The Drill Down - Part 1
Kamoa Capital MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2026
The Drill Down
 
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Terra Metals
 
ASX: TM1
 
 
 
Building a world leading PGM asset - MST Access $1.05 valuation
 
Terra Metals' Dante Project hosts large-scale Bushveld-style copper-PGE sulfide reefs just 15km from BHP's $1.7Bn Nebo-Babel development. With world-class polymetallic mineralisation from surface and strong metallurgical outcomes, Dante is rapidly emerging as Australia's next major PGM system.
 
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Lead Insight
Spot gold fell 3.5% to US$3,880.97 an ounce on Friday, its lowest level since October 2025, as a slump in tech shares on AI spending concerns spilled into precious metals. Silver dropped 6.5% to US$49, breaking below US$50 for the first time in 11 months, while palladium slipped below US$1,000. A 7% to 9% weekly fall in silver, platinum and palladium pushed their Relative Strength Index into oversold territory for the first time in three years.
 
Commodity Prices: 2 Nov 2026, 9:22am AEST
Gold (USD/toz)$3,876 -3.62%
Silver (USD/toz)$49 -5.81%
Platinum (USD/toz)$1,433 -3.52%
Palladium (USD/toz)$976 -2.60%
Copper (USD/t)$14,515.23 -1.21%
Nickel (USD/t)$15,182.50 -1.97%
Zinc (USD/t)$3,816.54 -0.89%
Lead (USD/t)$1,895.30 -0.33%
WTI Crude (USD/bbl)$102.95 +0.93%
 
Market Movers: Winners & Losers, Canadian Markets
 
Top Gainers
ADE +40.0%: Adex Mining
Adex secured a new unsecured loan of up to US$1 million from largest shareholder Great Harvest on 30 October, at 8% interest and maturing 1 January 2028. Great Harvest, which holds about 81.88% of Adex, also extended seven existing loans to the same date. Adex holds the Mount Pleasant Mine Property, host to tungsten-molybdenum and tin-indium-zinc mineralisation.
ZNX +22.4%: ZincX Resources
ZincX received the final C$1.9 million payment on 7 October, completing the C$3 million option exercise for its Kechika North project in British Columbia. Its flagship Akie project, host to the NI 43-101 Cardiac Creek deposit, remains the primary focus alongside its southern Kechika regional properties.
CD +15.6%: Cantex Mine Development
Cantex reported initial 2026 assays from North Rackla in the Yukon on 29 October, with hole YKDD26-356 returning 14.00 metres at 10.99% lead-zinc and 17.0 g/t silver from 218 metres. That included 4.00 metres at 29.45% lead-zinc and 44.3 g/t silver, extending the Main Zone's drill-confirmed strike length to 2.67 kilometres. Germanium results are still to come.
 
Top Losers
QZM -25.0%: Quartz Mountain Resources
Quartz Mountain scheduled Phase 5 diamond drilling at its Maestro gold-silver project near Houston, British Columbia, to begin on 22 October. The program will step out from the open-ended Prodigy discovery and give first drill tests to large, previously undrilled geophysical targets to the north.
MSV -19.4%: Minco Silver
Minco Silver renewed the exploration permit for its Fuwan Silver Project in Guangdong, China, through 8 March 2031, in a 16 October update. It is in talks with several parties on potential transactions involving Fuwan and the Changkeng Gold Project, with some conducting due diligence, but no binding agreement has been signed.
MSM -19.2%: Metalsource Mining
Metalsource reported on 22 October that hole SH26-45 at its Silver Hill project in North Carolina visually intersected about 22 metres (core length) of polymetallic mineralisation, 80 metres south of SH26-27. Assays are pending, so grades are not yet confirmed.
 
 
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Sierra Nevada Gold
 
Sierra Nevada Gold
 
ASX: SNX
 
 
Emerging Saudi Arabian Developer & Explorer
 
Sierra Nevada Gold is advancing As Safra, a large copper-gold system extending over more than 5.5km of strike in the Arabian Shield. Initial drilling has confirmed broad, continuous zones of mineralisation including high-grade intervals, with a major follow-up program now in preparation.
 
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Today's Stories
 
Rio Tinto
Oyu Tolgoi Underground Operations Progressively Restarted After Safety Reviews
Rio Tinto is progressively restarting underground operations at its Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia after completing safety reviews. A seismic event on 29 October caused a localised rockfall in a temporary storage zone next to the production area, with no structural impact on the cave or its operating infrastructure. Two employees continue to receive treatment for non-life-threatening injuries.
 
