Duratec Ltd (ASX:DUR, OTC:DURCF), Infragreen Group Ltd (ASX:IFN), AIC Mines Ltd (ASX:A1M, OTC:IAUFF), Advanced Energy Minerals Ltd, Aurelia Metals Ltd (ASX:AMI, OTC:AUMTF), ioneer Ltd, Solstice Minerals Ltd (ASX:SLS), Archer Materials Ltd (ASX:AXE, OTC:ARRXF), Kinatico Ltd (ASX:KYP), LaserBond Ltd (ASX:LBL, OTC:LSRBF), LARK Distilling Co Ltd, MONEYME Ltd, Nido Education Ltd (ASX:NDO) and TradeWindow Holdings Ltd (ASX:TWL) are among 27 companies set to present at the ASX SMIDcaps Conference in Sydney on Wednesday, September 23.
The afternoon program will feature Polynovo Ltd (ASX:PNV, OTC:CALZF), Cogstate Ltd (ASX:CGS, OTCQX:COGZF), Alterity Therapeutics Ltd (ASX:ATH, OTC:PRNAF, NASDAQ:ATHE), Dimerix Ltd (ASX:DXB, OTC:SBMJF), Pacific Edge Ltd (ASX:PEB, OTC:PFGTF), Starpharma Holdings Ltd (ASX:SPL, OTCQX:SPHRF), Baby Bunting Group Ltd (ASX:BBN), The Koala Company Ltd (ASX:KOA), SkinKandy Ltd, Sea Forest Ltd (ASX:SEA), Pioneer Credit Ltd (ASX:PNC, OTC:PNCRF), Tyro Payments Ltd (ASX:TYR, OTC:TYPMF) and NobleOak Life Ltd (ASX:NOL).
Bitcoin hovered around US$77,000 on Thursday morning as higher bond yields, elevated oil prices and growing expectations of another US interest rate rise tested the cryptocurrency's strong August rally.
The world's largest cryptocurrency has retreated from above US$81,000 reached in late August and was trading around US$77,000 in the latest session, with buying momentum showing signs of cooling.
Dundas Minerals Ltd (ASX:DUN) has consolidated a prospective gold corridor north of Kalgoorlie through the acquisition of nine licences, adding the high-grade Gemini prospect to its expanding Kalgoorlie Gold Project ahead of a new drilling campaign scheduled to begin later this month.
The licences extend Dundas’ position along the Gemini-Capricorn-Aquarius-Rockland trend, around 40-50 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, creating a largely continuous holding along an interpreted north-south mineralised corridor.
Fenix Resources Ltd (ASX:FEX) has established a maiden 26.9 million tonne Ore Reserve grading 60.0% iron at its Beebyn Hub in Western Australia’s Mid-West, strengthening the production base for its broader 290 million tonne Weld Range Iron Ore Project.
The reserve combines an updated 13.1Mt at 61.2% Fe reserve at the operating Beebyn-W11 mine with a maiden 13.8Mt at 58.9% Fe Stage 1 reserve at the fully approved Beebyn-W10 mine.
Kincora Copper Ltd (TSX-V:KCC, ASX:KCC, OTC:BZDLF) is preparing an extensive spring and summer exploration campaign in New South Wales, with more than 25,000 metres of air-core drilling planned across four projects as it advances a pipeline of porphyry copper-gold targets.
The company has approved a sole-funded budget of up to A$3 million for around 340 holes targeting 17 priority prospects at Nyngan West, Fairholme, Cowal East and Trundle. The work is designed to cheaply test and refine targets before committing to deeper and more expensive drilling.
Lindian Resources Ltd (ASX:LIN, OTC:LINIF) has strengthened its push into downstream rare earth processing through a strategic partnership with French separation specialist Carester SAS.
The partnership advances the development of an 8,000-tonne-per-annum rare earth oxide separation facility in Kazakhstan with a binding long-term offtake agreement.
OpenAI's upcoming AI model Astra has crossed its highest cybersecurity capability threshold, becoming the first model the company believes can autonomously discover previously unknown vulnerabilities and develop ways to exploit them across hardened computer systems.
The company has classified Astra at the “Critical” cybersecurity capability level under its Preparedness Framework, a step above the “High” designation given to GPT-5.6 Sol and its other recent frontier models.