** Shares of Octava Minerals soar as much as 191.7% to A$0.140, their best intraday pct gain
** OCT stock touches its highest level since early July 2023
** More than 16.7 mln shares change hands, a whopping 336 times its 30-day average of around 50,000 shares
** Says drilling Yallalong Discovery project in Western Australia shows potential for high-grade antimony mineralisation
** Co says there are several undrilled antimony targets with recorded high-grade samples
** Antimony is a metalloid used as a flame retardant, to make photovoltaic glass, and it also has military applications
** Record high prices of antimony also benefiting explorers of the metalloid
(Reporting by Sameer Manekar in Bengaluru)
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