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Galan Lithium gains early cash flow opportunity through HMW offtake deal (w/ Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega)
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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 prepaymen…
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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 h…
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Highfield Resources (ASX: HFR) on track to becoming a globally diversified potash producer (w/ Ignacio Salazar)
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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 …
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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 Ene…
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iTech Minerals (ASX: ITM) developing a significant graphite opportunity in South Australia (w/ Michael Schwarz)
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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 resour…
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Mitre Mining (ASX: MMC) continues to shine at the silver-rich Cerro Bayo project in Chile (w/ Tim Laneyrie)
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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 m…
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Peppermint Innovation (ASX: PIL) drives financial inclusion in the Philippines (w/ Chris Kain)
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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 f…
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Resouro Strategic Metals (ASX: RAU) to list on ASX in hunt for rare earths and titanium in Brazil (w/ Christopher Eager)
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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 Tir…
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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 add…
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Copper Search (ASX: CUS) set to begin game-changing copper hunt in South Australia (w/ Duncan Chessell)
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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 be…
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Latrobe Magnesium (ASX: LMG) produces world's first sustainable magnesium oxide from fly ash (w/ David Paterson)
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Latrobe Magnesium (ASX: LMG) chief executive officer David Paterson joins Small Caps to discuss the company's success in producing a world first batch of magnesium oxide from fly ash, a waste resource from local brown coal power generation in Victoria. The recent successful commissioning of the first phase of its 1000-tonnes per annum Stage 1 demon…
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Sun Silver (ASX: SS1) shines bright with record breaking IPO and ASX listing (w/ Gerard O'Donovan)
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Sun Silver (ASX: SS1) executive director Gerard O'Donovan joins Small Caps to discuss the company's listing on the ASX today after completing a record breaking, $13 million initial public offering (IPO). Backed by a highly regarded board and management team and a world-class silver asset, Sun Silver smashed the record for the fastest IPO raising on…
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QMines (ASX: QML) unveils robust PFS results for Mt Chalmers copper-gold mine (w/ Andrew Sparke)
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QMines (ASX: QML) chairman Andrew Sparke joins Small Caps to discuss the company's receipt of positive news from a pre-feasibility study (PFS) of its proposed development of the Mt Chalmers copper and gold mine in Queensland. The Mt Chalmers study demonstrated that the project is a technically and financially robust and supports a stand-alone 1 mil…
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International Graphite (ASX: IG6) wins major government and market backing (w/ Andrew Worland)
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International Graphite (ASX: IG6) managing director and chief executive officer Andrew Worland joins Small Caps to discuss the recent receipt of a $6.5 million grant from the Western Australian government. The new grant takes the company’s total funding from the State’s Collie Just Transition Program to $8.5 million. As well as the WA government su…
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RocketBoots (ASX: ROC) unveils AI strategy to revolutionise the retail and banking sector (w/ Joel Rappolt)
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RocketBoots (ASX: ROC) chief executive officer Joel Rappolt joins Small Caps to discuss how the company's cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies are reshaping profitability and customer service in the retail and banking sectors RocketBoots leverages AI to optimise workforce planning and prevent loss, dramatically improving customer exper…
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Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute and Trends Journal magazine, joins Small Caps to discuss the current events that are forming future trends. With a 40-year track record of identifying, tracking and forecasting trends, Gerald is renowned as the world's #1 trend forecaster. Topics discussed include: WW3, gold and silver, the o…
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Anatara Lifesciences (ASX: ANR) reaches milestone in progression of Phase II IBS trial (w/ David Brookes)
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Anatara Lifesciences (ASX: ANR) executive chair Dr David Brookes joins Small Caps to discuss the progress of the company's trial of a potential treatment for the aptly named irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The company recently received the go-ahead to enrol patients for the second stage of its pivotal GaRP-IBS trial, which is to be conducted at 5 s…
