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LSU gymnastics star Livvy Dunne out for NCAA championship semifinals

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The LSU Tigers take the floor at the 2025 NCAA women’s gymnastics championship semifinals Thursday night seeking to defend their national championship.

Dunne, who is also a social media influencer and the girlfriend of Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes, has been sidelined for the last month with an avulsion fracture in her kneecap.

The Tigers, who won the NCAA’s University Park Regional, are appearing in their third consecutive national semifinals. They are also looking to join Oklahoma as teams that have won back-to-back national championships this decade.

Is Livvy Dunne competing at NCAA women’s gymnastics championship?

No, Dunne was not listed on the Tigers’ card ahead of Thursday’s Session II semifinal at the 2025 NCAA women’s gymnastics championship.

Livvy Dunne injury updates

‘Hi friends! Unfortunately, I’ve been dealing with an avulsion fracture of my patella and will not be able to compete on senior night,’ the story read, according to People Magazine.

She continued: ‘It absolutely breaks my heart to not get the opportunity to compete in the PMAC one last time. Tiger fans, you’ve been so good to me!’

She has been out since LSU’s senior night vs. Georgia on March 7, and hasn’t competed in the postseason. As noted by The Daily Advertiser, part of the USA TODAY Network, Dunne was held out of LSU’s opening round of the NCAA Tournament as a precaution and was seen wearing a knee brace.

‘It’s about pain. It’s about her pain. It’s an unusual thing,’ LSU coach Jay Clark said at a news conference ahead of the Tigers’ regular season finale vs. Auburn on March 10. ‘I had to look it up. I didn’t even know what the retinaculum in your knee was.

‘And generally speaking the little — she put it on social media, so it’s OK I guess for me to talk about it. But the little avulsion fracture that she has, she and I were talking about it yesterday, that generally happens to people who have been in a car accident or some sort of blunt force trauma and she can’t recall anything like that. It’s an extremely unusual thing that she is dealing with and it just hurts.’

Clark mentioned that Dunne can ‘force herself to function’ while dealing with the pain of her injury, but ‘it’s very painful.’

What is Livvy Dunne’s injury?

Dunne is dealing with an avulsion fracture in her kneecap. According to the Cleveland Clinic, an avulsion fracture occurs when ‘a piece of bone attached to a ligament or tendon breaks away from the main part of the bone.’

The Cleveland Clinic notes that it can take up to 12 weeks to fully heal, adding that it occurs in young athletes who engage in activities involving ‘quick movements and sudden changes in direction.’

Livvy Dunne scores 2025

Dunne has seen little competition in her fifth season at LSU this year, competing in only four meets this year. She hasn’t appeared in a meet since Jan. 24 against Arkansas, where she scored a 9.700 in the floor exercise.

She only competed in nine meets last season for the Tigers, which included recording a career-high score of 9.900 on the floor at both the Podium Challenge and the second round of the NCAA Fayetteville Regional.

Here’s how Dunne has performed for LSU this season:

Score in parentheses

  • Jan. 3 vs. Iowa State: balance beam (9.825) | floor exercise (9.875)
  • Jan. 11 in Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad: uneven bars (9.725) | balance beam (9.775) | floor exercise (9.850)
  • Jan. 17 vs. Florida: floor exercise (9.875)
  • Jan. 24 vs. Arkansas: floor exercise (9.700)
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Report: NHL star settled sexual assault claim by NY Rangers employee

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New York Rangers star Artemi Panarin was accused of sexual assault by a team employee in December 2023, resulting in financial settlements, according to a new report from The Athletic.

The 33-year-old forward and the Madison Square Garden Company, which owns the team, each agreed to pay a financial settlement this past August to the employee, while having her sign non-disclosure and no admission of wrongdoing clauses, according to the report.

The report said the alleged assault occurred following a postgame gathering at a hotel. Panarin was accused of taking the employee’s phone and asking her back to his hotel room, where he allegedly attempted the assault before she pushed him away and left the room.

There is no record of the employee reporting the alleged incident to law enforcement, and she did not alert the team until roughly three months later, when the Rangers were investigating a separate matter involving the same employee giving ‘anti-anxiety medicine’ to a player on a team flight. That incident was referenced in a report from lohud.com, part of the USA TODAY Network, in a December 2024 story, which noted that the Rangers’ social media employees were no longer permitted to travel with the team as a result.

