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Pathfinder Minerals Rejects Reports Of Meeting Demand, Equity Placing (ALLISS)

26th Mar 2018 16:06

LONDON (Alliance News) - Pathfinder Minerals PLC on Monday rejected a press report regarding an equity issue and said that comments regarding cancellation of the company's Mozambique licences are incorrect.

The minerals explorer also said that an email purporting to requisition a general meeting of shareholders is not valid, and the company will call a shareholder meeting in the event it receives a valid requisition.

On Sunday, The Times reported that Richard Jennings, a former stockbroker from Wetherby, has called for an extraordinary general meeting of Pathfinder Minerals to push out Chief Executive Nick Trew and Director Henry Bellingham, a Conservative member of Parliament.

Jennings accuses Pathfinder's bosses of making misleading statements to the stock market, giving an unrealistically positive view of a long-running battle with a former business partner over ownership of a minerals prospect on Mozambique's coast, according to the newspaper, which added that Trew, Bellingham and Pathfinder reject his claims.

Regarding a potential fundraising, Pathfinder said on Monday: "While the board continues to consider options to ensure the company has sufficient working capital, including the contemplation of a placing of up to 75,000,000 shares, the company confirms that no terms for a fundraising have been agreed,"

The UK-listed company said that comments regarding the Mozambique government's purported cancellation of the licences previously registered to the company's licence-holding subsidiary, CMdN, and the granting of a new licence to Pathfinder Moçambique SA are inaccurate.

"CMdN was issued mining concession licences 760C and 4623C on 13 September 2004 and 13 July 2011 respectively. The issuance of licence 4623C to CMdN was announced by the company on 21 July 2011. In 2012, the Company discovered that licence 760C had been combined with 4623C and that subsequently Jacinto Veloso and Diogo Cavaco had procured the transfer of the same licence 4623C to Pathfinder Mocambique, SA (a company unconnected with Pathfinder Minerals)," the company said.

Shares in Pathfinder Minerals were down 14% at 0.58 pence in Monday afternoon.


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