RE: This tells the banks we won't be selling cheap28 Oct 2019 09:27
16 September 2019
Eurasia Mining plc (AIM: EUA)
("Eurasia" or the "Company")
Senior management team appointment
Eurasia Mining PLC, the palladium, platinum, rhodium, iridium and gold producing company, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Mr. Alexei Churakov as a Strategic Advisor to the board of the Company (the "Board"). Mr. Churakov is a former Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley senior investment banker specialized in the mining sector. He has been involved in multiple mining cross-border M&A transactions operating from Moscow, London and New York. Alexei brings his extensive experience in mining M&A to the Company, as well as his top level contacts with major international and Russian mining and trading companies operating in the platinum group metals, gold and base metals sectors including Lesego Platinum, Boliden Group, Gold Fields, Glencore International, Sumitomo Corporation, Norilsk Nickel, Polyus Gold, Polymetal International, Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, Russian Platinum and many others.
Highlights:
In his capacity as an adviser:
· Mr. Churakov has assisted in negotiations with Sinosteel helping structure the EPCF contract to include a $50m subcontract through which Sinosteel provides CJSC Terskaya Mining Company (TGK), a Eurasia's subsidiary developing the Monchetundra project, with the start-up financing. The first payments comprising $26.5m from the $50m subcontract will allow Eurasia to finance its obligations under the EPCF contract with Sinosteel without shareholder dilution and make the Monchetundra project self-financed.
· Mr. Churakov has assisted in developing the West Kytlim phased production increase strategy involving both Eurasia's own team and its contractors. Under his guidance, the team has designed a new and extensive project development programme, with the specific objectives of reaching stable and sustainable growth as measured by mine output alongside reserve and resource upgrade programmes at the West Kytlim Mine. Eurasia has, today, also acquired its own enrichment plant from West Kytlim's operating free cash flow and will continue producing hereafter on an owner operator basis with 100% of mine revenue payable to the Eurasia.
· Mr. Churakov has recently helped arrange detailed due diligence and multi-day visits to both Monchetundra mine and Eurasia's office in Ekaterinburg to study the West Kytlim project by James Nieuwenhuys, CEO and Director of Lesego Platinum, a South African PGM company developing a c 50M ounce project in the Eastern limb of the Bushveld Complex, as part of Lesego Platinum's due diligence of both the Monchetundra and West Kytlim projects. Further details of which are set out below.