Prior to the 2024-25 season, a letter signed by Rangers president Chris Drury, Knicks president Leon Rose and MSG COO Jamaal Lesane was distributed to all team employees issuing “a reminder regarding the expectations of behavior when interacting with the players or coaches of any of our Teams.”

Staffers were told that “absent written approval from an Executive Vice President (‘EVP’) or above,” they were prohibited from staying at the same hotel as any of the teams under the MSG umbrella, including the minor-league Hartford Wolf Pack and Westchester Knicks, traveling on team flights or buses, or attending team social gatherings or meals, according to the memo obtained by lohud.com.

Furthermore, it mandated that employees keep as much distance as possible at the rink.

“Interactions between employees and players or coaches must be strictly limited except as necessary to satisfy the requirements of an employee’s role,” it read. “Failure to comply with the directives set forth in this memorandum may result in disciplinary action, including, without limitation, termination of employment.”

The team employee was asked to clarify why she left the organization shortly after lohud.com’s story was published in December 2024, which she declined while noting she was ‘legally forbidden.’

Regarding the accusations against Panarin, who has been the Rangers’ leading scorer for six straight seasons and will be entering the final year of his seven-year, $81.5 million contract next season, an MSG Sports spokesperson issued a statement saying, ‘The matter has been resolved.’

Vincent Z. Mercogliano is the New York Rangers beat reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Read more of his work at lohud.com/sports/rangers/ and follow him on Twitter @vzmercogliano.

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NCAA gymnastics championships results: No. 1 seed knocked out in semis

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Team USA star Jordan Chiles and the UCLA Bruins will compete for an NCAA title Saturday after advancing out of their semifinal session at the 2025 gymnastics championships in Fort Worth, Texas.

Chiles, who was part of the U.S. team that won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, helped propel the Bruins ahead of No. 1 seed and defending NCAA champion LSU, which failed to advance in a thrilling second semifinal session at Dickies Arena. UCLA will be joined in the finals by Utah, Missouri and Oklahoma, which has won five of the past eight national championships.

Florida, Michigan State and Alabama joined LSU as the four semifinalists who did not make the cut.

Thursday’s semifinal sessions also decided the NCAA champions in the women’s all-around competition and the four individual events. Two-time U.S. Olympian Jade Carey, who represents Oregon State, and 2021 Olympic silver medalist Grace McCallum were among the headliners in a crowded field that also featured U.S. alternates Leanne Wong (Florida) and Joscelyn Roberson (Arkansas).

Ultimately, though, it was Jordan Bowers of Oklahoma who claimed the individual all-around title Thursday, finishing just ahead of McCallum and Sooners teammate Faith Torrez, who placed second and third, respectively. They were followed by Carey in fourth and Chiles in fifth. (Roberson finished 13th and Wong placed 17th.)

Watch NCAA women’s gymnastics championships with ESPN+

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Jordan Chiles sticks dismount to win NCAA title on uneven bars

Jordan Chiles finished fifth in the individual all-around competition, but she will still leave Fort Worth with an NCAA title.

The Olympic gold medalist nailed her dismount on uneven bars en route to a near-perfect score of 9.975, appearing somewhere between shocked and emotional after her feet hit the mat. The routine put her atop the leaderboard, ahead of her 2021 U.S. Olympic teammate Grace McCallum, who finished second.

It’s Chiles’ third NCAA apparatus title. She also won NCAA championships on uneven bars and floor exercise in 2023.

NCAA gymnastics championships team results

That’s a wrap on the NCAA gymnastics semifinals. Here are the final results and standings from the two sessions Thursday:

  1. Utah (Q): 197.7625 (Beam: 49.2125 | Floor: 49.5625 | Vault: 49.3375 | Bars: 49.6500)
  2. UCLA (Q): 197.7375 (Floor: 49.5250 | Vault: 49.2375 | Bars: 49.4250 | Beam: 49.5500)
  3. Oklahoma (Q): 197.5500 (Bars: 49.4000 | Beam: 49.3500 | Floor: 49.5250 | Vault: 49.2750)
  4. LSU: 197.5250 (Bars: 49.3250 | Beam: 49.3250 | Floor: 49.5000 | Vault: 49.3750)
  5. Missouri (Q): 197.3000 (Floor: 49.2225 | Vault: 49.1250 | Bars: 49.4500 | Beam: 49.5000)
  6. Michigan State: 197.3625 (Vault: 49.3875 | Bars: 49.4500 | Beam: 49.2125 | Floor: 49.3625)
  7. Florida: 197.2000 (Beam: 49.3000 | Floor: 49.3500 | Vault: 49.0750 | Bars: 49.4750)
  8. Alabama: 196.8250 (Vault: 49.1250 | Bars: 49.1625 | Beam: 49.2000 | Floor: 49.3375)

Jade Carey finishes fourth in all-around despite strong showing on beam

Oregon State’s Jade Carey has won 10 medals at the Olympics and world championships, but an all-around NCAA title has eluded her.

