Power Metal Resources #POW – Posting of documents to shareholders and notice of Annual General Meeting
Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) the AIM listed metals exploration and development company announces that the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 September 2020 and Notice of Annual General Meeting were posted to shareholders today.
The Company’s Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) will take place at 11.00 am on 30 March 2021 at Abbey House, 282 Farnborough Road, Farnborough, Hampshire, GU14 7NA. Documentation in respect of the AGM may be viewed on the Company’s website through the following link:
https://www.powermetalresources.com/p/184/shareholder-circulars
For further information please visit https://www.powermetalresources.com/ or contact:
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Paul Johnson (Chief Executive Officer) |
+44 (0) 7766 465 617 |
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SP Angel Corporate Finance (Nomad and Joint Broker) |
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Ewan Leggat/Charlie Bouverat |
+44 (0) 20 3470 0470 |
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SI Capital Limited (Joint Broker) |
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Nick Emerson |
+44 (0) 1483 413 500 |
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First Equity Limited (Joint Broker) |
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David Cockbill/Jason Robertson |
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Notes to Editors:
Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) is an AIM listed metals exploration and development company seeking a large scale metal discovery.
The Company has a global portfolio of project interests including precious metal exploration in North America and Australia together with base and strategic metal exploration in Africa. Project interests range from early stage greenfield exploration to later stage prospects currently the subject of drill programmes.
The Board and its team of advisors have expertise in project generation, exploration and development and have identified an opportunity to utilise the Company’s position to become a leader in the London market for investors wishing to gain exposure to proactive global metals exploration.
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Power Metal Resources #POW – Exercise of Ontario Options – Magical and Enable Properties
Power Metal Resources PLC (LON:POW) the AIM listed metals exploration and development company is pleased to announce that following due diligence work the Company has exercised its option to acquire both the Magical Property (“Magical”) and Enable Property (“Enable” together the “Properties”) located on the prospective Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt in north-western Ontario, Canada.
These are the final two of four gold exploration properties upon which the Company signed an exclusive option to acquire a 100% interest (as announced 26 January 2021) and follows the McKellar option exercise and the Coco East option exercise which were announced on 18th and 24th February 2021 respectively.
Paul Johnson Chief Executive Officer of Power Metal Resources plc commented:
“The exercise of our options over the Magical and Enable properties concludes Power Metals’ current acquisition strategy over the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt in Ontario. Power’s portfolio of exploration properties provides us the opportunity to build value, within a 120km strike length, of a prolific exploration belt.
We will now commence a phase of desk-based remote sensing targeting and exploration planning with a view to being in a position to initiate ground reconnaissance and target follow-up work after the snow thaw. We look forward to providing further updates as plans progress.”
MAGICAL PROPERTY OVERVIEW
– Magical is located 9km northwest of Barrick Gold Corporation’s Hemlo Mine which has produced more than 21Moz gold and has been operating continuously for more than 30 years1.
– The property is located upon the North Limb of the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt, the property is located at the prospective contact between the intrusive Gowan Lake Pluton and metavolcanic/metasedimentary rock packages, with a similar geological setting to the Hemlo deposit. Magical offers potential for orogenic style gold mineralisation.
– The regional geophysics data shows a north trending regional scale magnetic structure intersects the intrusion within the centre of the property, defining a preliminary target for investigation.
– Magical is largely unexplored apart from the easternmost Claim cell where, in 1995, Hemlo Gold Mines Inc drilled an induced polarisation (“IP”) geophysics anomaly. Diamond drill hole V95-2 reportedly intersected a 7m zone of silicification containing sericite and sulphides and 12.6m of feldspar porphyry with disseminated pyrite.
– Magical directly abuts and covers the westward strike extension of the Canadian listed junior Hemlo Explorers Inc (TSX-V: HMLO) North Limb Property2 .
MAGICAL CLAIM STATUS
– The Magical property consists of a total of 14 Single Cell Mining Claims (“Claims”) covering an area of circa 3.0km2.
– Claims are valid through to 27 July 2022 upon which they can be renewed on an annual basis. For renewal the Magical Claims will require an aggregate work spend of CAD$5,600 (circa £3,145) prior to the individual Claim renewal dates.
ENABLE PROPERTY OVERVIEW
– The Enable property is located on the western part of the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt, at the contact of metavolcanic and volcano-sedimentary rock packages with the Terrace Bay Batholith.
