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    5 Top Weekly TSXV Stocks: NorthIsle Copper and Gold Jumps Over 35 Percent

    Dean Belder
    Oct. 01, 2023 07:40PM PST

    Last week's top-gaining resource stocks on the TSXV were NorthIsle Copper and Gold, Condor Resources, Lithium Energi Exploration, VVC Exploration and Phenom Resources.

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    The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index (INDEXTSI:JX) continued its slide to close last week at 559.4.

    Statistics Canada released its real GDP figures for the month of July on Friday (September 29). Overall growth remained flat at 0 percent, and only nine out of 20 sectors saw growth during the period. Among those were the mining sector, which saw 4.2 percent growth, and the oil and gas sector with growth of 1.5 percent. Preliminary estimates for August show that the country is on track for improvement, with real GDP forecast to increase by 0.1 percent for that month.

    Meanwhile, across the border in the US, markets were impacted by news that a government shutdown is increasingly likely.


    Against that backdrop, a variety of TSXV-listed resource stocks made moves over the last five days. Read on to find out which companies rose the most during the period and what was affecting their share prices.

    1. NorthIsle Copper and Gold (TSXV:NCX)

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    Weekly gain: 36.11 percent; market cap: C$52.17 million; current share price: C$0.245

    NorthIsle Copper and Gold is a Vancouver-based company focused on developing sustainable projects. Its North Island project is located on the northern part of Vancouver Island in BC, Canada, where it sits on a 33,000 hectare mineral claim with deposits of copper, gold, molybdenum and rhenium.

    NorthIsle's share price surged last Wednesday (September 27) to C$0.26 following the release of assays for one core from a 2023 drill program at North Island’s Northwest Expo target. The core includes the highest grade and thickness result drilled at the site to date: 130 meters grading 1.65 grams per metric ton (g/t) gold and 0.33 percent copper, including 72 meters at 2.22 g/t gold and 0.41 percent copper and 15 meters at 3.42 g/t gold and 1.15 percent copper.

     

    2. Condor Resources (TSXV:CN)

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    Weekly gain: 32.08 percent; market cap: C$41.6 million; current share price: C$0.35

    Condor Resources engages in precious and base metals exploration in Peru using a project generator model. The company has an active portfolio of 12 targets and four joint venture agreements in place. Seven of its projects are 100 percent owned by the company, and two currently have drill programs underway.

    Condor has performed strongly this year and surged significantly on June 23, when it received a payment from Chakana Copper (TSXV:PERU,OTCQB:CHKKF), which has an option to earn a 100 percent interest in Condor's Soledad project over 4.5 years.

    Although it did not release news last week, Condor reached a weekly high of C$0.35 on Thursday (September 28).

    3. Lithium Energi Exploration (TSXV:LEXI)

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    Weekly gain: 30.77 percent; market cap: C$25.85 million; current share price: C$0.17

    Lithium Energi Exploration is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of lithium brine assets in Argentina. Its portfolio consists of 72,000 hectares within Argentina’s section of the Lithium Triangle, which it is actively exploring.

    Lithium Energi’s share price traded higher this past week, reaching a peak of C$0.175 on Thursday following news that the company is responding to interest from multiple potential acquirers and has formed a special committee to initiate a strategic review process to evaluate its full range of options, including “equity market transactions, disposition of certain assets, or a potential sale or merger.”

    4. VVC Resources (TSXV:VVC)

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    Weekly gain: 28.57 percent; market cap: C$44.7 million; current share price: C$0.09

    VVC Resources is nearing the start of production at Gloria, its copper asset in Mexico, which has an indicated copper resource of 59.4 million pounds. The company also has seven helium and natural gas projects throughout the US, along with a 14 percent stake in Proton Green, which specializes in the production of helium and carbon dioxide.

    Shares of VVC traded up this past week, hitting a weekly high of C$0.09 on Thursday. The company did not release news during the period, but may have been buoyed by a rise in the copper price.

     

    5. Phenom Resources (TSXV:PHNM)

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    Weekly gain: 28 percent; market cap: C$28.55 million; current share price: C$0.32

    Phenom Resources is a gold and vanadium exploration company that wholly owns the Carlin gold-vanadium project in Nevada and the West Jerome copper project in Arizona. The company’s Carlin project lies within the Carlin Gold Trend, where past mining has produced more than 9 million ounces of gold across multiple sites. The project was first explored in the late 1960s by Union Carbide, which defined a vanadium resource that Phenom claims has since become North America’s largest and highest-grade primary vanadium deposit.

    Shares of Phenom rose this past week, hitting C$0.32 at the end of trading on Thursday. This continued an upward trend that started after the company announced on September 19 that it would begin drilling at its Carlin site on October 1. Phenom has been working with Dave Mathewson, formerly of Newmont (TSX:NGT,NYSE:NEM) and a specialist on the Carlin Gold Trend. Mathewson discovered significant deposits in the area throughout the 1990s.

    Data for this 5 Top Weekly TSXV Performers article was retrieved on Thursday after market close using TradingView's stock screener. Only companies with market capitalizations greater than C$10 million prior to the week's gains are included. Companies within the non-energy minerals and energy minerals are considered.

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    Securities Disclosure: I, Dean Belder, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.

    Editorial Disclosure: VVC Resources is a client of the Investing News Network. This article is not paid-for content.

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    Dean Belder
    Dean Belder

    Investment Market Content Specialist

    Dean has been writing in one form or another since penning stage plays in his youth. He is a graduate of both Emily Carr University and Simon Fraser University, with a BFA in photography and a BA in communications.

    As a writer, Dean has traveled throughout BC and the Pacific Northwest covering cultural events, interviewing small business owners and working alongside fellow writers and photographers from publications like Rolling Stone Magazine, Spin and the Georgia Straight.

    Dean has a keen interest in investing, and enjoys learning about the mining industry and better understanding the technical aspects of trading. In his spare time, Dean is an avid home chef, ponders the space-time continuum and makes his own cider. On weekends he can be found cycling the Seawall, exploring farmers markets or sampling the city’s local craft breweries.

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