Carey was in a strong position at the halfway point of Thursday’s semifinal after earning scores of 9.9125 on uneven bars and 9.9500 on balance beam − which was tied for the third-highest score of the day. It all appeared to be leading to a triumphant conclusion on two of her best events, floor exercise and vault.

Ultimately, though, Carey fell just short of the all-around podium after taking a big step on the landing on vault en route to a score of 9.8500.

NCAA gymnastics championships apparatus scores, results

Here are the final results in the individual events at the 2025 NCAA gymnastics championships:

All-around

  1. Jordan Bowers (Oklahoma): 39.7125
  2. Grace McCallum (Utah): 39.6750
  3. Faith Torrez (Oklahoma): 39.6375

Vault

  1. Kailin Chio (UCLA): 9.9750
  2. Sage Kellerman (Michigan State) and Grace McCallum (Utah): 9.9500
  3. Amy Doyle (Michigan State): 9.9125

Uneven bars

  1. Jordan Chiles (UCLA): 9.9750
  2. Grace McCallum (Utah): 9.9625
  3. Six-way tie: 9.9375

Balance beam

  1. Helen Hu (Missouri): 9.9875
  2. Emma Malabuyo (UCLA): 9.9750
  3. Five-way tie: 9.9500

Floor exercise

  1. Brooklyn Moors (UCLA): 9.9625
  2. Jordan Bowers (Oklahoma), Grace McCallum (Utah) and Faith Torrez (Oklahoma): 9.9500
  3. Aleah Finnegan (LSU), Skyla Schulte (Michigan State) and Lily Smith (Georgia): 9.9375

Why didn’t we see a perfect 10 at the NCAA championships?

Only five routines garnered perfect scores in the regional finals. And we didn’t see one Thursday. The nature of judging at the NCAA championships makes it more difficult.

No, the code of points doesn’t randomly change at nationals. There are just more judges, which essentially raises the bar for a gymnast to get a perfect score. At regular season meets, each event is scored by two judges. At nationals, however, there are six — with the best and worst scores being dropped, and the other four being averaged.

Missouri, Oklahoma advance out of first semifinal

With a clutch performance on balance beam in the final rotation, Helen Hu pushed No. 7 Missouri past No. 3 Florida and into Saturday’s NCAA final for the first time in program history.

The Tigers and Gators were separated by fractions of a point entering the final rotation when Hu − who was retired from competitive gymnastics a year ago − turned in the best score of the day on balance beam, a near-flawless 9.9875. Florida’s final performer on uneven bars, Riley McCusker, needed to keep pace but scored a 9.8625 to seal the Gators’ agonizing third-place finish.

The Tigers will be joined in Saturday’s final by No. 2 Oklahoma, which led from start to finish in the first semifinal session. No. 11 Alabama finished fourth and, like Florida, has seen its season end.

Oklahoma’s Jordan Bowers dominant en route to title

The Oklahoma Sooners cruised to Saturday’s final − and senior Jordan Bowers took home the all-around NCAA title.

Bowers was sitting atop the individual all-around leaderboard after the first semifinal session, and she put up the top scores on two of the four apparatuses, uneven bars and floor exercise. Her score on floor of 9.9500 was tied for the best score of the session in any event.

Despite the big names in the second session, including Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey, Bowers’ score of 39.7125 was strong enough to keep her atop the podium.

Did Livvy Dunne compete at 2025 NCAA gymnastics championships?

No. Dunne, a member of the top-ranked LSU women’s gymnastics team, was not on the Tigers’ lineup card for the second semifinal session.

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Packers’ Jordan Love thinks Aaron Rodgers has ‘more years in the tank’

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Veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers still hasn’t made a decision on whether he will play in 2025 or retire. His former backup hopes he keeps playing.

Green Bay Packers starter Jordan Love told Kay Adams Thursday that he believes Rodgers has ‘got some more years in the tank’ and that he would still love to play his former teammate.

