Australia's Viking Mines starts drilling at high-priority targets in WA, shares jump

Viking Mines

07/10/2021 04:03

** Shares of gold explorer Viking Mines Ltd  VKA.AX  rise as
much as 18.8% to A$0.019, their biggest intraday pct gain since
July 23
    ** Co starts drilling at 5 high-priority targets at its
flagship First Hit Project in Western Australia  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASXc8McrS
    ** First drill results from this project were reported in
June 
    ** Stock hits highest since Sept. 9
    ** Over 6.2 mln shares change hands vs 30-day avg volume of
~3.1 mln
    ** Stock down ~43% YTD, as of last close

 (Reporting by Arundhati Dutta in Bengaluru)
 ((Arundhati.Dutta@thomsonreuters.com;))