22 February 2019
Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting
IronRidge Resources Limited (AIM: IRR, 'IronRidge' or the 'Company'), the African focussed minerals exploration company, advises that notice has been given calling an Extraordinary General Meeting ("EGM") of the Company to consider a single resolution seeking authority for the future issue of shares for non-cash consideration. The EGM has been set for 20 March 2019 at 10am (Brisbane time) at Level 7 Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle Street, Brisbane, Qld, Australia.
The Resolution to be put to the EGM seeks shareholder approval for the purposes of Rule 6.2(a) of the Company's Constitution to specifically authorise the Directors to issue and allot up to a maximum of 15% of the Company's Issued Share Capital (at the time of the Meeting) to be used at the discretion of the Board as consideration to key suppliers for services rendered and/or capital expenditure (e.g. project-related equity) for the period through to the Company's next Annual General Meeting, in order to assist with the preservation of the Company's treasury.
Under Rule 6.1 of the Constitution, the Company is required to make an offer of equity securities first to existing Shareholders pro rata to their existing holdings (the "Pre-emption Rights"). Rule 6.2(a) enables the issue of equity securities which are wholly paid up otherwise than in cash free of such Pre-emption Rights where this is approved by an ordinary resolution of the Company's Shareholders.
The IronRidge Directors strongly support this resolution and recommend all shareholders vote in favour.
Shareholder Voting
All Shareholders registered as holding ordinary shares of the Company at 10am (Brisbane, Australia time) on Wednesday, 20 March 2019 are entitled to attend and vote at the EGM. Accordingly, transactions registered after that time will be disregarded in determining entitlements to attend and vote at the EGM.
Full Notice of Meeting and Explanatory Memorandum
The Notice of Meeting and Explanatory Memorandum are in the process of being printed and despatched by the Company's share registry, Computershare. An electronic copy of the materials is available via the following link:
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/8427Q_1-2019-2-22.pdf
For any further information please contact:
IronRidge Resources Limited |
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Vincent Mascolo (Chief Executive Officer) |
Tel: +61 7 3303 0610 |
Karl Schlobohm (Company Secretary) |
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SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP |
Tel: +44 (0)20 3470 0470 |
Nominated Adviser and Broker |
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Jeff Keating Charlie Bouverat
Yellow Jersey PR Limited Felicity Winkles Harriet Jackson
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Tel: +44 (0) 7544 275882
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Notes to Editors:
IronRidge Resources is an AIM-listed, Africa focussed minerals exploration company with a lithium pegmatite discovery in Ghana, extensive grassroots gold portfolio in Cote d'Ivoire and a potential new gold province discovery in Chad. The Company holds legacy iron ore assets in Gabon and a bauxite resource in Australia. IronRidge's strategy is to create and sustain shareholder value through the discovery and development of significant and globally demanded commodities.
Ghana
The Company entered into earn-in arrangements with Obotan Minerals Limited, Merlink Resources Limited, Barari Developments Limited and Joy Transporters Limited of Ghana, West Africa, securing the first access rights to acquire the historical Egyasimanku Hill spodumene rich lithium deposit, estimated to be in the order of 1.48Mt at 1.67% Li2O and surrounding tenements. The portfolio covers some 684km2 with the newly discovered Ewoyaa project including drill intersections of 128m @ 1.21% Li2O from 3m and 111m @ 1.35% Li2O from 37m, and a further identified 20km strike of pegmatite vein swarms. The tenure package is also highly prospective for tin, tantalum, niobium, caesium and gold, which occur as accessory minerals within the pegmatites and host formations.
Chad
The Company entered into an agreement with Tekton Minerals Pte Ltd of Singapore concerning its portfolio covering 900km2 of highly prospective gold and other mineral projects in Chad, Central Africa. IronRidge acquired 100% of Tekton including its projects and team to advance the Dorothe, Echbara, Am Ouchar, Nabagay and Kalaka licenses, which host multiple, large scale gold projects. Trenching results at Dorothe, including 84m @ 1.66g/t Au (including 6m @ 5.49g/t & 8m @ 6.23g/t), 4m @ 18.77g/t Au (including 2m @ 36.2g/t), 32m @ 2.02g/t Au (including 18m @ 3.22g/t), 24m @ 2.53g/t Au (including 6m @ 4.1g/t (including 2m @ 6.2g/t) and 2m @ 6.14g/t), 14.12g/t Au over 4m, 34.1g/t over 2m and 63.2g/t over 1m, have defined significant gold mineralised quartz veining zones over a 3km by 1km area including the steep dipping 'Main Vein' and shallow dipping 'Sheeted Vein' zones.
Côte d'Ivoire
The Company entered into conditional joint venture arrangements in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa; securing access rights to highly prospective gold mineralised structures and pegmatite occurrences covering a combined 3,584km2 and 1,172km2 area respectively. The projects are well located within access of an extensive bitumen road network and along strike from multi-million ounce gold projects and mines.
Australia
Monogorilby is prospective for province scale titanium and bauxite, with an initial maiden resource of 54.9MT of premium DSO bauxite. Monogorilby is located in central Queensland, within a short trucking distance of the rail system leading north to the Port of Bundaberg. It is also located within close proximity of the active Queensland Rail network heading south towards the Port of Brisbane.
May Queen is located in Central Queensland within IRR's wholly owned Monogorilby license package and is highly prospective for gold. Historic drilling completed during the 1980s intersected multiple high-grade gold intervals, including 2m @ 73.4 g/t Au (including 1m at 145g/t), 4m @ 38.8g/t Au (at end of hole) and 3m @ 18.9g/t Au, over an approximate 100m strike hosting numerous parallel vein systems, open to the north-west and south-east.
Wholly owned Quaggy contains highly anomalous platinum, palladium, nickel, cobalt and copper exploration targets and is located in Central Queensland, within a short trucking distance of the dormant rail system to the Port of Bundaberg. It is also located within close proximity of the active Queensland Rail network heading south towards the Port of Brisbane.
Gabon
Tchibanga is located in south-western Gabon, in the Nyanga Province, within 10-60km of the Atlantic coastline. This project comprises two exploration licenses, Tchibanga and Tchibanga Nord, which cover a combined area of 3,396km2 and include over 90km of prospective lithologies and the historic Mont Pele iron occurrence.
Belinga Sud is Located in the north east of Gabon in the Ogooue-Ivindo Province, approximately 400km east of the capital city of Libreville. IRR's licence lies between the main Belinga Iron Ore Deposit, believed to be one of the world's largest untapped reserves of iron ore with an estimated 1bt of iron ore at a grade >60% Fe, and the route of the Trans Gabonese railway, which currently carries manganese ore and timber from Franceville to the Port of Owendo in Libreville.
Corporate
IronRidge made its AIM debut in February 2015, successfully securing strategic alliances with three international companies: Assore Limited of South Africa, Sumitomo Corporation of Japan and DGR Global Limited of Australia. Assore is a high- grade iron, chrome and manganese mining specialist. Sumitomo Corporation is a global resources, mining marketing and trading conglomerate. DGR Global is a project generation and exploration specialist.