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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 Asset Energy, is currently in the process of furthering a PEP-11 joint venture applications to lift a suspension of its work program conditions and related extension of the licence.

These applications have been filed with Australia’s of...

Ideon Technologies vice president of customer experience Kim Lawrence joins Small Caps to discuss its groundbreaking muon tomography technology.

The Canadian based company uses cosmic rays to detect ore bodies deep beneath the Earth's surface without disturbing the environment.

Ideon's non-invasive approach offers a wealth of benefits for the mining industry by reducing environmental impact by eliminating the need for extensive drilling, improved exploration efficiency providing a more comprehensive understanding of the subsurface, enabling miners to pinpoint ore bodies with greater precision and enhanced ore characterisation with detailed 3D imagery.

Ideon boasts a...

Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company's highly active gold and lithium exploration campaigns in Western Australia.

Within the last few days Tambourah has announced drilling success at its Tambourah King gold target and identified significant lithium exploration upside at the Russian Jack project.

Tambourah's first assay results from an RC drill program at the Tambourah gold and lithium project in the Pilbara confirmed the historic goldfield has the potential to encompass high-grade gold mineralisation.

Notable results included very high-grade hits of up to 28 grams per...

Galan Lithium (ASX: GLN) managing director Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega joins Small Caps to discuss to recent signing of significant offtake agreement with global mining giant Glencore for its Hombre Muerto West (HMW) project in Argentina.

The binding offtake deal is for lithium chloride and/or lithium carbonate from Phase 1 production at HMW.

Notably, Glencore has also offered to potential provide Galan with a $107 million to $151 million in support of a financing prepayment facility for the project.

Galan considers the Glencore agreement as a validation of the world class quality of...

Frontier Digital Ventures (ASX: FDV) founder and chief executive officer Shaun Di Gregorio joins Small Caps to discuss the online classified marketplace specialist’s continuing run of revenue momentum.

The company recently reported that for the fifth consecutive quarter each of its geographic regions achieved positive operating cashflows.

Notably, the FDV Group also achieved its third consecutive quarter of positive operating cashflows, which included its holding company costs.

The growing revenue momentum was supported by new product initiatives and transaction revenues.

The recent launch of Iris platform into larger markets is ex...

Peppermint Innovation (ASX: PIL) managing director and chief executive officer Chris Kain joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent of run of success as it continues to expand its innovative fintech business in the Philippines and globally.

Amongst the numerous milestones achieved recently is the company’s signing of an exclusive five-year agreement with Visa to significantly expand its digital financial offering.

The company will initially focus on its key markets in the Philippines, Singapore and Australia before taking its business model around the world.

Peppermint also recently signed an exclusive five-year ag...

Akora Resources (ASX: AKO) managing director Paul Bibby joins Small Caps to discuss the robust results obtained in a new low start-up cost examination of its proposed Bekisopa DSO iron ore project in Madagascar.

The new scoping study has confirmed the project to be economically viable was an initial 2 million tonnes per annum direct shipping ore (DSO) operation.

The results also highlighted the viability of a low capital expenditure (CAPEX) option based on an initial open pit mining operation utilising the project’s DSO JORC indicated resource of 4.4 million tonnes.

While the scoping st...

Elevate Uranium (ASX: EL8) managing director and chief executive officer Murray Hill joins Small Caps to discuss the company's success in significantly increasing the mineral resource estimate (MRE) for its Koppies uranium development in Namibia.

The recently released MRE update included a dramatic 136% increase in the Koppies resources to 48 million pounds and a 42% jump in Elevate's total Namibian numbers.

The company is not resting on its laurels and is aggressively looking to add to those impressive figures with an ongoing exploration campaign.

Elevate currently has three drill rigs in the field progressing a...

Investigator Resources (ASX: IVR) managing director Andrew McIlwain joins Small Caps to discuss the significant progress the company is making at its Paris silver project in South Australia.

