** Shares of mineral explorer Venture Minerals VMS.AX rise
as much as 4.7% to A$0.045
** Co says its share purchase plan (SPP) was oversubscribed,
with applications for A$6 mln ($4.35 mln) vs A$1.25 mln which it
originally planned to raise urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASX5ZLQXw urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN2SU13X
** Adds that funding now enables exploration at Mount
Lindsay Tin-Tungsten Project in Australia
** Stock has fallen 21.8% this year, as of last close
($1 = 1.3784 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Jaskiran Singh in Bengaluru)
((Jaskiran.Singh@thomsonreuters.com;))