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14 June 2019
SolGold plc
("SolGold" or the "Company")
Director Dealing
The Directors of SolGold have been advised of a sale of 400,000 shares in SolGold by The Mather Foundation Limited, a Philanthropic Auxiliary Foundation Trust Fund of which SolGold's CEO Nicholas Mather is a Director. The proceeds of sale have been directed to the Foundation Trust Fund to address obligated philanthropic and charitable donations to prostate cancer research, mental health and homelessness organisations, emergency flight care services and other charities in Australia.
As previously reported, each financial year the Mather Foundation is required to monetise assets and make cash donations to third-party charitable organisations. The financial year end in Australia is 30 June.
Nicholas Mather said:
"The sale is in no way an indication of a diminished outlook in respect of the value of SolGold or its growth outlook in the future."
The sale represents less than 0.5% of the total shareholdings associated with Mr Mather in SolGold.
The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide further detail on the Director Dealing.
NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM.
1. | Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated | |||||
a) | Name: | Nicholas Mather | ||||
2. | Reason for the notification | |||||
a) | Position/status: | Managing Director | ||||
b) | Initial notification/Amendment: | Initial notification | ||||
3. | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
a) | Name: | SolGold plc | ||||
b) | LEI: | 213800HGFADQBMIEVI76
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4. | Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | |||||
a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code: |
Ordinary shares of 1p GB00B0WD0R35 | ||||
b) | Nature of the transaction: | Sale of shares | ||||
c) | Price(s) and volume(s): | Sale
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d) | Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price: |
400,000 27.93p (GBP111,700 in total) | ||||
e) | Date of the transaction: | 13 June 2019 | ||||
f) | Place of the transaction: | London Stock Exchange | ||||
References to figures and tables relate to the version visible in PDF format by clicking the link below:
http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/3243C_1-2019-6-14.pdf
By order of the Board
Karl Schlobohm
Company Secretary
CONTACTS
Nicholas Mather SolGold Plc (Chief Executive Officer) nmather@solgold.com.au
| Tel: +61 (0) 7 3303 0665 +61 (0) 417 880 448 |
Karl Schlobohm SolGold Plc (Company Secretary) kschlobohm@solgold.com.au
| Tel: +61 (0) 7 3303 0661 |
Anna Legge SolGold Plc (Corporate Communications) alegge@solgold.com.au
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 3823 2131 |
Gordon Poole / Nick Hennis Camarco (Financial PR / IR) solgold@camarco.co.uk
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 3757 4997 |
Andrew Chubb / Ingo Hofmaier Hannam & Partners (Joint Broker and Financial Advisor) solgold@hannam.partners
| Tel: +44 (0) 20 7907 8500 |
Ross Allister / David McKeown Peel Hunt (Joint Broker and Financial Advisor) solgold@peelhunt.com
| Tel: +44 (0)20 7418 8900 |
James Kofman / Darren Wallace Cormark Securities Inc. (Financial Advisor) dwallace@cormark.com | Tel: +1 416 943 6411 |
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Accordingly, the reader should not rely on any interpretations or forward-looking statements; and save as required by the exchange rules of the TSX and LSE or by applicable laws, the Company does not accept any obligation to disseminate any updates or revisions to such interpretations or forward-looking statements. The Company may reinterpret results to date as the status of its assets and projects changes with time expenditure, metals prices and other affecting circumstances.
This release may contain "forward‑looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward‑looking information includes, but is not limited to, statements regarding the Company's plans for developing its properties. Generally, forward‑looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be achieved".
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The Company recognises that the term "World Class" is subjective and for the purpose of the Company's projects the Company considers the drilling results at the growing Alpala Porphyry Copper Gold Deposit at its Cascabel Project to represent intersections of a "World Class" deposit. The Company considers that "World Class" deposits are rare, very large, long life, low cost, and are responsible for approximately half of total global metals production.
"World Class" deposits are generally accepted as deposits of a size and quality that create multiple expansion opportunities, and have or are likely to demonstrate robust economics that ensure development irrespective of position within the global commodity cycles, or whether or not the deposit has been fully drilled out, or a feasibility study completed.
Standards drawn from industry experts (1) Singer and Menzie, 2010; (2) Schodde, 2006; (3) Schodde and Hronsky, 2006; (4) Singer, 1995; (5) Laznicka, 2010) have characterised "World Class" deposits at prevailing commodity prices. The relevant criteria for "World Class" deposits, adjusted to current long run commodity prices, are considered to be those holding or likely to hold more than 5 million tonnes of copper and/or more than 6 million ounces of gold with a modelled net present value of greater than USD 1 Billion.
The Company and its external consultants prepared an initial mineral resource estimate at the Cascabel Project in December 2017. Results are summarised in Table B attached.
The Mineral Resource Estimate was completed from 53,616m of drilling, approximately 84% of 63,500m metres drilled as of mid-December 2017, the cut-off date for the maiden resource calculation. There remains strong potential for further growth from more recent drilling results, and continue rapid growth of the deposit.
Any development or mining potential for the project remains speculative.
Drill hole intercepts have been updated to reflect current commodity prices, using a data aggregation method, defined by copper equivalent cut-off grades and reported with up to 10m internal dilution, excluding bridging to a single sample. Copper equivalent grades are calculated using a gold conversion factor of 0.63, determined using an updated copper price of USD3.00/pound and an updated gold price of USD1300/ounce. True widths of down hole intersections are estimated to be approximately 25-70%.
