T92 recently signed strategic agreements with ATHA Energy under which ATHA may potentially acquire up to 60% of T92’s Pasfield Lake project, while T92 may potentially acquire up to 70% of ATHA’s Spire and Horizon projects.
Terra has undertaken a successful capital raise to help support further work at the various projects.
The Spire and Horizon Projects are comprised of 12 mineral claims located on the eastern rim of the Athabasca Basin within the company’s East Rim Exploration District.
ATHA’s maiden 2023 exploration program identified approximately 144 km of cumulative conductors, demonstrating that the Spire and Horizon Projects have a high concentration of shallow prospective exploration targets for discovery of uranium mineralisation.
T92’s Pasfield Lake has been targeted using 3D inverted ZTEM conductivity and seven priority target areas have been identified within the project that require a minimum of two drill holes per target.
T92 also plans to continue to advance its HawkRock and Parker Lake projects in the Athabasca Basin and the Amer Lake project in Nunavut.
Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/terra-uranium-readies-itself-busy-canadian-exploration-campaign/https://smallcaps.com.au/terra-uranium-atha-energy-join-forces-develop-athabasca-basin-projects/For more information on Terra Uranium:
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Galan Lithium (ASX: GLN) managing director Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s signing of an HMW lithium project offtake prepayment agreement MoU with China’s Chemphys.
The deal provides Galan with potential for early cash flow with Chemphys to provide an approximately $60 million (US$40 million) offtake prepayment facility upon execution of definitive agreements.
In return Galan will sell Chemphys a total of 23,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) over the first five years of Phase 1 production from the HMW project
The signing of the agreements comes after Galan received positive feedback from potential customers of HMW high grade, low impurity lithium chloride samples.
Chemphys has been producing high purity lithium chemicals since 1998 and the offtake partnership and the financing prepayment will be foundational agreements for the HMW project and Galan.
Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/galan-lithium-offtake-prepayment-deal-hmw-lce-chengdu-chemphys/For more information on Galan Lithium:
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Elevate Uranium (ASX: EL8) managing director and chief executive officer Murray Hill joins Small Caps to discuss the company's continuing drilling success within the Koppies project area in Namibia.
The company is particularly excited about the latest high-grade uranium intersections obtained from the Hirabeb prospect at Koppies.
The Hirabeb find has similar mineralisation to the large Koppies resource, located 12 km to the north.
Elevate will continue to further assess Hirabeb with drilling set to continue for the rest of the calendar year with the company planning on releasing a maiden resource.
Development potential at Hirabeb benefits from the shallow nature of the mineralisation, with all significant intercepts commencing within 10 metres from the surface.
Namibia has significant uranium mines capable of providing 10% of global output.
Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/elevate-uranium-high-grade-assays-drilling-koppies-hirabeb-prospect/
https://smallcaps.com.au/worlds-largest-uranium-miner-kazatomprom-cuts-2025-production-guidance/For more information on Elevate Uranium:
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Highfield Resources (ASX: HFR) chief executive officer Ignacio Salazar joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent game-changing strategic corporate deal.
The company recently signed a transformative proposed transaction to finance its Muga potash mine in Spain and acquire a potash project (Southey) in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Muga has attracted vital funding interest with the signing of a Letter of Intent for cooperation with Yankuang Energy Group. The proposed transaction would entail the funding of US$220 million of equity capital from strategic investors.
Yankuang Energy intends to provide up to US$90 million to support the cornerstone placement with the other strategic investors providing the rest.
Muga is considered shovel-ready, and Highfield recently signed the contract for the construction of the civil works and the ramps at Muga.
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BPH Energy (ASX: BPH) managing director David Breeze joins Small Caps to discuss the continuing delays impacting the proposed testing of the PEP 11 oil and gas exploration licence off the coast of New South Wales.
At a time when the Federal government and east coast gas users are crying out for more supplies, BPH and its investee company Advent Energy keep on running into roadblocks in their plans to drill a well on a large gas target in PEP 11.
The recent NSW government move to bring in a Bill to potentially ban oil and gas activities in the waters off its coastline is the latest frustration for those looking to find gas reserves that can help overcome energy issues that have been forecast to potentially lead to major blackouts in New South Wales and Victoria.
A recent report by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) found Victorian gas production capacity has decreased, which means there will be an increasing amount of winter gas supply required from Queensland.
AEMO’s recent Victorian Gas Planning Report update indicated this will continue, with the planned closure of Longford’s gas plant 1 starting in July 2024 and Gas Plant 3 later in the decade.
To try and overcome the NSW and Victorian government's anti-gas stance, the Federal government has continually had to rely on Queensland’s LNG producers to carry the load.
A commercial discovery in PEP 11 could potentially be a game-changer for the east coast.
Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/bph-energy-advent-preparations-seablue-1-drilling-pep-11/
https://smallcaps.com.au/energyquest-address-east-coast-gas-shortfall-energy-crisis-looms/For more information on BPH Energy:
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iTech Minerals (ASX: ITM) managing director Michael Schwarz joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent success in developing a significant graphite play on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.
iTech has achieved a significant 300% resource upgrade at its Eyre Peninsula graphite project.
The upgraded Eyre Peninsula graphite project mineral resource estimate now stands at 35.2 million tonnes at 6.0% total graphitic carbon.
Meanwhile, iTech has obtained exceptional recoveries of around 93% using an industry standard flotation circuit on a bulk concentrate sample of 3.4kg graphite from its Lacroma graphite project.
The next step will be assessing the bulk sample with spheroidization and purification test work aimed at producing a purified spherical graphite product that meets industry standards for battery anode material in lithium-ion batteries.
iTech is now processing to the next phase of developing this project aimed at helping the world meet the graphite shortages that many analysts are predicting over the next decade.
