** Shares of Ragusa Minerals Ltd RAS.AX jump as much as
5.5% to A$0.096, their highest since Sept 30
** Gold explorer says Environmental Impact Assessment
approval received from Zimbabwe's Environmental Management
Agency for a period of two years urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASN001QHK
** Approval received to conduct gold mining and processing
operations at RAS' Lonely mine gold project including the
Tiberius prospect in Zimbabwe
** About 1.1 mln shares change hands, 1.9-times the 30-day
avg volume of 588,886
** Stock has risen 8.3% so far this year
(Reporting by Aneetta Thomas in Bengaluru)
((Aneetta.Thomas@thomsonreuters.com;))