“Avita Medical is a medical device company that provides a unique approach to skin regeneration” Avita closed a capital raising this week to raise approximately $11M at a price of $0.09. The rights issue is partly underwritten by Morgans Financial Ltd (“Morgans”). The company has recently strengthened its management team…
There are hundreds of copper minerals, many of which cannot be treated. It is important to know what copper minerals occur in a deposit before assigning value to the deposit. Even if the copper mineral/s in the deposit can be treated, the cost may be high and therefore potentially uneconomic.…
Cobalt and lithium are often referred to as “energy metals”. They are the primary constituents, along with graphite, of lithium ion batteries, the fastest growing segment of the battery market. There is a lot of hype in this space, however demand growth is strong and expected to continue. Graphite and lithium…
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”) has a great website that is well worth a visit. The chart below, interactive on the NOAA site, shows average May temperatures for the continental US since 1895. It can be seen that while there is a high degree of fluctuation, the…
It is a principle of good science that all effort must be made to falsify a hypothesis. Only when that attempt has failed can the hypothesis be, at least tentatively, accepted. But humans are not wired that way; we tend to accept evidence that supports an existing point of view…
Wind turbines are the least loved of the “renewable” power generators. They completely destroy the aesthetics of their locale, they are noisy and very destructive of bird life. Many accept these issues on the basis that once they are up and running, they provide free electricity. Of course there is…