– On a regional scale the Terrace Bay Batholith contact is spatially associated with at least 28 documented gold showings including the Northshore Property which has historical resources of 1.2Moz Au3. Northshore has recently been subject to open pit mining studies and is currently held by Canadian Securities Exchange listed Ready Set Gold Corp. (CSE:RDY).
– Overburden cover has been attributed to the reason the Enable portion of the batholith contact remains unexplored. This presents an opportunity to discover new gold mineralisation utilising modern exploration technologies.
– Access to the property is good, being 4km north of the town and railway stop of Terrace Bay and with the Trans-Canada Highway running within 200m of the eastern boundary. The centre of the property is crossed by a public highway with logging roads and a lake providing access to the western part of the property.
ENABLE CLAIM STATUS
– The Enable property consists of a total of 41 Claims covering an area of circa 8.7km2.
– Claims are valid through to 25 July 2022 upon which they can be renewed on an annual basis. For renewal the Enable Claims will require an aggregate work spend of CAD$16,400 (circa £9,210) prior to the individual Claim renewal dates.
ACQUISITION TERMS
The vendors of the Option (the “Vendors”) are a consortium led by established local prospector Brian Fowler who was the Vendor of the Hemlo North Gold Project acquired by Power Metal as announced on 21 January 2021.
In exercising the Option to acquire a 100% interest in the Magical and Enable properties POW will make the following cash and equity consideration:
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384,000 |
40,000 |
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30,000 |
30,000 |
576,000 |
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The POW shares payable as consideration are new ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the Company at an issue price of 3.0 pence per share (“Acquisition Shares”). The cash costs of the acquisition are funded from Power Metal’s existing Canadian Dollar cash account.
The Vendors retain a 2% net smelter royalty (“NSR”) on each property, Power Metal may purchase 1% of each NSR, at any time, by making a cash payment to the Vendors of CAD$500,000.
The Vendors will continue to work with Power Metal in the local management of any new properties acquired through this transaction; the development and implementation of exploration plans and the identification of further new opportunities.
EXPLORATION PLAN
– Ongoing exploration spend will be at the discretion of Power Metal as the 100% owner of the properties.
– Preliminary exploration work is expected to include both remote sensing data interpretation and ground-based fieldwork with systematic soil sampling and geophysics expected to yield defined targets for future drill testing.
– The Province of Ontario has an established mineral exploration industry with a large number of local exploration contractors that could be engaged to fulfill the planned work on a cost-effective basis.
Admission and Total Voting Rights
Application will be made for the 960,000 Acquisition Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM, which is expected to occur on or around 4 March 2021 (“Admission”). The Acquisition Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the ordinary shares of the Company currently traded on AIM.
Following Admission, the Company’s issued share capital will comprise 1,136,877,930 ordinary shares of 0.1p each. This number will represent the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
COMPETENT PERSON STATEMENT
The technical information contained in this disclosure has been read and approved by Mr Nick O’Reilly (MSc, DIC, MIMMM, MAusIMM, FGS), who is a qualified geologist and acts as the Competent Person under the AIM Rules – Note for Mining and Oil & Gas Companies. Mr O’Reilly is a Principal consultant working for Mining Analyst Consulting Ltd which has been retained by Power Metal Resources PLC to provide technical support.
Reference Sources
1: Barrick Gold Corporation, Hemlo Project webpage: https://www.barrick.com/English/operations/hemlo/default.aspx
2: Hemlo Explorers Inc (TSX-V: HMLO) North Limb Property webpage: https://hemloexplorers.ca/projects/hemlo-north-limb/overview/
3: Mineral resource estimate: Technical Report on the Mineral Resources of the Northshore Property, Thunder Bay Mining Division, Priske Township, Ontario, Canada with an effective date of 28 April 2014, by Giroux Consultants Ltd. and Minorex Consulting Limited.
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“MAR”), and is disclosed in accordance with the Company’s obligations under Article 17 of MAR.
For further information please visit https://www.powermetalresources.com/ or contact:
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Paul Johnson (Chief Executive Officer) |
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SP Angel Corporate Finance (Nomad and Joint Broker) |
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Ewan Leggat/Charlie Bouverat |
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SI Capital Limited (Joint Broker) |
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Nick Emerson |
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First Equity Limited (Joint Broker) |
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David Cockbill/Jason Robertson |
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Notes to Editors:
Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) is an AIM listed metals exploration and development company seeking a large scale metal discovery.