‘That was my mentor coming to the league, so I’d hate to see him go out,’ Love said. ‘But he’s had a phenomenal, phenomenal career – definitely a Hall of Famer. We’ll see. I don’t think he’s ready to end it, though.’

Rodgers joined ‘The Pat McAfee Show’ on Thursday afternoon and was cagey about his NFL future.

‘I’m open to anything and attached to nothing,’ he said. ‘Retirement could still be a possibility.’

The 20-year NFL veteran went on to say that he was dealing with some personal matters that are playing a significant role in his decision. He said that he plans to take his time and weigh his options – and that he hasn’t been given any kind of deadline by the Pittsburgh Steelers or any other team.

Rodgers also insisted that he wasn’t ‘holding teams hostage’ as he waits to make a decision.

In 2024, his second and final year with the Jets, Rodgers had a completion rate of 63% with 3,897 passing yards, 28 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. New York let Rodgers know the team planned to go in a different direction in February.

Rodgers’ most likely landing spot is with the Steelers, a team with two quarterbacks on its roster: Mason Rudolph and Skylar Thompson. Pittsburgh currently owns the No. 21 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft after a 10-7 regular season and wild-card round loss to the Ravens.

USA TODAY Sports’ Nate Davis sent Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders to Pittsburgh in his latest mock draft.

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Secure Your Retirement Happiness: Check Your 401(k) Now!

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With so many articles and videos on popular media channels advising you not to look at your 401(k) during this market downturn, avoiding taking the other side is tough. If you are close to retirement or retired, isn’t a market downturn a good excuse to look at your 401(k)? After all, you’ve stashed away hard-earned money to enjoy those big post-retirement plans.

The stock market is well-known for its uncanny ability to throw you surprises, but the recent headline-driven price action is especially difficult to navigate. While it’s true that, over the longer term, the broader market tends to trend higher, if you’re not in a position to patiently wait for that to occur, you may want to reevaluate your portfolio sooner rather than later. The “set-it-and-forget-it” strategy can work at times but not always.

Is the Stock Market Headed Lower?

Let’s look at where the overall stock market stands by analyzing the S&P 500 ($SPX), starting with the daily chart.

FIGURE 1. DAILY CHART OF S&P 500. After falling below its 200-day moving average, the S&P 500 is struggling to remain above its 5400 level. Will it hold? Chart source: StockCharts.com. For educational purposes.

It’s clear the S&P 500 is trending lower and that the 50-day simple moving average (SMA) has crossed below the 200-day SMA, further confirming the downward trend of the index. After reaching a high of 6147.43 on February 19, 2025, $SPX started its decline, falling below its 50-day SMA and then its 200-day SMA.

Although the index tried to bounce back to its 200-day SMA, it failed to break above it and fell to a low of 4835.04 on April 7, 2025. Since then, the S&P 500 has been trying to bounce back. It filled the April 4 down gap, but has been stalling around the 5400 level since then, on lower volume. It’s almost as if investors are sitting on the sidelines for the next tariff-related news which could send the S&P 500 higher or lower.

Going back, the 5400 was a support level for the September 2024 lows, between the end of July and early August, and in mid-June. There have also been price gaps at this level during those times. The chart of the S&P 500 has a horizontal line overlay at the 5400 level. This could act as a resistance level for a while, or the index could soar above it, in which case this level could act as a support level.

Save the chart in one of your ChartLists and watch how the price action unfolds for the next few weeks.

Where’s the Breadth?

It’s worth monitoring the Bullish Percent Index (BPI) of the S&P 500. The chart below displays the S&P 500 BPI ($BPSPX) in the top panel and $SPX in the bottom panel.

FIGURE 2. BULLISH PERCENT INDEX FOR THE S&P 500. The $BPSPX recovered after falling below 12.5. Even a move over 50 should be eyed with caution. Chart source: StockCharts.com. For educational purposes.

The recent slide in the S&P 500 took the $BPSPX to well below 12.5. It has reversed and is above 30, which is encouraging. A rise above 50 is bullish but, as you can see in the chart, the last time $BPSPX crossed above 50 (dashed blue vertical lines), it turned back lower, only to start its descent to the lowest level in the past year. Save your excitement until the $BPSPX is over 50 and a turnaround in the $SPX is in place.

This could take a while, which is why, if you’re close to retirement or already retired, you may have to consider selling the rip, or if the situation turns bullish, buy the dip. It may be time to unwind some positions, so evaluate your portfolio and make decisions that are aligned with your lofty retirement plans.

