Public Company News

Financial technologies company and ATM machine operator Stargroup will start to hit the radars of dividend seekers after their latest acquisition which will take the company’s estimated EBITDA from around $3.3m to $4.3m just 10 months after its back door listing. With a swag of tax losses from the original shell, Stargroup now looks set to start spitting out cash.

Sipa Resources systematic approach to their Akelikongo nickel-copper prospect in Uganda appears to be paying off with the discovery of a very encouraging 10m intersection grading 1% Nickel and another 4m intersection grading 1.8% Copper. With Cobalt fetching up to 3 times the price of Nickel, the company was also encouraged to see reasonable Cobalt numbers in the results.

Insatiable demand for Lithium in China has seen Neometals off take partner at the Mt Marion project in Coolgardie increase their contracted take or pay commitment for lower grade Lithium by 250%. Chinese company Ganfeng Lithium previously committed to take or pay for 100% of the 6% LIthium product and has now also commited to taking 200 000 tonnes a year of the 4%-6% product. 

Mid way through their Great Western project Scoping Study, Terrain Minerals have made the call to upgrade their project analysis to pre-feasibility quality. The current resource at Great Western, which is still open down plunge and along strike, sits at 322,500 tonnes @ 5.14 grams per tonne gold. The company is designing a 700m drill program to upgrade the resource to Indicated status. 

The Perth led backdoor listing of Israeli company Sky and Space Global into ASX listed shell Burleson Energy has delivered its backers a 45% profit on day one after it relisted on the ASX yesterday. The architects of the deal, led by Perth Corporate finance player Brett Mitchell, delivered their investors a 45% profit after the stock touched 2.9c yesterday with around 100m shares traded. 

Recently listed Perth shark deterrent and detection company Shark Mitigation Systems is now officially punching above its weight as an ASX junior after world surfing legend Taj Burrow agreed to lend his name to the brand as its world wide Ambassador. Burrow will draw global attention to the company's unique, scientifically inspired wetsuits and other products designed to deter shark attacks. 

Having successfully tipped Neometals share price to jump on three previous occasions, Euroz has again tipped the soon to be Lithium miner’s share price to move north, this time by 23%. Euroz say their most recent analysis of the Mt Marion Lithium mine near Coolgardie, which is 26.9% owned by Neometals, shows the company’s share price should be more like 53c instead of 43c.

The dominos are starting to fall for ASX listed Medical Cannabis upstart MGC Pharma, with its third regulatory approval in 3 months being granted. The company will now have the right to market its unique medical cannabis based cosmetic line known as “MGC Derma” into the $1.9b a year Canadian market after the Canadian regulatory authority, Health Canada approved the product.

ASX listed explorer Hammer Metals is in the final planning stages of executing multiple drilling programs across a host of exciting targets within its Mt Isa Copper/Gold/Cobalt project. Importantly it will follow up an impressive historic Copper/Gold/Cobalt hit on its Millennium leases that is the equivalent of a 19m intersection grading 4% Copper. 

MGC Pharma have broken into the $11b American skin care market after achieving US Food and Drug Administration approval for their “MGC Derma” cosmetics line manufactured from medical cannabis. They recently secured the notoriously hard to get FDA approval giving them the right to market their products into all US states and they have already secured a 1.2m Euro order. 

West Perth based explorer Drake Resources is now about to officially become a technology company after completing extensive due diligence on Israeli based cyber security firm Genome Technology Ltd. Both Drake and Genome have completed their respective due diligence programs and a reverse takeover of Genome by Drake will now occur.

Sipa Resources’ share price jumped 20% last week on the back of what looks to be a successful drilling campaign at the Akelikongo nickel/copper Project in Uganda. The market is eagerly awaiting the results of the latest drilling campaign after the company announced last week they had hit significant mineralization in 10 out of 12 holes with all results currently pending.