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In this exclusive interview, Jess Fertig welcomes Andrew Vigar, Chairman of Terra Uranium (ASX: T92.ASX), to discuss the company's exciting strategic moves into critical minerals like tungsten, tin, molybdenum, and bismuth. Discover how Terra Uranium is leveraging innovative technologies such as optical sorting to unlock the potential of the Glen Eden project—the largest undeveloped tungsten asset in NSW—and how recent capital raises are funding exploration efforts. Andrew breaks down the significance of the projects, their scale, and the company's vision to create a globally significant resource portfolio in Australia. Plus, insights into government support, environmental advantages of m...

In this exclusive interview, Rita Brooks, Exec Chair of Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB), shares exciting updates on the company's exploration strategies in Western Australia’s renowned gold and critical minerals regions. Discover how Tambourah's drilling program is uncovering high-grade gold, antimony, and silver prospects with tremendous upside potential. With multiple projects, strategic positioning near big deposits like Harmony Gold and Peak Hill, and upcoming results from recent sampling and drilling, Tambourah is set to be a notable player in the booming Australian mineral space. The company's focus on resource development, combined with recent advancements in drill testing and regional po...

In this exclusive interview, Alexander Scanlon, MD & CEO of Barton Gold Holdings (ASX: BGD), sits down with Jess Fertig to reveal the company’s strategic outlook and exciting milestones. Discover how Barton Gold is leveraging its existing infrastructure and regional assets to unlock $2.7 billion in free cash flow, with a pathway to 150,000+ oz annual gold production by 2030. 

Key highlights include the Stage 1 & 2 starter pits with rapid payback, the potential of the groundbreaking Thomas silver discovery, and the strategic Wadena nickel project expansion. 

Alex discusses financing strategies, project timelines, exploration successes, and how the company’s discip...

EVE Health (ASX: EVE) chief executive officer Damian Wood joins Small Caps to discuss the formation of a strategic clinic partnership with TeleDocs Clinic.

The collaboration agreement will deliver online prescribing access and nationwide opportunities to market an erectile dysfunction oral soluble film and a dysmenorrhea gummy through the strategic clinic partnership.

The agreement includes prescribing and education and will deliver online prescribing access and nationwide pharmacy support for EVE’s oral health portfolio.

TeleDocs Clinic will be the first online clinic authorised to prescribe both products, while working with a network of ov...

NoviqTech (ASX: NVQ) chief executive officer Freddy El Turk joins Small Caps to discuss the AI intelligence and distributed ledger technology specialist's recent corporate moves.

Most recently NoviqTech and Australia's Livium (ASX: LIT) agreed to collaborate to support the tokenisation of environmental benefits from advanced battery recycling operations using NoviqTech’s Carbon Central platform.

The pioneering project aims to establish a new digital framework for tracking and verifying carbon reductions and mineral circularity within Livium's battery recycling operations.

The collaboration will focus on digital tracking and validation of emissions reductions by recycling and re...

Altech Batteries (ASX: ATC) chief financial officer and company secretary Martin Stein joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent successes, highlighting the long life and safety of its ground-breaking CERENERGY technology.

Considered a safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries, the CERENERGY project has received the highest possible rating from S&P Global Ratings and is classified as "Dark Green" in a market that is tipped to reach $386 billion annually in the near future.

Mr Stein discusses Altech's plans to leverage that substantial market, while also highlighting new studies that have confirmed the long life of...

Terra Uranium (ASX: T92) executive chairman Andrew Vigar joins Small Caps to discuss the company's plans to drill at the Spire, Horizon and HawkRock projects in 2025.

A coordinated program has been prepared, with permits in place for the focused 2025 drill program, which will be undertaken across multiple drill-ready targets.

Spire and Horizon are part of a strategic agreement Terra signed with ATHA Energy in 2024 to earn 70% of the uranium projects.

Spire and Horizon comprise 12 mineral claims located on the eastern rim of the Athabasca Basin within the East Rim Exploration District.

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Kingston Resources (ASX: KSN) managing director Andrew Corbett joins Small Caps to discuss the major splash the company made this week with its sale of the Misima gold mine in Papua New Guinea.

The deal with PNG copper and gold giant Ok Tedi Mining Ltd will deliver Kingston with up to $70 million in cash plus ongoing exposure to future large-scale production at Misima through a gross revenue royalty.

Notably, the consideration to be received is greater than Kingston’s current market capitalisation.

