SmallCaps Podcast

PharmAust (ASX: PAA) executive chairman and CEO Dr Roger Aston joins Small Caps to discuss the latest news in relation to its lead drug monepantel (MPL). The biotechnology company has been focused on repurposing the drug as a treatment for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. It has now confirmed it is ready to proceed with human trials of MPL on patients with motor neurone disease (MND). The clinical trial will test the safety and tolerability of the drug and identify any signs that indicate it may be capable of slowing the disease. Tablets specially designed for the trial were made to current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) and have already been shipped to Sydney and Melbourne. The trial is being funded with support from FightMND, the largest independent funder of MND research in Australia. PharmAust also has a medicinal chemistry contracting subsidiary based in Perth called Epichem. Earlier this week, it announced new general manager and business development manager appointments.Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/pharmaust-moves-closer-trials-monepantel-patients-motor-neurone-disease/https://smallcaps.com.au/pharmaust-appoints-new-general-manager-epichem-subsidiary/For more information on PharmAust:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/PAA/

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Boss Energy (ASX: BOE) managing director Duncan Craib joins Small Caps to discuss the board’s final investment decision to redevelop the Honeymoon uranium mine in South Australia. A recently completed front-end engineering and design (FEED) study confirmed cost estimates in the enhanced feasibility study released in mid-2021 remain accurate. Project economics include capital development costs of $113 million, a 47% internal rate of return based on a US$60 per pound uranium price, and a nameplate production capacity of 2.45 million pounds of uranium annually over an initial 11-year mine life. Boss Energy confirmed first production is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2023 with the reopened mine expected to ramp up to nameplate capacity within three years. The company has ordered several long-lead items, including the award of NIMCIX columns tender and the water treatment plant tender, with detailed engineering underway. The Honeymoon is fully funded thanks to a $125 million equity raising completed in March. Boss also holds a strategic 1.25Mlb uranium stockpile valued at US$59.38million based on the current spot price of around US$47.5/lb.Article:https://smallcaps.com.au/boss-energy-final-investment-decision-develop-honeymoon-uranium-project/For more information on Boss Energy:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/BOE/

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Rick Rule, investor and speculator, joins Small Caps to share his views on the markets and where he believes they are headed.Topics covered include: the energy crisis, inflation, politics, money, commodities, stocks, uranium, oil and gas, gold, silver and more...For more interviews:https://www.youtube.com/c/SmallCapsASX

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Taruga Minerals (ASX: TAR) chief executive officer Thomas Line joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s upcoming exploration strategy at its Mt Craig project, where ionic adsorption clay-hosted rare earth elements have been confirmed. The project is located within the Adelaide Fold Belt and a similar structural corridor to BHP’s Olympic Dam operation and other major base metal deposits in South Australia. Analysis of samples from the Morgan’s Creek prospect within the project has indicated a simple low-cost flowsheet could be used to extract the REE.Article:https://smallcaps.com.au/taruga-minerals-confirms-ionic-adsorption-clay-ree-mt-craig-copper-project/For more information on Taruga Minerals:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/TAR/

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Wide Open Agriculture’s (ASX: WOA) Dirty Clean Food brand CEO Jay Albany joins Small Caps to discuss the major milestone of securing a supply agreement for the company’s carbon neutral, regeneratively farmed lupin-based Buntine Protein. Mr Albany estimates the global market for its Buntine Protein exceeds US$100 billion and the company is also in discussions with numerous other interested parties. The positive news regarding Buntine Protein comes as international commercialisation of the company’s Dirty Clean Food brand oat milk gathers momentum with a new distribution deal in Taiwan.Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/wide-open-agriculture-major-milestone-supply-buntine-protein-monde-nissin-australia/https://smallcaps.com.au/wide-open-agriculture-signs-deal-market-dirty-clean-food-oat-milk-taiwan/For more information on Wide Open Agriculture:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/WOA/

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Southern Cross Gold (ASX: SXG) managing director Michael Hudson joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s exploration plans across its gold-antimony portfolio following its ASX debut in mid-May. The company raised $9.1 million in an IPO to advance its assets including the Sunday Creek project in Victoria. Mr Hudson says Sunday Creek is one of the better exploration discoveries to come out of Victoria, with recent drilling returning broad and high-grade gold-antimony intersections.Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/southern-cross-gold-uncovers-wide-high-grade-zones-sunday-creek/https://smallcaps.com.au/southern-cross-gold-ipo-proceeds-new-life-victorian-goldfields/For more information on Southern Cross Gold:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/SXG/

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Crowd Media (ASX: CM8) chief executive officer Idan Schmorak joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s commercialisation strategy in 2022. Crowd Media recently secured two separate commercial agreements for its AI-powered Talking Head platform with SourceFlare and Impssbl. The new partnerships will bring Talking Head into new spaces and showcase its value, while generating revenue through licencing fees. Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/crowd-media-secures-agreements-commercialise-talking-head-artificial-intelligence-platform/https://smallcaps.com.au/crowd-media-continues-in-the-green-another-profitable-quarter/For more information on Crowd Media:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/CM8/

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Aston Minerals (ASX: ASO) executive chairman Tolga Kumova joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s nickel-cobalt strategy from its Edleston gold project in Canada’s tier one Ontario mining jurisdiction. Drilling has identified nickel at the large Boomerang target within the project, which hosts the Bardwell discovery where metallurgical test work has generated a saleable nickel-cobalt concentrate which could feed the region’s battery industry.Article:https://smallcaps.com.au/aston-minerals-produces-saleable-concentrate-boomerang-nickel-cobalt-samples/For more information on Aston Minerals:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/ASO/

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Credit Clear (ASX: CCR) chief executive officer Andrew Smith joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s journey to becoming cash flow positive and its international expansion strategy. Following a record March quarter where its revenue run rate climbed to $35 million per annum, Mr Smith said the company expected to be cash flow positive from July this year. As part of its accelerated growth, Credit Clear is exploring opportunities to roll-out its technology in multiple international markets after its recent success with South Africa-based Techub.Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/credit-clear-secures-further-annualised-revenue-new-clients/https://smallcaps.com.au/credit-clear-targets-cashflow-positive-mid-2022/https://smallcaps.com.au/credit-clear-expands-internationally-platform-deployment-techub/For more information on Credit Clear:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/CCR/

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Resource Base (ASX: RBX) chief executive officer Shannon Green joins Small Caps to discuss the company’s recent exploration success at its Mitre Hill rare earth element project in the Murray Basin, which spans the South Australian and Victorian borders. Recent broad spaced drilling across only one tenement of the 2,600sq km project hit up to 1,421ppm total rare earth oxides from just 3m below surface. Resource Base holds the second largest land position within the southern margin of the Murray Basin, which is deemed an emerging REE precinct of potential global significance.Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/resource-base-confirms-widespread-clay-rare-earths-mitre-hill-project/For more information on Resource Base:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/RBX/

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