The company has recently successfully progressed and completed a number of key studies as it continues to advance its proposed development of Paris - Australia's highest-grade silver project.

Investigator is currently focused on a pre-feasibility study at Paris, with a number of key activities well advanced.

The company has recently contracted Melbourne-based engineering, procurement and construction consultancy group Mincore to work with it on delivering...

Blue Energy (ASX: BLU) managing director John Phillips joins Small Caps to discuss the company's gas developments in Queensland.

The company recently revealed a 36% increase in the estimated total proved and probable (2P) reserves in its Sapphire Block gas development.

The new independent assessment of the Sapphire project also provided a 16% increase in 3P+2C aggregate gas resource available to 543 pj of recoverable gas.

The reserves and resources upgrade support the gas supply volume required under a non-binding MoU between Blue Energy and Queensland Pacific Metals.

In June, Blue Energy signed...

Chimeric Therapeutics (ASX: CHM) managing director and chief executive office Jennifer Chow joins Small Caps to discuss the successful results of a new brain cancer (glioblastoma) treatment trial.

The phase 1A trial achieved a 55% disease control rate (DCR) in patients treated with its CLTX CAR T solution, well above historical disease control rates.

Under that trial two patients exceeded a survival period of 14 months, while three patients remained alive and in follow up.

This is in direct comparison to survival expectations of around 7 months for patients after first line therapy.

Data...

Wide Open Agriculture’s (ASX: WOA) chief executive officer Jay Albany joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent acquisition of leading European lupin protein producer Prolupin.

The acquisition provides Wide Open with immediate commercial production capacity in a dynamic environment for the development of plant-based protein products.

Wide Open is already eyeing off the strategic opportunity to take advantage of Propulin’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to add European production of the company’s lead Buntine Protein product.

The company is preparing to upgrade the Prolupin facility to lift production to 1,000 tonnes per annu...

Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent successful ASX re-listing, its on-the-ground activities in Canada and plans to develop a multi-purpose battery-grade lithium carbonate refinery.

The company attracted significant interest when it re-listed on the ASX in mid-August with a new team and a new focus after completing an over-subscribed $4.5 million initial public offer (IPO).

Within weeks of its ASX relisting, members of Lithium Universe’s “dream team” of battery metal and Canadian exploration experts were able to hit the ground running at the company’...

CGN Resources (ASX: CGR) managing director Stan Wholley joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s successful $10 million initial public offer (IPO) and exploration plans for its large Webb iron oxide, copper-gold (IOCG) project in Western Australia’s highly prospective West Arunta region.

With an initial minimum raising target of $8 million at $0.20 a share, CGN was swamped by investors and eventually attracted $10 million in offers.

The company is now preparing to list on the ASX around the 12th October 2023 and looking to undertake a significant exploration campaign at Webb.

This includes a 1,200 metre diam...

Pioneer Lithium (ASX: PLN) chief executive officer Clinton Booth joins Small Caps to discuss the company's ASX listing following a $5 million initial public offering.

The funds will be used to support the company’s hunt for high-value battery metals discoveries in Canada. Led by a highly-regarded and experienced team, Pioneer Lithium holds sizeable lithium prospective tenements in Ontario and Quebec.

The company’s initial exploration focus will be on the Root Lake project in the Red Lake lithium district of Ontario where previous exploration has already confirmed the presence of high-grade spodumene mineralisation.

The...

Astral Resources (ASX: AAR) managing director Marc Ducler joins Small Caps to discuss the positive results obtained into a study into the potential development of the 100%-owned Mandilla gold project in Western Australia.

One of the largest undeveloped free-milling open pit gold development projects in the rich Kalgoorlie region, Mandilla is forecast to produce around 100,000 ounces per annum at an average feed grade of 1.30 grams per tonnes gold over an initial 7.4-year period.

The Astral board is now assessing a move to the pre-feasibility phase for the project after the scoping study results highlighted commercial...