On the basis of the drilling results to date and the results of the Alpala Maiden Mineral Resource Estimate, the reference to the Cascabel Project as "World Class" (or "Tier 1") is considered to be appropriate. Examples of global copper and gold discoveries since 2006 that are generally considered to be "World Class" are summarised in Table A.
References cited in the text:
1. | Singer, D.A. and Menzie, W.D., 2010. Quantitative Mineral Resource Assessments: An Integrated Approach. Oxford University Press Inc. |
2. | Schodde, R., 2006. What do we mean by a world class deposit? And why are they special. Presentation. AMEC Conference, Perth. |
3. | Schodde, R and Hronsky, J.M.A, 2006. The Role of World-Class Mines in Wealth Creation. Special Publications of the Society of Economic Geologists Volume 12. |
4. | Singer, D.A., 1995, World-class base and precious metal deposits-a quantitative analysis: Economic Geology, v. 90, no.1, p. 88-104. |
5. | Laznicka, P., 2010. Giant Metallic Deposits: Future Sources of Industrial Metal, Second Edition. Springer-Verlag Heidelberg. |
Deposit Name | Discovery Year | Major Metals | Country | Current Status | Mining Style | Inventory |
LA COLOSA | 2006 | Au, Cu | Colombia | Feasibility - New Project | Open Pit | 1 469Mt @ 0.95g/t Au; 14.3Moz Au |
LOS SULFATOS | 2007 | Cu, Mo | Chile | Advanced Exploration | Underground | 2 1.2Bt @1.46% Cu & 0.02% Mo; 17.5Mt Cu |
BRUCEJACK | 2008 | Au | Canada | Development/Construction | Open Pit | 3 15.6Mt @ 16.1 g/t Au; 8.1Moz Au |
KAMOA-KAKULA | 2008 | Cu, Co, Zn | Congo (DRC) | Feasibility - New Project | Open Pit & Underground | 4 1.3Bt @ 2.72% Cu; 36.5 Mt Cu |
GOLPU | 2009 | Cu, Au | PNG | Feasibility - New Project | Underground | 5 820Mt @ 1.0% Cu, 0.70g/t Au; 8.2Mt Cu, 18.5Moz Au |
COTE | 2010 | Au, Cu | Canada | Feasibility Study | Open Pit | 6 289Mt @ 0.90 g/t Au; 8.4Moz Au |
HAIYU | 2011 | Au | China | Development/Construction | Underground | 7 15Moz Au |
RED HILL-GOLD RUSH | 2011 | Au | United States | Feasibility Study | Open Pit & Underground | 8 47.6Mt @ 4.56 g/t Au; 7.0Moz Au |
XILING | 2016 | Au | China | Advanced Exploration | Underground | 9 383Mt @ 4.52g/t Au; 55.7Moz Au |
Source: after MinEx Consulting, May 2017 1 Source: http://www.mining‐technology.com/projects/la‐colosa 2 Source: http://www.angloamerican.com/media/press‐releases/2009 3 Source: http://www.pretivm.com/projects/brucejack/overview/ 4 Source: https://www.ivanhoemines.com/projects/kamoa‐kakula‐project/ 5 Source: http://www.newcrest.com.au/media/resource_reserves/2016/December_2016_Resources_and_Reserves_Statement.pdf 6 Source: http://www.canadianminingjournal.com/news/gold‐iamgold‐files‐cote‐project‐pea/ 7 Source: http://www.zhaojin.com.cn/upload/2015‐05‐31/580601981.pdf 8 Source: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/sedau/show‐sedau.php?rec_id=103 9 Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017‐03/29/content_28719822.htm | ||||||
Table A: Tier 1 global copper and gold discoveries since 2006. This table does not purport to be exhaustive exclusive or definitive.
Grade Category | Resource Category | Tonnage (Mt) | Grade | Contained Metal | ||||
Cu (%) | Au (g/t) | CuEq (%) | Cu (Mt) | Au (Moz) | CuEq (Mt) | |||
Total >0.2% CuEq | Indicated | 2,050 | 0.41 | 0.29 | 0.60 | 8.4 | 19.4 | 12.2 |
Inferred | 900 | 0.27 | 0.13 | 0.35 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 3.2 | |
Table B: Alpala Mineral Resource Estimate updated effective 16 November 2018.
Notes:
· | Mr. Martin Pittuck, MSc, CEng, MIMMM, is responsible for this Mineral Resource estimate and is an "independent qualified person" as such term is defined in NI 43-101. |
· | The Mineral Resource is reported using a cut-off grade of 0.3% copper equivalent calculated using [copper grade (%)] + [gold grade (g/t) x 0.6] based on a copper price of US$2.8/lb and gold price of US$1,160/oz. |
· | The Mineral Resource is considered to have reasonable potential for eventual economic extraction by underground mass mining such as block caving. |
· | Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability. |
· | The statement uses the terminology, definitions and guidelines given in the CIM Standards on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves (May 2014). |
· | The MRE is reported on 100 percent basis. |
· | Values given in the table have been rounded, apparent calculation errors resulting from this are not considered to be material. |
· | The effective date for the Mineral Resource statement is 16 November 2018. |