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Financing Update

23 Apr 2013 07:00

RNS Number : 9537C
Frontier Mining Ltd
23 April 2013
 



FRONTIER MINING LTD

("Frontier" or "the Company")

 

Financing Update

 

Frontier Mining Ltd (AIM:FML), the independent copper producer operating in Kazakhstan, is pleased to announce that further to Sberbank Kazakhstan approving a loan to finance production expansion at Benkala SX-EW plant, the Company has now received credit committee approval from Sberbank head office in Moscow. The signed agreement provides KazCopper LLP (Frontier's wholly owned subsidiary) with a loan and credit facility to the value of US$17.9 million.

 

The new facility is for five years and comprises two components; a US$6 million increase in the Capital Investment Loan at in interest rate of 9% and a US$11.9 million increase in the Working Capital Credit Facility at an interest rate of 8.5%. All conditions of the existing loan arrangements remain unchanged.

 

Sberbank has provided Frontier with loan facilities since 2011. The additional loan brings the total amount of existing Sberbank facilities to US$52.9 million.

 

 

For further details please contact:

 

Frontier Mining Ltd

 

George Cole

 

+44 (0) 20 7898 9019

 

Libertas Capital (NOMAD)

 

Sandy Jamieson

 

+44 (0) 20 7569 9650

 

RFC Ambrian (Broker)

Caspar Shand-Kydd

Richard Morrison

 

+44 (0) 20 3440 6800

Walbrook PR

Walbrook IR

Lianne Cawthorne (Media Enquiries)

Paul Cornelius (Investor Enquiries)

+44 (0) 20 7933 8780

 

 

 

 

Notes to Editor

Frontier Mining Limited is a copper company with production, development and exploration operations in Kazakhstan.

 

The Company's main activity is at Benkala, an open pit copper mine and SX-EW production facility, located on the Urals copper gold ore belt in North West Kazakhstan. Frontier has a 100% interest in Benkala through its subsidiary KazCopper LLP.

Frontier is undertaking exploration activities at Baitemir, a potential copper gold porphyry deposit with associated gold and molybdenum, situated on the Naimanjal exploration licence area in North East Kazakhstan. The Company has a 100% interest in Baitemir through its wholly owned subsidiary FML Kazakhstan.

 

Frontier maintains an administrative and technical office in Almaty, the former capital city of Kazakhstan and the main business centre in the South East. The Company also maintains offices in Aktyubinsk and Semipalatinsk, close to the Benkala and Baitemir operations respectively.

 

Benkala

A Competent Persons Report completed by Wardell Armstrong International ("WAI") in June 2010, estimated a NPV of $190 million for the oxide section of the Benkala project. This section represents development limited to only ~10% of the total resource at Benkala, based on 0.5% diluted copper grade, 63% recovery and 185,000 tonnes of contained metal, pricing copper at 6,000 USD per tonne WAI updated their Joint Ore Reserves Committee resource estimate in February 2011, significantly increasing the measured and indicated resource for both oxide and sulphide ores. The oxide resource has increased by a total of 9.72kt to 174.38kt (+5.9%) and the sulphide resource by 65.54kt to 779.28kt (+9.2%) of copper. Further to the overall increase, both ore types have significantly more resource in the measured category in addition to an increase in the average oxide grade percentage. In addition, the overall inferred resource has also increased by 42.8kt to 607.70kt of copper (+7.6%).

 

Frontier broke ground at the Benkala production facility in October 2010 and shipped the first batch of copper cathode from the cutting-edge SX-EW plant less than 23 months later in September 2012. Following a pilot test period in late 2012 and suspension of operations during winter months, production is due to recommence in the second quarter of 2013 at the planned fully operational capacity rate of 7,000 tonnes Cu per annum.

 

In January 2012 Frontier added the South Benkala mining area to its existing Benkala licence. The South Benkala area is approximately 10 kilometres south of Benkala and has a GKZ forecast resource estimate of 94.5kt of oxide and 515.1kt of sulphide copper.

 

Baitemir

Identified as the most attractive prospect on the Naimanjal licence area, Frontier have completed a 17,000 metre exploration drill program at Baitemir to confirm the deposit size and grades and are now working to further define the mineral inventory in anticipation of a mineral resource prepared in accordance with both the GKZ resource standard and the guidelines of the JORC Code.

 

Issued Share Capital

Frontier Mining's shares are traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.

Frontier has 1,860,913,920 ordinary shares issued.

 

For further information please visit: www.frontiermining.com

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
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