92 Energy (ASX: 92E) chief executive officer Siobhan Lancaster joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s timely discovery of a potential new zone of mineralisation at its Gemini uranium find in Canada’s world-class Athabasca Basin.

The new parallel structure was identified in a recent follow-up campaign to the September 2021 Gemini uranium discovery.

The hole returned uranium mineralisation and key uranium pathfinders with intense alteration, making it ripe for follow-up drilling and assay results to further confirm the potential of the new find are expected imminently.

92 Energy’s uranium exploration is targeting high-grade unconf...

PharmAust (ASX: PAA) chief executive officer Michael Thurn joins Small Caps to discuss his appointment to the company and recent trial developments.

The company recently released interim analysis of data from a Phase 1 clinical trial of its lead drug candidate monepantel (MPL) to treat motor neurone disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (MND/ALS).

Results from an interim analysis of the trial indicated that neurofilament light chain (Nfl) protein concentrations in the plasma of participants in its Phase 1 clinical trial do not increase following MPL treatment – a positive sign.

PharmAust hopes that MPL could eventually re...

Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ: PLL) president and chief executive officer Keith Phillips joins Small Caps to discuss the latest progress made at the company’s North American Lithium (NAL) operation in Canada.

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Elevate Uranium (ASX: EL8) managing director and chief executive officer Murray Hill joins Small Caps to discuss the expansion of the company’s drilling campaign at the Koppies uranium project in Namibia.

The company recently added an additional rig to its Koppies program, with a three rig, reverse circulation program targeting the finalisation of an interim resource for Koppies 3 during October 2023.

This will be followed by further drilling to test areas located outside of the interim resource zone, with results aimed at expanding the current JORC resource of 20.3 million pounds of uranium identified at Koppies 1 an...

James Bay Minerals (ASX: JBY) executive director Andrew Dornan joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s highly anticipated listing on the ASX today.

Named after the “red hot” James Bay lithium province in Quebec, the company made its ASX appearance after successfully completing a highly sort after $6 million initial public offer.

Backed by its vastly experienced board and management, James Bay Minerals already holds one of the largest lithium exploration tenures in the area with around 224 square kilometres of prospective ground on its books.

The company currently holds 104 claims in James Bay and ha...

International Graphite (ASX: IG6) chief executive officer and managing director Andrew Worland joins Small Caps to discuss the company's release of a major resource upgrade at its Springdale graphite project in Western Australia.

The significant jump in resource numbers has led to Springdale being ranked as the second largest known graphite deposit in Australia.

The independent estimate has revealed a new Springdale resource that is 3.4 times higher than the previous estimate.

Significantly the company has moved 27% of the mineral resource to the indicated category.

Lifted by the results of an extensive...

Terra Uranium (ASX: T92) executive chairman Andrew Vigar joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s positive success with its maiden diamond drill hole at the Parker Lake project in the world class Athabasca Basin in Canada.

The company’s maiden diamond hole successfully confirmed the uranium potential at Parker Lake, providing the company with increased confidence at is contemplates a much bigger drilling campaign.

The hole intersected a promising 1.5m section which returned elevated radioactivity readings and a core sample has now been sent off for further analysis with results expected within the next four...

Far East Gold (ASX: FEG) chairman Paul Walker joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s upcoming exploration plans at Trenggalek copper gold project and the recent significant investment made by Eurasian Resources Group.

The company has defined several untested high-magnetic bodies which it believes has the potential to be large scale, porphyry type copper gold targets.

Far East is now further assessing the potential of those priority prospects with a detailed geological mapping program underway.

The potential at Trenggalek was highlighted recently when Eurasian Resources made a $4 million investment. An unlisted company 40% ow...

Critical Resources (ASX: CRR) managing director Alex Cheeseman joins Small Caps to discuss the company's ongoing exploration success at the Mavis Lake lithium project in Ontario, Canada.