So, heck yeah! Look at your 401(k) now!

Disclaimer: This blog is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as financial advice. The ideas and strategies should never be used without first assessing your own personal and financial situation, or without consulting a financial professional.

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Trade Pullbacks Like a Pro: Simple Moving Average Strategy That Works

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Moving average strategy, trend trading, and multi-timeframe analysis are essential tools for traders. In this video, Joe demonstrates how to use two key moving averages to determine if a stock is in an uptrend, downtrend, or sideways phase. He then expands on applying this concept across multiple timeframes to gain a significant edge when trading pullbacks.

In addition, Joe provides insights into the current state of commodities, highlighting areas showing signs of improvement, and covers major indices. Finally, he addresses viewer-submitted symbol requests, including LMT, BABA, and more, offering his technical analysis on each.

The video premiered on April 16, 2025. Click this link to watch on Joe’s dedicated page.

Archived videos from Joe are available at this link. Send symbol requests to stocktalk@stockcharts.com; you can also submit a request in the comments section below the video on YouTube. Symbol Requests can be sent in throughout the week prior to the next show.

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200-Day Moving Average Confirms Bearish Phase

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When markets get more volatile and more unstable, I get the urge to take a step back and reflect on simple assessments of trend and momentum.  Today we’ll use one of the most common technical indicators, the 200-day moving average, and discuss what this simple trend-following tool can tell us about conditions for the S&P 500 index.

Nothing Good Happens Below the 200-Day Moving Average

I’ve received a number of questions recently as to why I’m not way more bullish after the sudden rally off last Wednesday’s low.  I love to respond with Paul Tudor Jones’ famous quote, “Nothing good happens below the 200-day moving average.”

To be clear, the 200-day moving average is almost 500 points above current levels, so it would take quite a rally to achieve that price level any time soon.  But with the VIX still well above the 30 level, that means the market is expecting wide price swings and big moves could be very possible.

But generally speaking, any time I see a chart where the price is below a downward-sloping 200-day moving average, I feel comfortable making the basic assumption that the primary trend is down.  And until the SPX can regain this long-term trend barometer, I’m inclined to treat the market as “guilty until proven innocent.”

Tracking the 200-Day With the New Market Summary Page

The new and updated version of the StockCharts Market Summary page features a table of major equity indexes and includes a comparison to the 200-day moving average for each index.  I’ve sorted today’s table in descending order based on this metric, which allows us to compare the relative position of different indexes and focus on which areas of the equity market are showing real strength.

We can see that only the Dow Utilities remain above the 200-day moving average, even with the strong bounce we’ve observed over the last week.  The S&P 500 is about 8% below its 200-day moving average, and for the Nasdaq Composite it’s over 11%.  So this basically implies that the S&P could see another 8% rally, drawing in all sorts of investors, yet still remain in a bearish phase based on its position relative to the 200-day.

Three Stocks Facing a Crucial Test This Week

One chart I’m watching closely this week involves three key growth stocks that are actually very near their own 200-day moving average.  If these Magnificent 7 stocks have enough upside momentum to power through the 200-day, then there could definitely be hope for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to follow suit in the coming weeks.  

Note in the top panel how Meta Platforms (META) powered above the 200-day last Wednesday after the announcement of a 90-day pause in tariffs.  But after closing above the 200-day for that one day, META broke right back below the next day.  META has closed lower every trading day since that breakout.

Neither Amazon.com (AMZN) nor Tesla (TSLA) reached their own 200-day on last Wednesday’s rally, and both are now rapidly approaching their lows for 2025.  And if mega cap growth stocks like META, AMZN, and TSLA are unable to power above their 200-day moving averages, why should we expect our growth-dominated benchmarks to do the same?

With a flurry of news headlines every trading day, and an earnings season that could paint a disturbing picture of lowered expectations for economic growth and consumer sentiment, I feel that there is more downside to be had before the great bear market of 2025 is completed.  But instead of trying to predict the future, I choose to simply follow the trends.  And based on the shape of the 200-day moving average for these important charts, the primary trend appears to still be down.

RR#6,

Dave

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Disclaimer: This blog is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as financial advice.  The ideas and strategies should never be used without first assessing your own personal and financial situation, or without consulting a financial professional.  

The author does not have a position in mentioned securities at the time of publication.    Any opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not in any way represent the views or opinions of any other person or entity.

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Top 5 Junior Copper Stocks on the TSXV in 2025

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The copper price moved significantly during the first quarter with momentum that carried it to an all time high on the COMEX of US$5.26 per pound on March 26.