The Company has a global portfolio of project interests including precious metal exploration in North America and Australia together with base and strategic metal exploration in Africa. Project interests range from early stage greenfield exploration to later stage prospects currently the subject of drill programmes.
The Board and its team of advisors have expertise in project generation, exploration and development and have identified an opportunity to utilise the Company’s position to become a leader in the London market for investors wishing to gain exposure to proactive global metals exploration.
Stockbox Media interview with Power Metal Resources #POW CEO Paul Johnson
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Cadence Minerals #KDNC – Macarthur Minerals (TSX-V: MMS) (ASX: MIO) Enters Into Exclusive Agreement Over 10 Historic Prospecting and Mining Lease Tenements in the Central Goldfields of Western Australia
Cadence Minerals (AIM/NEX: KDNC; OTC: KDNCY) is pleased to note that Macarthur Minerals (TSX-V: MMS) (ASX: MIO) (the “Company” or “Macarthur”) has entered into an exclusive agreement with Zanil Pty Ltd (“Zanil”) to undertake due diligence over 10 tenements in and around the Leonora Goldfields region in Western Australia (“Agreement”). The Agreement is intended to strengthen the value proposition for a potential future repositioning of Macarthur’s non-iron ore assets.
Zanil is an Australian Proprietary company. Zanil either directly holds rights over, or is duly authorised on behalf of the relevant tenement holders, to enter into the Agreement with Macarthur in respect of the tenement areas:
Location of the properties under due diligence
The Leonora tenements are located in the Central Goldfields region of Western Australia, approximately 237 kilometres north of the city of Kalgoorlie within the proximity of active gold mines such as Agnew gold mine, Gwalia gold mine and Sunrise Dam gold mine.
The tenement portfolio consists of two mining leases and eight prospecting licences, with nine of the areas located on historic gold workings. The other tenement, Barlow’s Gully, has no established mine workings, but has been subject to surface gold extraction for over 100 years.
Key tenements are:
Garden Well was mined prior to 1987 and subsequently subject to periodic exploration campaigns.
Camel Lease historically produced 30.72kg (1083.61oz) of gold reported in WA Government Minedex database as:
— Sons of Australia – 26.3kg (927.70oz) Au from 691 tonnes @ 38.1g/t Au
— Camel Leases – 4.39kg (154.85oz) Au from 142 tonnes @ 30.9g/t Au
— Kruger and Viceroy – 3.95kg (139.33oz) Au @ 37 g/t Au
This reef has been mined to ~150 feet and historic reports suggest water ingress to be the main factor in mining being discontinued.
Great Northern tenement records production of 460 tonnes of ore mined for 10.1kg (356.26oz) Au @ 21.9 g/t Au.
Barlow’s Gully tenement has no historical mine workings but covers the Ursus fault structure. Outside the lease the Ursus fault structure hosts the Torian Sterling Well discovery (held by others), Cerebus-Eclipse 112,000oz Au resource (held by others), and the Centauri 83,100oz Au resource (held by others).
Coppermine is a tenement that has a historical mine working with notable surface copper expression.
The past production reported from these areas are not treated as current or historical Mineral Resources and further exploration is required to understand the potential for gold or copper mineralisation.
The location of the 10 tenements is shown on the below map that highlights the prospectivity of the Leonora Goldfields and indicates the potential of this tenement portfolio.
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/f7ed9f5d-b5a1-43db-a563-3f3ad679becf
Alan Joe Phillips, Managing Director of Macarthur Minerals, commented: “The main focus for the Company is ‘first and foremost’ the ongoing development of the Lake Giles Iron Ore assets. The entering into of the due diligence agreement with Zanil is designed to all for an exclusive low-cost review of the Central Goldfields assets to augment the Company’s Pilbara gold, copper and lithium tenement portfolio.
If these tenements demonstrate value, Macarthur will consider spinning out this portfolio as part of a wider Pilbara/Central Goldfields transaction. The objective is to create value for shareholders by exploiting these tenements without detracting or distracting Macarthur from delivering on its substantial Lake Giles Iron Project.”
