RE: 1.5 million ounces5 Aug 2019 09:21
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5 August 2019
KEFI Minerals plc
("KEFI" or the "Company")
Convertible Loan Facility and Operational Update
KEFI Minerals (AIM: KEFI), the gold exploration and development company with projects in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is pleased to announce a restructuring of its working capital convertible loan facility (the "Loan Facility"), as announced on 28 November 2018, together with entering into a new working capital loan facility (the "New Loan Facility") in order to provide greater flexibility to the Company by removing the existing security charges over assets and extending the loan maturity dates.
The primary changes to the Loan Facility and details of the New Loan Facility are as follows:
· £900,000 has been drawn to date from the existing £4 million Loan Facility, of which £450,000 has been repaid, leaving £3.1 million available to be drawn down. This remaining £3.1 million has been replaced in part by a new £1.5 million facility, the New Loan Facility;
· The Loan Facility has been provided by a long-standing shareholder who holds under 3% of the Company;
· The New Loan Facility can be drawn at the Company's discretion at a rate of £500,000 per month in £250,000 tranches and, if drawn, it is repayable in cash within two years;
· Once any amount drawn under the New Loan Facility is repaid, the Company will be able to draw from the remaining £1.6 million of the Loan Facility, if required; and
· The Loan Facility no longer has any security attached and is now provided on an unsecured basis. The New Loan Facility has been provided on an unsecured basis. This co-ordinated action has released all of KEFI's security encumbrances, other than minor cash security deposits, to allow maximum flexibility for structuring the financing of the Company's Tulu Kapi Gold Project (the "Project"), which potentially could include a larger initial Project equity investment by Ethiopian private sector investor, ANS Mining Share Company, the details of which will be concluded in due course.
· The cost of these changes in security and related arrangements include £207,500 to be paid by the issuance of 8,500,000 new KEFI ordinary shares of 0.1p each ("Ordinary Shares") at 2 pence per share together with a cash consideration of £37,500. Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the 8,500,000 New Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM, with admission ("Admission") expected to occur on 8 August 2019.
Operational Update
· Ethiopia - Tulu Kapi Gold Project development:
Significant progress on the ground continues at the Company's Tulu Kapi Gold Project in Ethiopia.
The Government administration has been expanded at local level to support Tulu Kapi and high-level committees have been formed to expedite the development of the sector, with the Project as first-mover. Government work programmes continue in the Tulu Kapi district for th