** Shares of Australia's Golden State Mining GSM.AX fall
as much as 24% to A$0.019
** Logs biggest intraday pct decline since Oct. 24
** The gold miner says completed bookbuild to raise A$1.5
mln ($954,300.00) in placement at issue price of A$0.017 per
share, representing a discount of 32% to stock's last closing
** Adds, funds to be used for lithium exploration strategy
at Paynes Find and Yule Nomad projects in Western Australia
** Issue of 88.2 mln shares represent ~0.6% of co's free
float of 154.02 mln shares - LSEG data
** Stock down 41.9% YTD, as of last close
($1 = 1.5718 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Roshan Thomas in Bengaluru)
((Roshan.Thomas@thomsonreuters.com;))