Roundtable Discussion; The Future of Mineral Sands. Watch the video here.

Less Ads, More Data, More Tools Register for FREE

Pin to quick picksGreat Western Regulatory News (GWMO)

Share Price Information for Great Western (GWMO)

London Stock Exchange
Share Price is delayed by 15 minutes
Get Live Data
Share Price: 0.0405
Bid: 0.04
Ask: 0.041
Change: -0.001 (-2.41%)
Spread: 0.001 (2.50%)
Open: 0.0415
High: 0.0415
Low: 0.0405
Prev. Close: 0.0415
GWMO Live PriceLast checked at -

Watchlists are a member only feature

Login to your account

Alerts are a premium feature

Login to your account

Final Results

20 Apr 2016 07:00

RNS Number : 7108V
Great Western Mining Corp. plc
20 April 2016
 

 

Great Western Mining Corporation PLC

("Great Western Mining", "GWM" or the "Company")

 

Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2015

 

Great Western Mining, the AIM (AIM: GWMO) and ESM quoted mineral exploration company is pleased to report its Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2015.

 

Results Highlights:

· Loss for Year €340,707 (2014 restated: €368,712)

· Basic and diluted loss per share (cent): 0.01 (2014: 0.01)

· Net current assets at year end: €839,366

Operational Highlights:

· M2 Strike Length doubled to 4 Km.

· Drill Permit obtained for Target 4 ("M4")

· Land acquired as sight for Pilot Heap Leach Facility

· M5 Carlin-Style Gold potential confirmed

· Encouraging Soil Grid completed on M1 Copper-Gold Target

 

Chief Executive, David Fraser commented:

"2015 has been a year of solid progress for Great Western Mining. The Company is in the strong position of having valid drill permits on its two most advanced Copper-Gold targets, M2 and M4, and has received confirmation of the exciting Carlin-style Gold potential of M5. The beginning of 2016 has seen the Company appoint a mining engineer to conduct technical studies as the first stage of a pre-feasibility study in support of a mining license application to the US Bureau of Land Management. Costs remain under control and the Company remains well positioned to exploit the considerable resource potential of its claims"

 

 

ENQUIRIES:

 

Great Western Mining Corporation Plc

David Fraser, Chief Executive

 

+44 207 933 8780 (via Walbrook)

Davy (Nomad, ESM Adviser & Joint Broker)

John Frain

Roland French

+353 1 679 6363

john.frain@davy.ie

roland.french@davy.ie

 

Beaufort Securities Ltd (Joint Broker)

Jon Belliss

Elliot Hance

 

 

+44 207 382 8300

Walbrook PR (UK PR and IR)

Paul Cornelius

Gary Middelton

Nick Rome

+44 207 933 8780

 greatwesternmining@walbrookpr.com

 

 

 

Chairman's Statement:

 

Dear Shareholder,

 

Enclosed herewith are Great Western Mining Corporation PLC's audited results for the year to 31 December 2015, together with a report from the Chief Executive on the Group's operations in Nevada and a notice of annual general meeting.

 

The Group remains debt-free with its costs tightly controlled and at the year-end reported net current assets of €0.84 million (2014: €1.42 million). It incurred a loss of €0.34 million (2014 restated: €0.37 million) for the financial year as it does not yet benefit from production revenues.

 

The mining industry operates in a harsh environment at present as commodity prices have fallen dramatically over the last year and Great Western faces its share of headwinds but is weathering them well.

 

We have made good progress in Nevada during 2015 and are now gearing up to develop a pilot production plant as the first stage in commercialising the copper and gold resource that has been established. When this has been accomplished, the Group will have moved from pure exploration to the development of commercial operations. If we can successfully commercialise our main assets in a down cycle, we will be very well placed once the markets improve, as they inevitably will in time.