The company is now cashed up to progress its Mineral Hill go...

Askari Metals (ASX: AS2) executive director Gino D'Anna joins Small Caps to discuss the company's acquisition of 100% ownership of a highly prospective gold project portfolio located within the prolific Adola greenstone belt in southern Ethiopia.

The southern-African focused exploration company now holds a significant position in one of the last under-explored mineral rich frontier belts hosting multiple large-scale gold and copper deposits.

The acquisition will provide Askari with a significant first mover advantage into a fertile gold belt in a region known to host several large-scale gold deposits, but which remains heavily under-explored where the...

Andean Silver (ASX: ASL) chief executive officer Tim Laneyrie joins Small Caps to discuss the company's continued success at its Cerro Bayo silver-gold project in Chile.

The company's decision to focus on expanding the proven silver and gold footprint at Cerro Bayo after it wrapped up the acquisition of the Chilean project just over 12 months ago has seen it dramatically increase resource numbers.

Most recently the company achieved a 22% increase to the mineral resource estimate to 111 million ounces of silver equivalent.

All this at a time when silver prices have remained strong.

Blackstone Minerals (ASX: BSX) managing director Scott Williamson joins Small Caps to discuss the company's early successes at the new Mankayan copper and gold project in the Philippines.

Just over two months after acquiring Mankayan, the company has unveiled promising historic assay results from the deepest hole drilled at the project.

The previously unreleased significant intercept included a highlight 1.25% copper equivalent hit at 432m.

The results from the hole drilled in 2013 by Goldfields were identified by Blackstone in its early assessments of Mankayan.

Blackstone’s study of the project has led th...

Akora Resources (ASX: AKO) managing director Paul Bibby joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent release of a pre-feasibility study (PFS) for its 2 million tonne per annum Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) iron operation in Madagascar.

The PFS has confirmed the 100% owned Bekisopa iron ore project has the capacity to produce 2 million tonnes per annum of 61.6% iron average blended grade lump and fines iron ore products for blast furnace steelmakers.

The PFS also identified strong financial returns of $1.25 billion, a net present value of $233 million and an internal rate of return of 86%.

The...

Terra Uranium (ASX: T92) executive chairman Andrew Vigar joins Small Caps to discuss the recent acquisition of the proven Ottery project in NSW.

The company is following up the historic identification of gold, silver and tin potential of the project.
Terra made the strategic decision to add Ottery to its portfolio with a binding term sheet to acquire 100% of the issued capital of LCT Metals in mid-March.

The move has allowed the company to build on its uranium exploration success with the opportunity to target not only tin, but also gold and silver, with...

Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) (OTCQB: BGDFF) managing director Alexander Scanlon joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent corporate and exploration successes.

The company recently announced an impressive net profit after tax of $3.1 million for the December 2024 half year.

The results included a December 2024 gold sale and a $2.38 million cash R&D tax refund bringing in $8.5 million in revenues.

The profit result was achieved at a time when Barton was outlaying a significant amount of capital on exploration at its Tunkillia and Tarcoola gold developments in South Australia.

With $9.2 million in...

Terra Uranium (ASX: T92) executive chairman Andrew Vigar joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent acquisition of three high-grade NSW tin, silver and gold projects.

The company has entered into a binding term sheet to acquire 100% of the issued capital of LCT Metals and its two exploration licences in the New England tin province, New South Wales.

The licences contain the Ottery tin mine, Castle Rag silver project and Mole River silver and tin project.

Terra has received firm commitments from a number of sophisticated investors to raise $500,000 before costs by way...

Wellnex Life (ASX: WNX) executive director Zack Bozinovski joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent expansions and the receipt of key market authorisations (MA).
 
Most recently it received a MA approval for its liquid paracetamol plus caffeine soft gel.
 
That approval builds on the company's previous MAs for liquid paracetamol, liquid paracetamol plus ibuprofen and liquid mini-ibuprofen.
 
The liquid paracetamol plus caffeine soft gel approval is expected to drive additional revenue opportunities for Wellnex Life alongside the existing MAs being utilised by domestic and international companies like Chemist Warehouse and Haleon.
 
T...

International Graphite (ASX: IG6) managing director and chief executive officer Andrew Worland joins Small Caps to discuss the recent $4 million grant from the Western Australian government to help fast track development of its Springdale-Collie mine-to-market battery graphite supply strategy.

That WA support took the company’s total funding support from Australian state and federal governments to $17.2 million.

