LONDON (ShareCast) - Polo Resources co-chairman Stephen Dattels has been upping his holding in the mining investment company.

Regent Mercantile Holdings, a company wholly owned by the trustee of a trust under which Dattels is a beneficiary bought 6,364,828 shares at 5.82p a share, spending about £370,000.

Dattels now has about 220m shares in the company, or about 9.4%. His purchase was announced the day after Polo said non-executive director Ian Stalker took 1.77m shares at 5.56p a time, lifting his stake to 5.07m shares.

The shares have appreciated since Dattels’s last purchase. He took 12m at 5.25p a time in March, having paid 5p a time for 15m in November.

The share price was lifted by an announcement last week of a buyback of 25m shares at 5.64p a time.

Polo has investments in coal, iron ore and gold assets around the world. Dattels, a former executive at Canada-based mining giant Barrick Gold, was founder and chairman of Australian coal miner Caledon resources, one of Polo’s investments. Stalker is a chemical engineer and a director at Spain-focused miner Berkeley Resources.

Top Director Buys

Polo Resources Ltd. (DI) (POL)
Director name: Mr Stephen R Dattels
Amount purchased: 6,364,828 @ 5.82p
Value: £370,433

UK Coal (UKC)
Director name: Mr Keith Heller
Amount purchased: 110,383 @ 39.98p
Value: £44,131

UK Coal (UKC)
Director name: Mr Keith Heller
Amount purchased: 92,289 @ 40.00p
Value: £36,916

Communisis (CMS)
Director name: Mr Alistair Blaxill
Amount purchased: 50,000 @ 31.35p
Value: £15,675

Aberdeen New Dawn Inv Trust (ABD)
Director name: Mr David James Buchanan Shearer
Amount purchased: 1,500 @ 885.34p
Value: £13,280


Top Director Sells

ITV (ITV)
Director name: Mr Adam Crozier
Amount sold: 101,510 @ 74.66p
Value: £75,787

Kingfisher (KGF)
Director name: Mr Ian Cheshire
Amount sold: 11,754 @ 274.58p
Value: £32,274

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