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Good Afternoon and welcome to HotCopper Highlights for the end of Week 22 of 2025, I’m Jonathon Davidson. In this segment we look at the top companies you’ve been watching and discussing the most, let’s get into it.
Starting with the most viewed,
ASX explorer Predictive Discovery, based in the West African nation of Guinea, tanked this week as it lost two key exploration licences as that country’s junta government revoked 130 exploration permits – something not exactly unheard of for the region. Spare a thought for Resolute Mining who last year had to pay Mali’s junta government to get its CEO back – that company was also hit, again, as it too has assets in Guinea.
Elsewhere, energy explorer minnow FAR Limited clashed with Woodside this week as the supermajor asks the far smaller player for a neat $10M, given that it can’t recover costs from the government of Senegal. For context, FAR Limited actually sold Woodside its Sangomar project acreage, but under the contract, Far was on the hook – for some reason – if the Senegal government didn’t play ball.
Finally, Jade Gas Holdings had a milestone to announce: it says it’s the first Australian company to produce a commercially productive gas fracking well in the Mongolian Gobi Desert. While a handful of small players were active in the Mongolian desert through the early 2020’s, Jade Gas is the last standing.
And as for the most discussed,
Strickland Metals generated chatter midweek as it uncovered deep-lying gold hits below 300m depth. With one result coming in at 10 grams of gold per tonne, investors seemingly shook off concerns around how the company will get down to the gold, even as the commodity traded more or less sideways through May looking back on the month that was.
Elsewhere, Origin Energy holders discussed what its -5% drop on Monday means moving forward, seeing as Origin’s energy business in the UK saw revenues slammed given the third hottest April on record in that jurisdiction. Basically, less demand for home heating means less money for Origin’s UK power retail business.
Finally, Dateline Resources remains highly popular among HotCopper users, given that it’s only been a few weeks since Donald Trump directly referenced the company’s US rare earths project on Truth Social. That’s a kind of celebrity endorsement sure to enthuse.
That’s HotCopper Highlights for this week, I’m Jon Davidson, have a great weekend and we’ll see you on Monday.
