May 2023

Robin Cox – Technical Director – Future Battery Minerals (ASX:FBM) is focussed on exploration for key battery minerals lithium, nickel and copper in stable pro mining jurisdictions. The company has projects with high-grade shallow nickel sulphide resources that are being driven towards development and production and projects highly prospective for large sedimentary-hosted lithium deposits.

Andrew Sparke – Managing Director – QMines Limited (ASX:QML) is an Australian based exploration and development Company. The company owns four advanced copper and gold projects located in Queensland.

Tom Suprling – Executive Director – Nova Eye Medical (ASX:EYE) is introducing a comprehensive portfolio of novel glaucoma treatment options which span the entire disease process – enabling physicians to intervene earlier, and more often, in the treatment of glaucoma. 

Luke Reinehr – CEO and Chairman – Kalamazoo Resources (ASX:KZR) is a gold and lithium exploration company with major assets in Tier 1 mining jurisdictions – the Victorian Goldfields, the Pilbara region in Western Australia and the Lachlan Fold Belt in New South Wales.

The Japanese economy is booming, wages are surging, the stockmarket is at levels not seen in three decades and the outlook is its most upbeat in years. And, yes inflation is high – at levels that are very un-Japanese – costs are rising, not flat or falling into deflation as they have been for much

Newmont has come and gone after snatching Newcrest (ASX:NCM), Genesis may have saved its Leonora marriage with struggling bride St Barbara and, while there are a few other smaller bids and deals, the outlook for gold mergers and acquisitions in Australia will be small beer from now on as life as a pure gold miner

So why is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway still sitting on a $US1.5 billion paper loss on a 15% stake in Paramount Global, the former Viacom and CBS groups (and owner of the Ten Network in Australia) controlled by Shari Redstone, especially when Paramount+, the company’s cash eating streaming video business is something Buffett clearly doesn’t

As the US debt ceiling talks drag on towards the June 1 We’re out of money! deadline set by the American Treasury, big global investors are cashing up – which is not unexpected. Late in the week markets became optimistic that a deal is imminent, but no one should put their trust in any deal

US oil and gas production will soon start sliding after drillers shut down a surprisingly large number of rigs for the second week in a row. Two Friday’s ago, it was news that 17 gas drilling rigs had been closed that surprised – last Friday it was news that energy companies had shut down 11

Silver Lake Resources (ASX:SLR) won’t go away and is adding more pressure on St Barbara to break its wedding banns with Genesis Minerals and sell its Leonora gold mining assets. Of course, the buyer of choice is Silver Lake which wants to buy the Gwalia and other assets at Leonora that have almost sunk St