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Power Metal Resources PLC
01 December 2020
01 December 2020
Power Metal Resources PLC
("Power Metal" or the "Company")
Company Q&A
Power Metal Resources PLC (LON:POW) the AIM listed metals exploration and development company is pleased to provide the questions and answers to a number of investor queries received recently by the Company. Where possible the question below is that presented to us, however where multiple questions involve similar themes, we have consolidated into a single question to avoid duplication.
Power Metal also notes that investors wishing to understand the current position of the Company may refer to the recently uploaded Investor Presentation which is available on the Company's website and may be viewed through the following link:
https://www.powermetalresources.com/p/193/presentations
COMPANY Q & A
Power Metal Resources has received numerous investor queries recently and we are pleased with the increasing interest shown in our activities. Where possible questions have been grouped into categories as outlined below.
Project Operations - Exploration and Corporate Activities
QUESTION RESPONSE Botswana - Molopo Farms Complex The hole was angled at 60 degrees and was over 500m in length and passed Regarding drill #1 - why between harder and softer rock as it was the drill stopped descended. when the anomaly identified The possibility of some deviation as via geophysics indicated we drilled makes it possible that we an anomaly stronger with have missed by a few metres a steeply depth? dipping target identified by geophysics. The mudstones encountered could be generating a conductive anomaly but are likely to cover a greater areal extent as they are a known horizon in the Molopo Farms Complex of rocks, so this would be inconsistent with the areally restricted conductive anomaly identified from our geophysical work. One possibility is that the geophysics took a gently dipping anomaly and a steeply dipping anomaly, the latter being our target, and modelled the two as being one. It was more logical given the above to stop the hole at the target depth and move on to drill the next hole while analysing the core and doing down-hole geophysics. If we had carried on drilling, we could have possibly drilled right past our target. With the downhole geophysics we can look around and below the hole for 300m in each direction and so get a more accurate 3-D geophysical model and interpret the dip and orientation of the strata encountered in the drill core. Unless results do not justify it, we will return to the hole and if necessary, deviate from it or drill deeper to test the assumed target. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Botswana - Molopo Farms Complex Each ultramafic complex has its own Is the geological model characteristics depending on the conditions for the Molopo Farm Complex that produced it. We are drilling a looking for geology similar satellite ultramafic intrusive which to the Bushveld Igneous is part of, and of similar age to, Complex, the Great Dyke the Large Bushveld Igneous Province, in Zimbabwe or some other as described on this page of the KKME large ultramafic complexes? website: https://www.kalaharikey.co.uk/mopo-farms-project/geology-of-the-molopo-farms-comp lex/ . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australia - Victoria Goldfields What is the status of the Australia gold JV We have various work streams underway and will shareholders in respect of the Australia gold joint receive a distribution venture and it is a very proactive from Power Metal if the period for this important part of the Australian Joint Venture Power Metal business. Company is listed on a North American stock exchange? Our immediate focus is the advancement of the technical project information and exploration planning in preparation for the launch of efficient and targeted ground exploration which can only commence on the grant of licence applications. In parallel we continue to work on the potential listing of some or all of the interests on a North American stock exchange as announced to shareholders. In all discussions our focus is rapid advancement of exploration and significant commitment by any potential partners to ground exploration where we believe considerable value can be added through proactive implementation of exploration programmes. The potential listing could generate an asset of considerable value given the strategic nature of the ground under application in Victoria. That valuation would increase, perhaps significantly, with the grant of licences and the ability to launch ground exploration to validate our geological propositions. There is clear evidence of significant gold mineralisation across the licence application footprint. The question of whether we would specifically seek to distribute any listed activity gains from the Australia JV, or indeed from any other corporate transaction undertaken by Power Metal or its partners, is a little early to definitively answer at this stage. It is fair to say that we are attracted to the distribution model, which allows shareholders to see a return from their investment in Power Metal in addition to the appreciation in Power Metal share value that commercialisation of our interests could provide. There are many elements to consider in this including what is best to advance the projects, the approach of any partners to transactional structuring, positioning Power Metal to enable distributions and considering the taxation elements to seek distribution efficiency from a tax planning perspective. There are many work streams to complete if Power Metal were to consider distributions, but they can be run concurrently, and they could include seeking the approval of shareholders at a General Meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australia - Victoria Goldfields How does Power Metal value its interests in the Australian This is a complicated exercise as valuation