The rally in prices was driven by uncertainty in global financial markets due to the threat of tariffs from the United States and President Donald Trump.

This resulted in increased tightness and panic in copper inventories as more shipments were diverted into US warehouses to preempt any potential price hikes. However, prices eased at the beginning of April as concerns about a global recession began to outweigh fears of commodity shortages, causing the price of copper to drop below US$4.50 per pound.

How has this affected small-cap copper mining companies on the TSX Venture Exchange? Read on to learn about the the five best-performing junior copper stocks since the start of 2025.

Data for this article was gathered on April 7, 2025, using TradingView’s stock screener, and copper companies with market caps of over C$10 million at that time were considered.

1. Camino Minerals (TSXV:COR)

Year-to-date gain: 477.78 percent
Market cap: C$10.47 million
Share price: C$0.26

Camino Minerals is a copper exploration company focused on advancing assets located in Peru.

Its flagship Los Chapitos project, located near the coastal town of Chala, covers approximately 22,000 hectares and hosts near-surface mineralization. The company has been advancing exploration work on the property since 2016.

Shares in Camino gained significantly after announcing the start of a discovery exploration program at the project on January 22. The company stated the program would consist of 11 holes and 1,200 meters of drilling along the La Estancia fault, focusing on newly identified copper breccias and mantos to determine their extension at depth.

Camino has not provided further updates from Los Chapitos. Another significant update since the start of the year was announced on March 17, when it filed a pre-feasibility study for the Puquois copper project. The project was originally acquired as part of an October 2024 definitive agreement to create a 50/50 joint venture between Camino and Nittetsu Mining (TSE:1515) for the construction-ready project.

The study results demonstrate a post-tax net present value of US$118 million, with an internal rate of return of 23.4 percent and a payback period of 3.1 years at a fixed copper price of US$4.28 per pound. It also suggested all-in sustaining costs for the 14.2-year life of the mine were US$2 per pound.

In addition to the economic details, the included mineral resource estimate shows measured and indicated amounts of 149,000 metric tons of copper with a grade of 0.46 percent from 32.16 million metric tons of ore.

Shares in Camino reached a year-to-date high of C$0.31 on January 29.

2. King Copper Discovery (TSXV:KCP)

Year-to-date gain: 240 percent
Market cap: C$36.64 million
Share price: C$0.17

King Copper Discovery is a copper, silver and gold explorer that is developing a portfolio of projects in South America. The company changed its name from Turmalina Metals in March.

Its primary focus is the Colquemayo project in Moquegua, Peru. In July 2024, King Copper entered into an option agreement with Compania de Minas Buenaventura to acquire a 100 percent ownership stake in the property.

The 6,600 hectare site has seen more than 20,000 meters of historic core drilling and hosts multiple porphyry targets that have been identified but have gone untested. Highlighted drill samples from the property have demonstrated results of 2.4 percent copper and 10 grams per metric ton (g/t) silver over 237.3 meters, including 14.8 percent copper and 47 g/t silver over 31.3 meters.

In news released on February 12, the company said it was intensifying its focus on the project and would be relogging historic cores. Additionally, King Copper hired Insideo, a Lima-based environmental consulting firm, to help advance baseline studies and the drill permit process.

The release also indicated that the company was in the process of rebranding from Turmalina Metals to King Copper. As part of the restructuring, company CEO Roger James stepped down, maintaining a seat on the board, and was replaced by Jonathan Richards as interim CEO.

On March 11, the company began trading under its new name and ticker. Shares in King Copper Discovery reached a year-to-date high of C$0.225 on March 25.

3. BCM Resources (TSXV:B)

Year-to-date gain: 211.11 percent
Market cap: C$25.05 million
Share price: C$0.14

BCM Resources is an exploration company working to advance its flagship Thompson Knolls project in Utah, United States.

The greenfield copper, molybdenum, gold and silver project in Utah’s Great Basin consists of 225 federal unpatented lode mining claims and two state section leases covering an area of 2,242 hectares.

Exploration of the project area began in the 1970s, when a US Geological Survey aerial survey identified a prominent magnetic anomaly. In the 1990s, follow-up work was conducted at the target.

BCM carried out its last drill program at the property in 2023. At the time, the company announced that one drill hole encountered a significant mineral intercept of 0.66 percent copper, 0.12 grams per metric ton (g/t) gold and 7.4 g/t silver over 155.4 meters starting at a depth of 621.8 meters. The sample also contained eight intervals with greater than 1 percent copper over 24.3 meters.