The company recently intersected multiple wide mineralised zones in drilling at the “Swell Zone" discovery at Mavis Lake.

Notably, the wide intercepts were drilled outside of the current mineral resource envelope and Critical Resources is confident the discovery will add significant tonnage to its next resource upgrade.

The company is particularly excited that every drill-hole also displayed localised sections of very high-grade lithium mineralisation.

To...

Felix Gold (ASX: FXG) chief executive officer and managing director Anthony Reilly joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s continued drilling success in its significant property holdings in the rich Tintina Gold Belt of Alaska’s famous Fairbranks district.

After identifying further major targets across its Treasure Creek gold project and beyond in 2022, Felix has started its 2023 exploration campaign off with a bang.

The company recently received significant assay results from drilling at the NW Array prospect which show wide intersections of near-surface commercial grade gold mineralisation enriched with high-grade critical mineral antimony.

Fu...

CurveBeam AI (ASX: CVB) chief executive officer Greg Brown joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s ASX listing and impressive $25 million initial public offering.

A specialist in computerised tomography (CT) and artificial intelligence (AI) imaging, the company’s state-of-the-art technology is looming as a game changer in global orthopaedics and bone health treatment and care.

CurveBeam’s flagship HiRise scanner technology provides the capability to carry out traditional CT scans (where a patient lies down) as well as weight-bearing ones (where a patient stands in a normal pose).

Importantly, HiRise has already been g...

Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent successful capital raising, upcoming drilling plans for its suite of Western Australian mineral assets and the appointment of a highly experienced new director.

In early August Tambourah attracted strong market interest when it secured firm commitments to raise a total of $2.5 million.

Those funds, along with the estimated injection of a further $1.2 million from a share purchase plan, will be used to accelerate activity at its critical and precious metals projects.

A major focus will be the co...

Surefire Resources (ASX: SRN) managing director Paul Burton joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s continued run of success at its Victory Bore project in Western Australia.

The company recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia covers the proposed concentrate processing of the Victory Bore vanadium production.

The Victory Bore vanadium bearing magnetite concentrate is now in line to be processed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a variety of products, opening up a significant new market for this highly sort after product.

The Kingdom itself is...

Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the company's listing on the ASX this week and plans to develop the Apollo lithium project located in the James Bay region in Canada.

The company is focused on the rapid exploration, expansion and development of its flagship Apollo lithium project which sits across 446 claims and 240 square kilometres in the James Bay region of north-west Québec.

The company is led by Iggy Tan, a mining veteran with over 30 years of experience being the current managing director of Altech Batteries (ASX: A...

QMines (ASX: QML) chairman Andrew Sparke joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent exploration excitement which has confirmed the potential of its promising Mt Chalmers copper discovery in Queensland.

Recent drilling hits at the Artillery Road target have confirmed that QMines looks to be onto a significant new base metal discovery.

The company initially grabbed interest in late July when drilling intersected high-grade mineralisation southwest of the Mt Chalmers West Lode.

It quickly followed that up in early August with a drill test of an Artillery Road electromagnetic prospect confirming potential fo...

Beam Communications (ASX: BCC) chief executive officer and president Michael Capocchi and chief financial officer Dean Sleigh join Small Caps to discuss the company's strong finish to FY2023.

The SatCom specialist concluded its 2023 financial year with record earnings, a 75% increase in operating cash inflow to $2.5 million, and a 39% cash balance increase to $5 million.

The company also achieved record levels of sales and royalty increases across all business units, including strong demand for its SatPhone Shop business and an $18 million contract with global satellite leader Iridium Communications.

Mr Capocchi attributed the success to unwinding...

West Cobar Metals (ASX: WC1) managing director Matt Szwedzicki joins Small Caps to discuss the strides the company has taken with the release of a major resource increase at its Salazar rare earth element (REE) project in southern Western Australia.