Joint Venture Company depends on many factors including inherent and particularly its licences? geological and commercial potential, market conditions, granted or application status, historic and future spend and perhaps significantly the strategic significance of the JV interests. We are developing valuation metrics, however for a real sense of valuation in the current market we can only look at recent transactions for similar interests and gain a feel for what might be achievable. As stated previously a major factor for us is the commitment to significant ground exploration and financial investment to support that exploration work. We believe that proactive exploration stands a very good chance of identifying gold mineralisation and that will be a major uplift to any project valuation. As you can see we are working with so many variables, but we know that having identified and built such an important and strategic land package in Victoria, we now have a duty to manage this professionally and seek the highest returns reasonably achievable from this unique opportunity. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australia - Victoria Goldfields Will Power Metal be seeking an income stream from The main objective is the pursuit of any commercial transactions exploration and corporate transactions in respect of the Australian that will maximise the capital return interests? from the opportunity. Income wise, we will likely focus on royalty income streams from interests as and when we involve third parties in a project or projects. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australia - Victoria Goldfields There is a lot of interest being shown in Victoria It is increasingly clear that the Victoria gold projects including Goldfields is a particularly attractive ECR Minerals plc one of destination for gold exploration. your neighbours. Is this something you are also The strategic nature of our Australia experiencing for the gold gold JV, with the size of land package JV in Victoria? assembled and the extent of prospectivity that's evident from our published technical work, means that there will be interest and we have stated this previously. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australia - Victoria Goldfields Are there plans to re-process This is not something we have looked mine dumps in the Victoria at so far, but as licenses are granted, Gold Fields in Australia we will investigate the evidence at once appropriate licences surface where there has been previous are granted? mining activity, which may include small gold-bearing dumps or tailings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USA - Alamo Gold Project Do you expect to be able As announced by the Company via RNS to mine nuggets of gold on 20 November 2020, the plan is to from near the surface undertake mini-bulk sampling alongside at the Alamo gold project other exploration techniques in December in Arizona? 2020. That should tell us more about project mineralisation including the prospectivity for gold nuggets near surface. We are also looking at the potential for other mineralisation and the potential bedrock source of the gold mineralisation that, as we have clearly established to date, exists near-surface. The latter was also demonstrated during our January 2020 due diligence field trip where we identified gold nuggets during the digging and metal detecting of shallow pits at the project. This is early stage exploration and the prospect of mining, although ultimately our principal objective, is something we must build towards with exploration. If successful, that exploration will confirm gold mineralisation of a magnitude to support permit applications and associated studies that would be the precursor steps to the launch of mining operations. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tanzania - Haneti Project You have announced that Power Metal has a communications approach mobilisation is underway that articulates through regulatory but when will drilling news announcements the status and progress actually commence at the on all of our material project interests. first drill location? This includes Haneti which is a very material opportunity for the Company. Power Metal, with our partners Katoro Gold plc have announced pre-mobilisation, mobilisation of drilling and intend to announce an update on full drill commencement as appropriate, including if possible images on our website photo gallery showing the drill in action at the drill location. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tanzania - Haneti Project Why has Haneti not been On a general level the junior resource drilled before if it is sector has been experiencing challenging such an important strategic conditions for some time and in many opportunity? cases, there has not been the financial capital around to pursue project acquisitions or impactful exploration activities. Many great discoveries have, in our view, been made in scenarios where projects have not been able to attract sufficient project capital to enable progression of exploration. Haneti is however a project that has received exploration capital over many years and has built to a position where the next stage is drilling. Importantly Haneti now has two public companies working together to operate and finance drilling. Given the level of interest shown in the project, and in nickel sulphide exploration opportunities generally, it makes commercial sense all round to crack on with drill programmes which is what is happening at Haneti. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canada - Silver Peak When do you expect to As with all our projects we push for receive assay results the receipt of assay data as soon as
