Afri-Can Marine Minerals closed a $532,450 private placement of 2,315,000 units and announced a further $199,985 placement, with proceeds funding Namibian exploration.
Namibian Minerals secured a $3-million bridging loan from major shareholder LL Mining and announced board changes including a new chairman and interim CEO.
Afri-Can clarified a CDNX bulletin confirming it issued 662,640 shares to Woduna Mining Holding to raise its stake in Namibia's concession block J to 40 per cent.
Namibian Minerals' senior lenders extended the company's capital repayment moratorium until Dec. 15, 2001, as banking facility rescheduling talks near completion.
Namco reported interim sampling results from Mining Licence 51 and Bakers Bay (Mining Licence 36A) in Namibia, showing a 77 per cent diamond recovery success ratio.
Afri-Can Marine Minerals has begun initial reconnaissance sampling on its Block J marine diamond concession off Namibia, using De Beers Marine's vessel MV Douglas Bay.