(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM on Wednesday.

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AIM - WINNERS

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Capital Metals PLC, up 12% at 1.90 pence, 12-month range 0.90p-6.00p. Receives all consents needed to begin drilling at the Eastern Minerals mineral sands project in Sri Lanka. The drilling programme will "commence shortly".

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Corero Network Security PLC, up 6.6% at 19.98 pence, 12-month range 6.00p-20.00p. The cybersecurity provider wins new orders for its SmartWall distributed denial-of-service protection offering. A distributed denial-of-service is a cyberattack designed to overwhelm a server by disrupting traffic. The orders total USD2.2 million.

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AIM - LOSERS

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Atlantic Lithium Ltd, down 4.8% at 19.04p, 12-month range 16.15p-30.36p. Atlantic Lithium says an investigation is underway following the death of a worker in an incident that took place on Tuesday. The West Africa-focused lithium exploration and development company says the death occurred at its flagship Ewoyaa project in Ghana. Activities at the site have since been suspended with the relevant authorities now notified to carry out an investigation to determine the causes of the incident.

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By Eric Cunha, Alliance News news editor

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