Core Lithium (ASX:CXO) has excited users across the HotCopper boards after the company flagged “shallow” gold hits at around 50m depth coming at grades of 2-3g/t. Those results come from the company’s Shoobridge play, but the news is also an indicator of a larger macro catalyst – falling lithium prices have pushed lithium miners to look for a new value proposition. Since then, Shoobridge has been taking up Core’s time. (For more than one lithium miner, the answer has been gold.) Helping matters is the fact metal has reached record prices after staging a record run in 2024. Perhaps not surprisi…