AIM:
EMED
14 September 2007
EMED Mining Public Limited Raises �3.3
million net
Signs Funding Agreement and
Appointment of joint broker
Placing of New Ordinary Shares
EMED Mining Public Limited (“EMED Mining” or
“the Company”) has today conditionally placed 20,588,000 new
ordinary shares of 0.25 pence each par value (“New Ordinary
Shares”) at an issue price of 17 pence each (”Placing Price”)
with existing and new shareholders. The Placing will raise �3.5 million
gross (�3.3 million net after associated expenses) and is conditional upon
admission to trading on AIM of the New Ordinary Shares. Application is
being made for the New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to AIM and it is expected
that Admission will be effective and that the Placing will be completed on 21st
September 2007.
Investors include Oxiana, Gold Fields, Fidelity
International, Yorkville Advisors LLC, RMB Australia Holdings Limited and
Resource Capital Funds. Fox Davies Capital Limited acted as broker in
relation to the Placing, and will receive a commission and warrants to
subscribe for 910,520 New Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Placing.
The funds raised will allow continued exploration of the
porphyry gold discovery at Biely Vrch in Slovakia along with further progress
with the potential acquisition in Spain of Proyecto de Rio Tinto
(“PRT”) where EMED Mining’s local subsidiary continues to
increase Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. The potential restart of
PRT, at a planned base case production rate of 40,000tpa (after ramp-up) of
contained copper, remains subject to the satisfaction of conditions precedent,
principally the granting of regulatory consent by the Junta de Andalucia.
Establishment
of �10 million Standby Facility available for 3 years
The Company also entered into a �10.0m Standby Equity
Distribution Agreement (“SEDA”) with Yorkville Advisors, LLC,
as the Investment Advisor to YA Global Investments, L.P.
(“Yorkville”), which enables the Company, at its discretion during
the next 3 years, to draw down funds under the SEDA in small tranches as and
when it deems appropriate and in accordance with restrictions set by the terms
of the Agreement.
The financial capacity provided by the SEDA reflects EMED
Mining’s strategy for maintaining rapid business growth while preserving
the opportunity to optimise financing methods. Yorkville has provided such
facilities to other companies in the natural resources sector, including
Fortescue Metals Group (ASX), United Fiber Systems (SGX) and Petra Diamonds
(AIM).
Appointment of Joint Broker
The Board of EMED Mining is pleased to announce that it has
appointed Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited (“Panmure Gordon”) as its
Joint Broker with immediate effect. Panmure Gordon, through its Appointed
Representative GMP Securities Europe LLP, has been appointed because of its
strength in the natural resources sector.
Mr Harry Anagnostaras-Adams, Managing
Director of EMED Mining said: “EMED Mining continues to make preparations
for the restart of PRT in Spain,
if all conditions precedent are satisfied later this year. We also wish
to continue fast-tracking the drill-out of our gold porphyry discovery in Slovakia.”
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New Funding Agreement
The Company has today entered into a Standby Equity
Distribution Agreement (“SEDA”) with Yorkville Advisors, LLC, as the
Investment Advisor to YA Global Investments, L.P. (“Yorkville”).
The principal features of the SEDA are as follows:
1
The maximum aggregate
amount of the equity line is �10,000,000 and EMED Mining is entitled to draw
down the equity credit line in tranches of up to �250,000 at its option but not
more frequently than every 21 days. This may increase to 35 days in certain
circumstances.
2
The facility is for 36
months and is exercisable at any time other than when the Company is in
possession of unpublished price sensitive information, or at any time it has
become reasonably probable that such information will be required by the AIM
rules to be notified.
3
The Company may at its
option state in a notice to Yorkville the minimum market price which it wishes
to accept in relation to an advance under the SEDA. Subject to compliance with
the minimum market price set by the Company, Yorkville will subscribe for new
Ordinary Shares (at a discount of five per cent) at the lowest volume-weighted
average price (as derived from Bloomberg) (the “VWAP”) of the five
trading days following EMED Mining’s notice to Yorkville for it to
subscribe for new Ordinary Shares.
4
Yorkville has agreed that
it will not and will procure that its affiliates will not during such a five
day pricing period sell, transfer, grant any option over or otherwise dispose
of the legal, beneficial or any other interest in any Ordinary Shares, or agree
to do so. Yorkville has also agreed that it shall not and shall procure that
none of its affiliates shall during the 36 month period of the SEDA enter into
any contracts for the sale of Ordinary Shares in excess of the total number of
Ordinary Shares which Yorkville and its affiliates own (including Ordinary
Shares in respect of which EMED Mining has given a notice to Yorkville).
