European Green Transition (LON: EGT) CEO Aiden Lavelle and CFO Jack Kelly joined Proactive's Stephen Gunnion as the company started trading on the London Stock Exchange after raising over £6.45 million, surpassing its initial target.

The funds are seen as a strong market endorsement of EGT's business model aimed at developing a green economy asset portfolio across Europe. This portfolio includes projects from metals refining and recycling to potential solar and wind assets, with a focus on acquiring distressed assets to complement their 100% owned projects. A key asset is the Olserum rare earth deposit in Sweden.

Lavelle, a chartered geologist with 16 years of industry experience, particularly in Sweden, highlighted the significance of rare earth elements in the green transition, noting their crucial role in high-efficiency motors, electric vehicle motors, and wind turbines. The market for these elements is expected to double over the next decade. The Olserum asset, with an initial focus on a historic resource of 7.8 million tonnes at 8.6% rare earth dioxide, is part of this strategic positioning.

Kelly outlined the company's M&A model focused on acquiring distressed and undervalued green economy assets in Europe, de-risking them, and then selling them with a structure that includes upfront cash and future royalty interests. The company has identified post-IPO M&A opportunities across critical minerals, wind, and solar projects, along with rehabilitation and processing projects.

EGT is currently exploring a range of these opportunities, including a mine and processing facility currently in administration and a potential rehabilitation project in Western Europe.

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The FTSE 100 opened slightly lower on Monday, continuing from the sharp falls experienced on Friday.

Mining groups like Fresnillo, Rio Tinto and Anglo American are building on last week’s strong gains, leading the risers today on indications of higher demand for iron ores.

In the retail industry, new research found that insolvencies have risen by a fifth in the last year, with most of the troubles for businesses having stemmed from high interest rates.

It means retail giants such as Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and B&M all lead the blue-chip fallers on Monday.

Also falling was London Stock Exchange Group after it was found shareholders may revolt against plans to double its chief executive’s pay.

In small caps, vet group CVS revealed it suffered a cyber-attack across a number of its IT systems, affecting emails, phone lines and online forms.

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Elixir Energy Ltd (ASX:EXR) managing director Neil Young joins Proactive’s Jonathan Jackson to discuss a significant gas find at its 100%-owned Grandis project in Queensland, potentially marking the deepest unstimulated gas flow in onshore Australia, east of the Perth Basin. Young shares insights on the discovery and its implications for the Australian gas industry.

Situated adjacent to the Wallumbilla gas hub, the Grandis project's Lorelle Sandstone at the Daydream-2 well exhibited an impressive initial flow test, achieving a stabilised rate of 1.3 million standard cubic feet per day, peaking at 2.3 million without stimulation. This achievement is not just a one-off event but a significant indicator of the Taroom Trough's unconventional resource potential.

Young expressed enthusiasm about the results, stating that the Lorelle Sandstone is poised to substantially enhance the project's output and economic prospects.

He talks us through the stimulation phase to come and hints that this could be the beginning of a new, strategically located gas play in Queensland, which could be crucial in addressing the looming domestic gas shortage.

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Evion Group NL (ASX:EVG) finance director David Round talks to Proactive about the commencement of expandable graphite production in India. Round shares insights into commissioning, the operational ramp-up, strategic plans for the expandable graphite plant and the anticipated growth trajectory in the near to medium term.

The company plans to become a leading supplier of expandable graphite material to the existing and the growing expandable graphite market.

Round also delves into the company's feed supply and offtake arrangements, ensuring stability and market presence. Addressing global market trends, Round evaluates the implications of China's graphite export regulations and their potential impact on Evion's market positioning and opportunities.

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Far East Gold Ltd (ASX:FEG) CEO Shane Menere chats to Proactive’s Elisha Newell after the company dug into high-grade gold at the Woyla project’s Aloe Rek prospect in Indonesia. Field mapping completed across the Woyla tenure also indicates that a low-sulphidation epithermal gold vein system, known as Victory Vein, extends to 18.5 kilometres (up substantially from the previous 13-kilometre reading). Menere says that while the high grade gold encountered in Aloe Rek’s first drill hole is certainly encouraging, the newly identified 5.5-kilometre stretch at Victory Vein represents an exciting exploration opportunity that’s yet to be drill tested.

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Accelerate Resources Ltd (ASX:AX8) CEO Luke Meter sits down with Jonathan Jackson in the Proactive studio to discuss how the company is on the brink of starting its maiden drilling program at the Prinsep Lithium Project in Western Australia. Meter emphasises the completion of Heritage and Ethnographic surveys in collaboration with the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation (NAC).

Scheduled for mid-April, these surveys will span the 1.8-kilometre strike of both northern and southern lithium pegmatite trends at Prinsep. This area is notable for its promising rock chip assays, reporting lithium grades as high as 2.06%. Meter expressed gratitude to the NAC for their swift action in scheduling the heritage survey, underscoring the importance of their partnership as the project progresses.

He also highlighted the rapid advancements in the project timeline, with the heritage surveys acting as a precursor to the drilling phase. The Program of Works, detailing the exploration and drilling plans over the surveyed areas, is under review by the Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety.

