25 May 2012

Peninsular Gold taps the market

12/10/2010 Robert Tyerman

Malaysia-focused Peninsular Gold has raised £5.6 million to progress its Raub project and other, recently approved licence areas.

The AIM-quoted company, which currently produces gold from the tailings of earlier mining at Raub in the central Malaysian gold belt, has secured the money at 50p a share through its new broker Daniel Stewart, which recently replaced Astaire Securities.

Based in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, Peninsular wants to explore and exploit untapped underground gold resources at Raub, which chairman, chief executive and key shareholder Dato Sri Andrew Kam has said could be from one to two million oz. That compares with an existing formal resource estimate of 218,000 of gold, which Peninsular, whose drilling has recently encountered some spectacularly high-grade intersections, from 99.6 to 1,160 grammes of gold per tonne of ore, hopes to increase substantially.

The company, which turned a £672,000 loss into £229,250 pre-tax profits in the six months to last December and produced 14,459 oz of gold in the 12 months to last January, also intends to use some of the placing proceeds to explore new licence areas, particularly in the Tersang project area to the north of Raub. Informal estimates put the historic gold resource at Tersang at 528,000 oz before new work.

The 50p at which Peninsular has raised this latest slab of money is the same as the price at which it raised £4 million in 2006. It is also today's market price of the shares, which have traded between 75p and 34.75p over the past year, and values the company at £33.2 million.

Tags: AIM, Commodities, Emerging markets, Fundraisings

Sector: Mining

Companies: Peninsular Gold

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