For those interested!
Well done to Trent for managing to raise the 'capital' required in what could be termed 'difficult market conditions"!
Last paragraphs tell the story!
HGD
21/01/2008
PLACE
REL: 1633 HRS Heritage Gold NZ Limited
PLACE: HGD: Heritage Gold successfully raises $3.6M
Heritage Gold successfully raises $3.6 million in fully subscribed placement
and rights issue
In November 2007 Heritage Gold announced a programme for raising $3.6
million, through private placement and rights issue, to fund its exploration
programme for 2008/2009.
The placement of 36,000,000 new shares and free attaching options was
successfully completed on November 21 with strong market support.
The Heritage Gold rights issue gave shareholders the right to purchase a
total of 35,650,415 new shares, with 17,825,207 free attaching options on the
same terms as the placement. The issue closed on December 20 and 17,814,303
shares and 8,907,073 options were issued on December 24.
A further 9,000,000 shares and 4,500,000 free attaching options were taken up
on January 10 leaving a shortfall of 8,836,112 shares and 4,418,056 attaching
options to be placed by March 20, 2008 at the discretion of the Board.
Overseas shareholder rights of 2,307,660 were sold into the market under ASX
listing rule 7.7.1 (b) and the proceeds of $4,191.90 were distributed to
these shareholders in proportion to their shareholding.
Following Director approval, the rights issue shortfall of 8,836,112 shares
and 4,418,056 free attaching options has been placed and the shares and
options issued by Heritage Gold today.
"Given the current state of play of the market the successful completion of
our capital raising is a tremendous vote of confidence in Heritage Gold and
its new focus" says Trent Lash, Managing Director.
The company now has the money to advance exploration on its key gold
tenements and begin preliminary exploration of its recently acquired base
metal and uranium licences.
Heritage is ideally positioned to benefit from the renewed enthusiasm for
gold stocks, resulting from a current record gold price of around US$900 that is predicted to go even higher.
Any drilling success on its high quality gold projects in the Coromandel
region of New Zealand can be expected to have a material impact on the share
price.
Sue Sangster
Company Secretary
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