21 Jul 2014 15:30
21 July 2014
Beacon Hill Resources Plc / AIM: BHR / Sector: Mining
Beacon Hill Resources Plc ('Beacon Hill or 'the Company')
RESULTS OF GENERAL MEETING
On 23 June 2014, Beacon Hill announced details of a proposed placing of 600,000,000 new ordinary shares in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") of 0.25p each ("Placing Shares"), to raise approximately £1.5 million (the "Placing"). The Placing Shares are being issued in three Tranches, the first tranche of 242,247,052 Placing Shares and the second tranche of 276,071,332 Placing Shares having already been issued and admitted to trading on AIM. For every Placing Share issued the subscribers are also granted one warrant over an Ordinary Share ("Warrants"), the terms of which were referred to in the Company's announcement on 23 June 2014.
The Board of Beacon Hill is pleased to announce that, at the General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, the resolutions set out in the Notice of General Meeting were duly passed. Accordingly, the Company has today allotted and issued the third and final tranche of 81,681,616 Placing Shares and 81,681,616 Warrants.
An application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the 81,681,616 Placing Shares issued today to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is expected that such admission will take place at 8.00 a.m. on 25 July 2014. Following admission on AIM of such Placing Shares, the total number of shares in issue in the Company will be 2,486,943,957 Ordinary Shares of 0.25p each, all of which are voting shares.
Set out below are the proxies received in respect of each resolution.
Resolution No. | In Favour (% of votes cast) | Against (% of votes cast) | Withheld
|
1 | 99.28% | 0.72% | 37,237,990 |
2 | 99.28% | 0.72% | 37,252,390 |
3 | 99.32% | 0.68% | 37,252,390 |
4 | 99.31% | 0.69% | 37,252,390 |
NB: Percentage of Votes cast excludes Withheld votes
**ENDS**
For further information, please contact: | |
Beacon Hill Resources Plc | |
Justin Farr-Jones, Chairman (jfarr-jones@bhrplc.com) Rowan Karstel, Chief Executive Officer (rowan.karstel@bhrplc.com) | |
Canaccord Genuity Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Neil Elliot / Joe Weaving |
+44 20 7523 8000 |
St Brides Media & Finance Limited (Financial Public Relations) Susie Geliher / Elisabeth Cowell |
+44 20 7236 1177 |