Resignation of Richard Round as Non-Exec. Director

RNS Number : 6562Y

Anglo Asian Mining PLC

10 September 2020

 

Anglo Asian Mining plc / Ticker: AAZ / Index: AIM / Sector: Mining

10 September 2020

Anglo Asian Mining PLC ("Anglo Asian" or the "Company")

Resignation of Richard Round as Non-Executive Director

Anglo Asian Mining plc, the AIM listed gold, copper and silver producer focused in Azerbaijan, announces the resignation of Richard Round, a non-executive director of the Company, for personal reasons. Notice was tendered on 8 September 2020 and Mr Round will remain a non-executive director and chair of the Audit Committee of Anglo Asian up to and including 7 December 2020.

Khosrow Zamani, Chairman of Anglo Asian, commented: "Richard has been a director of the Company for fifteen years, since July 2008 as a non-executive director and prior to that as Chief Financial Officer. I would sincerely like to thank him for his very substantial contribution to the Company during this time. Richard is resigning for purely personal reasons and has agreed to continue to serve until 7 December 2020. He will also make himself available to the Company after that date should we need to draw on his extensive knowledge of Anglo Asian. The Board of directors and the Company wish him all the best for the future."

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For further information please contact:

Reza Vaziri	Anglo Asian Mining plc	Tel: [phone]
Bill Morgan	Anglo Asian Mining plc	Tel: [phone]
Ewan Leggat	SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP Nominated Adviser and Broker	Tel: [phone]
Soltan Tagiev	SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP Nominated Adviser and Broker	Tel + 44 (0) 20 3470 0470
Megan Ray	Blytheweigh Financial	Tel: + 44(0) 20 7138 3224

Notes:

Anglo Asian Mining plc (AIM:AAZ) is a gold, copper and silver producer in Central Asia with a broad portfolio of production and exploration assets in Azerbaijan. The Company has a 1,962 square kilometre portfolio, assembled from analysis of historic Soviet geological data and held under a Production Sharing Agreement modelled on the Azeri oil industry.

The Company's main operating location is the Gedabek contract area ("Gedabek") which is a 300 square kilometre area in the Lesser Caucasus mountains in western Azerbaijan. The Company developed Azerbaijan's first operating gold/copper/silver mine at Gedabek which commenced gold production in May 2009.  Mining at Gedabek was initially from its main open pit which is an open cast mine with a series of interconnected pits. The Company also operates the high grade Gadir underground mine which is co-located at the Gedabek site. In September 2017, production commenced at the Ugur open pit mine, a newly discovered gold ore deposit at Gedabek. The Company has a second underground mine, Gosha, which is 50 kilometres from Gedabek. Ore mined at Gosha is processed at Anglo Asian's Gedabek plant.

The Company produced 81,399 gold equivalent ounces ("GEOs") for the year ended 31 December 2019. Gedabek is a polymetallic ore deposit that has gold together with significant concentrations of copper in the main open pit mine, and an oxide gold-rich zone at Ugur. The Company therefore employs a series of flexible processing routes to optimise metal recoveries and efficiencies.  The Company produces gold doré through agitation and heap leaching operations, copper concentrate from its Sulphidisation, Acidification, Recycling, and Thickening (SART) plant and also a copper and precious metal concentrate from its flotation plant.

The Company has a production target for the year to 31 December 2020 of 65,000 ounces to 67,000 ounces of gold and 2,200 tonnes to 2,400 tonnes of copper. This total production target expressed as gold equivalent ounces ("GEOs") at budgeted prices is between 75,000 GEOs and 80,000 GEOS.

Anglo Asian is also actively seeking to exploit its first mover advantage in Azerbaijan to identify additional projects, as well as looking for properties in other jurisdictions in order to fulfil its expansion ambitions and become a mid-tier gold and copper metal production company. It has recently announced that it will enter into a joint venture with Conroy Gold and Natural resources PLC to explore and develop various gold properties in The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

 

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