from the work undertaken possible. With the Covid-19 restrictions recently? around the world in 2020 the Company has not been in a position to accurately confirm timescales around the receipt of assay data from third parties. As soon as assay results are received and interpreted by the Company, an announcement will be made to shareholders. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canada - Silver Peak Given we are now in winter We generated highly positive exploration season, how do you expect findings from the summer due diligence to take Silver Peak project sampling work including bonanza grade forward? silver and significant copper and lead. We await the assays from limited follow up drilling and sampling we were able to undertake in the short programme that we recently announced was curtailed by poor weather conditions. Using the above and the historic exploration data available to us, we will, with our partners, determine the next exploration and corporate steps for the Silver Peak project. We believe the Silver Peak project has great potential and now must identify the appropriate pathways for its development. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canada - Silver Peak Were you disappointed Absolutely. Power Metal is keen to with the weather disruption push each project as hard as possible at Silver Peak and what and we put a lot of work into drill can you do to get the programme design and implementation. project back on track? The weather hit us twice with storms damaging access and meaning our original programme with a larger rig could not go ahead. Then the snow brought our man-portable rig operation to an abrupt and early conclusion. We believe shareholders prefer a proactive approach to exploration and clearly, we pushed hard to get the Silver Peak drilling done whilst ensuring safety of operations at the site in the more challenging conditions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DRC - Kisinka Is it possible to extract We have operations around the globe value from the Kisinka in different jurisdictions and the project in the DRC and DRC is one country that we believe are you not concerned investors perhaps do not fully understand that money invested may or appreciate. We think that will change. be locked in? The Company's experience to date has been very positive however and suggests to us that there is real value to be created in the DRC, not least because of the immense metal prospectivity across the country. Power Metal is pursuing a potential new copper-cobalt district at Kisinka which is situated near to Lubumbashi in the south-east of the country. The quality of technical reports that we receive from operations at Kisinka is extremely good demonstrating the professionalism of our partners. Also, based on our experience the ability to secure licences and permits for operations is in many respects more straightforward than many jurisdictions where the process is more complex and takes longer. Added to all this there are many international companies that are operating producing mines in the DRC including Ivanhoe's Kamoa-Kakula under development now and which is expected to become one of the largest global producing mines. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DRC - Kisinka When do you expect to The high-grade copper and cobalt from complete the geophysics assays recently announced means that and start drilling? Kisinka is a key project interest and we are looking to commence follow on exploration as soon as possible. As announced 20 November 2020 the Company is working on setting up a ground magnetic survey and a ground electromagnetic survey, to detect both low magnetic and chargeable lithologies and indicate structures and faulting and areas of carbonate rocks, in order to generate precise drill targets with our in-country partners. The Company will make a further announcements to the market as appropriate in respect of the proposed programme at Kisinka. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Botswana - Kavango Resources JV As announced in the Company's 'Project When will we hear more Portfolio Update' on 5 October 2020 about the exploration the Company is awaiting the results work from the Kalahari of a soil sampling programme. An update Copper Belt? on that programme, its findings and the next steps will be released to the market once results have been received and interpreted. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Botswana - Kavango Resources JV Plans remain on track and we have been Have you refined your putting in place the steps to achieve plans for a listing of our listing objective. the JV on a Canadian or We will provide an update on this to UK stock exchange? the market as appropriate. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General - Project Valuations Do you have anything you We have a portfolio of early stage could provide to investors project interests, albeit some are with valuation indications in a more advanced stage with drill on the projects, such programmes running. It is more difficult as project NPVs? to ascribe valuations to earlier stage projects. A similar situation exists on discovery, where the full extent of a project's valuation will only be developed as projects are progressed and more is understood about the scale and type of mineralisation. To a certain extent the involvement of third parties on project earn-in or joint ventures can assist with an assessment of likely value also. In addition, project spinouts especially involving compensation in marketable assets such as listed equity will also help the developing value assessment.
