Result of Retail Offer and Additional Subscription

Phoenix Copper Limited

31 January 2024

 

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31 January 2024

Phoenix Copper Limited

('Phoenix' or the 'Company')

Result of Retail Offer and Additional Subscription

Further to the announcements dated 26 January 2024, Phoenix Copper Ltd (AIM: PXC, OTCQX: PXCLY), the AIM-quoted USA-focused base and precious metals emerging producer and exploration company, is pleased to announce that following the closing of the Retail Offer via the BookBuild Platform at 4.35 p.m. today, 576,152 new Ordinary Shares will be issued at a price of 11.5 pence per Retail Offer Share in connection with the Retail Offer, raising gross proceeds of £66,257.48.

In addition, following the close of the Placing and Subscription on 26 January 2024, the Company received a further subscription for 434,783 new Ordinary Shares (the "Additional Subscription Shares") at the Issue Price raising gross proceeds of £50,000.

Admission and Settlement

Application has been made for the Retail Offer Shares and Additional Subscription Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). Admission of 1,010,935 new Ordinary Shares is expected to take place at 8.00 a.m. on or around 6 February 2024.

The Retail Offer Shares and Additional Subscription Shares will, when issued, be credited as fully paid and rank pari passu in all respects with the existing Ordinary Shares.

Following Admission, the total number of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company in issue will be 149,069,995 with each Ordinary Share carrying the right to one vote. There are no shares held in treasury and therefore, following Admission, the total number of voting rights in the Company will be 149,069,995. The above figure may be used by Shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure, Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Capitalised terms used in this announcement have the meanings given to them in the announcement made by the Company at 7.00 a.m. on 26 January 2024, unless the context provides otherwise.

For further information please visit https://phoenixcopperlimited.com 

Contacts

Phoenix Copper Limited	Ryan McDermott Brittany Lock Richard Wilkins	Tel: [phone] Tel: [phone] Tel: [phone]
SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP (Nominated Adviser)	David Hignell / Caroline Rowe / Kasia Brzozowska	Tel: [phone]
Tavira Financial Limited (Joint Broker)	Jonathan Evans / Oliver Stansfield	Tel: [phone]
WH Ireland (Joint Broker and Joint Bookrunner)	Harry Ansell / Katy Mitchell	Tel: [phone]
Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (Joint Broker and Joint Bookrunner)	Mark Murphy / Will Goode / Joseph Tan	Tel: [phone]
EAS Advisors (US Corporate Adviser)	Matt Bonner / Rogier de la Rambelje	Tel: [phone]
BlytheRay (Financial PR)	Tim Blythe / Megan Ray	Tel: [phone]

Notes

Phoenix Copper Limited is a USA focused, base and precious metals emerging producer and exploration company, initially targeting copper, gold, silver and zinc production from an open pit mine.

Phoenix's primary operations are focused near Mackay, Idaho in the Alder Creek mining district, at the 80% owned Empire Mine property, which historically produced copper at grades of up to 8%, as well as gold, silver, zinc and tungsten, from an underground mine.

Since 2017, Phoenix has carried out extensive drill programmes which have defined a NI 43-101 completed PEA (preliminary economic assessment) for an open pit heap leach solvent extraction and electrowinning ("SX-EW") mine, which was updated in October 2020. From the 2020 PEA, the measured and indicated resource is 22,909,059 tonnes at an average grade of 0.38% copper, 0.324 grammes per tonne ("g/t") gold, 10.3 g/t silver, and 0.19% zinc. The contained metal for the measured and indicated resource is 87,543 tonnes of copper, 238,406 ounces of gold, 7,595,198 ounces of silver and 43,871 tonnes of zinc. 

In addition to Empire, the district includes the historic Horseshoe, White Knob and Blue Bird Mines, past producers of copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead and tungsten from underground mines. A new discovery at Red Star, 330 metres northwest of the Empire Mine proposed open pit, has revealed high grade silver / lead sulphide ore, and from three shallow exploration drill holes a maiden inferred resource of 103,000 tonnes containing 173.4 g/t silver, 0.85 g/t gold and 3.85% lead (1.6 million ounces silver equivalent) was reported in an NI 43-101 technical report published in May 2019. Additionally, the district includes Navarre Creek, a volcanic hosted precious metals target in a 16.09 sq km area. The Company's total land package at Empire comprises 8,434 acres (34.13 sq kms).

At Empire, it is estimated that less than 1% of the potential ore system has been explored to date and, accordingly, there is significant opportunity to increase the resource through phased exploration. The stated aim of the Company is to fund this phased exploration through free cashflow generated by its initial mine. A Plan of Operations in respect of the initial open pit mine was filed with the relevant regulatory authorities in June 2021.

Phoenix also has two wholly owned cobalt properties on the Idaho Cobalt Belt to the north of Empire. An Earn-In Agreement has been signed with Electra Battery Materials, Toronto, in respect of one of those properties.

Phoenix is listed on London's AIM (PXC), and trades on New York's OTCQX Market (PXCLF and PXCLY (ADRs)). More details on the Company, its assets and its objectives can be found on PXC's website at https://phoenixcopperlimited.com/

 

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