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Barry Dawes, executive chairman at Martin Place Securities, join Small Caps to share his views on the recent rise in gold and silver prices. Other topics discussed include various commodities such as copper, iron ore and uranium. Discussion on currencies such as the US dollar, Japanese yen and Australian dollar. And some ASX stocks. To find out abo…
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Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) looks to close the lithium conversion gap in North America (w/ Alex Hanly)
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Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s progress with its plans to support the North American supply chain. With a strategy focused on Canada’s lithium riches and preferred lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery technology, Lithium Universe is helping to address the gap in lithium conve…
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Akora Resources (ASX: AKO) on target with cleaner iron ore for greener steel strategy (w/ Paul Bibby)
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Akora Resources (ASX: AKO) managing director Paul Bibby joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s significant progress at its iron ore operations in Madagascar. The company is developing the high-grade Bekisopa iron ore mine to serve the steel industry’s accelerating decarbonisation. Akora has developed a two-stage process for bringing Bekisopa iro…
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Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) in the right neighbourhood with Mojave rare earths project (w/ Matt Hartmann)
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Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) president of US operations Matt Hartmann joins Small Caps to discuss the company's highly prospective Mojave rare earth element project in California. Recently appointed to the role, Mr Hartmann has over 20 years of global mineral exploration and project development experience to the new role helping Locksley drive fut…
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International Graphite (ASX: IG6) continues to make strong progress with mine to markets strategy (w/ Andrew Worland)
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International Graphite (ASX: IG6) managing director and chief executive officer Andrew Worland joins Small Caps to discuss the recent breakthroughs in the company’s projects and forecasts of strong market growth for the key battery metal, graphite. The company has shored up its balance sheet by reaching an agreement with its major shareholder Comet…
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Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) has instant success at Boundiali with 72g/t gold hit (w/ Mark Strizek)
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Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) non-executive director Mark Strizek joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s early drilling success at the Boundiali gold project in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Aurum wrapped up the acquisition of Boundiali’s former owner and Côte d’Ivoire mining specialist PlusOr Global in mid-December. Included in that acquisition was …
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Peppermint Innovation’s (ASX: PIL) focus on AI and CX pays off with rapid growth (w/ Chris Kain)
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Peppermint Innovation (ASX: PIL) managing director and chief executive officer Chris Kain joins Small Caps to discuss the growing success of the company's strategic decision to build up its artificial intelligence and customer experience (CX) operations in late 2023. The company has recently landed a number of global AI and CX contracts since reach…
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Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) increases mineral resource estimate to 1.5 million ounces at Tunkillia (w/ Alex Scanlon)
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Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) (OTCQB: BGDFF) managing director Alexander Scanlon joins Small Caps to discuss the latest mineral resource estimate upgrade at its Tunkillia project in South Australia. The company recently unveiled its third Tunkillia JORC mineral resource estimate (MRE) in 12 months, with an aggressive drilling campaign lifting the project …
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Chariot Corporation (ASX: CC9) expands Black Mountain lithium project footprint by 206% (w/ Shanthar Pathmanathan)
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Chariot Corporation (ASX: CC9) managing director Shanthar Pathmanathan joins Small Caps to discuss developments at the company's Black Mountain lithium project located in Wyoming, United States. The newly listed Chariot recently expanded the footprint of Black Mountain by 206% with the application for 218 contiguous claims taking the entire project…
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VHM (ASX: VHM) on target with transition from rare earths explorer to producer (w/ Ron Douglas)
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VHM Limited (ASX: VHM) chief executive officer and executive director Ron Douglas joins Small Caps to discuss the company's continuing run of success as it progresses the high-class Goschen rare earths and mineral sands project in Victoria. The company’s is progressing its plans to be a near-term producer with the completion of a number of project-…
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PharmAust (ASX: PAA) makes strong progress in monepantel study to treat MND/ALS (w/ Michael Thurn)
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PharmAust (ASX: PAA) chief executive officer Michael Thurn joins Small Caps to discuss the company's ongoing success with its investigation into its lead treatment candidate monepantel (MPL). PharmAust is focused on repurposing MPL for the treatment of human neurodegenerative disorders such as motor neurone disease (MND) / amyotrophic lateral scler…
