Battery metals returned as the favourite sector for investors in resource stocks this week, but the more interesting feature of the market was the rise of several prominent mining company managers from booms past, including Mark Ashley, Michael Carrick and Yosse Goldberg.
Cricket wasn’t the only game being played between Australia and England this week, with a small army of Australian mining companies making the trek to London as part of a concerted attempt to re-kindle British investor interest in Aussie stocks – with limited success.
Good, in parts, is the best way to describe the resources sector over the past week, but for much of the market there were unmistakable signs of fatigue setting in after a stellar year which has just 20 trading days remaining until the Christmas shut-down.
Cash news, rather than exploration news, commanded the most interest on the Australian stock market over the past week with a flood of pre-Christmas capital raisings as small miners rushed to capitalise on strong investor-interest in the resources sector.
Battery metals, including nickel, a born-again base metal which has found a new meaning to life, starred on the Australian stock market last week, but the big news for mining investors was actually occurring 15,000km away in London.
Explorers and mine developers rushed to fill their Christmas stockings with cash this week as investor enthusiasm for resources continued to grow, perhaps aided by the return of a widely discredited term: “super-cycle”.
A huge thank you to the 800 investors and 34 companies that attended our 2018 Resources Rising Stars conference, held on Tuesday 29 May and Wednesday 30 May 2018 at the scenic RACV Royal Pine