The full announcement can be viewed here: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/macarthur-minerals-enters-exclusive-agreement-130000290.html
Cadence Minerals Holding in Macarthur
Cadence holds approximately 1% of the issued equity interest in Macarthur, which is an Australian mining exploration company focused primarily on iron ore, nickel, lithium and gold in Western Australia. It also has a lithium project in Nevada, USA.
This news release is not for distribution to United States Services or for Dissemination in the United States.
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Qualified Person
Kiran Morzaria B.Eng. (ACSM), MBA, has reviewed and approved the information contained in this announcement. Kiran holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Geology) from the Camborne School of Mines and an MBA (Finance) from CASS Business School.
Forward-Looking Statements:
Certain statements in this announcement are or may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as ”believe” ”could” “should” ”envisage” ”estimate” ”intend” ”may” ”plan” ”will” or the negative of those variations or comparable expressions including references to assumptions. These forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts but rather on the Directors’ current expectations and assumptions regarding the Company’s future growth results of operations performance future capital and other expenditures (including the amount. nature and sources of funding thereof) competitive advantages business prospects and opportunities. Such forward-looking statements reflect the Directors’ current beliefs and assumptions and are based on information currently available to the Directors. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements including risks associated with vulnerability to general economic and business conditions competition environmental and other regulatory changes actions by governmental authorities the availability of capital markets reliance on key personnel uninsured and underinsured losses and other factors many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Although any forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are based upon what the Directors believe to be reasonable assumptions. The Company cannot assure investors that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking statements.
Power Metal Resources #POW raises £18,992 from warrant exercises
Power Metal Resources PLC (LON:POW) the AIM listed metals exploration and development company is pleased to announce it has received notices to exercise warrants over 2,199,200 new ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the Company (“Warrant Shares”).
The Warrant Shares are being issued pursuant to the exercise of 1,199,200 warrants at an exercise price of 1.0 pence per ordinary share of 0.1 pence each in the Company and the exercise of 1,000,000 warrants at an exercise price of 0.7p pence per ordinary share of 0.1 pence each in the Company.
Subscription monies of £18,992 have been received by Power Metal in respect of these exercises.
ADMISSION AND TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS
Application will be made for the 2,199,200 Warrant Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM which is expected to occur on or around 3 March 2021 (“Admission”). The Warrant Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the ordinary shares of the Company currently traded on AIM.
Following Admission, the Company’s issued share capital will comprise 1,135,917,930 ordinary shares of 0.1p each. This number will represent the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
For further information please visit https://www.powermetalresources.com/ or contact:
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Paul Johnson (Chief Executive Officer) |
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SI Capital Limited (Joint Broker) |
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Nick Emerson |
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David Cockbill/Jason Robertson |
+44 (0) 20 7330 1883 |
Notes to Editors:
Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) is an AIM listed metals exploration and development company seeking a large scale metal discovery.
The Company has a global portfolio of project interests including precious metal exploration in North America and Australia together with base and strategic metal exploration in Africa. Project interests range from early stage greenfield exploration to later stage prospects currently subject to drill programmes.
The Board and its team of advisors have expertise in project generation, exploration and development and have identified an opportunity to utilise the Company’s position to become a leader in the London market for investors wishing to gain exposure to proactive global metals exploration.
Tertiary Minerals #TYM – Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights
The Company announces that Precious Metal Capital Group LLC (“PMCG”), the subscriber under the share subscription deed details of which were announced on 2 April 2020, has requested that the Company issue 20,000,000 ordinary shares (the “Shares”) to PMCG on 8 March 2021. The purchase price of the Shares (being 0.30 pence per share or an aggregate of £60,000) had been prepaid by PMCG as part of its lump sum investment of £600,000 in the Company, announced on 2 April 2020 and made by PMCG on 7 April 2020. Following the issue of the Shares there will be no prepayment outstanding and no further shares in relation that investment remain to be issued.
Application will therefore be made for the 20,000,000 ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on AIM with admission expected to take place on 8 March 2021. These ordinary shares will rank pari passu in all respects with all existing ordinary shares in the Company. The Shares are being issued pursuant to the authorities given by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on 19 March 2020.
Total Voting Rights
Following admission of the Shares, the Company’s enlarged issued share capital will comprise 1,183,322,445 ordinary shares with voting rights. This figure of 1,183,322,445 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 Disclosure Rules and Transparency Rules of the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority.