The new funds will pay for essential activities to help propel the company’s mine-to-market strategy through feasibility to commercialisation.

The new grant will also be applied to the installation of Australia’s first demonstration-scale spheroidiser at the...

Terra Uranium (ASX: T92) executive chairman Andrew Vigar joins Small Caps to discuss the company's successes in 2024 and its growth plans in 2025.
 
The company is entering an exciting new phase of growth and discovery after expanding its footprint and deepening its knowledge as it moves closer to unlocking the immense potential of a world-class portfolio.
 
2025 will see Terra Uranium advance its recent transformative agreements with Atha Energy under which it will explore their Spire & Horizon projects and drill its core Pasfield project.
 
The exploration programs at Spire & Horizon are considered a game-changing milestone for...

Francis Hunt, aka 'The Market Sniper', joins Small Caps to share his views on where he currently sees investment opportunity across various markets.

Topics discussed include: debt system, gold, silver, cryptocurrency, stocks, gold, silver and the new financial system.

Francis' website The Market Sniper:
https://themarketsniper.com/

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NoviqTech (ASX: NVQ) chief executive officer Freddy El Turk joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent moves which are aimed at expanding its blockchain powered ledger and carbon footprint monitoring expertise to the world.

Earlier this week NoviqTech announced is in advanced discussions to list its shares on the OTC market in the United States.

He told the ASX that trading of NoviqTech’s shares on the OTC is aimed at enhancing the visibility and accessibility of the company to North American investors.

That news followed the company revealing it had rece...

Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) managing director and chief executive officer Duncan Craib joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s dramatic growth surge with project success in Australia and the US.

Closer to home, Boss’ Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia continues to ramp up its production numbers towards nameplate capacity.

In 2011 Honeymoon became Australia's second operating in-situ recovery uranium mine and earlier this year and it became the nation’s newest uranium producer when Boss leveraged the significant high-quality infrastructure to re-start the valuable asset.

The project’s key metrics continue to be in li...

Elevate Uranium (ASX: EL8) managing director and chief executive officer Murray Hill joins Small Caps to discuss the upcoming activities at the company's flagship Koppies uranium project in Namibia.

The company is well funded for the next phase of development at Koppies and its U-pgrade™ uranium ore beneficiation process after receiving binding commitments to raise $25 million.

Elevate plans to use the funds to complete a bench-scale metallurgical testwork program on Koppies ore followed by the design, construction and operation of an U-pgrade™ demonstration plant at the project.

The results of which will be used...

Green Critical Minerals (ASX: GCM) managing director Clinton Booth joins Small Caps to discuss the company's move to acquire a very high-density (VHD) graphite technology.

The innovative technology offers a transformational leap in graphite production and is expected to reach commercialisation within the next 12 months.

Utilising a revolutionary process, the technology produces VHD graphite in just 24 to 36 hours at significantly lower temperatures than conventional methods, providing substantial cost and environmental advantages over competitors.

The addition of the new technology is seen as a “game-changer” for Green Critical Minerals, providing it with the opportunity to m...

Stormeur (ASX: STR) chief executive officer and chairman Vivek Eranki joins Small Caps to discuss the company's $7 million IPO to fund new Cosmetique clinics on Australia's east coast as part of its growth strategy.

The company recently announced the IPO offering 35 million shares at $0.20 each, aiming to raise funds for clinic expansion, marketing, and potential acquisitions.

Stormeur, which operates 17 clinics across five states, plans to increase its network to 100 clinics by 2025, offering high-end non-surgical cosmetic treatments.

The group has also achieved national safety accreditation, positioning itself as a leader in Australia’s growing no...

Australian Rare Earths (ASX: AR3) managing director and chief executive officer Travis Beinke joins Small Caps to discuss the company's continued success at the promising Koppamurra project in South Australia.

The company recently released a 27% increase to the high-grade project's mineral resource estimate of to 236 million tonnes (Mt) at 748 parts per million total rare earth oxides, up from to 186 million tonnes at 712 parts per million total rare earth oxides.

Notably the new mineral resource includes 68 million tonnes grading over 1000 parts per million total rare earth oxides, up 70% on the previous estimate.

Recent exploration...

Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the robust results obtained from the company's pre-feasibility study into its Bécancour refinery in Quebec, Canada.

The PFS confirmed the viability - even in a low pricing environment - of this key infrastructure element in Lithium Universe's critical metals development strategy.

