Miner Vast Resources PLC (LON:VAST) has called a general shareholder meeting to ask approval to increase the number of shares it can issue.
A third £1.25mln tranche of a £5mln equity funding agreement with financier Crede Capital is available on 4 July, money that the miner will use to pay half of a £650,000 loan (to Darwin Capital) that falls due on 10 July.
Due to the recent fall in its share price, though, Vast need a pre-emption rights waiver to issue the shares to Crede.
The miner added that recent falls in copper and lead prices has reduced cash flow from its Manaila operation in Romania.
Grades had also been affected by extreme cold weather at the start of the year and the commissioning of a second mill and flotation line to facilitate production of separate copper and zinc concentrates.