Oliver Gray

Nova Minerals (ASX:NVA) has confirmed the existence of a rich antimony zone at the Stibium prospect, part of the Estelle Gold and Critical Minerals Project in Alaska after receiving assay results from its 2024 exploration program. Over the course of the field season, mapping and sampling activities were carried out across the Estelle claim block, with a particular focus on prospects that were identified during the 2023 season.

Investing is big business Down Under. According to the Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX) Australian Investor Study 2023 — based on a survey of 5,519 adults conducted by research firm Investment Trends — more than half of hold investments outside their home and superannuation. Of those roughly 10.2 million investors, some 7.7 million hold on-exchange investments, up from 6.6 million in 2020. The median portfolio size has also grown over the same period, from $130,000 to $170,000.

Norway has paused its plans to mine the sea bed at the bottom of the Arctic, following demands from a small environmentalist political party that the government scrap its first licensing round. “We are stopping plans to open mining on the sea bed,” Kristi Bergstoe, leader of the SV party, says. The party sits outside the governing coalition, but pledged to back the government’s budget if it halts the roll-out of deep sea mining permits, which were due to be offered in the first half of 2025.