Cobalt Blue Holdings Ltd (ASX:COB) and its Thackaringa Cobalt Project joint venture partner Broken Hill Prospecting Ltd (ASX:BPL) continue to climb on the back of the tech metals and new-age battery demand story.
Since releasing an upgraded cobalt resource estimate for the project near Broken Hill a week ago, the companies have reached repeated new highs.
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Today Cobalt Blue has reached a new 12-month high of $1.50, up almost 9% from Friday's close.
Since last Monday's resource announcement shares have climbed almost 45%, supported by Friday's news of a new cobalt supply partnership arrangement with LG Corp (KRX:003550).
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Broken Hill Prospecting is leveraged to the cobalt story through holding a 49% beneficial interest in the project as well as holding legal title to the leases.
In early trade, it was up 50% from Friday's close to 21 cents, also a new 12-month high.
BPL is up more than 160% since a pre-resource upgrade trading halt on March 15.
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The Thackaringa Cobalt Project now comprises 72 million tonnes at 852 ppm cobalt, 9.3% sulphur and 10% iron for 61,000 tonnes contained cobalt at a 500 ppm cut-off.
About 72% of the resource is now classified as indicated.
The news flow from the Thackaringa project will continue with a pre-feasibility study expected to be delivered by June 30, 2018.