As soon as we can start to attribute specific values to project interests and investments we will seek to do so. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General - New Opportunities Are you still looking The Company actively assesses any new for new opportunities opportunities it is presented with and are you limited in although it has to be said we have the regions you would already noted a rise in vendor expectations operate in and the commodities regarding project valuations. you would explore for? We are of the belief that we would not have been able to assemble our current portfolio of projects on the same terms today given the stronger natural resources environment. We were given a tremendous opportunity by the difficult market conditions of 2019/2020 and now shareholders have the advantage of a portfolio constructed in challenging markets, as those same markets move into what we believe will be a stronger phase. We want to develop the Company around clear themes, demonstrating consistency and clear strategic rationale. Therefore, we think it's wise to follow the overall business structure of precious metals in North America and Australia and base metals in Africa. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Business Management
QUESTION RESPONSE How is the Company able Whilst the management of a number of to manage 9 projects and projects is a challenge, the Company commit adequate management ensures that it is adequate staff and time to each? management time available for each project as appropriate. The Company is also enhancing management oversight to ensure regular engagement of London plc with the project management and operational teams running each of our interests. We also have support with back office including financial accounting and compliance through an external provider. In addition, we have assistance to manage and coordinate our extensive external communications. We will bring in further bespoke managerial resources as our business expands and our working capital grows. ----------------------------------------------- Should Power Metal spin It depends on the nature and type of out interests will there transaction undertaken. Where needed be a continuing involvement we will of course apply our management in management and if so time and other resources to assist. how will that be possible given the management requirements However, our focus is on ensuring any of the core business? spin outs or similar are into wrappers or deal structures that come with experienced management able to deal holistically with the commercial challenges without relying too heavily on Power Metal central resources. ----------------------------------------------- What measures do you have This is absolutely vital especially in place to ensure your as our business expands its active management and operations operations in the field. We already team have due regard for have a keen focus on health and safety, environmental protection environmental and community protection and the protection of and that will continue. local communities? We seek to follow best practice across the above areas and generally from a corporate governance perspective reflective of the resources available to a smaller company. To add further weight to this we are currently reviewing a number of trade associations from whom we can secure further support on best practice. We expect to join trade associations in the near term to further demonstrate our desire to remain proactive in this area. By way of example our Australian JV has just employed a community relations and environment officer as its second employee showing the high priority we give to these matters. -----------------------------------------------
Financing Strategy
QUESTION RESPONSE You have disclosed your The answer revolves around more than working capital position just the absolute amount of working and appear confident you capital we hold and also includes how are in a strong financial we spend our money, the level of fixed position, however how financial commitments and our access reasonable is this given to additional working capital sources. the large spread of projects The latter point we deal with in the and work being undertaken next question so for now we will focus on them? on the matters of spending and financial commitments. We are quite keen on the control of spending and have our main areas of spend under control. Much of a junior resource company spend falls into central overhead and exploration spend. When corporately acquisitive, then acquisition costs can also be material. For central overheads the direct costs in relation to the exchange listing and advisors surrounding that are largely fixed and need to be budgeted for. We pay our central costs promptly and carry almost no trade creditors for any material periods. We have no material debt. Much central cost in junior resource companies relates to director salaries and expenses. At Power Metal, we believe against our peers in the sector we are modestly paid and have very little outlay for director personal expenses. The aim for us (as holders beneficially interested in approximately 14% of the Company's issued share capital) is to see money invested in the ground to make exploration and commercial progress including major metal discoveries. If we do that our shareholdings may rise considerably in value and the financial returns from that would be way more beneficial to directors than excessive board salaries in the early stages of the Company's development. Turning to exploration spending, for the vast majority of our project spend,
our exploration outgoings are flexible and generally entirely at our volition. This means we can spend if we wish to, but curtail exploration spend across our business if we wish to, for whatever reason. That spend control is important. Equally for new acquisitions we have always been controlled and not overly exposed ourselves with heavy acquisition terms. We have used cash as part of acquisition terms but only modestly as cash is king in our sector. Generally, where possible we have also used our shares for new acquisition vendor payments. So far that model has worked well to preserve cash and acquire opportunities on reasonable terms (with shared upside for vendors who hold interests in Power Metal stock and benefit as the shares increase in value). ------------------------------------------------ Where do you feel most It's difficult to be precise on future additional working capital working capital sources but we do have will be generated; from some degree of expectation subject financings, warrant exercises of course to market conditions and or asset disposals? buoyancy in the junior resource sector. Power Metal could undertake financings and the Board are confident that money could be raised as required. This