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Aurumin (ASX: AUN) managing director Brad Valiukas joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent strategic moves focussed on building a mining company around its flagship Sandstone gold project in Western Australia. With a history of production, Sandstone's current resource of 946,000 ounces of gold provides an ideal opportunity to take advantag…
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NickelX (ASX: NKL) managing director Matt Gauci joins Small Caps to discuss the company's early success with its foray into Canada's rich uranium mining sector. The company recently announced it had identified significant uranium mineralisation at its new Elliot Lake project in Ontario. NickelX's exploration team has identified three priority targe…
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Premier1 Lithium (ASX: PLC) commences high-tech search for lithium in Western Australia (w/ Richard Taylor)
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Premier1 Lithium (ASX: PLC) chief operating officer Richard Taylor joins Small Caps to discuss the commencement of the company's drilling campaign at the Abbotts North Project in Western Australia. The company is following up on a machine learning generated target at Abbotts North Project, where a 2,000m RC program has been designed to test the dep…
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RareX (ASX: REE) unveils fast-track strategy for Cummins Range rare earths project (w/ James Durrant)
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RareX (ASX: REE) chief executive officer James Durrant joins Small Caps to discuss plans to potentially fast-track the development of its Cummins Range rare earth element project in Western Australia. The company is focused on off-take opportunities at Australia’s largest undeveloped rare earths project. RareX is now preparing for the submission of…
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Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) uncovering gold and critical metals potential in the Pilbara (w/ Rita Brooks)
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Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent drilling success at a number of historic gold projects in WA and the continuing potential of its lithium prospects. Tambourah recently completed 17 RC drill holes for 2,684m at the historic Tambourah King and World’s Fair gold prospects within its P…
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Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) highlights significant Tunkillia upside with new success in two target areas (w/ Alexander Scanlon)
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Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) managing director Alexander Scanlon joins Small Caps to discuss the recent drilling successes at the historic Tunkillia gold project in South Australia. The company obtained consistent high-grade gold hits, including the sighting of visible gold, in two areas where it is looking to add to the current 1.38 million ounce JORC r…
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Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) opens the door for processing of global spodumene sources in Canada (w/ Alex Hanly)
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Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the company's decision to commence metallurgical testing on sources of spodumene from around the globe. The company's strategic move is in response to what it describes is a “lithium conversion capacity gap” in the North American market. It is already bringin…
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West Cobar Metals (ASX: WC1) ready to step on the accelerator at Salazar rare earths project (w/ Matt Szwedzicki)
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West Cobar Metals (ASX: WC1) managing director Matt Szwedzicki joins Small Caps to discuss the company's plans for its promising Salazar rare earth element (REE) project in Western Australia. After a highly active year of exploration and acquisitions, West Cobar is preparing to undertake drilling and metallurgy studies to further confirm the potent…
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Wide Open Agriculture (ASX: WOA) takes its unique Buntine Protein product to the world (w/ Matthew Skinner)
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Wide Open Agriculture’s (ASX: WOA) chief financial officer Matthew Skinner joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s expansion plans. The regenerative food and agriculture company recently signed a new distribution deal with Japanese trading house Nissei Kyoeki which will take Buntine Protein product into Asia. Wide Open and Nissei have initially a…
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Surefire Resources (ASX: SRN) develops breakthrough process for vanadium extraction at Victory Bore (w/ Paul Burton)
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Surefire Resources (ASX: SRN) managing director Paul Burton joins Small Caps to discuss the company's ground-breaking achievement in successfully extracting vanadium directly from magnetite concentrate from its 100% owned Victory Bore project in Western Australia. The test work process achieved a significant 91% extraction result on the vanadium or…
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Frontier Digital Ventures' (ASX: FDV) growth continues with fourth quarter of positive cash flow (w/ Shaun Di Gregorio)
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Frontier Digital Ventures (ASX: FDV) founder and chief executive officer Shaun Di Gregorio joins Small Caps to discuss how the company’s Latin American business is helping to power its operations as it enters what looks to be another strong year of expansion. The performance of the Latin American operations was a standout when the leading online ma…
