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Cameco chief reminds us that spot market is ‘non-fundamental’; Broker suggests buy the dip, and likes Boss; Plus, lucrative Spartan takeover shows why brownfields exploration is back in vogue, with Javelin, Leeuwin, Firetail and Greenvale on the radar.

Hard commodities, led by copper and gold, marched higher this week as inflation fears rose and the U.S. dollar fell, driving the price of copper through the US$5 per pound mark and gold to a record US$3050 an ounce.

After a period of uncertainty, the planets are lining up for PhosCo and its big phosphate ambitions.

Sun Silver has contracted Alford Drilling for its 2025 drill program to follow-up 2024 maiden drilling at its Maverick Springs project in Nevada which returned intercepts of up to 1249g/t silver equivalent (reports Stockhead).

James Bay Minerals aims to determine the optimal processing method to maximise gold recovery from high-grade skarn mineralisation at the Independence project in Nevada with metallurgical testing to begin shortly (reports Stockhead).