Finance Metals & Minerals News

Potential Adeline buyer sets exploration budget

Chesterfield Resources plc noted its potential purchaser of the Adeline copper project has earmarked C$2m (£1.18m) for summer exploration on the asset in Labrador, eastern Canada. ACTIVITIES Sterling Metals aims for a 2,500 metre drill campaign in addition to the C$500,000 (£296,000) airborne survey planned over the licence area. The finance will come from the […]

Finance Metals & Minerals News

Anglesey meets £1m target via placing-subscription

Anglesey Mining plc has met its target fundraise of £1 million by placing 64,999,993 ordinary shares and a subscription of 1,666,666 ordinary shares at a price of 1.5 pence per share. DIRECTORS Chairman John Kearney subscribed for circa 1.7m shares for £25,000 taking his total holding to c.3m shares; chief executive Jonathan Battershill, 1.3m shares […]

Finance News Oil & Gas

Predator targets £2m in fundraise for Guercif drilling

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings plc looks to raise approximately £2 million from two executive directors’ share option exercises and a conditional two-tranche placing. SHARE OPTION SCHEME On 12 May, the company reported that managing director Paul Griffiths exercised 11,183,605 share options and executive chairman Lonny Baumgardner 7,928,444, in accordance with Predator’s unapproved share option […]

Equipment & Logistics News Oil & Gas

Neptune awards £100m drilling services contract

Neptune Energy has awarded a contract of more than $100 million to Tenaris for equipment and services to support drilling activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. GJØA AREA The five-year contract, with two options for two-year extensions, covers the manufacture, transport, handling and repair of a range of casing materials used in offshore drilling activities. […]

Metals & Minerals News

Oriole’s new earn-in partner restarts Senala exploration

Oriole Resources plc reported the restart of exploration work by its new earn-in partner at the Senala gold project in Senegal. JOINT VENTURE On 26 April, former Canadian partner IAMGOLD Corporation completed the sale of its Senegal subsidiary AGEM to Moroccan miner Managem Group. Oriole currently has a 41.65% interest in the project. DRILLING Managem […]