Accelerate Resources is poised to begin drilling immediately upon receiving the necessary approvals, marking a significant step forward in exploiting the lithium potential at Prinsep.

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EcoGraf Ltd (ASX:EGR) CEO Andrew Spinks joins Jonathan Jackson in the Proactive studio to discuss the company's strategic focus on producing high-purity graphite for the lithium-ion battery and advanced manufacturing markets. EcoGraf is advancing with its EcoGraf HFfree™ purification technology, targeting reductions in CO2 emissions and battery costs. Attention is drawn to the Epanko Graphite Project, which recently reported a 127% increase in resources, signalling significant progress.

The company's development in Tanzania, starting with the Epanko Graphite Project, aims to secure a consistent supply chain for its battery anode material processing facilities, while also delivering high-quality large flake graphite for industrial uses.

EcoGraf's commitment to sustainable practices is evident in its efforts to produce high-performance battery anode materials and recover anode materials through its EcoGraf™ purification process. This initiative is set to support the electric vehicle sector and battery manufacturers across Asia, Europe, and North America, facilitating the transition to renewable energy. The conversation also touches on what investors can anticipate from EcoGraf and the key factors to consider in their due diligence process.

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Cooper Metals Ltd (ASX:CPM) managing director Ian Warland tells Proactive’s Jonathan Jackson that the company is making substantial progress at its Brumby Ridge Project in northwest Queensland, having recently completed a significant drilling campaign. The campaign comprised four diamond drill holes spanning 1,054 metres and five reverse circulation (RC) drill holes covering 1,044 metres. With around 500 samples under analysis at a laboratory in Mount Isa, expectations are high for the late April results.

The drilling has yielded positive preliminary findings, notably from three scissor holes which followed up on a previous drill hole that encountered 71 metres at 2.8% copper. One such hole, 24MERC003, revealed over 60 metres of visual disseminated sulphides and intersected a mineralised fault breccia zone, suggesting a complex geological structure at play.

Warland expressed optimism about the project's potential, noting the extensive disseminated sulphides and the mineralised fault breccia zone's significance. Despite current weather-related pauses in drilling, plans are set to resume shortly, with a comprehensive RC drilling program targeting multiple prospects.

Cooper Metals is poised for a busy period of exploration and development, aiming to further uncover the extent and grade of the mineralisation at Brumby Ridge and surrounding prospects. With the assays pending and further drilling on the horizon, the company is at a pivotal point in assessing the full potential of this promising project.

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Fah Mai Holdings Group Inc (OTC:FMHG) UK head and manager of @whiskybullauctions Jacob Carter discussed trends in the whisky auction market with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion.

Carter noted that over the first three months of 2024, there has been a stabilisation in Scotch whisky prices, while Japanese whisky continues to experience a decline from its peak in April 2022. The bottle market is anticipated to improve and return to its former prominence by September 2024, offering bottle traders more market flexibility compared to cask trading, which requires a longer investment period.

Carter said a recent market pullback has created opportunities to purchase rare bottles at lower prices, potentially leading to profits as the market recovers. In line with Fah Mai Holdings' approach, he highlighted @whiskybullauctions' policy of transparency and honesty in market dealings to prevent investors and collectors from overpaying or getting stuck with unsellable items.

Reflecting on the past 12 months, Carter noted significant fluctuations in auction prices for rare whiskies, with some notable declines in value but an overall slow recovery in prices. He emphasized the importance of honesty and education in the whisky investment and collecting community.

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Proactive journalist Billy Farrington discusses the recent performance of Bitcoin, highlighting its volatile week influenced by macroeconomic factors in the US.

The manufacturing and employment sectors showed hotter-than-expected data, initially boosting markets, including Bitcoin. However, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's indication that anticipated interest rate cuts might not occur due to this data caused Bitcoin to drop by 7% on Tuesday. Although some recovery was seen, Bitcoin looked set to end the week about 4% lower, trading at $66,840, below the $74,000 all-time high.

Farrington noted the unexpected resilience in Bitcoin ETF cash inflows, with significant amounts recorded in recent days, yet this did not lead to as strong a market bounce as anticipated, possibly due to inflationary fears.

Farrington then compared Bitcoin's performance with Ethereum, observing that Bitcoin has outperformed Ethereum, which is down 12% month-to-month against Bitcoin. This trend may indicate a risk-off sentiment within crypto markets, with investors favouring Bitcoin over riskier altcoins. The lack of catalysts for Ethereum, compared to Bitcoin, also contributes to its underperformance. Nevertheless, recent SEC movements to consider Ethereum ETFs might change this dynamic.

Lastly, Farrington covered Ripple Labs' surprising announcement of entering the stablecoin market with its own dollar-pegged cryptocurrency. Given Tether's dominance in the stablecoin market, it raises questions about what Ripple Labs aims to achieve. Despite controversies surrounding stablecoins, particularly related to transparency and regulation, Ripple Labs' entry could introduce new dynamics into the market.

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