For more information please contact:
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| Patrick Cheetham, Executive Chairman | +44 (0) 1625 838 679 | |
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About Tertiary Minerals plc
Tertiary Minerals plc (ticker symbol ‘TYM’) is an AIM-traded mineral exploration company building and developing a multi-commodity project portfolio – Industrial minerals, base and precious metals.
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure
Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information as defined in Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement.
Cadence Minerals #KDNC – Update on Yangibana Rare Earth Project and Joint Venture Partner Funding to Accelerate Construction.
Cadence Minerals (AIM/NEX: KDNC; OTC: KDNCY) is pleased to note that Hastings Technology Metals (ASX:HAS) (“Hastings”), Cadence’s joint venture partner at the Yangibana Rare Earth Project in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia (“Yangibana” “Yangibana Project”), has received commitments to raise $100.7 million through an equity placement. The placement’s net proceeds will be used to advance development of the Yangibana Project in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
Relevance to Cadence Minerals Holdings in the Yangibana Project:
Cadence owns 30% of 3 Mining Leases, 6 Exploration Licences which form part of the Yangibana Project, Hastings holds owns 70% of these leases and licenses.
The definitive feasibility study published in 2017, modelled two production scenarios the second of which had included within it 808,000 tonnes of plant feed from one of our joint venture areas (Yangibana) in year 6. This production target and additional production target from the definitive feasibility study indicates that 11% of the plant feed will come from our joint venture area.
The funding announced by Hastings represents the large majority of the equity component required to commence the development of the Yangibana Project, which includes the mining and of our joint venture areas.
The economic model contemplated by Hastings assumes Cadence through its subsidiary will participate in the and mining of the deposits held 70% by Hastings and 30% by Cadence. Assuming there is a development of the mine by the joint venture a new Mining Joint Venture Agreement will need to be agreed and put in place to replace the existing joint venture documentation and regulate the arrangements between the participants for the mine development. No costs or revenue ascribed to 30% interest in the deposits held by Cadence were reported in the financial modelling published by Hastings.
Further details of our ownership the mineral resources and reserves on our jointly held leases can be found at:
https://www.cadenceminerals.com/projects/yangibana-rare-earth-project-2/
Highlights:
- Hastings has received commitments to raise $100.7 million (before costs) through a two-tranche placement priced at $0.19 per share.
- Placement funds will be used to advance development of the world-class Yangibana Rare Earths Project.
- Strong institutional demand reinforces confidence that Yangibana will become Australia’s next rare earths producer.
- Upon settlement of both tranches of the Placement, the Company will have a cash balance of approximately $120 million (before costs).
As previously announced to the ASX, the equity component of the Yangibana Project’s capital cost is $124 million.
The full HAS release can be found at: https://investi.com.au/api/announcements/has/8a07d081-700.pdf
Cadence Minerals Yangibana Holding:
Cadence owns 30% of 3 Mining Leases, 6 Exploration Licences which form part of the Yangibana Rare Earth Deposit. Hastings Technology Metals owns the remaining 70% (“Hastings”). Further details of our ownership of the mineral resources and reserves on our jointly held leases can be found at:
https://www.cadenceminerals.com/projects/yangibana-rare-earth-project-2/
The current mine plan anticipates production to start from our joint venture area (Yangibana) in year 6. The production target and additional production target from the definitive feasibility study (November 2017) indicates that 11% of the plant feed will come from the joint venture area license of Yangibana.
Cadence CEO Kiran Morzaria commented: “We are delighted to see the strong financial support shown by institutional, sophisticated and professional investors in the Hastings placing. This development will accelerate project construction and provides a positive read-over into the value and future potential of two of the Cadence joint venture area of Yangibana and Yangibana North”
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For further information:
| Cadence Minerals plc | +44 (0) 7879 584153 |
| Andrew Suckling | |
| Kiran Morzaria | |
| WH Ireland Limited (NOMAD & Broker) | +44 (0) 207 220 1666 |
| James Joyce | |
| James Sinclair-Ford | |
| Novum Securities Limited (Joint Broker) | +44 (0) 207 399 9400 |
| Jon Belliss |
Qualified Person
Kiran Morzaria B.Eng. (ACSM), MBA, has reviewed and approved the information contained in this announcement. Kiran holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial Geology) from the Camborne School of Mines and an MBA (Finance) from CASS Business School.
