Millennium Minerals to raise A$23.2 million in fully underwritten rights issue Friday, February 18, 2011 Millennium Minerals (ASX: MOY) will raise A$23.2 million by issuing close to 750 million new shares at $0.031, in a fully underwritten rights issue.
The issue will offer one new share for every one share held.
The new inflow of cash will be allocated to mine development, including the completion of orders for long lead items, detailed engineering design and exploration targeted at resource definition.
Millennium has some well advanced projects, including the Nullagine Gold Project with a 1.25 million ounce gold resource contained within 6 deposits.
The largest deposit is Golden Eagle located 10 kilometres south of the township of Nullagine, and contains 63% of the total gold inventory.
Earlier in the month Golden Eagle provided some more high grade near surface gold hits, including:
- 16 metres at 4.08 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 12 metres, including 2 metres at 23g/t gold; - 4 metres at 25g/t gold from 42 metres, including 1 metre at 94g/t gold; - 13 metres at 1.29g/t gold from 23 metres; - 1 metre at 24g/t gold from 64 metres; and - 1 metre at 16g/t gold from 20 metres.
Patersons Securities has been appointed as lead manager and underwriter Quelle businessspector |