Daily Metals Mining Rundown for 23 Feb 2026 (after-market ASX)

Silver price JUMPED +6% over the weekend and thru ASX trading - back above $87/oz - while most other metal prices inched up less than 2%; Most ASX listed metals mining stocks gained, with precious metals miners (silver, gold, and PGMs) standing out; Covered announcements include a significant resource update by Aurum Resources.

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Host Rock Capital
February 23, 2026

Today’s metal price movements (since Friday’s close) and mining company peer group movements through ASX trading (including Friday’s TSX/NY movements):

Top and bottom 40 daily performing metals mining company stocks (out of 504 in our Peer Table) through ASX trading (including Friday’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 explorer Aurum Resources (ASX:AUE) announced today (23 Feb) an updated mineral resource estimate (MRE) for its Boundiali gold project in Cote d’Ivoire - reported to be a major milestone for the project that grew its indicated resources by +49% or +450koz to 1.37Moz Au, making it a premier large-scale West African gold asset and paves the way for an upcoming PFS. This reported higher confidence resource growth brings total project resources to 3.03Moz and company resources to 3.90 Moz (up +19%) - including 0.87Moz from Napie gold project which also has an MRE update in the pipeline for delivery this quarter. AUE stock gained +5.6% on this news (vs. ASX gold explorer mean daily performance of +1.8%) to 75c/sh, market cap C$261m, market cap/oz resource US$47/oz - a 24% discount to our 85-company gold explorer group median US$62/oz.

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