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 sites in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Anatara has received highly encouraging findings from Stage 1 of the GaRP-IBS clinical trial and Stage 2 of the trial will progress these promising developments to further efficacy claims . Under the trial guid ..read more

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 about investment opportunities in IPOs and placements visit Cap Raise: https://capraise.com/ ----------------------- Small Caps is Australia's #1 site for market news & information on ASX listed small cap companies. ----------------------- WEBSITE h ..read more

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 conversion capacity in North America. The company has pulled together a “dream team” of lithium specialists to drive its multi-faceted strategy in what is one of the most active battery metal markets in the world. A major surge in battery manufacturing is ..read more

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 iron to market, with stage 1 set to produce 62% plus iron direct shipping ore (DSO) and stage 2 producing premium-priced +68% iron concentrate. The company has already identified high-grade direct ship iron ore at surface over an expansive area at Bekis ..read more

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 future exploration activity at Mojave. The Mojave project is in the right neighbourhood being located just 1.4km of the world-class Mountain Pass project, the only producing rare earth mine in the USA. Locksley has already confirmed Mojave's potential w ..read more

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 Resources and received a $1.3 million payment from the Australian Research and Development (R&D) Tax Incentive Scheme for the 2023 financial year. The R&D refund provides International Graphite with additional working capital to support the ..read more

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 two drilling rigs and a considerable amount of support equipment . Aurum has been utilising the rigs with great success, hitting a number of shallow, high-grade gold intersections in its ongoing diamond drilling program. The company has now purchased ..read more

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 reaching an agreement in December to add on XPON Technologies’ established and proven ‘application modernisation’ expertise via the acquisition of two of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Xpon Digital and Holoscribe Australia. XPON Digital, renamed Peppermin ..read more

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 to 1.5 million ounces. A key component to the increase was the inclusion of a new 115,216 ounce gold resource identified at Area 51. Barton only announced the discovery of the approximately 500m long gold zone at Area 51 in September 2022. Located to ..read more

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 to 352 claims covering 2,686 hectares of tenure. The acquisition of the new claims comes after Chariot raced off to a fast exploration start at Black Mountain. Chariot is off to a strong start at the project with the receipt of promising results fro ..read more