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EnQuest begins up to $15m share buyback

EnQuest plc has started a repurchase programme of its ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the company for up to $15 million. Merrill Lynch International will buy the ordinary shares, as principal and not as agent of the company, to sell and for EnQuest to buy. The agreement began on 29 April 2024 and […]

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Altona appoints David Catterall as consultant

Altona Rare Earths plc has appointed David Catterall as a consultant, with a special focus on the company’s Sesana copper-silver option in Botswana. Mr Catterall, M.Sc., Pr. Sci. Nat., is a geologist with more than 36 years’ operational and field experience in mineral exploration throughout Africa and Europe. He has covered a wide range of […]

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Galantas Gold halves net losses

Galantas Gold Corp has halved its net losses while it still has to post a commercial revenue from the Cavanacaw mine in Omagh, County Tyrone. FINANCES Net loss for the year ended 2023 totalled approximately CA$8.6 million compared with $16.7m the previous year. The Canadian company recorded an impairment of $3.6m (2022: $10m) along with […]

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WCM needs ‘substantial’ additional funds

West Cumbria Mining Ltd said it would need “substantial” additional financing to develop and construct its underground coal mine and Woodhouse colliery in Whitehaven, Cumbria. EXPECTATION WCM’s 2023 annual report states that as at 31 December 2023, the group held cash reserves of £6.8 million which had fallen to £5.6m as at 5 April 2024 […]

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CMR appoints Dominic Traynor as chairman

Critical Mineral Resources plc has appointed Dominic Traynor as non-executive chairman. Mr Traynor was appointed a non-executive director of the company two years ago under its previous name of Caerus Mineral Resources. Over the last year he has worked with the management on the evolution of the CMR’s strategy and its transition to an exploration and […]