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(Sharecast News) - Great Western Mining shares were rising on Thursday afternoon, after its chairman bought almost 10 million shares across eight transactions.
The AIM-traded firm said Brian Hall made the transactions between 3 and 5 October, at prices between 11.49p and 12p.
In one transaction he bought 2,500,000 shares for 11.6p each, spending £289,999.99, and in another he paid £239,999.99 for 2,000,000 shares at 12p each.
A third transaction saw Hall buy 1,295,281 shares for 11.55p apiece for a total value of £149,604.96, and a fourth was for 1,000,000 shares at 12p apiece, for £120,000.
The final four purchases were for 1,000,000 shares at 11.49p, totalling £114,900; 666,666 shares at 12p, totalling £79,999.92; 538,053 shares at 12p, totalling £64,566.36; and 500,000 shares at 12p, totalling £60,000.
That made for an aggregate volume of 9.5 million shares at an average price of 12p, for a total value of £1.14m.
At 1359 BST, shares in Great Western Mining Corporation were up 8.33% at 0.13p.
Reporting by Josh White at Sharecast.com.
Top Director Buys
Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)
Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur
Amount purchased: 2,500,000 @ 11.60p
Value: £289,999.99
Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)
Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur
Amount purchased: 2,000,000 @ 12.00p
Value: £239,999.99
Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)
Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur
Amount purchased: 1,295,281 @ 11.55p
Value: £149,604.96
Currys (CURY)
Director name: Dyson,Ian
Amount purchased: 200,000 @ 61.06p
Value: £122,120.00
Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)
Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur
Amount purchased: 1,000,000 @ 12.00p
Value: £120,000.00
Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)
Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur
Amount purchased: 1,000,000 @ 11.49p
Value: £114,900.00
Mortgage Advice Bureau (holdings) (MAB1)
Director name: Thompson,Ben
Amount purchased: 16,764 @ 595.00p
Value: £99,745.80
Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)
Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur
Amount purchased: 666,666 @ 12.00p
Value: £79,999.92
Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)
Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur
Amount purchased: 538,053 @ 12.00p
Value: £64,566.36
Great Western Mining Corporation (cdi) (GWMO)
Director name: Hall,Brian Arthur
Amount purchased: 500,000 @ 12.00p
Value: £60,000.00
Hyve Group (HYVE)
Director name: Shashoua,Mark
Amount purchased: 100,000 @ 54.74p
Value: £54,737.00
Hyve Group (HYVE)
Director name: Last,Richard
Amount purchased: 100,000 @ 54.50p
Value: £54,500.00
Synthomer (SYNT)
Director name: Hian,Dato' Lee Hau
Amount purchased: 35,500 @ 112.30p
Value: £39,866.50
Bluefield Solar Income Fund Limited (BSIF)
Director name: Rennocks,John
Amount purchased: 30,000 @ 130.69p
Value: £39,206.79
Poolbeg Pharma (POLB)
Director name: Skillington,Jeremy
Amount purchased: 718,733 @ 4.78p
Value: £34,355.44
Synthomer (SYNT)
Director name: Gualdoni,Roberto
Amount purchased: 25,000 @ 121.00p
Value: £30,250.00
Headlam Group (HEAD)
Director name: Edelman,Keith
Amount purchased: 12,420 @ 240.28p
Value: £29,842.78
Hyve Group (HYVE)
Director name: Gulliver,John
Amount purchased: 50,000 @ 54.74p
Value: £27,368.50
Octopus Titan Vct (OTV2)
Director name: Cooper,Matthew Jonathan
Amount purchased: 27,462 @ 91.30p
Value: £25,072.81
Tpximpact Holdings (TPX)
Director name: Gandhi,Neal Narendra
Amount purchased: 57,000 @ 35.00p
Value: £19,950.00
Premier Miton Group (PMI)
Director name: Barron,David
Amount purchased: 14,966 @ 100.20p
Value: £14,995.93
Synthomer (SYNT)
Director name: Liu,Lily
Amount purchased: 10,000 @ 111.00p
Value: £11,100.00
Cyanconnode Holdings (CYAN)
Director name: Cronin ,John
Amount purchased: 35,714 @ 14.00p
Value: £4,999.96
Bluebird Merchant Ventures (di) (BMV)
Director name: Patterson,Colin
Amount purchased: 304,000 @ 1.61p
Value: £4,894.40
Gran Tierra Energy Inc. (cdi) (GTE)
Director name: Guidry,Gary
Amount purchased: 3,008 @ $1.23
Value: $3,050.91
Uk Oil & Gas (UKOG)
Director name: Sanderson,Stephen (Steve)
Amount purchased: 1,314,060 @ 0.08p
Value: £1,000.00
Rathbones Group (RAT)
Director name: Cummings,Iain
Amount purchased: 21 @ 1,689.20p
Value: £354.73
Cmc Markets (CMCX)
Director name: Fineberg,David
Amount purchased: 132 @ 226.00p
Value: £298.32
Cmc Markets (CMCX)
Director name: Marshall,Euan
Amount purchased: 132 @ 226.00p
Value: £298.32
Top Director Sells
Keywords Studios (KWS)
Director name: Hauck,Jon
Amount sold: 31,346 @ 2,420.00p
Value: £758,573.22
Premier Miton Group (PMI)
Director name: Barron,David
Amount sold: 15,001 @ 100.00p
Value: £15,001.00
