** American West Metals Ltd AW1.AX is on track to see its
best day ever after shares jump as much as 77.8% to A$0.240
** Stock touches the highest since June 8
** Miner announces results for the diamond drilling program
at the Storm Copper Project on Somerset Island, Nunavut, Canada
** Says first assays for drilling in the current program
have returned copper grades over very significant thicknesses
** Adds further assays for Storm are pending with more
results expected in the coming days
** Stock is 70.4% up this month
** Shares are up 8% YTD as of last close
(Reporting by Nausheen Thusoo in Bengaluru)
((Nausheen.Thusoo@thomsonreuters.com;))