ECR Minerals PLC (LON:ECR) has identified a large gold system in the Dimmocks Main Shale (DMS) exploration targets, part of the wider Creswick project. The Dimmocks Main Shale targets sit between two large gold producing areas in Victoria, Australia, where it is estimated historically 15 million ounces of gold has been produced.
Network products giant Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) is to resell Corero Network Security PLC's (LON:CNS) SmartWall software products and services globally.
Shares in Learning Technologies Group PLC (LON:LTG) surged early doors after the company said the full-year outcome will be significantly ahead of expectations.
Next Fifteen Communications Group Plc (LON:NFC) has hiked its interim dividend in its half-year results as its pre-tax profit for the period rose by a quarter.
Demand for the service and products provided by motor finance and bridging loans specialist S & U Plc (LON:SUS) remains strong, the company said in its interim results statement.
Synairgen plc (LON:SNG) boss Richard Marsden said his company made “good progress” in the first half of 2018 as it continues to develop a cold and flu treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) sufferers. To help fund the trial’s expansion, Synairgen also unveiled plans to raise £2.9mln from investors, selling 109,375 new shares at 16p apiece – an 11% discount to Monday’s closing price.
WYG PLC (LON:WYG) has issued an ‘in-line’ trading update for the first half of the financial year ahead of its annual general meeting (AGM) later today.
ValiRx Plc (LON:VAL) is in “detailed discussions” with external partners as it looks to take its VAL401 anti-cancer compound into final-stage clinical trials.
Scancell Holdings Plc (LON:SCLP) boss Cliff Holloway has hailed a “strong” year for the drug developer as it continues to make “significant progress” with its pipeline of cancer immunotherapies.
Tech recruitment specialist Harvey Nash PLC (LON:HVN) has published bumper half year results a week ahead of the vote on the proposed takeover by major shareholder DBay Advisors. Revenues rose by 15% to £292mln, while pre-tax profits were 19% better at £5.26mln.
Motif Bio Plc (LON:MTFB) hopes to launch its next-generation antibiotic in the first half of 2019 as it waits on the green light from US regulators.
Directa Plus Plc (LON:DCTA) doubled first-half revenues as more products containing its graphene additives were launched. Clothing and accessory brands such as Alfredo Grassi, Arvind and Oakley are developing graphene-enhanced items using Directa’s G+ technology, while Grafysorber is a treatment to treat water contaminated with oil.
Risk management software specialist KRM22 PLC (LON:KRM) has recorded its first revenues since joining AIM in April. Set up by serial tech entrepreneur Keith Todd, the group raised £10.3mln to acquire businesses to plug into a platform that can instantly assess business and financial risks.
KRM22 also unveiled the acquisition of Prime Analytics LLC, a Chicago-based risk management technology company, for a maximum total consideration of US$7.5mln. The company said it plans to fund the upfront cash consideration of the acquisition via a placing of around 3.28mln new ordinary shares at 101p each to raise approximately £3.32mln.
Live Company Group Plc (LON:LVCG) shares rose in early trading Tuesday after its subsidiary, Bricklive Education Limited (BLE), secured a content agreement with digital education firm ImmersiveMinds Limited.
Symphony Environmental Technologies plc (LON:SYM) shares were up in early deals Tuesday as it launched a new distributor for its d2w oxo-biodegradable plastics in Jordan.
Rose Petroleum PLC (LON:ROSE) chief executive Matthew Idiens described as “period of intense activity” as the US focused oil and gas junior reported interim results. “We are at a really exciting time in the company's development as we look to evolve from an oil explorer to an oil producer in the next quarter," Idiens said.
Cradle Arc Plc (LON:CRA) has put production targets at the Mowana copper mine in Botswana under review for the second half of the year. However, chief executive Kevin van Wouw is confident that the issues will be resolved and that the project has "decades" of production ahead of it.
Savannah Resources Plc (LON:SAV) has acquired an option to buy the 2.94 square kilometre Aldeia Mining Lease application proximal to the 20mln tonne Mina do Barroso lithium project in Portugal. Savannah’s technical and legal due diligence has highlighted excellent lithium prospectivity focusing on a large scale pegmatite in Block A.
Plexus Holdings PLC (LON:POS) told investors that it is seeing an increasing level of interest in its POS-GRIP HG metal-to-metal seal technology amid growing global concerns over the leaking of methane from gas wells.
Solo Oil PLC (LON:SOLO) has confirmed the completion of its deal to sell out of the Horse Hill project and simultaneously acquire a 4.3% shareholding in UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC (LON:UKOG). The transaction was valued at £4.5mln, or 234mln new UKOG shares.
The boss of Asiamet Resources PLC (LON:ARS) has praised the AIM-listed explorer’s “strong first half” performance as it edges closer to delivering a bankable feasibility study for its BKM copper project in Indonesia. Asiamet recorded a net loss of US$6.2mln (H1 17: US$2.0mln) for the six months ended June 30 2018, reflecting increased exploration costs.
Ceres Power Holdings PLC (LON:CWR), a world-leading developer of low cost, next-generation fuel cell technology, has announced the appointment of Caroline Hargrove as a non-executive director of the company effective from the 1 October 2018. The group said Hargrove replaces Mike Lloyd who retired from the board in July 2018. The company also announced that as part of its continued growth and focus on the development of both its PLC and executive boards, Mark Selby, its chief technology officer, will step off the PLC board from 1 October 2018.
Collagen Solutions PLC (LON:COS) announced that, on 25 September 2018, its chairman David Evans purchased 650,000 ordinary shares in the company at a price of 3.75p each. It said, following the purchases, Evans' total beneficial holding in the company has increased to 43,187,411 ordinary shares representing 13.31% of the issued ordinary share capital.
Premier African Minerals Limited (LON:PREM) has said it plans to publish its interim financial statements for the period ended 30 June 2018 on Friday 28 September. The company added that, therefore, it plans to postpone the webinar announced on 17 September to Wednesday 3 October 2018 at 13:00 pm London time in order to allow shareholders the opportunity to review the Accounts and submit questions pertaining to the Accounts prior to the webinar. To register for the event click here.