Forward-Looking Statements:
Certain statements in this announcement are or may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as ‘‘believe’’ ‘‘could’’ “should” ‘‘envisage’’ ‘‘estimate’’ ‘‘intend’’ ‘‘may’’ ‘‘plan’’ ‘‘will’’ or the negative of those variations or comparable expressions including references to assumptions. These forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts but rather on the Directors’ current expectations and assumptions regarding the Company’s future growth results of operations performance future capital and other expenditures (including the amount. nature and sources of funding thereof) competitive advantages business prospects and opportunities. Such forward-looking statements reflect the Directors’ current beliefs and assumptions and are based on information currently available to the Directors. Many factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements including risks associated with vulnerability to general economic and business conditions competition environmental and other regulatory changes actions by governmental authorities the availability of capital markets reliance on key personnel uninsured and underinsured losses and other factors many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Although any forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are based upon what the Directors believe to be reasonable assumptions. The Company cannot assure investors that actual results will be consistent with such forward-lookingstatements.
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Power Metal Resources #POW – Exercise of Ontario Option – Coco East Property
Power Metal Resources PLC (LON:POW) the AIM listed metals exploration and development company is pleased to announce that following due diligence work the Company has exercised its option to acquire the Coco East Property (“Coco East” or the “Property”) located on the prospective Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt in north-western Ontario, Canada.
Coco East is the second of four gold exploration properties upon which the Company has an exclusive option to acquire a 100% interest, (the “Option”) (as announced 26 January 2021) and follows the McKellar option exercise which was announced 18 February 2021.
Paul Johnson Chief Executive Officer of Power Metal Resources plc commented:
“Exercising the Option over the Coco East Property further strengthens Power Metals’ landholding in Ontario, following directly on from the acquisition of the McKellar Property which was announced last week.
Coco East is sited upon the eastern end of the Big Duck Lake Porphyry intrusive which is associated with over twenty known gold and/or base metal occurrences including significant gold intersections which were drilled in a neighbouring property during 2017. The property is also directly east of Superior Lake Resources’ Pick Lake / Winston Lake Zinc Project which is currently advancing towards a high grade zinc mine restart.
We are continuing our due diligence review of the remaining two option properties and will provide a further update in due course.”
COCO EAST PROPERTY OVERVIEW
- Located upon the Schreiber-Hemlo Greenstone Belt, Coco East sits at the eastern end of a 4.5km long by 1km wide quartz feldspar porphyry intrusion (the ‘Big Duck Lake Porphyry’) that can be associated with up to twenty-two known gold and/or base metal occurrences.
- Geology of the property consists of intrusive porphyry, ultramafic, metavolcanic and metasedimentary rock packages prospective for both gold and volcanogenic massive sulphide (“VMS”) style copper-lead-zinc-silver mineralisation.
- Regional magnetics survey data shows distinct areas of interest within the property including magnetic highs associated with the eastern end of the Big Duck Porphyry and magnetic ridges which may be indicative of structural faulting and deformation associated with the intrusive event.
- Located approximately 3.5km east of the Coco-Estelle Deposit where diamond drilling during 2017 intersected significant intervals of gold mineralisation including 11m @ 1.96g/t Au from 42m and 5m @ 5.9g/t Au from 63m.1 This is part of the Big Duck Project held by Canada listed CBLT Inc (TSX-V:CBLT) which abuts the Coco western boundary.
- Also 8.4km east of Australian listed Superior Lake Resources (ASX:SUP) high-grade Pick Lake / Winston Lake Zinc Project which has a Resource of 2.35 Mt at 17.7% Zn, 0.9% Cu, 0.38 g/t Au and 34 g/t Ag and for which a mine re-start Bankable Feasibility Study was published in August 2019. 2
- Three historical drill holes are known to exist within the centre the property (on three Claims), these were drilled by Falconbridge Copper Corporation in 1984. Drill hole BD6 is reported to have assayed up to 1.74g/t Au although the exact nature of this intersection has yet to be verified by obtaining the historical core logs. The remainder of the property is considered under explored.
- Situated approximately 20 km due north of the town of Schreiber, Ontario on the Trans-Canada highway. Access to the property is via an old logging road and all-terrain vehicle (“ATV”) trails. Big Duck Lake is located on the western side of the property.
