6th Jan 2012 13:47
For immediate release: 6 January 2012
West African Minerals Corporation
(the "Company")
Result of Meeting of Shareholders
Approval of Acquisition of Ferrum Resources Limited
The Company is pleased to announce that at its Meeting of Shareholders held earlier today, the resolution to approve the acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued shares of Ferrum Resources Limited not already owned by the Company was duly passed. The issue of the Consideration Shares and the Placing Shares is now conditional only on admission of the Enlarged Share Capital to trading on AIM.
Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the Existing Ordinary Shares to be re-admitted and the Consideration Shares and the Placing Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is expected that Admission will become effective and dealings in the Enlarged Share Capital will commence on 9 January 2012. On Admission, the Enlarged Share Capital will consist of 187,852,392 ordinary shares of no par value in the Company.
Expressions used in this announcement shall bear the same meanings as defined in the Company's admission document dated 20 December 2011. An electronic version of the Admission Document is available on the Company's website, www.westafricanminerals.com.
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Contact details
West African Minerals Corporation | Religare Capital Markets (UK) Limited | Evolution Securities Limited | Beaumont Cornish Limited | GTH Communications |
Denham Eke
| Peter Trevelyan-Clark Emily Staples | Neil Elliott Matt Tyler | Roland Cornish | Toby Hall Suzanne Johnson Walsh |
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