Welcome back to Weekly Big Drill Hits – A curated list of the most intriguing intersections made by ASX-listed explorers.
We'll be taking a deeper dive into gold hits as it was a relatively quiet week for lithium, nickel and uranium drilling results.
There was only one drill result on our watchlist this week by Lithium Energy (ASX: LEL).
Our lithium drill hit tables to date have recorded only hard rock results. Moving forward, we will seek to incorporate brine results by converting them to standardised Li20 grades.
Large cap leaders: Drill hits are typically incremental news for large cap companies, that tend to merge exploration announcements with other news such as a resource or quarterly update. Northern Star and Bellevue may have topped the leaderboards, but these miners have bigger fish to fry
A troubled explorer: Last December, Gascoyne suspended open pit mining and ore processing operations at its Dalgaranga mine and its shares went into suspension for around 4 months to secure a $50 million funding package to progress its Never Never Discovery. When the stock resumed trading on 9 March, it fell 40% to around 10 cents. The 'exceptional high-grade' drill hit from this week inspired a brief 7.7% rally when the news came out. But the stock still managed to finish that session 2.3% lower.
Interesting price action: Southern Cross Gold has made several high grade drill hits over the past 2-3 months at its Sunday Creek Project in Victoria. But this has failed to move its share price, which is down almost 30% year-to-date. The stock hardly moved after the latest drill announcement on 1 May. But the next day, it would sell down 18.5% on 1.57 million volume (410% its 20-day average volume).
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