{"id":1133282,"date":"2019-08-19T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?guid=2f1d5e9ef042cf86cd74c227e174263e"},"modified":"2019-08-19T02:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T07:42:21","slug":"kingston-accelerates-gold-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1133282","title":{"rendered":"Kingston accelerates gold hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PERTH (miningweekly.com) \u2013 ASX-listed Kingston Resources has raised A$3.1-million through a shortfall placement of its pro-rata non-renounceable rights issue, announced in May, to accelerate drilling at its Misima gold project, in Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston in May launched the rights issue with the aim of raising up to A$8-million.<\/p>\n<p>The company on Monday said that it had now successfully placed more than 192.7-million shortfall shares to eligible existing and new institutional shareholders, at an offer price of 1.6c each.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great result which means we are now well-funded to accelerate our ongoing exploration programme at the world-class Misima gold project and progress exploration at the Livingstone gold project in Western Australia,\u201d said Kingston MD Andrew Corbett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Misima, we remain focused on delivering near-surface ounces outside the main Umuna resource. As part of this step-up in activity, we expect to activate the second diamond drill rig, which is currently on the island being prepared for commissioning. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the drilling programme currently underway at Livingstone is progressing to schedule.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PERTH (miningweekly.com) \u2013 ASX-listed Kingston Resources has raised A$3.1-million through a shortfall placement of its pro-rata non-renounceable rights issue, announced in May, to accelerate drilling at its Misima gold project, in Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Ki&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[597],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133283,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133282\/revisions\/1133283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}