Daily Metals Mining Rundown for 10 Mar 2026 (after-market ASX)

Most metal prices bounced and gained over past ~24 hrs, led by PGMs and silver rising +5-6% followed by copper, lithium, gold rising +2-3%; This led to most larger-cap mining stocks rising gently across the metals spectrum over past trading session, with most smaller-cap counterparts remaining largely flat - except for small-cap ASX miners which mostly gained during today's ASX session; Covered announcements include acquisition of Taylor silver and gold project in Nevada by A2 Gold Corp.

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Host Rock Capital
March 10, 2026

Today’s metal price movements (over past ~24hrs) and mining company peer group movements through ASX trading (including yesterday’s TSX/NY movements):

Top and bottom 40 daily performing metals mining company stocks (out of 512 in our Peer Table) through ASX trading (including yesterday’s TSX/NY movements):

Mining company announcements incorporated into today’s after-market ASX Peer Table (resource updates, economic studies, changes in attributable project ownership):

  • Gold (and silver) explorer A2Gold (TSXV:AUAU) announced Friday (6 Mar) that it intends to acquire 100% interest in the Taylor gold-silver project in Nevada – the top ranked mining jurisdiction according to The Fraser Institute’s recent survey (covered here: https://lnkd.in/ghivbYwX ), where A2 is already advancing its flagship Eastside project on the state’s prolific Walker’s Lane trend. Eastside hosts low-grade resources of 1.4 Moz Au @ ~0.54g/t Au and 8.7Moz Ag @ 4.4 g/t Ag that are reported to be amenable to (low-capital-intensity) heap leach processing, and which excludes some 5-6 additional nearby target zones (along with some other early-stage projects A2 is advancing to the north - in Nevada’s Carlin trend near prolific Round Mountain mine). This new Taylor gold-silver project adds a second resource stage project to A2’s portfolio in Nevada, as it hosts historic resources of 11Moz Ag @ ~3g/t Ag (at high cut off grade associated with low silver price of US$17/oz Ag), which would at least double at a more current cut-off grade and silver price based on the cut-off grade sensitivity provided in the release – and which exclude extensive exploration upside, which A2 says it will commence shortly after closing the acquisition. Consideration is to include ~8.7m shares AUAU (valued at C$10m at 20d VWAP), which will grow A2’s basic shares outstanding by ~8.3% to 112.39m shares, in exchange for growing its mineral resources by ~12.8% to 1.75 Moz AuEq (now a higher ~20% from Ag, 80% Au, by metal value at 3-month trailing average metal prices). AUAU stock is down -7.5% over past week to 98c/sh (intraday 9 Mar) – just outperforming out 85-company gold explorer group median weekly drop of -10% for same period – and to a AUAU proforma market cap C$109m and proforma market cap/oz resource of US$46/oz AuEq – a 15% discount to gold explorer median $54/oz AuEq (and a 25% discount to silver explorer median $61/oz AuEq – whose median silver share of resources of 59% is much higher than AUAU’s 20%).

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