BVI-incorporated mining company Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd has raised US$15 million through issue of short term senior secured loan notes which are convertible at a price of 30p per share and redeemable in September 2018. The amount of notes available to directors of the British Virgin Islands company was limited to 5%. Labro, the company of Chaarat’s chairman Martin Anderson, already owning 34.1% of the shares, will subscribe for US$375,000 of the notes. Martin Wiwen-Nilsson, who is grouped with Labro, has also applied for US$375,000 worth of notes.
The additional funding will be used for the first phase of development of company’s project in the Kyrgyz Republic: to increase the reserve base of the project, to construct a new section of the access road, and to start engineering design and recruit construction and operating teams.