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The 30-40% slump in copper stocks in response to the 31% crunch in the copper price since its early March highs has naturally enough triggered thoughts that the copper stocks are now in deep value territory.

It might be a train steaming down the track but there are a number of experts, including those at Goldman Sachs and ANZ Bank, who this week saw the first flickers of light at the end of a tunnel lined with fear of ever-higher interest rates leading to a global recession.

Even at almost 50, Boss Energy managing director Duncan Craib recognises he’s a relative youngster in the uranium sector, especially in Australia, having kept the faith in a sector that has spent a decade in the doldrums (reports MiningNews).

The past 12 months have been transformative for copper explorer Coda Minerals (reports MiningNews).

Global action is needed to ensure sufficient supplies of minerals required to build renewable energy generation assets because without it the cost of the zero emission projects will soar, the vice chairman of S&P Global and energy markets expert Daniel Yergin has warned (reports The Australian Financial Review).

Boss Energy has hit “extensive mineralisation” outside the existing resource at its Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia as part of the company’s strategy to grow inventory to support an increased mine life and production (reports Small Caps).

Junior explorer Stavely Minerals (ASX: SVY) has launched a $5.5 million capital raising to fund the next stage of exploration and resource definition drilling at its namesake copper-gold project in western Victoria (reports Small Caps).

Extensional drilling at New World Resources’ (ASX: NWC) Antler deposit has uncovered more wide and high-grade copper mineralisation at depth in several targets, which could boost the current resource and project development economics (reports Small Caps).

Pilbara Minerals continues to benefit from booming demand for lithium as battery makers race to secure supplies of the vital battery ingredient (reports The West Australian).

A decision seven months ago to dedicate a few holes to double-check the historical Gilbey’s North aircore anomaly by Gascoyne Resources chief geologist Graham Gadsby has again proven its worth by opening up a new target (reports MiningNews).