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AAZ Anglo Asian Mining Plc

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Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Anglo Asian Mining Plc LSE:AAZ London Ordinary Share GB00B0C18177 ORD 1P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  -3.10 -4.80% 61.50 60.00 63.00 64.50 61.50 64.50 31,358 16:02:17
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Miscellaneous Metal Ores,nec 84.72M 3.66M 0.0320 20.16 73.69M

Anglo Asian Mining PLC Annual General Meeting - responses to questions (2858R)

29/06/2020 7:00am

UK Regulatory


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RNS Number : 2858R

Anglo Asian Mining PLC

29 June 2020

Anglo Asian Mining plc / Ticker: AAZ / Index: AIM / Sector: Mining

29 June 2020

Anglo Asian Mining PLC

Annual General Meeting - responses to questions submitted to the Company

Prior to the meeting

Anglo Asian Mining PLC ("Anglo Asian" or the "Company"), the AIM listed gold, copper and silver producer focused on Azerbaijan, is pleased to provide responses to questions it has received from shareholders.

 
         QUESTION FROM SHAREHOLDER                                    COMPANY RESPONSE 
 How are you planning to grow                      There are three pillars to the 
  the Company and increase shareholders             Company's growth strategy: 
  value and increase annual production               *    Find and develop new deposits in its existing 
  over 100,000 gold equivalent                            concessions 
  ounces? 
 
                                                     *    Obtain and develop further concessions in Azerbaijan 
 
 
                                                     *    Pursue opportunities outside Azerbaijan 
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 What can the Company do about                It is not appropriate for the 
  market makers always having                  Company to talk to its market 
  a 10p spread on their buy and                makers about their pricing as 
  sell price?                                  they do not act for the Company 
                                               and have no obligations to the 
                                               Companies in which they trade. 
                                               However, the Company is currently 
                                               reviewing its options with regards 
                                               to how its shares are traded. 
                                             ----------------------------------------------------------------- 
 When are you going to give information       The Company is already starting 
  on the PSA renewal?                          the process of renewing its 
                                               PSA and it believes this will 
                                               be routine Please refer to the 
                                               letter from Reza Vaziri (CEO) 
                                               to shareholders dated 23 June 
                                               2020 which was released via 
                                               RNS. 
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 What initiatives have management             The Company does not comment 
  taken to address the undervalued             on its share price, although 
  share price?                                 the Board continue to develop 
                                               a strategy that has been outlined 
                                               in recent announcements in order 
                                               to maximise shareholder value. 
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 Is the Company considering issuing           No. Trading volumes are healthy 
  bonus shares or a share split                when compared to other AIM listed 
  to increase liquidity and its                companies. 
  share price? 
                                             ----------------------------------------------------------------- 
 We were told last year that                  Please refer to the letter from 
  the Company was in discussions               Reza Vaziri (CEO) to shareholders 
  with the Government of Azerbaijan            dated 23 June 2020 which was 
  which everybody assumed was                  released as an RNS. 
  either a takeover of the Company 
  or it acquiring its assets in 
  Azerbaijan. Are these discussions 
  still taking place and if so, 
  when are we going to hear about 
  what has been said? 
                                             ----------------------------------------------------------------- 
 If the exploration continues                 Exploration is anticipated to 
  to go well at Ordubad, approximately         take two to three years assuming 
  when would you anticipate construction       full access, followed by reserve 
  of a mine and subsequent first               estimation and mine construction 
  pour of gold? Is an annual production        which would take an addition 
  of 250,000 ounces feasible?                  one to two years. 
                                               For the principal gold assets 
                                               feasibility is a future component 
                                               of the project. Our current 
                                               exploration strategy is also 
                                               targeting the porphyry-style 
                                               copper, or copper-gold, mineralisation. 
                                               Deposits of this type typically 
                                               contain resources of 100 to 
                                               350 million tonnes at grades 
                                               of 0.30 to 0.55 per cent. copper. 
                                               Additionally, the Company has 
                                               identified a number of high-grade 
                                               gold occurrences (refer to the 
                                               Company's 2019 Ordubad exploration 
                                               reports) which if progressed 
                                               to a low cost production unit 
                                               may themselves possibly yield 
                                               gold in the range of 20,000 
                                               to 50,000 ounces per year. 
                                               However, until exploration and 
                                               feasibility studies are completed, 
                                               it is impossible to say what 
                                               level of production is capable 
                                               of being sustained and the timescales 
                                               for this. 
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 The five new exploration targets,            Assuming these discoveries are 
  when they come on stream from                viable, it is likely that gold 
  2022 - 2025 will increase the                production will increase. The 
  gold output of the company significantly.    scale of increase and timing 
  Could you give some approximate              of production is dependent on 
  indication of the scale of increase          exploration results. 100,000 
  that might be expected if all                ounces or more per year output 
  goes well and also the timing                is the next target and the Company 
  - for example when would you                 will continue to work on its 
  hope that output would reach                 development to attain the targets 
  or exceed 100 000 ounces / year?             as soon as possible. 
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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.

