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"While the US debt ceiling has been resolved, which was ultimately what drove the gold price to a peak in 2011, back then gold prices held at elevated levels even after the resolution, and the broader backdrop of inflation, economic growth concerns and strong central bank is very much in place today," the bank said (reports MiningNews).

By MiningNews. 

Shares in Kairos Minerals (KAI) are back on the boards following the company’s highly successful deal with fellow lithium explorer Global Lithium (GL1) (reports Stockhead).

Global Lithium Resources is to become a 10% shareholder in gold and lithium explorer Kairos Minerals, whose Roe Hills lithium prospect abuts Global’s Manna deposit east of Kalgoorlie (reports MiningNews).

Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) has reached a pivotal point in the restart of the Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia, with the first wellfield complete and related gypsum pond and water treatment plants nearing completion (reports Small Caps).

Plus, Lake’s problems should force re-think of lithium supply forecasts, Battery Age starts drilling and DevEx set for uranium drilling in NT.

By Barry FitzGerald

A boom it wasn’t but the past 12 months of rising interest rates and deepening global uncertainty has done surprisingly little damage to the Australian stock market, which looks like finishing the financial year next week in good shape.

By Tim Treadgold

Australia’s mineral endowment should make the resources industry one of the “spearheads” of the nation’s alliance with the US and the UK, according to former federal defence minister Kim Beazley.

By The Australian

Sunstone Metals says its T3 target at the El Palmar gold-copper project in northern Ecuador is emerging as a ‘significant’ porphyry discovery (reports Stockhead). 

Centaurus Metals has acquired the offtake rights for its flagship Jaguar nickel project in Brazil from Vale (reports MiningNews).