5
Yorkville may not refuse
a notice by EMED Mining to subscribe for new Ordinary Shares provided that each
time notice is given the pre-conditions have been met, which includes a
requirement that warranties given by the Company have not been materially
breached.
6
There are no restrictions
placed on EMED Mining’s access to other funding during the term of the
agreement.
7
There is a fee payable to
Yorkville of five percent of the amount of each tranche.
8
EMED Mining will also pay
Yorkville an Implementation Fee of �350,000 for the credit line (which can be
satisfied in two tranches of 50% each either in cash or in ordinary shares,
with the number of such shares being calculated as �175,000 divided by the VWAP
for the trading day immediately prior to the date of signing of the SEDA in the
case of the first tranche, and in the case of the second tranche �175,000
divided by the VWAP for the earlier of (i) the fifth trading day after the
notice date which results in the Company having given notice for advances of
�750,000 or more; and (ii) the day before the first anniversary of the date of
the SEDA agreement.
9
There are no warrants or
any other attached instruments to the issue of the shares arising from each put
by EMED Mining.
Further Information about
Share Issue
As part of the SEDA, the Company has agreed to issue 1,030,109
New Ordinary Shares to Yorkville (being the first
tranche of the implementation fee due under the SEDA).
The new ordinary shares to be issued to Yorkville are
expected to be admitted to trading on AIM on 21 September 2007. The new
ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing shares of the Company.
Following this allotment and the allotment of the Placing Shares, the total
issued share capital of the Company will increase to 147,928,542 ordinary
shares.
Notes to
Editors: About EMED Mining Public
Limited
EMED
Mining was admitted to trading on AIM
in May 2005 following a placing of its shares. The Company is based in Cyprus and has a strong commitment to
responsible development of metal production operations in Europe,
with an initial focus on copper and gold.
The Company has moved rapidly reflecting the experience
of its specialist team and the clarity of its strategy.
The Group’s region of interest are the tectonic
belts spanning across Europe and over to Iran. The strategy is to evaluate
exploration and development opportunities in several jurisdictions throughout
this quality mineral belt and to promote sustainable development practices through
implementation of European Union and other leading-edge international
standards. EMED Mining recently co-hosted with the Green Party of Cyprus an
international conference on Responsible Mining and Environmental Management.
The Company has, from the outset, strictly implemented its Environmental & Community Policy which
includes:
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Integrating environmental
management into our business, planning and reporting processes.
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Promoting a strong
environmental ethic throughout the Company and the community.
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Complying with, as a
minimum, all applicable local and European Union laws and regulations.
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Communicating with
community stakeholders in a responsible and transparent manner.
EMED Mining has now established a strong position in
the following selected zones:
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Spain/Cyprus The
mines at Rio Tinto, Andalucia,
Spain are
probably amongst the best known in the world. They are, with the possible
exception of those in Cyprus,
the oldest capable of still being worked. It is now EMED Mining’s goal to
restart production in both of these well-endowed mining districts. Both Spain and Cyprus are progressive members of
the European Union and EMED Mining has been made to feel welcome in both host
countries. The styles of mineral deposits and of production techniques are similar.
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Slovakia
exploration areas are centred on a cluster of volcanic centres in Slovakia and Romania. Low-detection geochemical
methods are being applied to these areas for the first time together with open
pit bulk mining concepts. The targeted mineralisation styles are high-grade
epithermal gold, or bulk-mineable epithermal gold and porphyry copper-gold. The
Company has discovered a porphyry gold system at Biely Vrch in Central Slovakia which is the focus of a major drilling
program over 2007.
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Georgia exploration
areas form a cluster of gold prospects with EMED
Mining’s main prospects being within the Upper Racha Licence, the
country’s largest minerals licence with many untested prospects. The
Company has confirmed Russian Resources of 1.0 million ounces gold at the
Zopkhito Prospect and discovered high grade mineralisation at surface at other
prospects.
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Turkey
exploration areas were vended into 34%-owned KEFI Minerals Plc which was
admitted to AIM in December 2006. KEFI Minerals owns carefully selected licence
areas in Turkey,
as well as an extensive proprietary database of regional and specific
exploration data providing a pipeline of further projects to evaluate. The KEFI
Minerals team has mobilized into the field to explore the company’s
tenements and to expand the portfolio of licenses as opportunities warrant. See
www.kefi-minerals.com.
For further information on the Company’s activities,
visit www.emed-mining.com or www.emed.tv
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Erica Nelson
Parkgreen
Communications
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