Anatara Lifesciences (ASX: ANR) executive chair Dr David Brookes joins Small Caps to discuss the progress of the company's trial of a potential treatment for the aptly named irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The company recently received the go-ahead to enrol patients for the second stage of its pivotal GaRP-IBS trial, which is to be conducted at 5 s…

Barry Dawes, executive chairman at Martin Place Securities, join Small Caps to share his views on the recent rise in gold and silver prices. Other topics discussed include various commodities such as copper, iron ore and uranium. Discussion on currencies such as the US dollar, Japanese yen and Australian dollar. And some ASX stocks. To find out abo…

Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s progress with its plans to support the North American supply chain. With a strategy focused on Canada’s lithium riches and preferred lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery technology, Lithium Universe is helping to address the gap in lithium conve…

Akora Resources (ASX: AKO) managing director Paul Bibby joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s significant progress at its iron ore operations in Madagascar. The company is developing the high-grade Bekisopa iron ore mine to serve the steel industry’s accelerating decarbonisation. Akora has developed a two-stage process for bringing Bekisopa iro…

Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) president of US operations Matt Hartmann joins Small Caps to discuss the company's highly prospective Mojave rare earth element project in California. Recently appointed to the role, Mr Hartmann has over 20 years of global mineral exploration and project development experience to the new role helping Locksley drive fut…

International Graphite (ASX: IG6) managing director and chief executive officer Andrew Worland joins Small Caps to discuss the recent breakthroughs in the company’s projects and forecasts of strong market growth for the key battery metal, graphite. The company has shored up its balance sheet by reaching an agreement with its major shareholder Comet…

Aurum Resources (ASX: AUE) non-executive director Mark Strizek joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s early drilling success at the Boundiali gold project in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Aurum wrapped up the acquisition of Boundiali’s former owner and Côte d’Ivoire mining specialist PlusOr Global in mid-December. Included in that acquisition was …

Peppermint Innovation (ASX: PIL) managing director and chief executive officer Chris Kain joins Small Caps to discuss the growing success of the company's strategic decision to build up its artificial intelligence and customer experience (CX) operations in late 2023. The company has recently landed a number of global AI and CX contracts since reach…

Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) (OTCQB: BGDFF) managing director Alexander Scanlon joins Small Caps to discuss the latest mineral resource estimate upgrade at its Tunkillia project in South Australia. The company recently unveiled its third Tunkillia JORC mineral resource estimate (MRE) in 12 months, with an aggressive drilling campaign lifting the project …

Chariot Corporation (ASX: CC9) managing director Shanthar Pathmanathan joins Small Caps to discuss developments at the company's Black Mountain lithium project located in Wyoming, United States. The newly listed Chariot recently expanded the footprint of Black Mountain by 206% with the application for 218 contiguous claims taking the entire project…

VHM Limited (ASX: VHM) chief executive officer and executive director Ron Douglas joins Small Caps to discuss the company's continuing run of success as it progresses the high-class Goschen rare earths and mineral sands project in Victoria. The company’s is progressing its plans to be a near-term producer with the completion of a number of project-…

PharmAust (ASX: PAA) chief executive officer Michael Thurn joins Small Caps to discuss the company's ongoing success with its investigation into its lead treatment candidate monepantel (MPL). PharmAust is focused on repurposing MPL for the treatment of human neurodegenerative disorders such as motor neurone disease (MND) / amyotrophic lateral scler…

Aurumin (ASX: AUN) managing director Brad Valiukas joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent strategic moves focussed on building a mining company around its flagship Sandstone gold project in Western Australia. With a history of production, Sandstone's current resource of 946,000 ounces of gold provides an ideal opportunity to take advantag…

NickelX (ASX: NKL) managing director Matt Gauci joins Small Caps to discuss the company's early success with its foray into Canada's rich uranium mining sector. The company recently announced it had identified significant uranium mineralisation at its new Elliot Lake project in Ontario. NickelX's exploration team has identified three priority targe…

Premier1 Lithium (ASX: PLC) chief operating officer Richard Taylor joins Small Caps to discuss the commencement of the company's drilling campaign at the Abbotts North Project in Western Australia. The company is following up on a machine learning generated target at Abbotts North Project, where a 2,000m RC program has been designed to test the dep…

RareX (ASX: REE) chief executive officer James Durrant joins Small Caps to discuss plans to potentially fast-track the development of its Cummins Range rare earth element project in Western Australia. The company is focused on off-take opportunities at Australia’s largest undeveloped rare earths project. RareX is now preparing for the submission of…

Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent drilling success at a number of historic gold projects in WA and the continuing potential of its lithium prospects. Tambourah recently completed 17 RC drill holes for 2,684m at the historic Tambourah King and World’s Fair gold prospects within its P…

Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) managing director Alexander Scanlon joins Small Caps to discuss the recent drilling successes at the historic Tunkillia gold project in South Australia. The company obtained consistent high-grade gold hits, including the sighting of visible gold, in two areas where it is looking to add to the current 1.38 million ounce JORC r…

Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the company's decision to commence metallurgical testing on sources of spodumene from around the globe. The company's strategic move is in response to what it describes is a “lithium conversion capacity gap” in the North American market. It is already bringin…

West Cobar Metals (ASX: WC1) managing director Matt Szwedzicki joins Small Caps to discuss the company's plans for its promising Salazar rare earth element (REE) project in Western Australia. After a highly active year of exploration and acquisitions, West Cobar is preparing to undertake drilling and metallurgy studies to further confirm the potent…

Wide Open Agriculture’s (ASX: WOA) chief financial officer Matthew Skinner joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s expansion plans. The regenerative food and agriculture company recently signed a new distribution deal with Japanese trading house Nissei Kyoeki which will take Buntine Protein product into Asia. Wide Open and Nissei have initially a…

Surefire Resources (ASX: SRN) managing director Paul Burton joins Small Caps to discuss the company's ground-breaking achievement in successfully extracting vanadium directly from magnetite concentrate from its 100% owned Victory Bore project in Western Australia. The test work process achieved a significant 91% extraction result on the vanadium or…

Frontier Digital Ventures (ASX: FDV) founder and chief executive officer Shaun Di Gregorio joins Small Caps to discuss how the company’s Latin American business is helping to power its operations as it enters what looks to be another strong year of expansion. The performance of the Latin American operations was a standout when the leading online ma…

International Graphite (ASX: IG6) chief executive officer and managing director Andrew Worland joins Small Caps to discuss the companies complimentary Springdale graphite mining project at Hopetoun and battery processing facility at Collie. The company is making strong progress at both projects which are been developed to fulfil growing demand in t…

Imugene (ASX: IMU) chief executive officer and managing director Leslie Chong joins Small Caps to discuss the progress of the company’s phase 1 MAST trial of its novel cancer-killing virus CF33-hNIS – known as VAXINIA. The oncolytic virus in VAXINIA has been shown to shrink colon, lung, breast, ovarian and pancreatic cancer tumours in preclinical l…

Mitre Mining (ASX: MMC) executive director Ray Shorrocks joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent acquisition of the large Cerro Bayo silver-gold project in Chile. Supported by a successful capital raising, Mitre is looking to build on Cerro Bayo’s existing JORC inferred resource of 3.82 million tonnes at 206 grams per tonne for 24.7 millio…

CGN Resources (ASX: CGR) managing director Stan Wholley joins Small Caps to discuss the company's up-coming exploration activities in the "hot" West Arunta multi-element play in West Australia. CGN is preparing for an extensive 2024 exploration program at its flagship Webb project which is surrounded by significant activity at projects operated by …

Locksley Resources (ASX: LKY) exploration manager David Ward joins Small Caps to discuss the company's exploration activities at its prospective Mojave rare earth element project In California. The company has recently mobilised its exploration team to follow-up highly anomalous total rare earth oxide results previously identified at Mojave. A fiel…

Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) managing director Alexander Scanlon joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent exploration success at its historic Tunkillia and Tarcoola gold projects in South Australia. The company’s exploration activities at Tunkillia have led to a significant 20% increase in the gold project JORC Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) to …

Blackstone Minerals (ASX: BSX) managing director Scott Williamson joins Small Caps to discuss the strategy behind the company’s move to acquire a major Canadian nickel mining opportunity. Under an option agreement with CaNickel Mining, Blackstone has agreed to make a cash payment of $1.3 million and to exercise an option to acquire 100% of the Wabo…

Surefire Resources (ASX: SRN) managing director Paul Burton joins Small Caps to discuss the robust results reported in a pre-feasibility study for its Victory Bore vanadium project in Western Australia. Company representatives will travel to the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh next month to continue discussions for potential processing opportunitie…

Wide Open Agriculture’s (ASX: WOA) chief executive officer Jay Albany joins Small Caps to discuss the company's milestone agreement to distribute its unique product in Europe. Under a non-binding term-sheet agreement, Ingå Group will become the exclusive distributor of Wide Open Agriculture’s portfolio of lupin-based proteins in Europe. Ingå is a s…

Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) managing director Duncan Craib joins Small Caps to discuss the company's significant developments at the Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia. The company this week has passed another key milestone in the development of the project with start-up wells yielding production-grade uranium. That development confirmed Boss …

BPH Energy (ASX: BPH) managing director David Breeze joins Small Caps to discuss the recent news that a special committee has blocked a proposed ban on oil and gas exploration off the New South Wales coast. BPH has an interest in the large PEP-11 licence through its 35.8% investee company, Advent Energy. Advent, via its wholly-owned subsidiary Asse…

