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27 Jan 2017

Duet Real Estate Finance exits last investment

Duet Real Estate Finance has announced that full repayment of all principal and accrued interest has been received on the Master Fund’s Belgian Office loan (Loan 11), earning returns in-line with its investment criteria. The Company will announce further details concerning returning its cash to shareholders in the most efficient and cost effective manner shortly. […]

27 Jan 2017

Pacific Industrial & Logistics REIT acquires Tangerine Confectionary’s Chesterfield site for £4.8m

Pacific Industrial & Logistics REIT (PILR) has announced that on 19 January 2017 it completed the purchase of a site at Holmewood Industrial Park, Chesterfield, from Tangerine Confectionary Limited for a total consideration of £4.8m. PILR says that the purchase has been financed using proceeds from its recent placing (which raised £11.1m) but that this […]

27 Jan 2017

Alliance Trust to repurchase Elliott Advisors’ 20% stake

Alliance Trust has announced that it has entered into an agreement with its largest shareholder, Elliott International, L.P., The Liverpool Limited Partnership and Elliott Associates L.P. (collectively Elliott), to repurchase all ordinary shares in the Company in respect of which Elliott has a disclosable interest – this being 19.75% of Alliance Trust’s issued share capital. […]

26 Jan 2017

Firestone Diamonds recovers 20 stones over 10.8 carats while ramping up to nameplate capacity

Firestone Diamonds (FDI:AIM) The Liqhobong Diamond Mine, 75% owned by Firestone and 25% by the Government of Lesotho, is ramping up to nameplate capacity after completing construction in early Q4, 2016. First diamond recoveries occurred in late October 2016. By the end of the quarter ended 31 December 2016, over 20 special stones larger than […]

26 Jan 2017

Highland Gold Mining expanding and growing

Highland Gold Mining (HGM:LSE) The company achieved production in the upper half of guidance for 2016. Gold and gold equivalent production for the year was 261,159 oz, this compares to 262,495 oz for 2015. The slight decline in production could be attributed to the treatment of low-grade ore stockpiles (-1 g/t) at Belaya Gora during […]

26 Jan 2017

Amerigo Resources produces a record 56.8 million lbs of copper in 2016

Amerigo Resources (ARG:TSX) The company reported record annual production from Minera Valle Central (“MVC”) operation located near Rancagua, Chile. MVC produced 56.8 million lbs of copper in 2016 at a cash cost of $1.73/lb. Good performance from the Cauquenes deposit resulted in the record copper production within the original guidance. Q4 2016 production was 13.6m […]

25 Jan 2017

Rambler Metals plans to reach 1,250 mtpd by mid-2017

Rambler Metals (RMM:AIM) (RAB:TSXV) The company provided production guidance for the 2017 fiscal year, which will now be the same as the calendar year. Also provided five month Stub period for production ending December 31, 2016 as they transition their fiscal year. Saleable metal for 2017 is expected to be 5,100-5,800 tonnes of copper and […]

24 Jan 2017

Oakley Capital Investments Limited proposes treasury share placing

Oakley Capital Investments Limited (OCIL) has announced a placing of up to 17 million treasury shares in the Company. The placing will be priced at 157 pence per treasury share and will be conducted by means of an accelerated bookbuild to institutional investors. OCIL says that the final number of treasury shares and the price […]

19 Jan 2017

Rambler Metals DMS testing increases grade 1.4x with 93.6% recoveries.

Rambler Metals (RMM:AIM) (RAB-TSXV) The company has been testing the use of Dense Media Separation (‘DMS’) as a pre-concentration step before milling of the ore in the processing plant with the objective of expanding the Ming Mine beyond the current planned 1,250 metric tonnes per day (‘mtpd) mining rate. The test processed 2,200 dry metric […]

19 Jan 2017

John Laing Environmental Assets proposes £25m fund raise

John Laing Environmental Assets (JLEN) has announced that it is proposing to raise £25m by way of an initial placing under its placing programme, the prospectus for which was published on 16 December 2016. It intends to use the net proceeds to fund a near term pipeline of opportunities across the Solar, Wind and Biomass […]