COCO EAST CLAIM STATUS
– Consists of a total of 30 Single Cell Mining Claims (“Claims”) covering a total area of circa 6.4km2.
– Claims are valid through to 20 August 2022 upon which they can be renewed on an annual basis. For renewal the Coco East Claims will require an aggregate work spend of CAD$12,000 (circa £6,912) prior to the individual Claim renewal dates.
ACQUISITION TERMS
The vendors of the Option (the “Vendors”) are a consortium led by established local prospector Brian Fowler who was the Vendor of the Hemlo North Gold Project acquired by Power Metal as announced on 21 January 2021.
In exercising the Option to acquire a 100% interest in the Coco East Property POW will make the following cash and equity consideration:
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POW Shares (CAD$) |
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Total Consideration (CAD$) |
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Coco East |
30,000 |
30,000 |
576,000 |
60,000 |
The POW shares payable as consideration are new ordinary shares of 0.1p each in the Company at an issue price of 3.0 pence per share (“Acquisition Shares”). The cash costs of the acquisition are funded from Power Metal’s existing Canadian Dollar cash account.
The Vendors retain a 2% net smelter royalty (“NSR”) on Coco East, Power Metal may purchase 1% of the NSR, at any time, by making a cash payment to the Vendors of CAD$500,000.
The Vendors will continue to work with Power Metal in the local management of any new properties acquired through this transaction; the development and implementation of exploration plans and the identification of further new opportunities.
EXPLORATION PLAN
– Ongoing exploration spend will be at the discretion of Power Metal as the 100% owner of Coco East.
– Preliminary exploration work is expected to include both remote sensing data interpretation and ground-based fieldwork with systematic soil sampling and geophysics expected to yield defined targets for future drill testing.
– The Province of Ontario has an established mineral exploration industry with a large number of local exploration contractors that could be engaged to fulfill the planned work on a cost-effective basis.
Admission And Total Voting Rights
Application will be made for the 576,000 Acquisition Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM, which is expected to occur on or around 2 March 2021 (“Admission”). The Acquisition Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the ordinary shares of the Company currently traded on AIM.
Following Admission, the Company’s issued share capital will comprise 1,133,718,730 ordinary shares of 0.1p each. This number will represent the total voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
COMPETENT PERSON STATEMENT
The technical information contained in this disclosure has been read and approved by Mr Nick O’Reilly (MSc, DIC, MIMMM, MAusIMM, FGS), who is a qualified geologist and acts as the Competent Person under the AIM Rules – Note for Mining and Oil & Gas Companies. Mr O’Reilly is a Principal consultant working for Mining Analyst Consulting Ltd which has been retained by Power Metal Resources PLC to provide technical support.
Reference Sources
1: GTA Resources and Mining Inc announcement, 29 January 2018 https://www.gtaresources.com/assets/jan-29-2018-big-duck-final-re-run-gold-sample.pdf
2: Superior Lake Resources Pick Lake / Winston Lake Zinc Project: https://superiorlake.com.au/pick-lake-winston-lake-zinc-project/#:~:text=The%20Project%20is%20a%20high,ASX%20announcement%2028%20August%202019
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“MAR”), and is disclosed in accordance with the Company’s obligations under Article 17 of MAR.
For further information please visit https://www.powermetalresources.com/ or contact:
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Power Metal Resources plc |
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Paul Johnson (Chief Executive Officer) |
+44 (0) 7766 465 617 |
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SP Angel Corporate Finance (Nomad and Joint Broker) |
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Ewan Leggat/Charlie Bouverat |
+44 (0) 20 3470 0470 |
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SI Capital Limited (Joint Broker) |
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Nick Emerson |
+44 (0) 1483 413 500 |
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First Equity Limited (Joint Broker) |
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David Cockbill/Jason Robertson |
+44 (0) 20 7330 1883 |
Notes to Editors:
Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) is an AIM listed metals exploration and development company seeking a large scale metal discovery.
The Company has a global portfolio of project interests including precious metal exploration in North America and Australia together with base and strategic metal exploration in Africa. Project interests range from early stage greenfield exploration to later stage prospects currently the subject of drill programmes.
The Board and its team of advisors have expertise in project generation, exploration and development and have identified an opportunity to utilise the Company’s position to become a leader in the London market for investors wishing to gain exposure to proactive global metals exploration.
