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Borders raises £2m via placing-subscription

Borders & Southern Petroleum plc has raised gross £1,860,000 via a 3% discounted placing of 39,157,895 new ordinary shares and £140,000 through a subscription for 2,947,368 new ordinary shares. DIRECTORS The placing, at 4.75 pence per share, is with “various UK and European institutional investors”, directors, management as well as existing and new sophisticated investors. […]

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Helium One JV spuds Jackson-31 at Galactica

Helium One Global Ltd’s joint venture has spud the Jackson-31 well at the Galactica helium development project in Las Animas County, Colorado, USA. LYONS Operator and partner Blue Star Helium is currently preparing to drill intermediate hole section “The shallow conductor section has been set, and the BOPs [blowout preventers] are now being installed and tested […]

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Predator to boost production on Challenger deal

Predator Oil & Gas Holdings plc aims to increase production following its agreement to acquire all the Trinidad and Tobago assets belonging to Challenger Energy Ltd. SNOWCAP The purchase, for up to US$8 million, of Columbus Energy (St. Lucia) Ltd includes its business, producing interests and operations’ subsidiaries. Assets include the three producing fields of […]

Metals & Minerals News

Fermi acquires Fortin River uranium project

Power Metal Resources plc’s uranium joint venture, Fermi Exploration, has acquired the Fortin River project in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. MOMENTUM The company said that preliminary geophysical data indicated the potential presence on the 3,859 hectares (38.59 km2) site of a 1.7 km wide meteor impact crater. Power Metal noted that such targets were known for unconformity-related uranium mineralisation elsewhere […]

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Katoro increases Pearl lithium claims

Katoro Gold plc has increased the footprint from 880 hectares to 1,475 hectares of the Pearl lithium project held by its recent proposed acquisition, 31 Explore Ltd. COLLABORATION A total 72 claims, added to the original 43, are contiguous to the Ontario project, expanding westwards to encompass recently interpreted geological features prospective for mineralisation. Chief […]