18th Mar 2005 07:00
African Gold PLC18 March 2005 African Gold PLC Institutional Placing 18 March 2005 African Gold wishes to announce it has issued 17,300,000 million shares at 6praising £1,038,000 in a private institutional placing. It is intended that the new funds will be used to advance African Gold'sexploratory drilling programme at its Konongo and Banka gold deposits in Ghanaand for general working capital purposes. Application has been made for the shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and itis expected that admission will take place and dealing will commence on 18thMarch 2005. Enquiries: Oliver Baring, Chairman + 44 (20) 7654 5588African Gold Tom Randell/ David Simonson + 44 (20) 7653 6620Merlin African Gold is an AIM listed company (AFG) with gold mining interests in Africa www.africangoldplc.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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