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Obituary – mining financier and Western Gold director Willie McLucas

Mining financier and Western Gold Exploration Ltd’s board director Willie McLucas, whose experience took him to numerous countries across the world has died suddenly aged 67. Mr McLucas worked in Australia, Bolivia, Chile, France, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Turkey and Zimbabwe. He established his successful career as a mining financier at Waverley Mining where he developed […]

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Baron Oil grants 175m incentive share options

Baron Oil plc has granted director Dr Andrew Butler share options over 175 million ordinary shares of 0.025 pence each in the company, at an exercise price of 0.07p. WELLS Dr Butler is a director of the company’s subsidiaries SundaGas (Timor- Leste Sahul) Pte. Ltd (TLS) and SundaGas Banda Unipessoal Lda (Banda). Banda operates the Timor-Leste […]

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Serica fears ‘negative impact’ of Kistos offer

Serica Energy plc said the merger offer from smaller rival Kistos plc would “negatively impact” the combined entity’s balance sheet and growth potential. OPPORTUNISTIC In a detailed statement issued today, the company listed reasons why it had rejected the Kistos offer. Serica said it would be “materially undervalued” and that the proposed merger would not […]

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Angus Energy announces shares issue

Angus Energy plc said that, after receiving exercise notices, it issued 5,803,226 ordinary shares of £0.002 each in the capital of the company. These are at varying exercise prices of 150,000 shares at 0.9 pence per share, 5,250,000 shares at 1 pence per share and 403,226 shares at 1.2 pence per share. The new ordinary […]

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Caerus notes portfolio company-shareholder dispute

Caerus Mineral Resources plc said it was monitoring a dispute resolution between its portfolio company New Cyprus Copper P.A. Ltd (NCC)’s investee company and a shareholder. INTERESTS NCC owns a 90% interest in Treasure Development Ltd (TDL) in Cyprus and is also responsible for maintaining and progressing other Cypriot projects. Australian-listed BMG Resources Ltd is […]