LSE Market News

Amino Technologies (LSE:AMO) is proving that focus is one of the keys to achieving corporate goals.  After announcing its trading update for the year ending 30 November, Amino’s share price rose nearly 15% from 57.00 pence to 65.25 pence by mid-afternoon. The word “focus” appears no less than four times in the  brief report. The […]

An unsuccessful well in the French Guiana drilled three oil players down on the London Stock Exchange today as the operator announced no commercial hydrocarbon was encountered following months of drilling. At 10:45 AM GMT, shares of major oil player, Tullow Oil plc (LSE:TLW), and those of Wessex Exploration plc (LSE:WSX) and Northern Petroleum plc […]

Like a capitalist-supporting article in the Guardian or a Gordon Brown appearance in Parliament, AIM-listed IQE plc (LSE:IQE) is a rarest of things – in its case a Welsh world leader in an economic space. The company is a leading global supplier of advanced ‘wafer’ products and services to the semiconductor industry – which then […]

West Africa-focused Stellar Diamonds plc (LSE:STEL), has accomplished its target of expanding its resource from its Tongo project in Sierra Leone to at least a million carats, following the conclusion of expansion drilling, the company said Wednesday. In a statement, Stellar announced a 63% in a JORC-compliant inferred resource from Dyke-1 of its Tongo licence […]

Fuel cell technology developer and all round eco-green nonsense penny dreadful Ceres Power (LSE:CWR) is not going bust. It has found a saviour. As such my target price of 0p is (pro tem ) looking a bit optimistic. For now. But are the shares really worth 3.01p? I very much doubt it. As I shall […]

US-focused shale oil development and production company, Nighthawk Energy (LSE:HAWK), revealed earlier today that the well drilled on the northernmost part of its wide acreage in Colorado encountered not only shale oil but conventional oil, a month after it has been drilled to its target depth. The Steamboat Hansen 8-10 well, the fourth of the […]

 AIM-listed, South Africa-focussed precious metals miner Pan African Resources (LSE:PAF) has today updated investors on the ongoing process for its prospective Rand1.5 billion (circa. £110 million) acquisition of Evander Gold Mines Ltd. At a current 20.75p share price, capitalising the company at just over £300 million (£378 million adjusting for a prospective rights issue), Pan […]

AIM, Canada and Peru-listed Latin American gold miner, Minera (LSE:MIRL) has followed last week’s publication of a feasibility study on its Ollachea project in Peru with an announcement that it has awarded a contract to begin drilling extensions of the Ollachea ore bodies from underground. This is a company I followed for a couple of […]

Maybe I am just thick but today’s news from AIM listed Gem Diamonds (LSE:GEMD) that it is to sell its Australian mine at Ellendale has me utterly baffled. You see the price tag just bears no relation to its balance sheet value. Needless to say it is the price tag that is far lower. The […]

Gold explorer, Nyota Minerals Limited (LSE:NYO), has unearthed further potential for its proposed open pit mine in its flagship project in Ethiopia ahead of the definitive feasibility study (DFS) soon to be released within this month. In a statement, the ASX- and AIM-quoted exploration and development company said further high-grade mineralisation was encountered below the […]