12:17 PM EST - Asante Gold Corp : Announced that it has closed the previously announced private placement of common shares of the Company, to raise C$102,255,850 at a price of $1.75 per share. A total of 58,431,914 shares will be issued pursuant to the placement. Included in the subscribers are the Ghana Minerals Income and Investment Fund that subscribed for 14,514,286 common shares and Emiral Resources Limited that subscribed for an additional 12,249,208 shares, maintaining its cornerstone investment in the Company. Asante Gold Corp
shares C.ASE are trading unchanged at $1.50.