has been amply demonstrated by the GBP2.7m raised in financings since February 2019 and, save for the initial restructuring in February 2019, Power Metal financings in December 2019 and July 2020 were conducted at the then market price. Discounted financings are not what Power Metal seeks to undertake as that we consider that potentially damaging for shareholder value and confidence in general. Ideally, we are seeking to build our working capital to become financially self-sustaining. This would mean that we would not need to undertake financings unless we chose to do so on strong terms or to value-adding institutional investors. Warrant exercises have provided a considerable amount of additional working capital. The amount raised through warrant exercises since August 2020 has enabled the company to be aggressive with its exploration and corporate plans. In essence each warrant exercise provides us with funds to accelerate our operational activities. Alongside the above we have a strategic investment portfolio that is growing in value and should that continue, it would provide a source of further working capital should this be needed for operations. The area where we feel considerable working capital could be generated is from spinouts or other similar commercial transactions where we exchange some of our direct ownership of an interest for mainly cash or shares in other entities. If those entities are liquid listed vehicles, then the effect is to have an asset easily translatable into cash when and if needed to fund our own operations. ------------------------------------------------ Can you explain the warrant Power Metal receives an exercise form exercise process, its from a warrant holder and checks the impact on shareholder validity of this to an underlying warrant dilution and whether there register. If acceptable this exercise are any restrictions on is reconciled to a receipt of cash the warrants? into the Company's bank account. For all valid exercises we secure board approval to issue equity, prepare a market announcement and an AIM admission form for the new equity to be admitted to trading on AIM. The end result is a market announcement confirming the warrant exercises and cash received. The new shares are generated by the registrar and admitted to trading on AIM thereafter. The warrant exercises increase the issued share capital with such information provided in the requisite market announcement at the time and the increased amount of shares is updated to the Company's website AIM Rule 26 page on the Investors' section of the site accordingly. ------------------------------------------------ Can you provide further Details of all warrants issued by the information on all outstanding Company can be found in regulatory warrants and options to announcements released by the Company give a better understanding and within the Company's Financial of potential dilution? Report and Accounts. Additionally, the Company will be adding to its new website in due course a full schedule of all financial instruments including all warrants and options held generally by investors and also those held by the board of directors. This schedule will include all final exercise dates and any special terms including accelerators whereby the company can elect to expedite the use of warrants by holders and if not used, cancel the remainder warrants although, as noted above, all such information can be found within the relevant announcements made by the Company. ------------------------------------------------ What amount of revenue Power Metal is generally seeking capital do you expect to generate returns where an increase in the value from your projects and of projects is secured through exploration how will that revenue or corporate structuring. be derived? In some cases that value may be crystallised through a disposal of some or all of a project interest for cash or shares in an acquiring company. In respect of any disposals we are also keen on longer term consideration that could be described as "revenue" including royalties from interests disposed where Power Metal would receive payments should an interest enter production. Royalties can be a highly valuable source of income or revenue over the longer term so potentially could become
a valuable part of our business asset base. In addition, royalty income streams can be sold for material cash sums, providing optionality to Power Metal on how value should be crystallised. ------------------------------------------------ When do you anticipate There are of course institutions of institutional investors all shapes and sizes, with varying will be interested in business rationales and many are not Power Metal? suitable partners for our company. We are open to reputable and recognised institutional investment but are also comfortable without it. Well regarded institutional finance can increase investor confidence in Power Metal, however we are well funded presently and are entirely comfortable with our access to future working capital as outlined in some detail above. ------------------------------------------------
Marketing and Communications
QUESTION RESPONSE Can you produce company The Company intends to undertake this level and project specific exercise once the website update has factsheets to help investors been completed. understand the business and its constituent elements? ---------------------------------------- Will you be having updated Yes, we expect our brokers will provide analyst reports prepared updated research to the market as they for Power Metal? deem appropriate. ----------------------------------------
For further information please visit https://www.powermetalresources.com/ or contact:
Power Metal Resources plc Paul Johnson (Chief Executive Officer) +44 (0) 7766 465 617 SP Angel Corporate Finance (Nomad and Joint Broker) Ewan Leggat/Charlie Bouverat +44 (0) 20 3470 0470 SI Capital Limited (Joint Broker) Nick Emerson +44 (0) 1483 413 500 First Equity Limited (Joint Broker) David Cockbill/Jason Robertson +44 (0) 20 7330 1883
Notes to Editors:
Power Metal Resources plc (LON:POW) is an AIM listed metals exploration and development company seeking a large scale metal discovery.
The Company has a global portfolio of project interests including precious metal exploration in North America and Australia together with base metal exploration in Africa. Project interests range from early stage greenfield exploration to later stage prospects currently subject to drill programmes.
The Board and its team of advisors have expertise in project generation, exploration and development and have identified an opportunity to utilise the Company's position to become a leader in the London market for investors wishing to gain exposure to proactive global metals exploration.
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