Ovoca going for gold

Dublin-based exploration firm has cash to invest, but being careful to select commodity with biggest potential

Ovoca Share price graph for the past ten years and Kirill Golovanov Pic: RollingNews

It has cash. The big question is what Ovoca Gold will do with it. The Dublin-headquartered company has gold exploration assets in the Magadan region of Russia; but its real trump card is a $27 million cash pile on its balance sheet, built up from previous asset sales.

Irish-based shareholders in the Irish mineral explorer, who have been in a minority on the register since three major Russian investors bought into it ten ...