Newswire
Joint Statement: Canada and the European Union Building Together an Alliance for the Future
Canada and the EU launched the Canada-EU Alliance for the Future at their 21st Summit in Montréal on 30 October. Canada and the European Investment Bank concluded negotiations on an agreement to facilitate European investment in Canadian critical raw materials. Leaders also committed to explore stockpiling of critical resources and joint raw materials projects in third countries.
 
Cameco
Cameco Reports Third Quarter Results, Declares Annual Dividend
Cameco posted third-quarter net earnings of C$43 million and adjusted EBITDA of C$267 million, with results lower year on year on reduced Westinghouse equity earnings and an extended Key Lake mill maintenance outage. It narrowed 2026 production guidance to 19.5 million to 20.5 million pounds of U3O8, from up to 21.5 million pounds previously. The board declared an annual dividend of C$0.24 per share, payable 15 December.
 
MarketScreener
Fluor Corp Among US Firms Vying for Kenya Critical Minerals Project, Minister Says
Fluor Corp is part of the Meridian Mineral Holdings consortium bidding to develop Kenya's Mrima Hill critical minerals deposit, after two Chinese companies withdrew from the process. Five contenders lodged tenders on 21 October, including an Australian consortium of RareX and Iluka Resources. Kenya's mining minister said the winning bidder would be named within three weeks.
 
Business Wire
Buenaventura Announces Third Quarter and Nine-Month 2026 Results
Buenaventura's third-quarter net income rose 50% year on year to US$268.4 million, with EBITDA from direct operations up 34% to US$261.2 million. Processing at San Gabriel was constrained for most of the quarter during tailings filtration reinforcement work, resuming in the final week of September. The company ended the quarter with US$1,000.6 million in cash and a net cash position of US$307.3 million.
 
Abenójar Tungsten
Abenójar Tungsten Joins the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange
Spanish developer Abenójar Tungsten listed on the London Stock Exchange's Main Market on 30 October after raising €170 million in its IPO. Proceeds will fund its El Moto tungsten and gold project in Ciudad Real, where construction began in June 2026 and first production is targeted for the first quarter of 2029. El Moto is expected to produce about 4,227 tonnes of contained WO3 a year at steady state, up to 20% of Europe's tungsten demand.
 
HKEXnews
Yancoal Confirms Glencore Coal Frameworks Through 2029
Yancoal Australia has renewed its framework coal sales and purchase agreements with Glencore for three years from 1 January 2027, with confirmation from controlling shareholder Yankuang Energy received on 30 October. Annual caps on coal sales to Glencore are set at US$750 million for 2027, then US$500 million in 2028 and US$550 million in 2029. The 2027 cap reflects a higher likelihood of Glencore spot purchases amid market instability from the Middle East conflict.
 
Emol
Overproduction at Codelco: Parliamentarians Welcome Layoffs, but Say It's Only 'the Beginning'
Codelco's board dismissed eight executives and professionals over irregularities in production reporting, following internal audits and reviews by KPMG and EY of 2024 and 2025 records. Those dismissed span the Chuquicamata, Ministro Hales and Salvador divisions and head office, including Salvador general manager Patricio Viveros. Mining committee chair Cristián Tapia said the case involved an overstatement of about 27,000 tonnes across Ministro Hales and Chuquicamata and called for criminal action.
 
Capital Brief
Government Rules Out Appealing Federal Court's Overturning of McPhillamys Mining Ban
Environment Minister Murray Watt confirmed the federal government will not appeal the Federal Court ruling that overturned the Section 10 heritage protection order over Regis Resources' McPhillamys Gold Project near Blayney, NSW. The government will instead redetermine the matter, with two new Aboriginal protection applications lodged since the 14 October ruling. Watt said he has no personal problem with the project going ahead.
 
Economic Times
India's October Coal-Fired Power Output Jumps Most in 3 Years as Hydro Generation Slumps
India's coal-fired generation rose 25.7% year on year in October, its fastest pace in three years, lifting coal's share of total output to 71.7% from 66.03% in September. Hydropower generation fell 26% on weaker rainfall linked to El Niño, the steepest drop since February 2024. At one point in the month, 100 of India's 191 coal-fired plants were running on critically low fuel stocks.
 
 
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