(Sharecast News) - Great Western Mining shares were rising on Thursday afternoon, after its chairman bought almost 10 million shares across eight transactions.

The AIM-traded firm said Brian Hall made the transactions between 3 and 5 October, at prices between 11.49p and 12p.

In one transaction he bought 2,500,000 shares for 11.6p each, spending £289,999.99, and in another he paid £239,999.99 for 2,000,000 shares at 12p each.

A third transaction saw Hall buy 1,295,281 shares for 11.55p apiece for a total value of £149,604.96, and a fourth was for 1,000,000 shares at 12p apiece, for £120,000.

The final four purchases were for 1,000,000 shares at 11.49p, totalling £114,900; 666,666 shares at 12p, totalling £79,999.92; 538,053 shares at 12p, totalling £64,566.36; and 500,000 shares at 12p, totalling £60,000.

That made for an aggregate volume of 9.5 million shares at an average price of 12p, for a total value of £1.14m.

At 1359 BST, shares in Great Western Mining Corporation were up 8.33% at 0.13p.

Reporting by Josh White at Sharecast.com.

Top Director Buys

Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)

Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur

Amount purchased: 2,500,000 @ 11.60p

Value: £289,999.99

Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)

Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur

Amount purchased: 2,000,000 @ 12.00p

Value: £239,999.99

Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)

Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur

Amount purchased: 1,295,281 @ 11.55p

Value: £149,604.96

Currys (CURY)

Director name: Dyson,Ian

Amount purchased: 200,000 @ 61.06p

Value: £122,120.00

Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)

Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur

Amount purchased: 1,000,000 @ 12.00p

Value: £120,000.00

Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)

Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur

Amount purchased: 1,000,000 @ 11.49p

Value: £114,900.00

Mortgage Advice Bureau (holdings) (MAB1)

Director name: Thompson,Ben

Amount purchased: 16,764 @ 595.00p

Value: £99,745.80

Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)

Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur

Amount purchased: 666,666 @ 12.00p

Value: £79,999.92

Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)

Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur

Amount purchased: 538,053 @ 12.00p

Value: £64,566.36

Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)

Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur

Amount purchased: 500,000 @ 12.00p

Value: £60,000.00

Hyve Group (HYVE)

Director name: Shashoua,Mark

Amount purchased: 100,000 @ 54.74p

Value: £54,737.00

Hyve Group (HYVE)

Director name: Last,Richard

Amount purchased: 100,000 @ 54.50p

Value: £54,500.00

Synthomer (SYNT)

Director name: Hian,Dato' Lee Hau

Amount purchased: 35,500 @ 112.30p

Value: £39,866.50

Bluefield Solar Income Fund Limited (BSIF)

Director name: Rennocks,John

Amount purchased: 30,000 @ 130.69p

Value: £39,206.79

Poolbeg Pharma (POLB)

Director name: Skillington,Jeremy

Amount purchased: 718,733 @ 4.78p

Value: £34,355.44

Synthomer (SYNT)

Director name: Gualdoni,Roberto

Amount purchased: 25,000 @ 121.00p

Value: £30,250.00

Headlam Group (HEAD)

Director name: Edelman,Keith

Amount purchased: 12,420 @ 240.28p

Value: £29,842.78

Hyve Group (HYVE)

Director name: Gulliver,John

Amount purchased: 50,000 @ 54.74p

Value: £27,368.50

Octopus Titan Vct (OTV2)

Director name: Cooper,Matthew Jonathan

Amount purchased: 27,462 @ 91.30p

Value: £25,072.81

Tpximpact Holdings (TPX)

Director name: Gandhi,Neal Narendra

Amount purchased: 57,000 @ 35.00p

Value: £19,950.00

Premier Miton Group (PMI)

Director name: Barron,David

Amount purchased: 14,966 @ 100.20p

Value: £14,995.93

Synthomer (SYNT)

Director name: Liu,Lily

Amount purchased: 10,000 @ 111.00p

Value: £11,100.00

Cyanconnode Holdings (CYAN)

Director name: Cronin ,John

Amount purchased: 35,714 @ 14.00p

Value: £4,999.96

Bluebird Merchant Ventures (di) (BMV)

Director name: Patterson,Colin

Amount purchased: 304,000 @ 1.61p

Value: £4,894.40

Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (cdi) (GTE)

Director name: Guidry,Gary

Amount purchased: 3,008 @ $1.23

Value: $3,050.91

Uk Oil & Gas (UKOG)

Director name: Sanderson,Stephen (Steve)

Amount purchased: 1,314,060 @ 0.08p

Value: £1,000.00

Rathbones Group (RAT)

Director name: Cummings,Iain

Amount purchased: 21 @ 1,689.20p

Value: £354.73

Cmc Markets (CMCX)

Director name: Fineberg,David

Amount purchased: 132 @ 226.00p

Value: £298.32

Cmc Markets (CMCX)

Director name: Marshall,Euan

Amount purchased: 132 @ 226.00p

Value: £298.32

Top Director Sells

Keywords Studios (KWS)

Director name: Hauck,Jon

Amount sold: 31,346 @ 2,420.00p

Value: £758,573.22

Premier Miton Group (PMI)

Director name: Barron,David

Amount sold: 15,001 @ 100.00p

Value: £15,001.00