21 August 2024
GOLDSTONE RESOURCES
LIMITED
("Goldstone" or the
"Company")
Conditional Subscription of
£600,000
Goldstone Resources Limited (AIM:
GRL) is pleased to announce that it has conditionally raised
£600,000 before expenses by way of a subscription by an
institutional investor for, in aggregate, 57,142,857 new ordinary
shares of 1 penny par value each in the capital of the Company
("Ordinary Shares") (the
"Subscription Shares") at a
price of 1.05 pence per Subscription Share (the "Subscription Price") (the "Subscription").
The Subscription Shares represent 8%
of the Company's share capital as enlarged by the issue of the
Subscription Shares and the Subscription Price of 1.05 penny
represents a discount of approximately 44% to the 5-day VWAP
mid-market price on AIM of 1.86 pence per Ordinary Share on 20
August 2024.
The net proceeds of the Subscription
will be used to advance development at the Homase Mine in Ghana
towards delivering the planned 50,000 tonnes of stacked and
agglomerated ore and achieving the Group's gold-production target
of 1,000oz per calendar month, and for general working capital
purposes.
Admission and Total Voting Rights
Application has been made to the
London Stock Exchange for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to
trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that
Admission will become effective and that dealings in the New
Ordinary Shares will commence at 8.00 a.m. on 27 August 2024. The
New Ordinary Shares will be issued as fully paid and will rank
pari passu in all respects
with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares.
Upon Admission, the Company's issued
ordinary share capital will consist of 713,446,190 Ordinary Shares
with one voting right each (the "Enlarged Share Capital"). The Company
does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total
number of Ordinary Shares and voting rights in the Company
following Admission will be of 713,446,190. With effect from
Admission, this figure may be used by shareholders in the Company
as the denominator for the calculations by which they will
determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a
change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under
the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Emma Priestley, Chief Executive Officer,
commented:
"We are pleased to have conditionally raised a
further £600,000, which supports the ongoing development and
increasing production at the Homase Mine and provides a substantial
proportion of the equity funding of c.£1.8m targeted in April
2024.
"We continue to advance production at the Homase Gold Mine,
bringing us closer to our goal of producing 1,000 ounces of gold
per month. Operating in Ghana, a stable and pro-mining jurisdiction
with a rich history in gold production, we are confident in the
potential of this project, especially with gold prices at a
five-year high."
For
further information, please contact:
GoldStone Resources
Limited
Emma Priestley
|
Tel: +44 (0)1534 487 757
|
Strand Hanson
Limited
James Dance / James
Bellman
|
Tel: +44 (0)20 7409 3494
|
S.
P. Angel Corporate Finance LLP
Ewan Leggat / Charlie
Bouverat
|
Tel: +44 (0)20 3470 0501
|
St
Brides Partners Ltd
Susie Geliher
|
Tel: +44 (0)20 7236 1177
|
The information contained within this announcement is deemed
by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under
the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 as it forms part of
United Kingdom domestic law by virtue of the European Union
(Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended by virtue of the Market Abuse
(Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 ("UK MAR").
About GoldStone Resources Limited
GoldStone Resources Limited (AIM:
GRL) is an AIM quoted mining and development company with projects
in Ghana that range from grassroots exploration to
production.
The Company is focused on developing
the Akrokeri-Homase project in south-western Ghana, which hosts a
JORC Code compliant 602,000oz gold resource at an average grade of
1.77 g/t. The existing resource is confined to a 4km zone of
the Homase Trend, including Homase North, Homase Pit and Homase
South.
The project hosts two former mines,
the Akrokerri Ashanti Mine Ltd, which produced 75,000 oz gold at 24
g/t recovered grade in the early 1900s, and the Homase Pit which
AngloGold Ashanti developed in 2002/03 producing 52,000 oz gold at
2.5 g/t recovered. Production is currently focussed on the
Homase Mine however it is the Company's intention to build a
portfolio of high-quality gold projects in Ghana, with a particular
focus on the highly prospective Ashanti Gold Belt.