Judge orders lifting of Avocet gold seizure

LSE-listed Avocet Mining’s share price rose 28.7% on Tuesday morning, after it announced that a judge in Burkina Faso had ordered the lifting of the seizure of a gold shipment last month. The seizure of a 1 400 oz gold shipment was affected by bailiffs acting on behalf of former employees of Société des Mines de Bélahouro (SMB) who had been laid off following an illegal strike in December 2014.