Share Buyback

Sylvania Platinum Limited

20 December 2024

 

                                                                                                                                     

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20 December 2024

Sylvania Platinum Limited

 ("Sylvania", the "Company" or the "Group")

Share Buyback

 

Sylvania (AIM: SLP), the platinum group metals ("PGM") producer and developer with assets in South Africa, announces that it intends to conduct a Share Buyback on-market to purchase Ordinary US$0.01 Shares ("Ordinary Shares") of the Company's issued share capital, up to a maximum consideration of US$1.6 million.

The purpose of the Share Buyback is to reduce the share capital of the Company. The Share Buyback will be carried out under the terms and authority of the Company's Bye Laws and all Ordinary Shares purchased will be cancelled.

The Company has instructed Panmure Liberum Limited to execute the Share Buyback, including its irrevocable appointment to purchase shares with absolute discretion during any closed period.  The Share Buyback will be funded from the Company's current cash balance.

Given the limited liquidity in the Ordinary Shares, the Company may not be able to benefit from the exemption laid down in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014, whereby the Company would not purchase shares at a price higher than the higher of the price of the last independent trade and the highest current independent purchase bid on the trading venue where the purchase is carried out. Furthermore, a buyback of Ordinary Shares on any trading day is likely to represent a significant proportion, or possibly all, of the daily trading volume in the ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange (and is likely to exceed the 25% limit of the average daily trading volume as laid down in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014).

There is no guarantee that the Share Buyback will be implemented in full or that any repurchases will be made.

The Share Buyback will be effective from the date of this announcement and will expire on 28 February 2025.

The Company will make further announcements in due course following any share purchases.

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse regulation (EU) no.596/2014 as amended by the Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.

For the purposes of MAR and Article 2 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1055, this announcement is being made on behalf of the Company by Jaco Prinsloo.

CONTACT DETAILS

For further information, please contact:
Jaco Prinsloo CEO Lewanne Carminati CFO	[phone]
Nominated Adviser and Broker
Panmure Liberum Limited	[phone]
Scott Mathieson / John More / Joshua Borlant Kieron Hodgson
Communications
BlytheRay Tim Blythe/ Megan Ray/ Alastair Roberts	[phone]

CORPORATE INFORMATION

Registered and postal address:	Sylvania Platinum Limited
	Clarendon House
	2 Church Street
	Hamilton HM 11
	Bermuda
SA Operations postal address:	PO Box 976
	Florida Hills, 1716
	South Africa

Sylvania Website: www.sylvaniaplatinum.com

About Sylvania Platinum Limited

Sylvania Platinum is a lower-cost producer of platinum group metals ("PGMs") (platinum, palladium and rhodium) with operations located in South Africa. The Sylvania Dump Operations ("SDO") is comprised of six chrome beneficiation and PGM processing plants focusing on the retreatment of PGM-rich chrome tailings materials from mines in the Bushveld Igneous Complex ("BIC"). The SDO is the largest PGM producer from chrome tailings re-treatment in the industry. In FY2023, the Company entered into the Thaba Joint Venture ("Thaba JV") which comprises chrome beneficiation and PGM processing plants, and which will treat a combination of run of mine ("ROM") and historical chrome tailings from the JV partner, adding a full margin chromite concentrate revenue stream. The Group also holds mining rights for PGM projects in the Northern Limb of the BIC.

For more information visit https://www.sylvaniaplatinum.com/

 

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