Spain's Abenojar Tungsten makes London market debut in biggest mining IPO since 2018
Spain's Abenojar Tungsten makes London market debut in biggest mining IPO since 2018 Oct 30 (Reuters) - Spanish miner Abenojar Tungsten ABTA.L made its official market debut on the London Stock Exchange's main market on Friday, marking the largest mining flotation by funds raised in London since 2018.
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Unconditional dealings in the shares, trading under the ticker "ABT," began on Friday, following conditional trading that started when the IPO was priced at 110 pence a share on Tuesday
The shares opened marginally higher on Friday and were last up 5.9% at 108 pence as of 0827 GMT
The company raised €170 million ($190.4 million) in the biggest mining IPO since Kazakh uranium producer Kazatomprom's KZAP.KZ £311 million ($417.11 million) listing of Global Depository Receipts in London in 2018
With a market capitalisation of £522 million, Abenojar is on the verge of entering the FTSE 250 index .FTMC, where the number of miners has risen to five
Abenojar is developing the El Moto Project in Abenójar, Spain, one of the largest and highest-grade undeveloped tungsten projects in the world
BMO Capital Markets and Peel Hunt acted as joint sponsors and joint global coordinators, alongside Deutsche Bank, with Canaccord Genuity as a joint bookrunner
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(Reporting by Raechel Thankam Job in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema)
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