Eurasia Mining boosts Russian footprint with new joint venture8 Apr 2021 09:26
Eurasia Mining has established itself as a considerable force in Russian PGMs
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Eurasia Mining PLC (LON:EUA) signed a legally binding agreement to create a new joint venture with Russian state-owned company Rosgeo.
The deal expands Eurasia's portfolio of mining assets on the Kola Peninsula and allows the company to gain a 75% equity stake in nine new mining assets. The remaining 25% will continue to be held by Rosgeo.
Eurasia paid an initial consideration of approximately US$500,000 in cash for its share in the joint venture.
In addition, incremental consideration will become payable under an earn-out structure if Eurasia decides to proceed to develop the assets.
The total of the initial consideration and the earnout is capped at 75% of the value set under relevant Russian law if the assets had initially been auctioned by the Russian state instead of being acquired by Rosgeo.
The decision to proceed is at Eurasia's discretion.
The new assets have a total of 104.6mln ounces of platinum-equivalent resources as at the end of 2020, comprised of four palladium, platinum, copper, nickel and cobalt open pit deposits.
Each of the four open pit deposits, which are located directly adjacent to Monchetundra, have already been studied by Eurasia with block modelling and open pits' optimisations performed by the company.
A further five mostly open pit palladium, platinum, copper, nickel and cobalt assets are also included in the joint venture.
In total Eurasia has already invested some US$8.3mln across the additional assets.