잠비아 Copper 라이센스 취득
월 28 2024
알토나 희토류 PLC
("Altona" 또는 "회사")
ZAMBIA COPPER LICENSE ACQUISITION
아프리카의 핵심 원자재에 주력하는 자원 탐사 및 개발 회사인 Altona(LSE: REE), is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Sustineri Group Ltd ("Sustineri") and with the beneficial owners of Phelps Dodge Mining (Zambia) Limited (the "Target") to acquire the entire issued share capital of Phelps Dodge Mining (Zambia) Limited, the registered holder of Large Scale Exploration Licence 21403-HQ-LEL ("the Licence") , located in the Mufumbe District of Northwestern Province of Zambia ("Tenement").
고려
The consideration for the transfer of the exclusivity over the Tenement from Sustineri to Altona is £40,000 to be satisfied by the immediate issue of 800,000 new ordinary Altona shares ("Shares") at a price of 5p.
The consideration for the transfer of the Target from its present owners to Altona will be as follows:
· US$ 40,000 on completion, being the later of the date of the acquisition of the Target and the date of renewal of the Licence, payable in Shares at the 30 day volume-weighted average price, from which will be deducted any costs incurred by Altona to renew the Tenement and to transfer the Target; and
· US$ 150,000 12 months after completion, payable in Shares at the 30 day volume-weighted average price.
연립 주택
The Tenement is located in the Mufumbe District of Northwestern Province, Zambia. It has a surface area of approximately 616 km2 and is valid for copper, cobalt, nickel, lead, zinc, gold and diamonds. The Tenement is located 4 km west of the Kamweji copper occurrence, and 60 km southwest of the Mufumbwe copper mine (22 million tonnes at 1.6% Cu), along strike.
Zambia is a safe and mature mining jurisdiction known for its unique geology, dominated by the Central Africa Copper Belt, where copper, cobalt and silver have been mined for over a century, and where world class copper deposits continue to be discovered on a regular basis.
The Tenement was previously held by copper giant Freeport McMoRan until this company's strategic decision to exit Zambia in April 2020. The Tenement has seen prior grassroot exploration including 4,000 line kilometre of ground magnetometer survey and a partial leach soil geochemistry survey over a 4 kilometre square grid. This work highlighted the presence of a large copper gold silver anomaly in the Northeastern part of the Tenement, overlapping a possible demagnetised zone.
Immediate exploration work will include reprocessing of the magnetometer survey data and an ionic leach soil sampling survey at a reduced sample spacing, ahead of defining drilling targets by the end of the year.
Portfolio expansion and diversification
This proposed acquisition represents the first step in the implementation of the Company's updated corporate strategy announced on 19 February 2024.
As the Monte Muambe Prefeasibility Study is progressing with the on-going advanced metallurgical studies, Altona recognises that the time is right for the Company to expand and diversify its portfolio of projects in Africa. The Company continues to actively assess additional potential new opportunities with a focus on projects having a low-entry cost with a clear pathway to early results and to majority ownership.
Altona의 CEO인 Cedric Simonet은 다음과 같이 말했습니다. "Securing an asset with enough potential to have historically attracted the attention of a major player in the copper mining industry is a significant achievement for Altona. We are delighted to make our entry into Zambia with this acquisition; a country where world-class copper and cobalt discoveries regularly make the news.
"As mineralogy and metallurgy work at Monte Muambe continues, the Kabompo South copper project acquisition demonstrates Altona's commitment to deliver on its updated corporate strategy through a careful selection of a limited number of high-quality projects."
Application is being made for the 800,000 Shares to be admitted to trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange which is expected to be on or around 3 April 2024. The Shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares of the Company. Following this issue of 800,000 shares, the Company's enlarged share capital and total voting rights in the Company will comprise 86,767,107. The Company has no shares held in Treasury. This figure of 86,767,107 ordinary shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
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알토나 희토류 PLC
세드릭 시모네(Cedric Simonet), CEO +44 (0) 7778 866 108
Louise Adrian, CFO +44 (0) 7721 492 922
Christian Taylor Wilkinson, 사업 개발 +44 (0) 7795 168 157
Novum Securities Ltd(기업 금융) + 44 (0) 20 7399 9400
데이비드 코프만
다니엘 해리스
Allenby Capital Ltd(합동 Broker) +44 (0)20 3328 5656
켈리 가디너 / 가이 맥두걸(영업)
Nick Athanas (기업 금융)
옵티바증권(합동 Broker) + 44 (0) 20 3411 1882
다니엘 잉그램
Altona Rare Earths Plc 소개
알토나는 아프리카의 핵심 원자재에 중점을 둔 자원 탐사 및 개발 회사. 회사는 런던 증권 거래소의 주요 시장에 "REE"라는 종목으로 상장되어 있습니다.
희토류는 17개의 화학 원소로 구성된 그룹으로, 그 중 다수는 W에 매우 중요합니다.orld는 탄소 기반에서 재생 가능 에너지, 국방 및 통신 부문으로의 지속적인 전환을 진행하고 있습니다.
회사는 현재 모잠비크 북서부에 위치한 주력 자석 희토류 프로젝트인 Monte Muambe를 개발하고 있습니다. 해당 프로젝트는 2021년 7,800월에 인수되었으며, 회사는 지금까지 XNUMXm 이상을 시추했습니다. 그리고 13.6% TREO에서 2.42만 톤의 최초 JORC 광물 자원 추정치를 정의했습니다. Monte Muambe에 대한 범위 지정 연구를 포함한 담당자 보고서가 18년 2023월 XNUMX일에 발표되었습니다. 이 프로젝트는 현재 야금 테스트 및 프로세스에 초점을 맞춘 사전 타당성 조사 단계에 있습니다.
Altona is presently assessing new critical raw material projects acquisition opportunities, including both Rare Earths and non Rare Earths projects.
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