**S**

For further information please contact:

 
 Reza Vaziri        Anglo Asian Mining plc          Tel: +994 12 596 3350 
 Bill Morgan        Anglo Asian Mining plc          Tel: +994 502 910 400 
                   ------------------------------  ---------------------- 
 Stephen Westhead   Anglo Asian Mining plc          Tel: +994 502 916 894 
                   ------------------------------  ---------------------- 
 Ewan Leggat        SP Angel Corporate Finance      Tel: +44 (0) 20 3470 
                     LLP                             0470 
                     Nominated Adviser and Broker 
                   ------------------------------  ---------------------- 
 Soltan Tagiev      SP Angel Corporate Finance      Tel + 44 (0) 20 3470 
                     LLP                             0470 
                     Nominated Adviser and Broker 
                   ------------------------------  ---------------------- 
 Camilla Horsfall   Blytheweigh Financial           Tel: + 44(0) 20 7138 
                                                     3224 
                   ------------------------------  ---------------------- 
 Megan Ray          Blytheweigh Financial           Tel: + 44(0) 20 7138 
                                                     3224 
                   ------------------------------  ---------------------- 
 

Notes:

Anglo Asian Mining plc (AIM:AAZ) is a gold, copper and silver producer in Central Asia with a broad portfolio of production and exploration assets in Azerbaijan. The Company has a 1,962 square kilometre portfolio, assembled from analysis of historic Soviet geological data and held under a Production Sharing Agreement modelled on the Azeri oil industry.

The Company's main operating location is the Gedabek contract area ("Gedabek") which is a 300 square kilometre area in the Lesser Caucasus mountains in western Azerbaijan. The Company developed Azerbaijan's first operating gold/copper/silver mine at Gedabek which commenced gold production in May 2009. Mining at Gedabek was initially from its main open pit which is an open cast mine with a series of interconnected pits. The Company also operates the high grade Gadir underground mine which is co-located at the Gedabek site. In September 2017, production commenced at the Ugur open pit mine, a recently discovered gold ore deposit at Gedabek. The Company has a second underground mine, Gosha, which is 50 kilometres from Gedabek. Ore mined at Gosha is processed at Anglo Asian's Gedabek plant.

The Company produced 81,399 gold equivalent ounces ("GEOs") for the year ended 31 December 2019. Gedabek is a polymetallic ore deposit that has gold together with significant concentrations of copper in the main open pit mine, and an oxide gold-rich zone at Ugur. The Company therefore employs a series of flexible processing routes to optimise metal recoveries and efficiencies. The Company produces gold doré through agitation and heap leaching operations, copper concentrate from its Sulphidisation, Acidification, Recycling, and Thickening (SART) plant and also a copper and precious metal concentrate from its flotation plant.

The Company has a production target for the year to 31 December 2020 of 65,000 ounces to 67,000 ounces of gold and 2,200 tonnes to 2,400 tonnes of copper. This total production target expressed as gold equivalent ounces ("GEOs") at budgeted metal prices is between 75,000 GEOs and 80,000 GEOS.

Anglo Asian is also actively seeking to exploit its first mover advantage in Azerbaijan to identify additional projects, as well as looking for other properties elsewhere in order to fulfil its expansion ambitions and become a mid-tier gold and copper metal production company.

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com.

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