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Galantas borrows £347,000 for Gairloch

Galantas Gold Corporation has agreed a £347,000 loan from major shareholder Melquart Ltd for the initial lease payment for the recently acquired Gairloch project in Scotland. TERMS The Canadian company is targeting the gold-bearing volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit on land owned by the Gairloch Estate in Wester Ross in the North-West Highlands.  The loan is […]

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Block secures $1m loan to accelerate West Rustavi

Block Energy plc has closed a senior secured loan of US$1.06 million (£860,000) with various existing shareholders and two of its management. RELATED PARTIES Chief executive officer Paul Haywood provided $90,000 and chief operating officer Ken Seymour provided $100,000 of the loan. The company said that the funds would give additional headroom to accelerate its […]

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Condor Gold raises £3.3m for La India sale

Condor Gold plc raised £3.3 million from an open offer of 12,156,374 shares and placing 3,004,999 new ordinary shares along with a previous £1m investment from the company’s chairman. FUNDRAISE The fundraise announced on 5 December allowed qualifying shareholders to subscribe for one open offer share for every six existing ordinary shares at a price […]

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Angus targets £7m via placing and subscriptions

Angus Energy plc has to date raised £5.6 million of a target of £7.1m through a placing and subscriptions in two tranches. PLACING AND SUBSCRIPTIONS The company raised a total of £1.89m through the placing of 115,000,000 ordinary shares. The first tranche of subscriptions generated an initial £3.7m through the issue of 226,219,000 ordinary shares at 1.65p per […]

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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 […]