Chaarat Gold Shares Tumble On Kyrgyzstan Unrest;Ops Unaffected

14th Jun 2010 10:05

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Kyrgyzstan gold miner Chaarat Gold's (CGH.LN) shares tumbled as much as 15% Monday as investors worried ethnic violence in the country may affect its operations. The company said its mining exploration project was not affected by clashes between Kyrgyz and Uzbek minorities. A

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Small caps: Western & Oriental, Monitise, Optos

20th May 2010 13:05

Luxury travel group Western & Oriental remains upbeat despite slumping into the red in the six months to March as it bore the brunt of a range of external problems. The poor state of the UK economy, airline industrial action and continuing riots in Thailand knocked revenue from £28.4m to £24.9m, w

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Small caps round-up: Borders & Southern, Rockhopper, Caza,

20th May 2010 12:55

Oil and gas group Borders & Southern Petroleum is to join the rush to find oil near the Falkland Islands after raising funds last year. 'Our successful capital raise in November allows us to comfortably fund a drilling programme on our exciting prospects in the South Falkland Basin without diluting

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Small caps round-up: London Mining, Iofina, Petroneft...

20th May 2010 11:59

London Mining has said today it Marampa hard rock resource in Sierra Leone has grown by more than 300% following the inclusion of the Masaboin Hill deposit. "We are very pleased to report the upgrade to the resource base at Marampa to over 400Mt," said boss Graeme Hossie. "We are on track at Maramp

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Small caps round-up: China Food, China Wonder

17th May 2010 11:58

Investors were keen to tuck into shares in China Food after the maker of cooking and dipping sauces said its new soy sauce factory in Shou Guang City is open. The new factory will increase the company's condiments production by 50% of capacity, it says. Another China-focused country, China Wonder,

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Small caps round-up: Chaarat Gold, Leed Petroleum, Zotefoams...

9th Mar 2010 14:31

Gold explorer Chaarat continues its year-long rally after increasing resources at its 100%-owned Chaarat deposit in the Kyrgyz Republic from 3.3m to 4m ounces. "This continues to demonstrate the significant potential of the deposit which will allow the company to pursue a low cost gold mining opera

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GFS directors secure gains

11th Nov 2009 16:01

Nick Buckles and Trevor Dighton, the chief executive and finance director respectively of security group G4S, have both doubled their money through share sales. Buckles and Dighton took up shares via options at varying exercise prices. Buckles spent nearly £1.1m on additional shares and immediatel

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