 

During the year Emmett O'Connell, previously Executive Chairman, stood down from the Board and severed day-to-day links with the Company. In a long career, Emmett has launched and managed a number of successful businesses and has been a well-known entrepreneur in Ireland and beyond. Great Western was his last venture and, in taking over the reins, the current Board sends Emmett all good wishes for a long, healthy and enjoyable retirement.

 

Continuing support of our shareholders is much appreciated. We look forward to seeing as many shareholders as possible at the forthcoming AGM which will be held in Dublin on 19 May.

 

 

 

BRIAN HALL

Chairman

 

 

Chief Executive's Report:

 

Dear Shareholders

 

I am pleased to report to shareholders that 2015 has been another year of progress in the development of Great Western Mining Corporation PLC's ("GWM" or "the Group") 73 square kilometre claim area in Marietta, Nevada.

 

During the first half of the year GWM completed two field programmes on M2 with very promising results. The mapping and sampling extended the surface area of the 2014 Inferred Resource for a further two kilometres across Bass Mountain. This has resulted in an independent opinion that the favourable geologic environment for mineralisation beneath Bass Mountain is almost four kilometres long and over one kilometre wide, as well as being open to further southwest extension. In addition, the 2015 field programme identified two new potentially high grade silver-copper zones.

 

The Company completed reclamation work on the 2014 M2 Phase 2 drill pads, resulting in the Federal Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") extending a two-and-a-half-acre disturbance roll-over under the existing M2 drill permit. Thus, the Group is in a good position to move to the next phase of drilling, which is expected to increase the size and grade of the 2014 Inferred Resource dramatically.

 

At the end of the reporting year, the Group secured final approval from the United States Forest Service ("USFS") and the Nevada Bureau of Mining Regulation and Reclamation ("BMRR") for a drilling permit on the Group's second major Copper-Gold prospect Target 4 ("M4"). The drill permit was the first that the USFS has granted in the area for over two years, putting Great Western in the strong position of holding valid, and fully bonded, drill permits for two of its major Copper-Gold prospects.

 

On the west side of the Huntoon Valley, approximately eight kilometres west of M4, is the M1 exploration target which surrounds the six patented claims that make up the historic Huntoon Mine where Gold-Copper ore was mined between 1906 and 1925. Extensive outcropping copper mineralisation occurs in a large area over M1 and in 2015 the Group conducted a Phase 1 geochemical soil sampling survey over a substantial part of this area. The results of this survey were very encouraging, with gold readings up to 248 ppb Au spread over a wide area and Copper readings up to 2.5% Cu. There were also anomalous readings of Arsenic (As), Bismuth (Bi), Cadmium (Cd), Lead (Pb), Silver (Ag) and Titanium (Ti). Further geochemical soil sampling is planned for the first half of 2016.

 

During this reporting year, the GWM field team, together with an independent geological consultant, worked on-site over the JS Group of Claims ("M5"). After compiling and comparing the assay results from the rock chip samples and the regularly-spaced soil samples, geology and geochemistry suggest epithermal or Carlin-style disseminated gold at M5, consistent with results previously announced in September 2014. In addition, the projected size and scale of the M5 alteration and mineralisation is extensive and approaching ten square kilometres. This is a very exciting development and the Group is prioritizing geochemical surveys over M5 in 2016.

 

In December 2015, Great Western completed the purchase of 10 acres of private land on the outskirts of the ghost town of Marietta, which is the proposed site of a pilot heap leaching facility for the recovery of commercial quantities of gold and copper. In 2016 the Company plans to submit a Plan of Operations to the BLM and BMRR in order to obtain a Mining License. A pre-feasibility mining study is in progress and initial planning talks for this project have already been held with the BLM.

 

Further information on GWM's activities can be found on the Company's website www.greatwesternmininng.com which has recently been substantially upgraded and relaunched. Costs are under control as the Company moves towards achievement of first revenues in Nevada.

