Southern Palladium (ASX:SPD) shares escalated as much as 6.1% to A$0.435, marking their major intraday percentage leap since September 13.

The stock achieved its highest level since September 27.

The company announced it has submitted the mining rights application for its 70%-owned Bengwenyama Platinum-Group Metal project in South Africa.

This development comes after their confidence to proceed with the application rose following a recent 34% increase in resource.

Nevertheless, Southern Palladium (ASX:SPD) is still down by 49.4% this year, as of the latest closing.

Southern Palladium (ASX:SPD) is a company engaged in mining activities with a majority stake in the Bengwenyama Platinum-Group Metal project in South Africa.

Ionic Rare Earths (ASX:IXR) sees a surge in its shares, climbing as much as 8.7% to A$0.025, poised for the best trading day since September 19, given the gains hold steady.

The mineral exploration company shared positive assay results from its Makuutu heavy rare earths project based in Uganda.

The company announced that it identified rare earth intersections in 26 out of a total 31 drill holes.

The local Ugandan operating subsidiary of the company is overseeing developments at the Makuutu Heavy Rare Earths Project.

The stock experienced its highest level since September 25 and remains down by 30.3% year-to-date, according to last close.

Ionic Rare Earths is a mineral exploration company focused on developing heavy rare earths projects.

Shares of Metals Australia (ASX:MLS) have experienced a significant increase, ascending as high as 14.7% to A$0.039.

This marks the highest level recorded since September 11.

Currently, the stock is up 5.9%, which could make it the best performing day since August 25, provided the gains persist.

The diversified mining entity confirmed that large lithium pegmatite ores were identified and have been sent for sampling from an offshore mine in Canada.

Despite the recent gains, the stock has seen a dip of 23.6% this year up to the last close.

Metals Australia (ASX:MLS) is a diversified miner with operations in several countries.

Elixinol Wellness (ASX:EXL) announced the resignation of current chair, Helen Wiseman, and appointment of new chair, David Fenlon.

Wiseman has served as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of Board.

Wiseman tendered her resignation paving the way for Fenlon to take over as chairperson for the board of directors.

Elixinol Wellness is a global leader in the hemp industry, formulating, manufacturing, and distributing high-quality, hemp-based products.

Megaport announced that Leticia Dorman has been appointed as the company’s Chief Financial Officer.

Previously, this role was unoccupied.

This announcement marks a significant milestone for Megaport (ASX:MP1) as they continue to strengthen their management team.

Megaport is a network solutions provider specializing in software defined networking across global services.

Syrah Resources (ASX:SYR) has confirmed the successful undertaking of a production campaign at its Balama Graphite Operation.

The news follows a media article that was published recently.

In addition to this, Syrah Resources went on to further confirm that natural graphite sales and shipments were completed, which took place during the quarter of September 2023.

Syrah Resources is a company involved in various aspects of graphite mining, with a number of operations around the world.

Shares of Strickland Metals (ASX:STK) rose as much as 7.3% to A$0.074, their highest value since May 2022.

After the mining and mineral exploration company announced that its new Konik prospect had intersected wide, high-grade gold near the surface at its Yandal gold project in Western Australia, an increased level of trading was observed.

Approximately 5.2 million shares were exchanged, compared with the 30-day average volume of 2.9 million.

As of the last closing, the stock had risen 72.5% year-to-date.

Strickland Metals is a company specialized in mineral exploration, with a particular focus on the discovery and development of gold resources.

The ongoing process of completing audited financial statements for the full year that ended in June is continuing, shared by Elmore (ASX:ELE).

Anticipatedly, the trading in the company’s securities will be suspended by ASX until the audited financial statements are officially released to the market.

Elmore is a company specializing in various sectors of the global economy.

Appen (ASX:APX) has recently provided new details on the Quadrant earn out and their debt facility.

As of June 30, 2023, Quadrant’s earn out liability was documented in their balance sheet as US$19.4 million.

However, Appen now anticipates this liability to be no greater than US$5.0 million.

In addition, the company has resized its working capital facility from A$20 million down to A$10 million.

As of now, Appen has no plans to draw from the facility before its expiration on January 3, 2024.

Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Dug Technology has announced that it is transitioning its Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Ajesh Raithatha has been appointed as the new CFO.

Sam Cruickshank, the current CFO, will continue in his role until 31 December.

Dug Technology is a high-tech firm specializing in innovative software hardware and cloud solutions.