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International Graphite (ASX: IG6) reveals promising future for Springdale project in Western Australia (w/ Andrew Worland)
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International Graphite (ASX: IG6) chief executive officer and managing director Andrew Worland joins Small Caps to discuss the companies complimentary Springdale graphite mining project at Hopetoun and battery processing facility at Collie. The company is making strong progress at both projects which are been developed to fulfil growing demand in t…
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Imugene (ASX: IMU) chief executive officer and managing director Leslie Chong joins Small Caps to discuss the progress of the company’s phase 1 MAST trial of its novel cancer-killing virus CF33-hNIS – known as VAXINIA. The oncolytic virus in VAXINIA has been shown to shrink colon, lung, breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancer tumours in preclinical l…
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Mitre Mining (ASX: MMC) acquires Cerro Bayo silver and gold project in Chile (w/ Ray Shorrocks)
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Mitre Mining (ASX: MMC) executive director Ray Shorrocks joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent acquisition of the large Cerro Bayo silver-gold project in Chile. Supported by a successful capital raising, Mitre is looking to build on Cerro Bayo’s existing JORC inferred resource of 3.82 million tonnes at 206 grams per tonne for 24.7 millio…
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CGN Resources (ASX: CGR) ready to hit the ground running at Webb in early 2024 (w/ Stan Wholley)
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CGN Resources (ASX: CGR) managing director Stan Wholley joins Small Caps to discuss the company's up-coming exploration activities in the "hot" West Arunta multi-element play in West Australia. CGN is preparing for an extensive 2024 exploration program at its flagship Webb project which is surrounded by significant activity at projects operated by …
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Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) exploration manager David Ward joins Small Caps to discuss the company's exploration activities at its prospective Mojave rare earth element project In California. The company has recently mobilised its exploration team to follow-up highly anomalous total rare earth oxide results previously identified at Mojave. A fiel…
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Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) managing director Alexander Scanlon joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent exploration success at its historic Tunkillia and Tarcoola gold projects in South Australia. The company’s exploration activities at Tunkillia have led to a significant 20% increase in the gold project JORC Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) to …
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Blackstone Minerals (ASX: BSX) adds major Canadian nickel opportunity to its portfolio (w/ Scott Williamson)
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Blackstone Minerals (ASX: BSX) managing director Scott Williamson joins Small Caps to discuss the strategy behind the company’s move to acquire a major Canadian nickel mining opportunity. Under an option agreement with CaNickel Mining, Blackstone has agreed to make a cash payment of $1.3 million and to exercise an option to acquire 100% of the Wabo…
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Surefire Resources (ASX: SRN) to accelerate Saudi offtake discussions on back of positive Victory Bore PFS (w/ Paul Burton)
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Surefire Resources (ASX: SRN) managing director Paul Burton joins Small Caps to discuss the robust results reported in a pre-feasibility study for its Victory Bore vanadium project in Western Australia. Company representatives will travel to the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh next month to continue discussions for potential processing opportunitie…
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Wide Open Agriculture (ASX: WOA) secures agreement with Ingå Group to sell lupin-based protein across Europe (w/ Jay Albany)
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Wide Open Agriculture’s (ASX: WOA) chief executive officer Jay Albany joins Small Caps to discuss the company's milestone agreement to distribute its unique product in Europe. Under a non-binding term-sheet agreement, Ingå Group will become the exclusive distributor of Wide Open Agriculture’s portfolio of lupin-based proteins in Europe. Ingå is a s…
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Boss Energy's (ASX: BOE) Honeymoon uranium project set to commence production in early 2024 (w/ Duncan Craib)
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Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) managing director Duncan Craib joins Small Caps to discuss the company's significant developments at the Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia. The company this week has passed another key milestone in the development of the project with start-up wells yielding production-grade uranium. That development confirmed Boss …
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BPH Energy's (ASX: BPH) PEP-11 gas project back on track after NSW anti-drill bill blocked (w/ David Breeze)
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BPH Energy (ASX: BPH) managing director David Breeze joins Small Caps to discuss the recent news that a special committee has blocked a proposed ban on oil and gas exploration off the New South Wales coast. BPH has an interest in the large PEP-11 licence through its 35.8% investee company, Advent Energy. Advent, via its wholly-owned subsidiary Asse…
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