Amara placing and legal update

Amara Mining (AMA) has announced a conditional-on-shareholder-approval 16p per share placing to raise gross proceeds of £14.6 million ($22 million) – ostensibly to enable further exploration of its Yaoure gold project in Côte d'Ivoire and to fund it to the point of making a construction decision for the project, including the delivery of a bankable feasibility study late this year. However, the company also faces some potential  - albeit we think low risk - legal nasties… 

Amara Mining (#AMA) placing raises £14.6m at 16p

Resource boost at Amara Mining

West Africa-focused gold play Amara Mining (AMA) has hoisted the formal indicated mineral resource at its Yaoure project in Cote d’Ivoire 63% to 4.4 million oz. at a low grade of 1.29 grammes of gold per tonne of ore. Citing another 2.4 million oz. there with gold at 1.19 grammes a tonne in the more tentative inferred resource category, the AIM-quoted company, which began life as Cluff Gold, says this confirms Yaoure as the largest gold development project in the region and indicates it expects a pre-feasibility study to be completed in March.

Amara Mining - truly cracking news from Yaoure

Amara Mining* (AMA) has announced an increase in total mineral resources at its Yaoure gold project in Côte d'Ivoire from 6.3 million ounces to 6.8 million and a 63% increase (to 4.4 million ounces) in the higher confidence ‘Indicated’ resource.

Amara Mining (#AMA) announces a 63% increase in indicated resource at Yaoure

Amara Mining, drill results and thoughts on the share price of the ONLY gold stock we are tipping

Amara Mining (AMA) has announced further results from the 2014 drilling programme at its Yaoure gold project in Côte d'Ivoire which “continues to confirm high grade mineralisation throughout the deposit”.  This is the ONLY gold stock we are now tipping on our premium Nifty Fifty website.

Amara Mining – New Estimate at Yaoure: clear value in the shares

Amara Mining (AMA) has announced an updated Mineral Resource estimate for its flagship Yaoure gold project in Côte d'Ivoire – emphasising that “with over 4 million ounces contained in a single economic pit and compelling economics benefiting from low cost hydro-electric power, Yaoure stands out as the pre-eminent gold development asset in West Africa”.

Amara Mining – A real rarity a Quality gold stock on AIM

Amara Mining (AMA) has announced further encouraging drilling results from its Yaoure project in Côte d'Ivoire. Most AIM casino listed gold miners are a total waste of space, Amara is a rare quality play.

Amara Mining: Great Drilling Results and the Loathsome Peter Hain MP buys shares

We are well ahead on our tip to buy shares in Amara Mining (AMA) We told Nifty Fifty readers to buy at a 15.75p offer – the stock is now 23.75-24p. But there was interesting news last week implying that there is more upside still.

Amara Mining – we are 50% up on this gold share tip but certainly not selling: Interims comment

We are c50% ahead on this share tip after interims last week. But there is more to come.

Amara Mining – we are well ahead on share tip but there’s more to come – Yaoure news

Steve and I have avoided tipping gold stocks on our Nifty Fifty website but we made an exception for Amara Mining (AMA) suggesting readers pile in at a 15.75p offer. The shares are now 23p and there was cracking news a couple of days ago. This stock is starting to hum.

ShareProphets Share tip of the week – Buy Amara Mining at 20.875p

Shares in Amara Mining (AMA) dipped last week to 20.875p on the back of announcements that its Kalsaka/Sega gold mine is to be put into early liquidation and that “as a consequence of the company's transition from producer to developer status, Peter Spivey has resigned from his position as CEO”. There is also a drilling update from the company's Yaoure project which serves to "further underline the potential to expand its 6.3 million ounce resource base“.  View this as a buying opportunity.

Transformation drives on at Amara Mining

Not many mining shares at present have doubled from their 12-month lows, but one that has is West African gold play Amara Mining (AMA). Last year it boosted its estimated gold resource at Yaoure in Cote d’Ivoire from 200,000 oz. to more than six million oz. and expects soon to shift more of the 5.5 million oz. which is now in the mining industry’s tentative ‘inferred’ category into the firmer ‘measured and indicated’ classification. AIM-quoted Amara, which raised £22 million in May at 17p, is engaged in a £10 million 80,000-metre drill campaign, one of the largest ever in Africa. This is to fill in gaps left by previous efforts, upgrade the resource at Yaoure, which currently averages a modest 1.4grams of gold per tonne of ore, and, suggests executive chairman John McGloin, possibly add another 500,000 to one million oz. to the project’s resource.

Amara Mining - Cracking Drill Grades: Speculative Buy

Amara Mining (AMA) has affirmed that results from the first 19 holes of a current drilling programme at Yaoure in Côte d'Ivoire “confirm the continuity and high grade nature of the CMA zone, increasing Amara's confidence in the deposit”. These results are, without doubt, very good. This is one of the few AIM listed gold stocks you would want to own. I do.

Amara Mining: Follow the Board & Buy

Amara Mining (AMA) has announced that its producing Kalsaka/Sega operation returned to EBITDA profit in the first quarter of the 2014 calendar year but that “the head grade mined in Q1 2014 was below expectations and accordingly Amara expects production in 2014 to be at the low end of the previous guidance of 60,000-70,000 ounces”. 

Randgold Resources to bid for Amara at a 100% premium? No 1 Mining analyst Roger Bade

The World’s number one mining analyst Roger bade of Whitman Howard has today suggested that Randgold Resources (RRS) could bid for Amara Mining (AMA) and quite happily pay double the current (16.5p) share price.

Amara Mining: Yaoure Update – Speculative Buy

Amara Mining (AMA) has announced results of some alternative sizing scenarios for its Yaoure gold project – this following the release in March of a preliminary economic assessment of the project which exceeded the company’s expectations.  This adds to the buy case.

UK Investor Show 2014 video - John McGloin of Amara Mining

Direct from the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre a video featuring a UK Investor Show 2014 presentation by John McGloin CEO of  Amara Mining (AMA).

Amara Mining - Finals: Buy!

Amara Mining (AMA) has announced results for a calendar 2013 year which it has described as “challenging” financially but “transformational” operationally.

Amara Mining - ahead on our share tip despite placing - still cheap?

Amara Mining (AMA) has announced a proposed placing and open offer of up to a total of 131,527,262 new shares at 17p each to raise up to £22.36 million before expenses – the funds to be primarily used to advance the company’s Yaoure project in Côte d'Ivoire, but also Baomahun in Sierra Leone. We tipped this stock at a 15.75p offer price on our Nifty Fifty website and so at 16.5p-17p are marginally ahead. What next?