Ideon Technologies vice president of customer experience Kim Lawrence joins Small Caps to discuss its groundbreaking muon tomography technology. The Canadian based company uses cosmic rays to detect ore bodies deep beneath the Earth's surface without disturbing the environment. Ideon's non-invasive approach offers a wealth of benefits for the minin…

Tambourah Metals (ASX: TMB) chairperson Rita Brooks joins Small Caps to discuss the company's highly active gold and lithium exploration campaigns in Western Australia. Within the last few days Tambourah has announced drilling success at its Tambourah King gold target and identified significant lithium exploration upside at the Russian Jack project…

Galan Lithium (ASX: GLN) managing director Juan Pablo Vargas de la Vega joins Small Caps to discuss to recent signing of significant offtake agreement with global mining giant Glencore for its Hombre Muerto West (HMW) project in Argentina. The binding offtake deal is for lithium chloride and/or lithium carbonate from Phase 1 production at HMW. Nota…

Frontier Digital Ventures (ASX: FDV) founder and chief executive officer Shaun Di Gregorio joins Small Caps to discuss the online classified marketplace specialist’s continuing run of revenue momentum. The company recently reported that for the fifth consecutive quarter each of its geographic regions achieved positive operating cashflows. Notably, …

Peppermint Innovation (ASX: PIL) managing director and chief executive officer Chris Kain joins Small Caps to discuss the company's recent of run of success as it continues to expand its innovative fintech business in the Philippines and globally. Amongst the numerous milestones achieved recently is the company’s signing of an exclusive five-year a…

Akora Resources (ASX: AKO) managing director Paul Bibby joins Small Caps to discuss the robust results obtained in a new low start-up cost examination of its proposed Bekisopa DSO iron ore project in Madagascar. The new scoping study has confirmed the project to be economically viable was an initial 2 million tonnes per annum direct shipping ore (D…

Elevate Uranium (ASX: EL8) managing director and chief executive officer Murray Hill joins Small Caps to discuss the company's success in significantly increasing the mineral resource estimate (MRE) for its Koppies uranium development in Namibia. The recently released MRE update included a dramatic 136% increase in the Koppies resources to 48 milli…

Investigator Resources (ASX: IVR) managing director Andrew McIlwain joins Small Caps to discuss the significant progress the company is making at its Paris silver project in South Australia. The company has recently successfully progressed and completed a number of key studies as it continues to advance its proposed development of Paris - Australia…

Blue Energy (ASX: BLU) managing director John Phillips joins Small Caps to discuss the company's gas developments in Queensland. The company recently revealed a 36% increase in the estimated total proved and probable (2P) reserves in its Sapphire Block gas development. The new independent assessment of the Sapphire project also provided a 16% incre…

Chimeric Therapeutics (ASX: CHM) managing director and chief executive office Jennifer Chow joins Small Caps to discuss the successful results of a new brain cancer (glioblastoma) treatment trial. The phase 1A trial achieved a 55% disease control rate (DCR) in patients treated with its CLTX CAR T solution, well above historical disease control rate…

Wide Open Agriculture’s (ASX: WOA) chief executive officer Jay Albany joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent acquisition of leading European lupin protein producer Prolupin. The acquisition provides Wide Open with immediate commercial production capacity in a dynamic environment for the development of plant-based protein products. Wide Op…

Lithium Universe (ASX: LU7) chief executive officer Alex Hanly joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent successful ASX re-listing, its on-the-ground activities in Canada and plans to develop a multi-purpose battery-grade lithium carbonate refinery. The company attracted significant interest when it re-listed on the ASX in mid-August with a …

CGN Resources (ASX: CGR) managing director Stan Wholley joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s successful $10 million initial public offer (IPO) and exploration plans for its large Webb iron oxide, copper-gold (IOCG) project in Western Australia’s highly prospective West Arunta region. With an initial minimum raising target of $8 million at $0.2…

Pioneer Lithium (ASX: PLN) chief executive officer Clinton Booth joins Small Caps to discuss the company's ASX listing following a $5 million initial public offering. The funds will be used to support the company’s hunt for high-value battery metals discoveries in Canada. Led by a highly-regarded and experienced team, Pioneer Lithium holds sizeable…

Astral Resources (ASX: AAR) managing director Marc Ducler joins Small Caps to discuss the positive results obtained into a study into the potential development of the 100%-owned Mandilla gold project in Western Australia. One of the largest undeveloped free-milling open pit gold development projects in the rich Kalgoorlie region, Mandilla is foreca…

92 Energy (ASX: 92E) chief executive officer Siobhan Lancaster joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s timely discovery of a potential new zone of mineralisation at its Gemini uranium find in Canada’s world-class Athabasca Basin. The new parallel structure was identified in a recent follow-up campaign to the September 2021 Gemini uranium discover…