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Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type | Share ISIN | Share Description |
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Oriel Res. | LSE:ORI | London | Ordinary Share | GB0034246743 | ORD 1P |
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0.00 | 0.00% | 121.50 | 0.00 | 01:00:00 |
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RNS Number:5328H Oriel Resources PLC 19 January 2005 NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION OR THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN. 19 January 2005 Oriel Resources plc (the "Company" or "Oriel") Share Purchase Agreement signed in relation to the Voskhod Chrome Deposit Proposed placing of shares and warrants to raise approximately #8,500,000 On 23 November 2004 Oriel announced it had signed an exclusive option agreement to purchase the Voskhod chrome deposit ("Voskhod"). The Directors of Oriel are pleased to announce that a conditional sale and purchase agreement has now been signed under which Oriel will purchase Voskhod. Completion of the purchase is expected to take place on or about 2 February 2005. In addition, Oriel is proposing to place new shares and warrants to raise approximately #8,500,000. Acquisition Structure Further to the announcement of 23 November 2004, Oriel has crystallised the structure for the acquisition (the "Acquisition") with the vendors of Voskhod. Under the structure concluded: * Oriel will acquire JSC Geoinvest ("Geoinvest") a company incorporated in the Republic of Kazakhstan from Energinvest Holding GmbH (the "Vendor"). The consideration for the acquisition totals #13,476,362, equivalent to US$25 million at an exchange rate of US$1.8551/#1, being the exchange rate prevailing on 11 November 2004. * Geoinvest is the sole shareholder of Voskhod-Oriel LLP a limited liability partnership formed in Kazakhstan which has become the counter party to the mining contract relating to Voskhod with the competent authority of the government of Kazakhstan. * The consideration will be satisfied as to #8,085,817 by a payment in cash on completion (converted into US Dollars at the closing rate on 18 January 2005 of US $1.8668/#1) and as to the balance by the issue to the Vendor, or at its direction, of a total of 9,181,352 new ordinary shares in Oriel, credited as fully paid (representing approximately 5.58% of the Company's currently issued share capital). The Vendor has directed that 6,426,946 of such shares should be issued and allotted to a third party. * Completion is expected to take place on or about 2 February 2005, subject to satisfaction of the conditions set out below. * The acquisition of Geoinvest is conditional, inter alia, upon: - the delivery of various legal opinions in agreed form; - completion by the Vendor of certain registration formalities regarding Geoinvest's share capital with the relevant Kazakhstan authorities; - the delivery of certain lock-in undertakings referred to below; and - the approval of the Antimonopoly Agency of Kazakhstan being obtained. * Each of the Vendor and the third party will be required, as a precondition of completion, to undertake to the Company and to Canaccord Capital (Europe) Limited ("Canaccord") not to dispose of the shares to be allotted to them. In the case of the Vendor that undertaking lasts for six months from completion; in the case of the third party, 12 months. In each case the undertakings provide that sales in the subsequent 12 month period should be made through Canaccord. Financing the Acquisition The Acquisition is not conditional upon the Company raising additional capital. However, the Board considers that it would be prudent to seek to replace the monies expended on the cash element of the consideration by way of a placing of new equity securities. Accordingly the Company proposes to raise approximately #8,500,000 by way of an institutional placing arranged by Canaccord of units consisting of one ordinary share and one half of a warrant, at a price per unit of #0.50 (CAN$1.14). Each warrant is exerciseable at a price of #0.75 (CAN$1.71) for a period of five years. The placing will be conditional upon completion of the Acquisition. A further announcement is expected to be made in due course, which will include the full details of the placing including the terms of the warrants. The warrants will not initially be admitted to trading on AiM but an application is expected to be made for such admission following preparation of an AiM admission document. The Voskhod Chrome Deposit The Voskhod chrome deposit is located near Khromtau, Aktubinsk Oblast, Republic of Kazakhstan. The deposit lies within the Kempirsayskiy Massif, together with up to 80 other deposits discovered since 1936. One of the world's largest chrome mines, Donskoy GOK, owned and operated by KazChrome, lies a few kilometres to the north of the deposit. The Voskhod deposit is at depths of 98 metres to 440 metres below surface and consists of one large lens with up to nine smaller footwall protrusions. The central section of the orebody is massive and high-grade and includes vertical thicknesses of 90 to 200 metres. Infrastructure in the region is well developed with a long history of mining centred on Khromtau and the deposit has road, rail and power links within a few kilometres. A recent independent report by a UK based international geological consultancy, SRK (UK) Limited, confirmed the present resources as being sufficiently robust to be placed into the Indicated JORC classification to give 18.7 million tonnes at 46.22% Cr2O3. This grade compares favourably with similar deposits in South Africa. Geoinvest commissioned pre-feasibility reports by Geoincentre (i.e. Geological Innovational Centre), a technical institute based in Almaty. Using Geoinvest's financial model, the pre-tax and royalty net present value ("NPV") estimate is US$122 million at a discount rate of 10% at US$80 per tonne of ore, with an internal rate of return ("IRR") in excess of 40%, based on pre- production capital expenditure of only US$30 million for an underground operation. A mine life of over 26 years at 700,000 tonnes per annum underground production was used in Geoinvest's financial model. This assessment assumed sales of high grade ore and concentrates in China with ore prices substantially below prevailing market levels. Oriel commissioned Mintek to assess the potential production of ferrochrome on site and estimate likely capital and operating costs. The selected process flowsheet assumes the production of 240,000 tonnes per annum of high carbon ferrochrome (HC FeCr) at 67% chrome from two 57MW AC furnaces. The required capital investment was estimated at US$266 million with annual operating costs of US$113 million. The cash cost of chrome produced was estimated at about US$0.17 per pound of chrome placing the operation in the lowest quartile of world producers in 2003. The pre-tax NPV at a 10% discount rate is US$395 million at a chrome price of US$0.60 per pound (currently in excess of US$0.70 per pound) giving a 27% IRR. Following completion of the acquisition Oriel intends to commence confirmatory ore beneficiation testwork and smelter trials as part of a pre-feasibility study estimated to be completed during the second quarter of 2005. The study will examine a number of project options ranging from the sale of ore concentrates to full ferrochrome production. The option to produce ferrochromium is expected also to include examination of production at Voskhod or alternatively at Oriel's existing Shevchenko site with the potential to benefit from the infrastructure proposed to be built for the nickel smelters. Enquiries to: Oriel Resources plc Dr Sergey V Kurzin, Chairman Tel: +44 (0)20 7514 0590 Dr Nic Barcza, Director of Technology Canaccord Capital (Europe) Limited Robert Finlay Tel: +44 (0)20 7518 2775 Robin Birchall Britton Financial PR Tim Blackstone Tel: +44 (0) 7957 140 416 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange END AGRSFASUUSISEDF
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