With mining giant Lonmin looking for cash through a rights issue, there were a few small caps that found funding a less painful way.
Tethys Petroleum (TSE:TPL, LON:TPL) entered into a non-binding letter of intent with Kazakh investor Olisol which is making up to C$40mln available to the company.
Olisol is offering C$15mln of interim debt financing which would be subsequently converted into equity, as well as a further C$25.5mln injection of capital via a share placing.
Elsewhere, mine developer International Mining & Infrastructure Corporation (LON:IMIC) has secured US$22mln of new debt that will fund its work on iron ore projects it owns in Cameroon.
In an update on its financing, it also said it had re-negotiated terms on existing loans totalling US$90mln that lowers the annual interest rate paid.
Staying with mining, Atlantic Coal (LON:ATC) reported record production and sales in the year so far from its Pennsylvania mine, where it has now begun mining a 30ft seam of almost solid high grade anthracite.
This seam will be worked over coming months, providing feedstock to produce clean anthracite products and raw anthracite for sale to other processors, the AIM firm said.
Meanwhile, Jubilee Platinum (LON:JLP) kicked off construction of a processing facility in South Africa under the ASA deal, which targets commissioning as early as January next year.
Strategic Minerals (LON:SML) expects the closure of a nearby competitor to give a boost to its Tatu coal mine in New Zealand.
Patagonia Gold (LON:PGD) has broadened its exploration universe through an earn-in deal on two plots that takes it into Uruguay.
There was a lot from the tech space today, where app-maker Motive Television (LON:MTV) will begin taking pre-orders on Thursday for an app allowing people to watch TabletTV programming on their televisions.
November - or Movember - is proving to be a good month for Forbidden Technologies (LON:FBT) with the video editing specialist announcing another partnership deal, this time for its video social network, eva.
The number of monthly active users on the network is growing, and now the company has unveiled its first branded channel partnership for the network with Movember, the men's health charity.
Intellectual property group Tekcapital (LON:TEK) has filed patent applications for a wearable device that could harvest energy from everyday human activities, such as walking.
The patents for the technology, which has been dubbed Moje, have been filed in the US and under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Data and intelligence group Falanx (LON:FLX) expects continued momentum in the second half as it seeks to be a first mover in an industry increasingly in the public eye.
The upsurge at Mediazest (LON:MDZ) was evident in the media and audio visual installer's half-year results, as the company returned to the black.
To oil, where Hurricane Energy (LON:HUR) said the authorities have given it sign-off to sub-divide its offshore licence area to the west of the Shetland Islands to allow the company to be more flexible when it comes to farming down its oil interests.
Meanwhile, Range Resources (LON:RRL) has spudded the second well in a programme of 22 across its acreage in Trinidad.
The well, GY 180SE, is drilling to a total depth of 2,000 ft (against 1,820 ft previously expected) and is the first development well Range has drilled on the Beach Marcelle field.
Finally, Sierra Leone has just been declared free of the Ebola virus. It is a huge achievement for the country and its people, Stellar Diamonds' (LON:STEL) boss, Karl Smithson, said.
Sierra Rutile (LON:SRX) also operates in the country and will likely benefit from the news too.