According to Whatech, the global graphite market reached $35.6 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach $58 billion by 2031, growing with a CAGR of 6.2% during the forecast period 2024-2031.
Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/itech-minerals-high-purity-graphite-concentrate-production-lacroma/
https://smallcaps.com.au/itech-minerals-resource-upgrade-eyre-peninsula-graphite/For more information on iTech Minerals:
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Mitre Mining (ASX: MMC) chief executive officer Tim Laneyrie joins Small Caps to discuss the continued success the company is achieving at its exciting Cerro Bayo silver-gold project in southern Chile.
With around $10.3 million in the bank, Mitre is stepping up its exploration activity at Cerro Bay with the aim of lifting the project's current 50 million ounces of silver equivalent mineral resource to 100 million ounces of silver equivalent.
That aim was recently boosted when Mitre obtained rock chip assays of up to 10,466 grams per tonne silver equivalent.
That find confirmed the discovery of another potential swarm of silver-gold veins at Cerro Bayo.
It also highlighted the upside at Cerro Bayo where Mitre is putting together an exceptional pipeline of drill targets.
The company is fast-tracking its testing of those new targets with a second drill rig being transported to site.
Articles:
https://smallcaps.com.au/mitre-mining-price-target-canaccord-cerro-bayo-acquisition/https://smallcaps.com.au/mitre-mining-identifies-new-silver-gold-veins-cerro-bayo-chile/For more information on Mitre Mining:
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Peppermint Innovation (ASX: PIL) managing director and chief executive officer Chris Kain joins Small Caps to discuss the company's developments in a number of areas and the huge potential of its Philippines target market.
A major focus currently is the company's 5-year agreement to deliver, service, and maintain a white-label mobile app platform for the large Mass-Specs Cooperative Development Centre.
The company is working with MASS- SPECC to deploy the app to more than 340 cooperatives with approximately 3.4 million members.
The collaboration will back MASS-SPECC’s Vision of leveraging Peppermint’s proven EMI licenced bizmoto mobile app platform in the huge Philippines market.
With a population of 110 million people, a vast majority of which are in their mid-20s, the Philippines has strong digital presence with 118% mobile penetration.
However, 90% of Filipinos do not have a credit score and 70% of the population is unbanked.
Peppermint believes it's e-wallet money services, non-bank lending solutions and digital payment services via an established technology platform is the answer to providing Filipinos with an easy to use and easy to access digital finance solution - opening up new opportunities for the local population and Peppermint.
Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/peppermint-innovation-accelerate-ai-expansion-after-stellar-results/For more information on Peppermint Innovation:
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Resouro Strategic Metals (ASX: RAU) chief executive officer Christopher Eager joins Small Caps to discuss the company's upcoming listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Resouro is a Canadian mineral explorer concentrating its efforts on discovering and developing critical mineral resources in Brazil.
The company's primary focus is on its Tiros project in Minas Gerais, which is rich in rare earth elements and titanium, and two gold projects—Novo Mundo and Santa Angela—both situated in the state of Mato Grosso.
The company raised $8m at $0.50 per share and is set to list on the ASX on Friday the 14th of June 2024.
Resouro also listed on the TSX-V under ticker 'RSM' in April 2022 and will remain dual-listed once trading commences on the ASX. The company also has its securities traded on the OTC market in the US and FRA market in Germany.
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RareX (ASX: REE) chief executive officer James Durrant joins Small Caps to discuss the company's plan to significantly increase its niobium exposure with the acquisition of a district-scale project in Western Australia.
Already the holder of significant niobium and rare earths resources at its Cummins Range project in northern WA, RareX has now added six highly prospective tenements at the new Khaleesi project.
Khaleesi is located along strike from the rich Ponton Dyke, which has returned some of Australia’s best rare earth intersections.
RareX is already preparing to fast-track an exploration program which will target areas of elevated niobium within the project area.
Niobium is a critical metal that is considered rare and difficult to find. It is attracting growing interest around the world as new uses for its many unique capabilities are uncovered.
The global niobium market size was valued at $3.5 billion in 2022 and is tipped to reach $4.3 billion in 2028, with a CAGR of 3.78% during 2024-2030.
Niobium has been listed as a critical metal in many jurisdictions due to it being an essential component in many high-strength corrosion-resistant low-alloy (HSLA) steels and superalloys and because of its high supply risk; a single country, Brazil, is responsible for over 90% of global niobium production.
New technology uses for the metal are expected to drive market growth in coming years.
Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/rarex-secures-acquisition-historic-district-scale-khaleesi-niobium-project/For more information on RareX:
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Copper Search (ASX: CUS) chief executive officer Duncan Chessell joins Small Caps to discuss the company's upcoming drill program which will test to prime prospects at the Peake project.
Using a significant library of data and in-depth studies, Copper Search will focus on the large-scale Paradise Dam and Douglas Creek copper prospects which have been prioritised from an initial 40 geophysical anomalies.
Paradise Dam is estimated to have 3km of strike and was identified from structural analysis and an induced polarisation (IP) geophysics survey completed in January 2024.
The Douglas Creek prospect is a large-scale shallow classic IOCG- style coincident “magnetics and gravity” anomaly only recently cleared for drilling after consultation with the traditional owners over the last two years.
While copper prices have slid back from record highs in recent days as traders look to grab an early profit, analysts are forecasting they may have to hit as high as A$22,500 (US$15,000) per tonne due to supply constraints.
Along with its IOCG exploration activities, Copper Search is undertaking an early-stage geochemical sampling program to assess the gold potential on its Mt Denison claim.
Article:
https://smallcaps.com.au/copper-search-timely-drill-program-soaring-copper-prices/For more information on Copper Search:
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