Public Company News

There's an old saying that everyone's a genius with the benefit of hindsight. Looking back now it doesn't seem that hard to understand why new Shark deterrent and detection company Shark Mitigation Systems jumped 30% above its listing price last week following on from its admission to the ASX on Thursday. The company's share price touched 26c last week after listing at 20c.

ASX listed Alterra are on the hunt for dairy land in WA suitable for a new style of dairy farming known as System 5. System 5 works on the theory that if cows are made comfortable and not exposed to extreme heat and cold and not made to walk many kilometres a day to be milked or get feed, then they will produce up to 50% more milk.

The European Commission's Cosmetic Products Notification Portal has approved ASX listed MGC Pharma's unique cannabis based skin care and cosmetic line to be sold in Europe. The approval marks a major milestone in the company's strategy to distribute its MGC Derma Cannabidiol based cosmetic products throughout Europe via its partner network and online portal.

Gold explorer Terrain Minerals has unearthed some exciting historic drilling results at Wilson's Patch, about 3km from its Great Western Project just out of Leonora. The best results were 5m @ 4.2 g/t gold from just 10m deep, 8m @ 3.89 g/t, 3m @ 6.56 g/t from just 22m, 7m @ 9.69 g/t which included a 1m intersection grading an impressive 33.6 g/t gold.

With only months to go before leaping into production in Wiluna, Blackham Resources have moved to de-risk the start up phase of the project by forward selling 20 000 ounces of gold at AUD$1701 an ounce.The company has a “Put” option over another 20 000 ounces that will allow them to sell gold at AUD$1575 even if the spot price drops below that figure.

Research house Pac Partners have tipped ATM player Stargroup's shares to reach 8.1c in the next 12 months, more than double their current price of 3.8c per share. Pac have undertaken an analysis of the company's predicted forward earnings after tax and discounted them back to get a net present value of $33.4m worth of free cash likely to be generated.

Troy Resources have re-negotiated a debt deal with an excellent outcome that will free up cash to further develop their Karouni Gold Mine resource in South America. Karouni re-wrote the playbook when Troy managed to take the project from vacant land to producing gold bars in just 2.5 years having built the $130m mine in 9 months. it now produces gold at an amazing USD$412 an ounce.

Accomplished base metals explorer Sipa Resources has experienced a breakthrough in their exploration activities at the Akelikongo project in Uganda. The company recently reported the discovery of an 11 meter mineralized zone that intersected matrix to semi-massive sulphides, potentially opening up a new high grade nickel/copper target area.

You might be forgiven for thinking commodities such as gold and Lithium are hot right now but MGC Pharma were literally knocked over in the rush during their recent medical cannabis capital raising. They went to market for just $3.5m at 4.4c a share but received $11m worth of bids into their book which was managed by Sanlam Private Wealth Pty Ltd.

There's nothing quite like the hunt for magnetic conductors in the exploration business to get the nickel and copper bulls dusting off their cheque books – especially when your ground is only 120 km from the goliath Nova Bollinger nickel find. Legend Mining have split 2 conductors into 5 with new ground surveys and are now planning to drill test them this month.

Hammer Metals have paid just $83 000 in cash and shares to secure an exciting copper/gold/cobalt exploration project near their Mt Isa operations that boasts historic drill results of up to 19m at 1.27% Copper, 0.38% Cobalt and 0.7g/t gold including 6m @3.45% Copper, 0.32% Cobalt and 2.0g/t Gold. It is just 16km west of CuDeco's goliath Rocklands mine.

ASX listed medical cannabis company MGC Pharma has spread its wings into the Czech Republic after inking a deal to acquire Panax Pharma, a company that holds a medical cannabis breeding license in that country. Most licenses restrict the amount of THC in the plant however Panax comes with a license that is considerably more generous with regard to THC, potentially opening up new opportunities for MGC Pharma.