Gulf starts at Sheikh Adi-2 25/05/2012
Iraq-focused oil explorer Gulf Keystone Petroleum (GKP) has begun drilling at the Sheikh Adi-2 well in the Sheikh Adi block.
Copper and gold play EMED Mining has raised £2.9 million to expand its Spanish activities and repay a £1.4 million loan.
Based in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia and quoted on AIM, the company, steered by Australian entrepreneur Harry Anagnostaras-Adams, has secured the funds through a placing at 7.5p. EMED says it will use some of the proceeds to expand permitting activities at its Rio Tinto project in Spain's autonomous region of Andalucia, where, encouraged by the doubling of a depressed copper price in six months, the company plans to start production next year.
EMED, which also has interests in Cyprus, Slovakia and Turkey, will use a big chunk of the placing money to repay a £1.4 million convertible loan from New Jersey-based YA Global Investments ahead of schedule. This will avoid the dilution existing shareholders would have suffered had the loan gone to conversion at the set price of 4.1p.
Floated at 8p four years ago, EMED shares reached 30.5p last year, but later crumbled to 3.38p. Now 8.13p, they value the company at a modest £3.4 million.
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