The company quadrupled its JORC (2012) total mineral resource at Sazalar to 190 million tonnes of 1,172 parts per million total rare earth oxide.

Notably, the updated resource includes a significant proportion of total magnet rare earth content, with studies identifying particularly high heavy magnet rare earths material at the Newmont deposit within Sazalar.

Initial metallurgical...

Akora Resources (ASX: AKO) managing director Paul Bibby joins Small Caps to discuss a recent 34% increase in the indicated and inferred resource at the Bekisopa iron project in Madagascar.

The company has defined a 34 million tonne high-grade “green steel” resource at Bekisopa with impressive grades of 45.3% iron and a 58% David Tube Recovery (DTR) level, which will produce a 68.7% iron concentrate at 75 microns.

Green steel is a high value steel product produced without the use of fossil fuels. Manufacturers are increasingly seeking higher-grade ores with fewer impurities that are more energy efficient and cost effective to proc...

Red Mountain Mining (ASX: RMX) chairman Troy Flannery joins Small Caps to discuss the recent confirmation of high-grade lithium at the Mustang project in Nevada and the acquisition of a majority interest in a Western Australian rare earths project.

The company's drilling campaign at Mustang intersected lithium in eight out of ten holes and extended the mineralisation strike out to 1500m. Red Mountain is now planning to follow-up the success of that maiden Phase 1 drilling program.

Mustang is located 9 km south of Belmont Resources' Kibby Lake project and 40km east of American Lithium’s TLC de...

92 Energy (ASX: 92E) chief executive officer Siobhan Lancaster joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s uranium exploration activities in Canada’s world-class Athabasca Basin.

The company is preparing to follow up a number of new targets at its Clover uranium project, where three significant new electromagnetic conductors were identified by a recent EM ground survey.

Clover is located along trend to some of Canada’s richest uranium finds including Orano Canada’s Close Lake uranium deposit and Tucker Lake uranium zone and Cameco Corporations’ Cigar Lake uranium mine.

92 Energy is becoming a significan...

Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent acquisition of six lithium prospective projects in Western Australia’s Pilbara region and earn-in agreement with Chilean lithium producer SQM.

Tambourah has Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA (SQM), allowing SQM to initially earn a 50% stake, and potentially up to a 70% interest, in six of Tambourah's Julimar Nth projects in Western Australia.

SQM will secure these stakes by independently funding between $1.5m and $3m on exploration and development activities. In addition, the addition of the 337 square kilometres of gran...

Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent acquisition of six lithium prospective projects in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

The addition of the 337 square kilometres of granted exploration licences from Minrex Resources makes Tambourah one of the largest lithium exploration tenement holders in the high-profile Pilbara, host of two operating, Tier 1 lithium mines.

Several of the projects adjoin current Tambourah Pilbara projects, including Tambourah North and the Haystack Well Project.

The company is planning to quickly advance its new Pilbara lithium assets which are prov...

Chilwa Minerals (ASX: CHW) managing director Cadell Buss joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s plans to fast track activities at its exciting Malawi heavy mineral sands and rare earth project.

The company recently raised $8 million through a popular IPO to undertake a two-year, $4.5 million exploration program at Lake Chilwa.

Approximately $7.4 million had been outlaid at Lake Chilwa by previous explorers providing the company with a heads-up on the best areas to target.

Its initial Lake Chilwa activities will include a 17,000-metre sonic drilling program to test those targets as it looks to...

Felix Gold (ASX: FXG) chief executive officer and managing director Anthony Reilly joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s current Treasure Creek project drilling campaign in Alaska.

The infill drilling program will provide key information for a maiden resource estimate to be released towards year end.

Current work is focused on Treasure Creek’s gold prospectivity with Felix Gold already defining an initial exploration target for the NW array of 76Mt to 92Mt at 0.4–1.1 grams per tonne gold implying potential to host up to 3.6 million ounces.

The company has also identified the potent...