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Directorate Change

12 Jan 2018 07:00

RNS Number : 6786B
Ferrum Crescent Ltd
12 January 2018
 

12th January 2018

 

Ferrum Crescent Limited

("FCR", the "Company" or the "Group")(ASX, AIM, JSE: FCR)

 

Directorate Changes - Appointment of Chairman

FCR, the European lead-zinc explorer, is pleased to announce that Mr Colin Bird has been appointed to the Board of the Company, as a Non-Executive Director and Chairman, with immediate effect. Mr Grant Button, interim Non-Executive Chairman, will resume his former role as Non-Executive Director.

 

The appointment of Mr Bird continues the process of strengthening the FCR Board as the Company progresses its wholly owned Toral lead-zinc and associated metals project in the Province of Léon, Spain. As Non-Executive Chairman and a supportive shareholder of FCR,Mr Bird brings a wealth of experience of successfully developing natural resource companies through value realisation from both transactions and production. The Board welcomes his valuable input and guidance as it seeks to cost effectively advance its European asset portfolio.

 

The Company remains on schedule to publish a maiden independent JORC (2012) resource estimate for Toral by the end of January 2018.

 

Mr Bird is a chartered mining engineer with extensive multi-commodity mine management experience in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Mr Bird's operational and corporate experience, includes the development of the Jubilee Metals Group production portfolio, concentrating on Platinum Group Metals in South Africa, in addition to the successful sale of Kiwara plc. Kiwara plc was sold to First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) for US$260 million in November 2009, whilst its project was undertaking infill drilling at the Kalumbila copper-nickel deposit in north-western Zambia.

 

The following additional information is provided in accordance with paragraph (g) of Schedule Two of the AIM Rules for Companies in relation to the appointment of Mr Bird:

 

Colin Bird (aged 74)

 

Current Directorships / Partnerships

Past Directorships / Partnerships (last 5 years)

African Pioneer Plc

1 Tara Bar and Restaurant CC

Bird Leisure and Admin (Pty) Ltd

Add X Trading 810 CC

Braemore Resources Ltd

Afminco (Pty) Ltd

Dullstroom Plats (Pty) Ltd

Dialyn Café CC

Galagen (Pty) Ltd

Emanual Mining and Exploration (Pty) Ltd

Galileo Resources Plc

Isigidi Trading 413 CC

Galileo Resources South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Jubilee Smelting & Refining (Pty) Ltd

Glenover Phosphate (Pty) Ltd

Mokopane Mining & Exploration (Pty) Ltd

Holyrood Platinum (Pty) Ltd

NDN Properties CC

Jubilee Metals Group Plc

Orogen Gold Plc

Jubilee Tailings Treatment Company (Pty) Ltd

Pilanesberg Mining Co (Pty) Ltd

Lion Mining Finance Ltd

Pioneer Coal (Pty) Ltd

M.I.T. Ventures Group

PowerAlt (Pty) Ltd

Maude Mining & Exploration (Pty) Ltd

SacOil Holdings Ltd

New Age Metals Inc

Sovereign Energy Plc

NewPlats (Tjate) (Pty) Ltd

Revelo Resources Corp

Tiger Resource Finance Plc

Tjate Platinum Corporation (Pty) Ltd

Umhlanga Lighthouse Café CC

Windsor Platinum Investments (Pty) Ltd

Xtract Resources Plc

 

Mr Bird holds an interest in 50,000,000 ordinary shares in the Company, representing approximately 1.64 per cent of the existing issued ordinary shares.

There is no other information that is required to be disclosed pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule Two to the AIM Rules for Companies.

 

Commenting today, Mr Laurence Read, Executive Director, said:

 

"The appointment of Colin to the FCR Board brings a wealth of operational and transactional experience to the Company as we look to progress our 100% owned Toral lead-zinc and associated metals project in Spain. Our objective is to realise shareholder value from targeted exploration activities on our promising portfolio assets and we look forward to Colin's assistance and guidance in this regard. We look forward to announcing a maiden JORC (2012) resource estimate for Toral in the near term."

Colin Bird, Chairman, went onto say;

"I am pleased to be joining Ferrum Crescent which is a highly focused company with a developing European lead zinc portfolio. The management team has a highly motivated approach to the Spanish lead Zinc Toral project, which is a project with strong underlying fundamentals and numerous upside potential. Additionally I perceive a European renaissance in base metal mining and the team is well equipped to search out, acquire and develop European base metal opportunities."

 

For further information on the Company, please visit www.fcrexploration.com or www.ferrumcrescent.com  or contact:

 

Ferrum Crescent Limited

Grant Button, Non-Executive Director (Australia)

T: +61 8 9474 2995

 

Laurence Read, Executive Director (UK)

T: + 44 (0)20 3289 9923

 

Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated Adviser)

Rory Murphy / Matthew Chandler

T: +44 (0)20 7409 3494

 

Peterhouse Corporate Finance Limited (Broker)

Lucy Williams / Duncan Vasey / Heena Karani

T: +44 (0)20 7469 0930

 

Beaufort Securities Limited (Broker)

Elliot Hance

T: +44 (0)20 7382 8300

 

Bravura Capital (Pty) Ltd (JSE Sponsor)

Melanie De NysschenT (direct): +27 11 459 5052

 

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 ('MAR').

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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