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High-Tech Metals has installed a new leadership team and arranged an 11.9% share crossing as it shifts focus from exploration to production at its Western Australian gold projects. The strategy is backed by approximately A$9 million in cash, but still depends on studies, approvals and shareholder decisions.

Yowie Group’s FY26 loss narrowed sharply after cost reductions and a non-cash loan impairment reversal, but revenue fell 27% and operating cash flow turned deeply negative. The confectionery maker remains loss-making, has negative net assets and faces uncertainty over funding, supply and the return of its ASX quotation.

Ovanti has reported a A$23.61 million FY2026 loss, A$21.27 million in operating cash outflows and only A$291,867 in cash at year end. The ASX-listed fintech has abandoned BNPL globally, but says its continuing operations and proposed funding initiatives provide a basis to keep trading despite a material going-concern uncertainty.

KGL Resources has received the second US$16 million payment from Wheaton, completing the early deposit for its Jervois copper project. The company says the broader funding package, combined with its A$300 million equity raising, covers construction and the path into production, although the remaining Wheaton tranches are conditional.

dorsaVi has secured A$3.0 million to expand its movement-data business for humanoid robotics while advancing its neuromorphic and RRAM chip programs. The raise comes as its first RRAM-CMOS validation chip moves into proprietary memory integration at TSMC.

Yugo Metals has secured six-year access to the private land covering its planned Petrovo drill sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, paying EUR300,000 and issuing 18 million escrowed shares. An IP survey is due to begin next week, with drilling planned for the fourth quarter subject to approvals.

Astral Resources will issue Estrella Resources 20 million shares valued at $3 million to acquire nickel rights across five tenements within the broader Mandilla development footprint. Completion is targeted for 12 October, but remains conditional on shareholder, regulatory and third-party approvals.

Estrella Resources has agreed to divest its nickel rights across five Western Australian tenements for 20 million Astral Resources shares valued at $3 million. The deal remains conditional, but would sharpen Estrella’s focus on its Timor-Leste exploration portfolio while preserving exposure to Astral’s equity upside.

Wide Open Agriculture has completed a study for a proposed 10,000-tonne-per-year lupin protein facility with indicative annual revenue of A$240 million to A$295 million. The project remains unfunded, unapproved and years from production, leaving contract manufacturing as the immediate test of the company’s strategy.

Neurotech International has moved NTI164 into a registration-enabling Phase III autism trial, but its annual report carries a material going-concern warning. The company says post-year-end debt and equity funding should support the program through topline data, subject to execution and completion.

Clime Capital delivered a sharply stronger FY26 result, with after-tax profit rising to $10.3 million and dividends maintained. But KPMG qualified its audit after failing to obtain sufficient evidence for $36.2 million of unlisted unit trust valuations and related income and fees.

Magnetite Mines has opened a partially underwritten share purchase plan targeting approximately $1 million from eligible Australian and New Zealand shareholders. Investors who receive shares will also be entitled to one free listed option per share, subject to shareholder approval.