18 October 2019
KEFI Minerals plc
("KEFI" or the "Company")
Issue of Equity
KEFI (AIM: KEFI), the gold exploration and development company with projects in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has received notice from one of its working capital providers to convert £150,000 of the Loan Note issued on 5 August 2019 plus associated costs of £7,500 into new KEFI ordinary shares of 0.1p each at a price 0.664 pence per share. Accordingly, KEFI has today allotted and issued 23,732,031 new KEFI ordinary shares of 0.1p each ("New Ordinary Shares") to the loan facility provider.
Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM with admission ("Admission") expected to occur on or around 24 October 2019.
Total Voting Rights
Following Admission of the 23,732,031 New Ordinary Shares, the total issued share capital of the Company will consist of 821,815,215 Ordinary Shares each with voting rights. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company will be 821,815,215 and this 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 in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure
Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement.
Enquiries
KEFI Minerals plc |
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Harry Anagnostaras-Adams (Managing Director) |
+357 99457843 |
John Leach (Finance Director) |
+357 99208130 |
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SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) |
+44 (0) 20 3470 0470 |
Jeff Keating, Soltan Tagiev |
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Brandon Hill Capital Ltd (Joint Broker) |
+44 (0) 20 7936 5200 |
Oliver Stansfield, Jonathan Evans |
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IFC Advisory Ltd (Financial PR and IR) |
+44 (0) 20 3934 6630 |
Tim Metcalfe, Florence Chandler |
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Notes to Editor
KEFI Minerals plc
KEFI is focused primarily on the advanced Tulu Kapi Gold Project development project in Ethiopia, along with its pipeline of other projects within the highly prospective Arabian-Nubian Shield. KEFI targets that production at Tulu Kapi generates cash flows for capital repayments, further exploration and expansion as warranted and, when appropriate, dividends to shareholders.
KEFI Minerals in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is currently undergoing a remarkable transformation both politically and economically.
The Tulu Kapi gold project in western Ethiopia is being progressed towards development, following a grant of a Mining Licence in April 2015.
The Company has now refined contractual terms for project construction and operation. Estimates include open pit gold production of c. 140,000oz pa for a seven-year period. All-in Sustaining Costs (including operating, sustaining capital and closure but not including leasing and other financing charges) remain c. US$800/oz. Tulu Kapi's Ore Reserve estimate totals 15.4Mt at 2.1g/t gold, containing 1.1Moz.
All aspects of the Tulu Kapi (open pit) gold project have been reported in compliance with the JORC Code (2012) and subjected to reviews by appropriate independent experts.
A Preliminary Economic Assessment has been published that indicates the economic attractiveness of mining the underground deposit adjacent to the Tulu Kapi open pit, after the start-up of the open pit and after positive cash flows have begun to repay project debts. An area of over 1,000 square kilometres adjacent to Tulu Kapi has been reserved for exploration by KEFI upon commencement of development, with a view to adding satellite deposits to development and production plans.
KEFI Minerals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
In 2009, KEFI formed G&M in Saudi Arabia with local Saudi partner, ARTAR, to explore for gold and associated metals in the Arabian-Nubian Shield. KEFI has a 40% interest in G&M and is the operating partner.
ARTAR, on behalf of G&M, holds over 20 EL applications. ELs are renewable for up to three years and bestow the exclusive right to explore and to obtain a 30-year exploitation (mining) lease within the area.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced policies to encourage minerals exploration and development, and KEFI Minerals supports this priority by serving as the technical partner within G&M. ARTAR also serves this government policy as the major partner in G&M, which is one of the early movers in the modern resurgence of the Kingdom's minerals sector.