Today's RNS27 Mar 2025 07:50
Today's 13m shares issued for expansion of the mining rights and environmental permits comes from the remaining 54m allocated but unissued AUO shares Ć t 3.75p. I personally thought those 54m shares had already been used up with money issued to Marula but appears not. So there is still approx 41m 3.75p shares remaining. (Ā£1.5m) Hopefully we don't need them, and hopefully we can keep the share count as low as possible...
From JB on the Marula telegram this AM
Jason Brewer:
Yes and this environemntal authorisation has come far far quicker than anticipated and we are required to deposit funds with DMRE to secure the Mining Right for a 10 year operation at Blesberg and one that includes the higher value mienrals that have been identified. 100% of that money goes straight to the DMRE rehabilitation accoutn with ABSA.
This unlocks: mining can extend beyond the 5ha mining permit to over the full 1,000ha mining right, appointment of mining contractor for the 10 year mining plan, JV with Chinese, additional higher value mineral resources, and importantly finalsiation and release of the JORC and CPR
The previous allocated but unissued shares that was referred to in an earlier RNS are utilised
Jason Brewer:
Correct - only 100M limit on the 3.75M of funding - we have not issued all of these. And to be frank we are only using this now as we had to for the ZAR12M rehabilitation provision.
As advised we will not be looking to utilise for furter activities given the copper and manganese sales revenues