Good morning everyone, and welcome to 27 March, 2024 – an important day in the history of patent filing, because it was on this day in various years that some of the most important and influential patents were filed.
In 1790, the shoelace game was changed forever when the modern shoelace – with that little hard bit on the end, which is called an aglet – was patented in England by Harvey Kennedy.
In 1849, a fella called Joseph Couch patented steam-powered percussion rock drill, making my local council’s ongoing chore of digging up the street outside my house over and over again possible.
A scant six years later in 1855, a Canadian geologist with a penchant for setting stuff on fire – Abraham Genser – filed a patent for kerosene, paving the way for jet engines and hundreds of house fires.
Then, on this day in 1860, M L Byrn patented an object described as “a covered gimlet screw with a ‘T’ handle” – better known as a corkscrew – virtually scuttling the burgeoning cardboard wine cask industry overnight, setting their efforts to bring 4 litres of truly gruesome wine to a backyard party using only one hand back by close to a century.
Half a dozen years after that, American Andrew Rankin patented the humble urinal, after liberal use of Mr Byrn’s corkscrew led to the inadvertent invention of peeing standing up.
They’re not the only wonderfully inventive people in the world, of course – and we’re lucky to call a number of brilliantly creative thinkers and writers part of the Stockhead team.
They’ve put together a brilliant collection of stories for you to peruse across the site this morning. Stuff like Reuben talking to John Hathaway and Warwick Grigor about why no one’s buying gold stocks. Or Josh Chiat’s look at just how far this uranium bull run might go.
And – as always – there’s words and numbers down below for you to memorise now and then invent your own narrative as you do your due diligence, invest wisely and make your mates look like know-nothing fools.
You’re welcome.
COMMODITY/FOREX/CRYPTO MARKET PRICES
Gold: US$2,172.71 (+0.02%)
Silver: US$24.60 (-0.28%)
Nickel (3mth): US$16,862.50/t (-1.67%)
Copper (3mth): US$8,743.35/t (+0.03%)
Oil (WTI): US$81.90 (-0.11%)
Oil (Brent): US$86.70 (+0.02%)
Iron 62pc Fe: US$110.67/t (+0.03%)
AUD/USD: 0.6542 (-0.02%)
Bitcoin: US$70,435.70 (+0.77%)
WHAT GOT YOU TALKING
If you’ve ever wondered what the dulcet tones of our very own Barry FitzGerald or C29 Metals’ CEO Shannon Green sound like, wonder no more – because here’s a wonderful interview by the former with the latter. Enjoy.
Stockhead’s ‘Garimpeiro’ columnist Barry FitzGerald is back in the studio for another instalment of The Explorers Podcast. In this episode Barry chats to Shannon Green, managing director at C29 Metals (ASX:C29). https://t.co/Ntantdt9do #ASX @C29Metals
— Stockhead (@StockheadAU) March 26, 2024
YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LEADERS
Here are the best performing ASX small cap stocks:
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Code Name Price % Change Volume Market Cap MPK Many Peaks Minerals 21.50 194.52 4,384,877 $2,917,711 WML Woomera Mining Ltd 0.60 50.00 2,236,720 $4,872,556 MSB Mesoblast Limited 47.00 42.42 49,569,423 $376,434,878 SRR Saramaresourcesltd 2.40 41.18 305,304 $1,363,725 JAV Javelin Minerals Ltd 0.20 33.33 2,128,725 $3,264,346 MRD Mount Ridley Mines 0.20 33.33 3,510,000 $11,677,324 BDX Bcaldiagnostics 12.00 27.66 1,347,128 $23,715,703 ASV Assetvisonco 1.90 26.67 9,207 $10,887,548 BNL Blue Star Helium Ltd 0.75 25.00 3,382,878 $11,653,592 GTI Gratifii 0.50 25.00 3,402,091 $5,476,891 PSL Paterson Resources 2.00 25.00 651,347 $7,296,606 SCT Scout Security Ltd 1.00 25.00 1,433 $1,859,419 EXT Excite Technology 1.10 22.22 22,836,215 $11,963,176 TNY Tinybeans Group Ltd 11.00 20.88 107,976 $7,679,248 88E 88 Energy Ltd 0.60 20.00 12,059,203 $125,620,313 CRB Carbine Resources 0.60 20.00 1,100,000 $2,758,689 OXT Orexploretechnologie 2.40 20.00 69,853 $3,908,313 RML Resolution Minerals 0.30 20.00 133,333 $3,149,992 JPR Jupiter Energy 2.50 19.05 489,000 $26,746,696 BIT Biotron Limited 8.20 18.84 4,612,232 $62,257,010 CAT Catapult Grp Int Ltd 153.00 16.79 1,003,357 $332,225,767 AHN Athena Resources 0.35 16.67 5,117,689 $3,211,403 SI6 SI6 Metals Limited 0.35 16.67 1,000,113 $7,106,578 PFE Panteraminerals 5.00 16.28 1,079,826 $11,200,729 ZMI Zinc of Ireland NL 1.50 15.38 222,777 $2,770,876
Yesterday’s Small Cap Winners included:
The clear standout was Many Peaks Minerals (ASX:MPK), which surged ahead by +174% for the day.
