The FTSE Small Caps index closes up 0.1 percent and thejunior-listed AIM index closes down 0.3 percent, outperforming themid-caps, which fall 0.4 percent.
Sable Mining gains 1.8 percent after reporting positive initialresults from its expansion drilling at its Nimba Iron Ore project in Guinea.
Solomon Gold falls 7 percent after it raises 3 million pounds($4.77 million) in a placing of shares at 7.5 pence a share.
($1 = 0.6288 British pounds)
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