Azure Minerals Limited (ASX: AZS) (“Azure” or “the Company”) is pleased to advise that it has secured funding of approximately A$8.2 million (before costs) through a placement to institutional and sophisticated investors to enable the Company to continue development studies at its flagship Oposura project and to accelerate its exploration campaign to further define the high-grade, near-surface gold and cobalt mineralisation on the Sara Alicia project.