Many Peaks has entered into a binding agreement with Turaco Gold (ASX:TCG) to acquire 89% of CDI Holdings (Guernsey) – a holding company for the Ivorian subsidiary party to a JV which has earned into a 65% stake in four Ivorian permits, and holds the right to earn-in to an 85% interest by sole funding any project within four mineral licences in Cote d’Ivoire through feasibility study.
Mesoblast (ASX:MSB) jumped 50% after announcing that US FDA has informed the company that following additional consideration the available clinical data from its Phase 3 study MSB-GVHD001 appears sufficient to support submission of the proposed Biologics License Application (BLA) for remestemcel-L for treatment of pediatric patients with steroid-refractory acute graft versus host disease (SR-aGVHD). Mesoblast now intends to file the resubmission during the next quarter, seeking to address all remaining product characterisation issues.
Sarama Resources (ASX:SRR) also moved up nicely earlier in the day, probably because West African gold is looking like hot property, for obvious reasons.
Cokal (ASX:CKA) managed to secure itself a 12-month revenue stream by chartering barges to “ensure continuous delivery” of its coal to market. That revenue stream is in effect, with the company announcing it had received payment from the loading of 7,500 tonnes of product coal on to barges at the Batu Tuhup Jetty. Said barges will transport 7,500 tonnes of high-grade thermal coal product to Sumbar Global (SGE), which has been sold under the existing offtake contract.
Trek Metals (ASX:TKM) rose on good on news regarding its Champagne Pool epithermal gold target within the Pincunah Project in the Pilbara region of WA. The news is, basically, drilling has been announced to commence in the coming weeks at the untested, high-potential target. The company says there is every indication that strong surface geochemical indicators are suggestive of a cap to an epithermal gold system, with the gold zone likely ‘intact’ sub-surface.
Titomic (ASX:TTT) was celebrating a noteworthy sale, after the Netherlands Army purchased 10 of the company’s D523 Cold Spray systems, with the sale worth more than 770,000 Euros.
In the larger end of town, specialty retailer Premier Investments (ASX:PMV) rose 4% after reporting statutory first half NPAT of $177.2 million. The company also declared a record interim fully franked ordinary dividend of 63 cps, up 16.7% on the pcp.
YESTERDAY’S ASX SMALL CAP LAGGARDS
Here are the worst performing ASX small cap stocks:
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Code Name Price % Change Volume Market Cap INP Incentiapay Ltd 0.40 -33.33 800,000 7,463,580 VPR Volt Power Group 0.10 -33.33 4,131 16,074,312 29M 29Metalslimited 40.00 -25.93 16,618,743 378,917,588 AUK Aumake Limited 0.30 -25.00 1,758,733 7,657,627 CCO The Calmer Co Int 0.30 -25.00 13,045,785 4,730,787 CNJ Conico Ltd 0.15 -25.00 15,029,791 3,140,190 MTL Mantle Minerals Ltd 0.15 -25.00 21,799,999 12,394,892 HOR Horseshoe Metals Ltd 0.70 -22.22 1,943,905 5,818,308 RNE Renu Energy Ltd 0.70 -22.22 8,220,593 6,074,706 COD Coda Minerals Ltd 11.50 -20.69 682,814 20,643,849 HLX Helix Resources 0.40 -20.00 250,000 11,615,729 ROG Red Sky Energy. 0.40 -20.00 6,150,000 27,111,136 BEZ Besragoldinc 10.50 -19.23 7,843,693 54,353,118 LSA Lachlan Star Ltd 3.10 -18.42 212,160 7,887,781 MXR Maximus Resources 2.50 -16.67 239,588 9,628,373 CHK Cohiba Min Ltd 0.25 -16.67 52,714 10,764,733 ICG Inca Minerals Ltd 0.50 -16.67 271,429 4,792,627 LNR Lanthanein Resources 0.25 -16.67 383,003 5,864,727 MHC Manhattan Corp Ltd 0.25 -16.67 100,000 8,810,939 MOM Moab Minerals Ltd 0.50 -16.67 1,996,282 4,271,781 RR1 Reach Resources Ltd 0.25 -16.67 174,096 9,836,169 YAR Yari Minerals Ltd 0.50 -16.67 20,466 2,894,147 SOV Sovereign Cloud Hldg 3.60 -16.28 706,723 14,594,229 OKJ Oakajee Corp Ltd 1.60 -15.79 45,000 1,737,475 ICU Investor Centre Ltd 2.70 -15.63 3,207 9,702,337
TRADING HALTS
Besra Gold (ASX:BEZ) – pending a response to an ASX price query.
Constellation Resources (ASX:CR1) – pending an announcement regarding a capital raising.
FireFly Metals (ASX:FFM) – pending the release of an announcement regarding a capital raising.
HyTerra (ASX:HYT) – for the purposes of considering, planning and executing a capital raising.
AML3D (ASX:AL3) – pending an announcement regarding a capital raising.
Astral Resources (ASX:AAR) – pending the release of an announcement in relation to a capital raising.
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