CAPITAL MARKETS

Apollo finds funding for more work at zinc-lead discovery in Gabon

Capital markets firm Sprott involved

Apollo's Kroussou camp in Gabon

Apollo's Kroussou camp in Gabon

New shares will be priced at 8c each.

The raising comes ahead of assay results being reported from a now completed diamond core drill campaign.

"Results continue to support the potential for a large-scale, shallow, flat-lying, broadly mineralised system with continuity across multiple zones," Apollo said.

Apollo hailed the securing of "strategic support" from North American capital markets firm Sprott.

The fundraising continues a big 18 months for the stock, given its shares were trading at levels around 1c in March 2020.

The stock had declined to those levels after the company ran into a brick wall in July 2019 trying to get a tungsten project in France into development, with the Administrative Court of Toulouse cancelling a required permit.

Apollo subsequently acquired an earn-in deal for Kroussou in September of that year.

Shares in Apollo were up 8% to 9.7c in midday trade, capitalising the company at $37.5 million.

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