Red 5 raises A$125m for King of the Hills

Gold miner Red 5 has raised A$125-million in a share placement to sophisticated and professional investors to develop the proposed integrated bulk openpit and underground mining and processing operation at King of the Hills, in Western Australia.

The share placement, which was priced at 18c a share, consisted of two tranches, with the first comprising 171.5-million to raise an initial A$30.87-million.