 

David Fraser

Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

Consolidated Income Statement

for the year ended 31 December 2015

 

 

 

Continuing Operations

 Notes

Year ended

2015

Restated

(Note 3)

2014

 

Administrative expenses

(339,842)

(361,287)

Finance income

5

417

116

Finance costs

6

(1,282)

(7,541)

Loss for the year before tax

7

(340,707)

(368,712)

Income tax expense

8

-

-

Loss for the financial year

(340,707)

(368,712)

Loss attributable to:

Equity holders of the Company

(340,707)

(368,712)

(340,707)

(368,712)

Earnings per share from continuing operations

Basic and Diluted loss per share (cent)

9

(0.001)

(0.001)

All activities derived from continuing operations. All losses are attributable to the owners of the Company

 

Consolidated Statement of Other Comprehensive Income

 

For the year ended 31 December 2015

Restated

(Note 3)

2015

2014

Loss for the financial year

(340,707)

(368,712)

Other comprehensive income

Items that are or may be reclassified to profit or loss:

Currency translation differences

268,935

341,287

Total comprehensive expense for the financial year attributable to equity holders of the company

(71,772)

(27,245)

 

 

 

 

Consolidated Statement of Other Comprehensive Income

for the year ended 31 December 2015

 

Restated

(Note 3)

2015

2014

Assets

Notes

Non-Current Assets

Intangible assets

10

3,255,602

2,747,464

Total Non-Current Assets

3,255,602

2,747,464

Current Assets

Trade and other receivables

12

174,300

114,288

Cash and cash equivalents

13

759,381

1,451,542

Total Assets

4,189,283

4,313,294

Equity

Capital and Reserves

Share capital

15

2,648,238

2,648,238

Share premium

15

4,630,945

4,630,945

Foreign currency translation reserve

610,222

341,287

Retained Earnings

(3,794.437)

(3,453,730)

Attributable to owners of the Company

4,094,968

4,166,740

Total Equity

4,094,968

4,166,740

Liabilities

Current Liabilities

Trade and other payables

14

79,315

106,554

Convertible debt

20

15,000

40,000

Total Liabilities

94,315

146,554

Total Equity and Liabilities

4,189,283

4,313,294

 

 

 

 

Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity

for the year ended 31 December 2015

 

 

Share Capital

Share Premium

Foreign currency translation reserve

Retained Earnings

Total

Balance as at 01 January 2014 (note 3)

648,238

3,978,260

-

(3,085,018)

1,541,480

Total comprehensive income for the year - restated

 

Loss for the year

-

-

-

(368,712)

(368,712)

Currency translation differences

Transactions with owners, recordeddirectly in equity

Shares issued

2,000,000

652,685

-

-

2,652,685

________

________

________

________

________

Balance at 31 December 2014 - restated

2,648,238

4,630,945

341,287

(3,453,730)

4,166,740

________

________

________

________

________

Balance at 1 January 2015

2,648,238

4,630,945

341,287

(3,453,730)

4,166,740

Total comprehensive income for the year

Loss for the year

-

-

-

(340,707)

(340,707)

Currency translation differences

-

-

268,935

-

268,935

________

________

________

________

________

Balance at 31 December 2015

2,648,238

4,630,945

610,222

(3,794,437)

4,094,968

 

 

 

Consolidated Statement of Cashflows

for the year ended 31 December 2015

 

2015

2014

Notes

Cash flows from operating activities

Loss for the year

(340,707)

(368,712)

Interest payable and similar charges

1,282

7,541

Interest receivable and similar income

(417)

(116)

Interest in trade and other receivables

(64,626)

(34,251)

Decrease in trade and other payables

(27,239)

(42,550)

Exchange rate adjustment

(100,061)

-

Cash outflows from operating activities

(531,768)

(438,088)

Cash flows from investing activities

Expenditure on intangible assets

10

(233,149)

(778,490)

Interest paid

6

(1,282)

(7,541)

Interest received

4

417

116

Cash flow used in investing activities

(234,014)

(785,915)

Cash flow from financing activities

Proceeds from the issue of new shares

-

2,652.685

Repayment of convertible debt

(25,000)

(60,000)

Net cash from financing activities

(25,000)

2,592,685

(Decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents

(790,782)

1,368,685

Foreign exchange gain on cash and cash equivalents

98,621

-

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year

13

1,451,542

82,860

Cash and cash equivalents at end of year

13

759,381

1,451,542

 

 

Notes to the Financial Statements PDF link.