The company received approval from the Bureau of Land Management for a plan of operation to continue drilling at the project. In a July 2024 update, the company released data from an analysis of the project’s porphyry-skarn system by the Colorado School of Mines, which it plans to use to prepare for the drilling at the site.

Shares in BCM Resources reached a year-to-date high of C$0.15 on April 9.

4. DLP Resources (TSXV:DLP)

Year-to-date gain: 152.94 percent
Market cap: C$55.99 million
Share price: C$0.43

DLP Resources is an explorer focused on advancing its flagship Aurora copper-molybdenum project in Peru.

The 8,500 hectare site is located in the Central Andes. Exploration work has been performed at the site since the early 2000s, with DLP conducting drill programs in 2023 and 2024.

Shares in DLP have been rising since the release of a technical report for Aurora on February 27, which included a maiden resource estimate with significant copper and molybdenum spread over two zones.

The inferred resource totals 1.05 billion metric tons of ore containing 4.65 billion pounds of copper, 1.1 billion pounds of molybdenum and 80 million ounces of silver. The resource has average grades of 0.2 percent copper, 0.05 percent molybdenum and 2.4 grams per metric ton silver.

The company said it is pleased with the size and results of the report and will continue drilling the site to upgrade the resource ahead of a preliminary economic assessment.

DLP shares also got a boost on April 1 after it released its management’s discussion and analysis for the nine months ending on January 31. The release covers the firm’s activities for the period, highlighting its recent resource estimate, as well as the completion of a non-brokered private placement in January for proceeds of C$1.36 million.

Shares in DLP reached a year-to-date high of C$0.48 on April 3.

5. C3 Metals (TSXV:CCCM)

Year-to-date gain: 150 percent
Market cap: C$52.28 million
Share price: C$0.60

C3 Metals is an exploration company working to advance its assets in Jamaica and Peru.

C3’s primary Jamaican asset is the Bellas Gate project, a 13,020 hectare site featuring 14 porphyry and over 30 epithermal prospects along an 18 kilometer strike. To date, drilling at the site has concentrated on a 4 kilometer zone encompassing the Provost, Geo Hill, Camel Hill and Connors prospects.

Shares in C3 experienced significant gains after it announced on February 11 that it had signed an earn-in agreement with a Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) subsidiary, which can gain up to a 75 percent interest in the project. Under the agreement, Freeport must contribute US$25 million in exploration and project expenditures over five years to earn the initial 51 percent interest, and an additional US$50 million over the following four years for the remaining 24 percent.

In Peru, C3 has focused on advancing its Jasperoide copper-gold project. The site in Southern Peru spans 30,000 hectares and hosts two porphyry and more than 15 skarn prospects across two 28 kilometer belts.

According to a July 2023 technical report, a mineral resource estimate reported a measured and indicated resource of 51.94 million metric tons of ore with an average grade of 0.5 percent copper and 0.2 g/t gold for contained metal totaling 569.1 million pounds of copper and 326,800 ounces of gold.

C3 released an exploration update from its Khaleesi copper-gold project area in Jasperoide on February 19, reporting that a soil sampling campaign defined a copper-molybdenum anomaly extending 1,900 meters by up 650 meters. Two zones contained average concentrations of 950 parts per million copper and 650 ppm of copper.

The company stated that it is working to complete geophysical surveys by the end of March and will use the data to implement a maiden diamond drill program at the target. It closed a US$11.5 million bought deal private placement on March 19 that will be used in part for exploration and development at the Khaleesi target.

Shares in C3 Metals reached a year-to-date high of C$0.69 on April 1.

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

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Collaboration with DuPont Water Solutions to Test Lithium Processing Technology

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CleanTech Lithium (AIM:CTL), an innovative sustainable lithium developer in Chile, is collaborating with DuPont Water Solutions, a business unit of DuPont, to test lithium processing technology.

DuPont has developed a new nanofiltration (NF) membrane technology for high lithium recovery. This will be tested in CleanTech Lithium’s direct lithium extraction (DLE) downstream process.

