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.
As foreshadowed here, Berkeley Mineral Resources has raised £2 million for rich zinc and lead tailings dumps at Kabwe in Zambia. The money, raised at a discounted 1.5p through broker Seymour Pierce, will go on exercising options to buy the rights to those of the Kabwe dumps not already acquired by AIM-quoted Berkeley.
Chaired by entrepreneurial sector veteran Masoud Alikhani, the company cites estimates of an overall seven million tonnes of high-grade zinc and lead tailings at Kabwe, left behind at the once highly-productive mine by the comparatively inefficient mining methods of past years. Berkeley Minerals says it expects to be able to sell zinc and lead from some of the dumps in a matter of weeks, before developing and processing the rest of the site.
Berkeley Mineral shares, which have traded between 3.28p and 0.33p over the past year, now stand at 1.88p, down 0.13p this morning. Valuing the company at £7 million, they retain speculative appeal.
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