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Borders targets £2.5m in 44% discounted fundraise

Borders & Southern Petroleum plc has raised £2.5 million before expenses through a firm placing and a conditional placing and conditional subscription. ISSUE PRICE Subject to the shareholder approval, the company will issue 142,857,138 new ordinary shares each at 1.75 pence, an approximate 44% discount to its closing price of 3.15 pence on 30 November […]

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Corcel reports increase in costs while losses widen

Corcel plc reported widening losses at the end of year in which it expanded its metals assets in Papua New Guinea (PNG). FINANCES Final audited results for the year ended 30 June 2022 show losses of £2.1 million (2021: 1.2m). Administrative costs rose to £1.26m (2021: 1.0m) reflecting increased insurance costs, professional services costs, share […]

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NAE Lochinvar remains ‘commercially robust’

New Age Exploration Ltd said it had received a positive review of a 2014 scoping study, as previously updated in 2017, of its Lochinvar coal project. COSTS NAE owns 100% of three contiguous exploration and conditional underground mininglicences known as Lochinvar, Lochinvar North and Lochinvar South on the border of Scotland and England. A previously […]

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Hurricane plans to return up to $70m to shareholders

Hurricane Energy plc is planning a “significant”capital reduction programme to distribute reserves of up to $70 million, equivalent to 3.1 pence per share, to shareholders. MEETING Hurricane said that the programme involved cancellation of the company’s share premium account of approximately $822.5m, in order to create distributable reserves. The company intends to start the programme in Q1 2023 should […]