The role of the NF is to remove impurities and maximise lithium recovery. DuPont’s new NF membrane element (named FilmTec LiNE-XD nanofiltration elements) is specifically designed for the lithium sector and will be tested in CTL´s next scheduled phase of post-DLE pilot plant testing. CTL is implementing NF following the eluate concentration stage which utilises industrial forward osmosis (iFO) in the concentrating of lithium and reduction of boron. CleanTech Lithium is investigating the potential of these technologies to eliminate the need for thermal evaporation (TE) and crystallisation in production of battery grade lithium carbonate, which would result in potentially significant CAPEX savings.

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Cizzle Brands Expands Availability of CWENCH Hydration at all Fortinos Locations in Ontario

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Approximately two months after the chain-wide launch of CWENCH’s hydration mix powder in Fortinos stores (February of 2025), CWENCH Hydration is now fully represented at Fortinos with the addition of its ready-to-drink Tetra Pak® format at all Fortinos locations, strengthening the footprint of CWENCH Hydration in key Ontario population centres where the Company is strategically commercializing its flagship product line.

Cizzle Brands Corporation (Cboe Canada: CZZL) (OTCQB: CZZLF) (Frankfurt: 8YF) ( the ‘Company’ or ‘Cizzle Brands’) , is pleased to announce that Loblaw banner supermarket chain Fortinos has added the ready-to-drink (‘RTD’) format of CWENCH Hydration to all 24 of its locations throughout the Greater Toronto and Greater Hamilton areas in Southern Ontario. All four original flavours of CWENCH Hydration RTD were officially added to Fortinos stores starting on Thursday, April 17, 2025.

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All four original flavours of CWENCH Hydration in the ready-to-drink format are now available for purchase at Fortinos stores in the Greater Toronto and Greater Hamilton areas, as well as through PC Express

This launch of CWENCH Hydration in its RTD format at all Fortinos locations complements the successful February launch of CWENCH’s Hydration Mix across the chain’s stores .

In addition to availability of CWENCH Hydration RTD and hydration mix in all Fortinos supermarket locations, the full product line can be purchased online through PC Express , which can be done through this link . PC Express is an online shopping portal for Loblaw banner stores, offering ‘Click and Collect’ curbside/in-store pickup as well as delivery options for households in markets across Canada with over 700 pickup locations .

Cizzle Brands’ Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer John Celenza commented, ‘We had high expectations for CWENCH at Fortinos and it has performed better than we had expected. So we are pumped that they have picked up the RTD format of CWENCH which expands the availability of our products across their chain. As a company based in the Greater Toronto area, we know what a good fit Fortinos is for CWENCH Hydration as a consumer brand. We will continue developing this business relationship within the Loblaw chain, as we make each of our calculated and strategic moves to keep capturing market share in the hydration category, in which CWENCH is only continuing to grow.’

About Cizzle Brands Corporation

Cizzle Brands Corporation is a sports nutrition company that is elevating the game in health and wellness. Through extensive collaboration and testing with leading athletes and trainers across several elite sports, Cizzle Brands has launched two leading product lines in the sports nutrition category: (i) CWENCH Hydration, a better-for-you sports drink that is now carried in over 1,800 locations in Canada, the United States, and Europe; and (ii) Spoken Nutrition, a premium brand of athlete-grade nutraceuticals that carry the prestigious NSF Certified for Sport® qualification. All Cizzle Brands products are designed to help people achieve their best in both competitive sports and in living a healthy, vibrant, active lifestyle.

For more information about Cizzle Brands, please visit: https://www.cizzlebrands.com/

For more information about CWENCH Hydration, please visit: https://www.cwenchhydration.com

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Company,

Cizzle Brands Corporation

‘John Celenza’

John Celenza, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

This news release contains ‘forward-looking information’ which may include, but is not limited to, information with respect to the activities, events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future, such as, but not limited to: new products of the Company and potential sales and distribution opportunities. Such forward-looking information is often, but not always, identified by the use of words and phrases such as ‘plans’, ‘expects’, ‘is expected’, ‘budget’, ‘scheduled’, ‘estimates’, ‘forecasts’, ‘intends’, ‘anticipates’, or ‘believes’ or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results ‘may’, ‘could’, ‘would’, ‘might’ or ‘will’ be taken, occur or be achieved. Various assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information currently available to the Company.

Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other risk factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such risks include risks related to increased competition and current global financial conditions, access and supply risks, reliance on key personnel, operational risks, regulatory risks, financing, capitalization and liquidity risks. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company undertakes no obligation, except as otherwise required by law, to update these forward-looking statements if management’s beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors change.

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For further information, please contact:  

Setti Coscarella
Head of Corporate Development
investors@cizzlebrands.com
1-844-588-2088

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