The links between lithium batteries and copper became a little stronger for New World Resources today than just the wires that transmit electricity between generation, storage and use (reports MiningNews).

WA’s bevy of gold miners have shined on the Australian Securities Exchange with strong gains on Monday across the sector as investors flock to safe haven assets thanks to multiple global tailwinds (reports The West Australian).

The Resources Rising Stars Summer Series returns this November with one-day conferences on 14 November at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney and on 16 November at The Ritz-Carlton in Melbourne (reports Stockhead).

Battery Age Minerals is back behind the drill bit at its potentially large-scale Falcon Lake project in Ontario as it seeks to expand on recent successes and test new prospective areas (reports Stockhead).

Lithium explorer Critical Resources has reported “highly-encouraging” workstreams at the newly-acquired Gullwing-Tot Lakes property, near its flagship Mavis Lake project in Canada.

Reports Small Caps

The world is on course for a swing towards green steel, and that means higher-grade ore. These ASX stocks are helping drive that transition (reports Stockhead).

Major economies like China, India, Japan, Europe, and the United States embracing nuclear power and expanding their nuclear power capacities have caused uranium prices to go on an upswing (reports Global X ETFs on Livewire).

Drilling at Spartan’s non-core Glenburgh and Egerton gold projects in WA’s Gascoyne region has returned high-grade intercepts which highlight the quality of its portfolio outside of the flagship Dalgaranga project (reports Stockhead).

Follow-up reverse circulation drilling at the Hardway target in northwest Queensland has delivered broad and shallow intercepts of copper and rare earth mineralisation for owner Hammer Metals (reports Small Caps).

Samples from the 560m-long Warhawk pegmatite at James Bay Minerals’ Aero tenure have returned lithium concentrations containing spodumene crystals, confirming its prospectivity (reports Stockhead).

Stepping out from known historical occurrences at Falcon Lake, Battery Age Minerals has delineated a significant mineralisation zone at Falcon East as drilling returns thick, shallow intercepts of up to 19.1 @ 1.34% Li2O.

Reports Stockhead.

Canada-focused Pioneer Lithium chief executive Clinton Booth is transitioning to the role of managing director, effective immediately, to lead the company from exploration into a development phase for its flagship Root Lake project in Ontario, Canada (reports Stockhead).

The Kerry Harmanis-chaired Talisman Mining has enjoyed early success translating the results of its regional scale geophysical surveys into discoveries with the intersection of broad zones of lead-zinc-silver mineralisation at its Lachlan project, within the central Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales (reports MiningNews).

Calidus Resources (ASX: CAI) has welcomed the news that international lithium major SQM is set to provide significant new funding to advance the Pirra lithium project in Western Australia (reports Small Caps).

Calidus Resources has released a maiden mineral resource at Bulletin, which is to be incorporated into its Warrawoona gold project in Western Australia’s Pilbara Goldfield, and add an additional initial 60,000-70,000 ounces to the company’s seven-year production profile (reports MiningNews).

Shares in battery metal explorer Nimy Resources have surged more than 30 per cent on the back of a major nickel-copper find in the Yilgarn region of WA (reports The West Australian).

Australian graphite stocks surged after China announced export controls restricting supply of one of the key battery minerals required for electric vehicles, opening a new frontier in a trade war with the US and its allied nations (reports The Australian Financial Review).

More significant intersections of total graphitic carbon (TGC) have been received at the Leliyn graphite project in the Northern Territory, laying the foundations for a resource in the 2024 March quarter (reports Stockhead).

Pioneer Lithium (ASX: PLN) has moved its maiden exploration program at Root Lake in Canada into fourth gear with the discovery of a large pegmatite swarm.

Reports Small Caps

Canadian-focused lithium explorer James Bay Minerals (ASX: JBY) has completed a helicopter-borne magnetic and spectrometric survey across its La Grande project in the country’s Istchee-James Bay region (reports Small Caps).