 

http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/7108V_-2016-4-19.pdf 

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
END
 
 
FR SFMFAUFMSELL
Date   Source Headline
18th Apr 20247:00 amRNSOlympic Gold Project Acquisition
11th Apr 20243:24 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
11th Apr 20247:00 amRNSGeophysical Survey at West Huntoon and M5
4th Apr 20242:34 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
27th Mar 20247:00 amRNSRhyolite Dome Epithermal Gold Target
20th Mar 20244:04 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
11th Mar 20247:00 amRNS£700,500 Subscription
20th Feb 20244:31 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
1st Feb 202410:44 amRNSHolding(s) in Company
31st Jan 20241:05 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
30th Jan 20247:00 amRNSPositive Soil and Grab Results at West Huntoon
23rd Jan 20247:00 amRNSHuntoon Mine Area Cooperation Agreement
12th Jan 20247:00 amRNSHolding(s) in Company
12th Jan 20247:00 amRNSHolding(s) in Company
10th Jan 20247:00 amRNSMill Site Update
14th Dec 20237:00 amRNSExtended Gold Zone at M5
16th Nov 20237:00 amRNSCopper Potential Materially Upgraded
14th Nov 20237:00 amRNSMill Site Progress & 121 Mining Investment Forum
18th Oct 20233:24 pmRNSTotal Voting Rights
13th Oct 202312:00 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
27th Sep 20237:00 amRNSHalf-year Report
12th Sep 20237:00 amRNSMill Site Progress
22nd Aug 20237:00 amRNSMill Construction Update
8th Aug 20231:50 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
8th Aug 20231:48 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
26th Jul 20237:00 amRNSPlacing of New Ordinary Shares
10th Jul 20237:00 amRNSExploration Update
5th Jul 20232:37 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
13th Jun 202312:00 pmRNSResult of AGM
12th Jun 20237:48 amRNSUpdated dial-in details for AGM
6th Jun 20237:00 amRNSGold & Silver Processing Update
19th May 20237:00 amRNSNotice of AGM
18th May 20237:00 amRNSFinal Results
30th Mar 20237:00 amRNSOperational Update
27th Feb 20233:30 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
24th Feb 20232:05 pmRNSSecond Price Monitoring Extn
24th Feb 20232:00 pmRNSPrice Monitoring Extension
17th Feb 20232:05 pmRNSSecond Price Monitoring Extn
17th Feb 20232:00 pmRNSPrice Monitoring Extension
15th Feb 20233:00 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
7th Feb 20237:00 amRNSOperations Update
30th Jan 20234:00 pmRNSGrant of Share Options
27th Jan 20234:15 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
25th Jan 20233:00 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
20th Jan 202312:40 pmRNSHolding(s) in Company
20th Jan 202312:40 pmRNSTotal Voting Rights
17th Jan 202311:05 amRNSSecond Price Monitoring Extn
17th Jan 202311:00 amRNSPrice Monitoring Extension
17th Jan 20239:05 amRNSSecond Price Monitoring Extn
17th Jan 20239:00 amRNSPrice Monitoring Extension

Due to London Stock Exchange licensing terms, we stipulate that you must be a private investor. We apologise for the inconvenience.

To access our Live RNS you must confirm you are a private investor by using the button below.

Login to your account

Don't have an account? Click here to register.

Quickpicks are a member only feature

Login to your account

Don't have an account? Click here to register.