Alien Metals Ltd (LON:UFO), a global minerals exploration and development company, is pleased to announce that the Company has raised gross proceeds of £630,000 (before expenses) though a placing of 466,666,667 new common shares of no par value in the Company at a price of 0.135 pence per share. The Placing Shares equate to approximately 6.7% of the Company’s issued share capital as enlarged by the Placing.
The net proceeds of the Placing will be principally used to advance the Company’s iron ore project, silver and precious metals project in Western Australia and for general working capital purposes.
Appointment of Joint Broker
CMC Markets UK Plc, trading as CapX, acted as the Company’s sole placing agent in respect of the Placing and has been appointed as joint broker to the Company.
Hancock Iron Ore Update
· Work continues by the management team to advance the Hancock Iron Ore Project towards obtaining all mining approvals necessary to secure funding and ultimately moving towards development and construction
· Further in-country heritage surveys are planned for H2 2024
· Company is advancing engineering and transport logistics for mining, crushing, road haulage and port loading
· Actively progressing strategic project funding options including possible funding by way of joint venture and or debt funding
Pinderi Hills – Silver, Base & Precious Metals Update
· Field work has commenced on site including soil sampling with approximately 1,000 samples expected to be taken.
· Further geochemical surveys are planned to commence over the main Ni-Cu target areas
· Rock chip sampling being undertaken over the Pinderi Hills project area, together with on ground surface mapping and determination of locations for future geophysical and drilling programmes
· Exploration work underway to target larger silver ore bodies at depth and along strike from the known silver deposit/mine zone at Elizabeth Hill
Updates on the exploration and field work at Pinderi Hills and Elizabeth Hill will be announced as appropriate.
Figure 1: Geology and location of PGM Reef locations and Ni/Cu target areas Munni Munni, Pinderi Hills, WA
Figure 2: Sampling Program plan at Pinderi Hills
Admission and Total Voting Rights
The Placing has been conducted utilising the Company’s existing share authorities. The Placing Shares will rank pari passuin all respects with the Company’s existing Common Shares. The Placing Agreement includes customary terms and conditions. The Placing is conditional, inter alia, on there being no breach of the obligations under the Placing Agreement entered into between CMC Markets and the Company prior to admission of the Placing Shares to trading on AIM becoming effective (“Admission”).
Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for Admission of the 466,666,667 Placing Shares to trading on AIM. It is expected that Admission will become effective and that dealings in the Placing Shares on AIM will commence at 8.00 a.m. on or around 10 June 2024, (or such later date as may be agreed between the Company and CMC Markets, but no later than 12 July 2024).
On Admission, the Company’s issued share capital will consist of 6,958,460,841 Common Shares, each with voting rights. Therefore, the Company’s total number of Common Shares and voting rights will be 6,958,460,841. 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 to their interest in, the Company’s issued share capital following Admission under the FCA’s Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Guy Robertson Chairman, commented:
“This is an exciting time for Alien Metals. With the new project team in place we are expediting development and the approvals work at the Hancock Iron Ore Project.
Hancock has direct shipping ore at 60% plus iron ore grade close to existing infrastructure surrounded by all the major iron ore producers in the Pilbara.
It is encouraging to see that the iron ore price continues to remain strong. We have seen many iron ore junior companies successfully move into production in Western Australia and this gives us a lot of encouragement for our project.
We look forward to actively progressing our financing discussions on the Hancock Project and to driving forward exploration work across our portfolio”.
