West Australian explorer Caravel Minerals is fully funded to complete PFS work on its Caravel copper project 160km NE of Perth after receiving firm commitments to raise $A9M through the issue of 56.25M shares at 16cps.
Caravel says the placement attracted strong interest as rising copper prices highlight the value of large-scale, long-life assets.
The project, on agricultural land in the WA Wheatbelt, is amenable to low-cost openpit bulk mining with low strip ratio and wide ore zones suited for standard processing to produce a readily marketable concentrate.