Morning Feed: What’s cooking on the ASX?

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Morning Feed plates up early sharemarket movers, announcements and company news, serving investors a quick hit of market action and updates from selected ASX-listed companies.

 

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Your ASX top 10 lists at 11-ish – morning movers, freshly baked.

 

Small Cap Leaders

Code Name Last % Change Volume Market Cap
COY Coppermoly Limited 0.007 40% 89766 $4,413,287
ARV Artemis Resources 0.004 33% 1572727 $17,334,195
GLL Galilee Energy Ltd 0.005 25% 1360000 $7,245,152
ZEU Zeus Resources Ltd 0.005 25% 200000 $3,300,209
EV1 Evolutionenergy 0.011 22% 2639738 $7,350,553
QEM QEM Limited 0.024 20% 4571365 $7,247,007
BAK Barkly Rare Earths 0.22 19% 2489 $10,548,889
AMD Arrow Minerals 0.013 18% 653889 $18,494,450
NTI Neurotech Intl 0.014 17% 5061688 $19,392,840
RKB Rokeby Resources Ltd 0.0035 17% 500000 $8,930,190

 

Small Cap Laggards

Code Name Last % Change Volume Market Cap
WEL Winchester Energy 0.001 -33% 13800000 $2,569,528
ARO Altorometalsltd 0.003 -25% 220000 $10,059,226
AAJ Aruma Resources Ltd 0.005 -17% 475690 $5,025,801
BNL Blue Star Helium Ltd 0.005 -17% 95437 $36,917,490
1AD Adalta Limited 0.003 -14% 1498964 $11,242,592
AQX Alice Queen Ltd 0.006 -14% 3876567 $16,244,097
FCT Firstwave Cloud Tech 0.007 -13% 142857 $17,015,047
M96 Maverick Minerals Au 0.008 -11% 1047904 $16,623,958
TEM Tempest Minerals 0.004 -11% 18000 $4,958,443
CDE Codeifai Limited 0.0045 -10% 1000 $5,997,793

 

ASX news bites

Adavale Resources (ASX:ADD) has completed assaying of all 85 holes in its London-Victoria resource drillout in NSW, with final results including 10m at 3.69g/t gold, ahead of an updated Mineral Resource Estimate targeted for Q3.

Airtasker (ASX:ART) has secured new three-year media partnerships worth $5.5 million each with oOh!media and NOVA Entertainment, following brand salience growth of 20% and FY26 Australian marketplace revenue of $46.3 million.

Black Canyon (ASX:BCA) has recommenced RC drilling across its 9km Wandanya manganese-iron trend in WA, testing 1.4km to the south and 2.8km to the north of its 3.4km base case, ahead of a maiden resource due in September.

Critica (ASX:CRI) has appointed Mike Kevan as interim study manager to support ongoing scoping studies across its Mt Lindsay tin-tungsten project and Jupiter rare earths project, while initiating a search for a permanent general manager projects.

Entropy Neurodynamics (ASX:ENP) has signed a pre-clinical trial agreement with the University of California, San Francisco for a Phase 2 trial comparing its psilocin therapy TRP-8803 against the antidepressant escitalopram in young adults with major depressive disorder.

Imagion Biosystems (ASX:IBX) has signed work orders with contract research organisations and completed manufacturing of its MagSense HER2 imaging agent, advancing toward a Phase 1b/2 breast cancer trial across seven prospective US sites.

Latitude 66 (ASX:LAT) has delivered a maiden 339,000oz gold resource across the Tin Dog and Red Dog prospects at its Laverton project in WA, lifting the company’s total global resource to 918,000oz.

Liberty Metals (ASX:LIB) has appointed veteran Guyana gold geologist Travis Schwertfeger as a non-executive director, bringing experience from Barrick and Nordgold joint ventures to its Oko North and Oko South projects.

Minrex Resources (ASX:MRR) has confirmed high-grade gold-silver mineralisation from surface at the Barje deposit within its Tlamino project in Serbia, including 10.6m at 4.04g/t gold equivalent, and expanded greenfield exploration to 5,500m.

Mount Ridley Mines (ASX:MRD) has upgraded its scandium resource at the Grass Patch project in WA to 946Mt at 50.1ppm scandium, which it says is the largest publicly reported JORC scandium resource globally.

Nimy Resources (ASX:NIM) has achieved gallium extraction of 84% and rare earth extraction of up to 95% in metallurgical testwork on its high-grade Block 3 deposit at the Mons project in WA, feeding into an ongoing scoping study.

Nova Minerals (ASX:NVA) hosted a US Congressional delegation including members of the Western Caucus at its Estelle gold and antimony project in Alaska, backed by a US$43.4 million Department of War award.

Ora Banda Mining (ASX:OBM) has posted record FY26 revenue of $807.5 million and EBITDA up 134% to $431.1 million, driven by its second underground mine, Sand King, achieving capital payback within 12 months.

Rapid Critical Metals (ASX:RCM) has extended high-grade silver mineralisation more than 300m south at its Webbs project in NSW, headlined by 4m at 1,230g/t silver equivalent, with a third drill rig to join the program.

Sierra Nevada Gold (ASX:SNX) has raised $12.3 million via placement to fund a 25,000m phase two drilling program at its As Safra copper-gold project in Saudi Arabia, expected to start within six weeks.

Stakk (ASX:SKK) expects to complete its US$63 million acquisition of fraud-detection firm ParaScript within ten days, after shareholders approved all resolutions including a $27 million placement.

Taiton Resources (ASX:T88) has expanded its Challenger West gold-copper project in South Australia through a farm-in with Havilah Resources, adding drill-ready targets including historical intercepts of 4m at 3.34g/t gold and 0.82% copper.

Talonx Resources (ASX:TXR) is planning a new RC drilling program at the Beaker 2 prospect within its Viking gold project in WA, targeting extensions to high-grade mineralisation ahead of a maiden resource estimate.

Terra Metals (ASX:TM1) has confirmed further PGM-copper-nickel mineralisation extending the Southwest Main Sulfide Corridor at its Dante project in WA, with drilling now spanning 1,100m of strike across five active rigs.

Verity Resources (ASX:VRL) has secured renewal of four prospecting licences over its Airstrip and Dibete copper-silver discoveries and Maibele North nickel resource in Botswana’s Limpopo Mobile Belt for a further two years.

West Cobar Metals (ASX:WC1) has completed air-core drilling at the Blind Freddie prospect within its Cobar West project in NSW, testing the source of surface copper anomalism with assays due in four to six weeks.

Xpedra Resources (ASX:XPD) has intersected its deepest and among its best results yet at the Springfield gold deposit in NSW, including 64m at 1.34g/t gold from 140m, confirming depth extensions beyond 400m of strike.

 

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