The study further confirmed the value of Lithium Universe's counter-cyclical design where it will be able to develop projects at times of low prices that will be well placed when there is a recovery.

The company has a...

Black Rock Mining (ASX: BKT) managing director and chief executive officer John de Vries joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent signing of a major financing agreement to fund development of the Mahenge Graphite Project in Tanzania.

A consortium of African banks have come together to provide approximately $260 million in loan and bank guarantee facilities to fund Mahenge.

The financial institutions include The Development Bank of Southern Africa, The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa and Tanzanian lender CRDB Bank.

The new facilities are in addition to around $73 million of previously agreed...

Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company's successful completion of its drilling at the Tambourah Gold project in Western Australia's far north.

The 11 hole RC and diamond drilling program targeted high-grade gold at the historic Tambourah King, Federal and Kushmattie prospects.

A Western Australian government co-funded diamond hole also tested gold mineralisation at the World’s Fair prospect.

The company is expecting assay results from the program to arrive early next month after noting promising geology during the drilling program.

At the same time Ta...

Anatara Lifesciences (ASX: ANR) executive chair Dr David Brookes joins Small Caps to discuss the company's progress with its Stage 2 pivotal GaRP irritable bowel syndrome trial.

The company has made good strides with recruitment for the trial, with over 30 participants enrolled and approximately 20 potential participants currently in the final screening to determine suitability for enrolment.

The company has added additional sites in Adelaide and the Sunshine Coast, while it is receiving sustained levels of interest at existing sites in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.

The Stage 2 trial is designed to confirm the highly encouraging...

Terra Uranium (ASX: T92) executive chairman Andrew Vigar joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent deal with ATHA Energy and its sizeable Canadian uranium portfolio.

T92 recently signed strategic agreements with ATHA Energy under which ATHA may potentially acquire up to 60% of T92’s Pasfield Lake project, while T92 may potentially acquire up to 70% of ATHA’s Spire and Horizon projects.

Terra has undertaken a successful capital raise to help support further work at the various projects.

The Spire and Horizon Projects are comprised of 12 mineral claims located on the eastern rim of t...

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 prepayment facility upon execution of definitive agreements.

In return Galan will sell Chemphys a total of 23,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) over the first five years of Phase 1 production from the HMW project

The signing of the agreements come...

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 has similar mineralisation to the large Koppies resource, located 12 km to the north.

Elevate will continue to further assess Hirabeb with drilling set to continue for the rest of the calendar year with the company planning on releasing a maiden resource.

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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 vital funding interest with the signing of a Letter of Intent for cooperation with Yankuang Energy Group. The proposed transaction would entail the funding of US$220 million of equity capital from strategic investors.

Yankuang Energy intends to provide up to US$90 million to support...

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 Energy keep on running into roadblocks in their plans to drill a well on a large gas target in PEP 11.

The recent NSW government move to bring in a Bill to potentially ban oil and gas...

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 resource estimate now stands at 35.2 million tonnes at 6.0% total graphitic carbon.

Meanwhile, iTech has obtained exceptional recoveries of around 93% using an industry standard flotation circuit on a bulk concentrate sample of 3.4kg graphite from its Lacroma graphite project.

The next step will be...

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 million ounces of silver equivalent mineral resource to 100 million ounces of silver equivalent.

That aim was recently boosted when Mitre obtained rock chip assays of up to 10,466 grams per tonne silver equivalent.

That find confirmed the discovery of...

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 for the large Mass-Specs Cooperative Development Centre.

The company is working with MASS- SPECC to deploy the app to more than 340 cooperatives with approximately 3.4 million members.

The collaboration will back MASS-SPECC’s Vision of leveraging Peppermint’s proven EMI licenced bizm...

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 Tiros project in Minas Gerais, which is rich in rare earth elements and titanium, and two gold projects—Novo Mundo and Santa Angela—both situated in the state of Mato Grosso.

The company raised $8m at $0.50 per share and is set to list on the...

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 added six highly prospective tenements at the new Khaleesi project.

Khaleesi is located along strike from the rich Ponton Dyke, which has returned some of Australia’s best rare earth intersections.

RareX is already preparing to fast-track an exploration program wh...

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 been prioritised from an initial 40 geophysical anomalies.

Paradise Dam is estimated to have 3km of strike and was identified from structural analysis and an induced polarisation (IP) geophysics survey completed in January 2024.

The Douglas Creek prospect is a large-scale...