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4300 Water Canyon Road, Unit 1

Winnemucca, Nevada 89445

(775) 304-0260

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Diane R. Garrett, Ph.D.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation

4300 Water Canyon Road, Unit 1

Winnemucca, Nevada 89445

(775) 304-0260

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

2 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 1700

Chicago, IL 60602

Attention: David S. Stone, Esq.

Tel: (312) 269-8000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

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The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

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The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. These securities may not be sold until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities, and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities, in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

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You should read this prospectus and any prospectus supplement or amendment carefully before you invest in our securities.

Our Common Stock, our public warrants, our October 2020 warrants and our Seller warrants (as such terms are defined under “Selected Definitions”) are listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market, under the symbols “HYMC,” “HYMCW,” “HYMCL,” and “HYMCZ,” respectively. On April 12, 2022, the last reported sales price of our Common Stock listed under the symbol HYMC was $2.00 per share, the last reported sales price of our public warrants listed under the symbol HYMCW was $0.44 per warrant, the last reported sales price of our October 2020 warrants listed under the symbol HYMCL was $0.52 per warrant, and the last reported sales price of our Seller warrants listed under the symbol HYMCZ was $0.31 per warrant.

We are an “emerging growth company” under federal securities laws and are subject to reduced public company reporting requirements. Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 20 of this prospectus.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities, or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not authorized any dealer, salesperson or other person to provide you with information about the Company, except for the information contained in this prospectus. The information contained in this prospectus is complete and accurate only as of the date on the front cover page of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or the sale of any securities. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and we are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted. The information contained in this prospectus may change after the date of this prospectus. Do not assume after the date of this prospectus that the information contained in this prospectus is still correct.

For investors outside the United States: We have not done anything that would permit this offering or possession or distribution of this prospectus in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required, other than in the United States. Persons outside the United States who come into possession of this prospectus must inform themselves about, and observe any restrictions relating to, the offering and the distribution of this prospectus outside the United States.

The date of this prospectus is April    , 2022

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“2021 Year End Financial Statements” means our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021 and the notes thereto.

“2021 Year End Notes” means the notes to the 2021 Year End Financial Statements.

“2022 Hycroft TRS” means that certain Initial Assessment Technical Report Summary for the Hycroft Mine with an effective date of February 18, 2022 by Ausenco Engineering USA South Inc., Independent Mining Consultants, Inc., and WestLand Engineering & Environmental Services, Inc., prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Modernization of Property Disclosures for Mining Registrants set forth in subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K.

“2022 Private Placement” means the equity financing through a private placement to AMC and Eric Sprott, on March 14, 2022, of 46,816,480 units at a purchase price per unit of $1.193, with each unit consisting of one share of Common Stock and one warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants.

“2022 Warrant Agreements” means the Warrant Agreement, dated March 14, 2022, by and between the Company and AMC and the Warrant Agreement, dated March 14, 2022, by and between the Company and Eric Sprott, in each case entered into in connection with the 2022 private placement.

“1.25 Lien Exchange” means the exchange by the 1.25 Lien Noteholders of the outstanding 1.25 Lien Notes for New Subordinated Notes.

“1.25 Lien Exchange Agreement” means that certain note exchange agreement, dated as of January 13, 2020, by and among the Seller and certain investment funds affiliated with or managed by Mudrick Capital, Whitebox, Highbridge, Aristeia and Wolverine, as amended, pursuant to which the 1.25 Lien Exchange occurred immediately prior to the consummation of the Recapitalization Transaction.

“1.25 Lien Notes” means the notes issued pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreements, dated as of February 22, 2019, May 21, 2019, June 27, 2019, August 6, 2019, August 29, 2019, September 25, 2019, October 16, 2019, November 21, 2019, December 17, 2019, January 17, 2020, February 7, 2020, March 12, 2020, April 16, 2020 and May 7, 2020 between the Seller, the guarantors and the purchasers named therein and WBox 2015-5 Ltd., as collateral agent.

“1.25 Lien Noteholders” means the holders of the 1.25 Lien Notes and, subsequent to the 1.25 Lien Exchange, the holders of the New Subordinated Notes.

“1.5 Lien Notes” means the notes issued pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreements, dated as of May 3, 2016, July 29, 2016, September 22, 2016, November 30, 2016, February 2, 2017, April 12, 2017, June 30, 2017, July 14, 2017, December 20, 2017, March 8, 2018, May 10, 2018, July 10, 2018, August 22, 2018, November 1, 2018, and December 19, 2018 between the Seller, the guarantors and the purchasers named therein and WBox 2015-5 Ltd., as collateral agent.

“1.5 Lien Noteholders” means certain investment funds affiliated with Mudrick Capital, Whitebox, Highbridge, Aristeia and Wolverine that hold the 1.5 Lien Notes.

“5-Year Private Warrants” means the private placement warrants and the forward purchase warrants less any such warrants transferred from an initial purchaser of such warrants to someone other than the initial purchasers of the 5-Year Private Warrants or their permitted transferees.

“5-Year Public Warrants” means the public warrants and the PIPE warrants plus any 5-Year Private Warrants transferred from an initial purchaser of such 5-Year Private Warrants to someone other than the initial purchasers of the 5-Year Private Warrants or their permitted transferees.

“Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement” means that certain Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement entered into at the closing of the Recapitalization Transaction, by and among the Company and the restricted stockholders.

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“Acquisition Sub” means MUDS Acquisition Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.

“AMC” means American Multi-Cinema, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of AMC Holdings Entertainment, Inc.

“Aristeia” means Aristeia Capital, LLC.

“Assumed New Subordinated Notes” means $80 million in aggregate principal amount of New Subordinated Notes assigned to, and assumed by, the Company in connection with the Recapitalization Transaction, on a pro rata basis across holders of New Subordinated Notes.

“Board” means the board of directors of Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation.

“business day” means a day, other than Saturday, Sunday or such other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York are authorized or required by applicable laws to close.

“Cantor” means Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.

“Common Stock” means the Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company.

“DGCL” means the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

“debt and warrant assumption” means the assignment by Seller and the assumption by the Company of (x) $80,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of New Subordinated Notes, (y) the Sprott Credit Agreement and (z) Seller’s liabilities and obligations under the Seller Warrant Agreement.

“effective time” means 9:00 a.m. New York time on May 29, 2020.

“employee benefit plan” means any material “employee benefit plan” within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

“Eric Sprott” means 2176423 Ontario Limited, an entity affiliated with Eric Sprott.

“Excess Notes” means the $48,459,232 in aggregate principal amount of New Subordinated Notes exchanged pursuant to the Exchange Agreement.

“note exchange” means the exchange of the 1.5 Lien Notes and the Excess Notes, if any, for shares of Common Stock valued at $10.00 per share and/or cash payment pursuant to the terms of the Exchange Agreement.

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Exchange Agreement” means that certain Exchange Agreement, dated as of January 13, 2020, by and among the Seller, Acquisition Sub, the 1.5 Lien Noteholders and the 1.25 Lien Noteholders, as amended.

“First Lien Credit Agreement” means the first lien term loan credit agreement between the Seller and The Bank of Nova Scotia, as administrative agent, and other lenders.

“First Lien Notes” means the notes under the First Lien Credit Agreement.

“Forward Purchase Contract” means the Forward Purchase Contract, dated January 24, 2018, by and between the Company and sponsor, pursuant to which sponsor purchased 3,125,000 shares of Common Stock and 2,500,000 forward purchase warrants exercisable at $11.50 per share, for gross proceeds of $25 million concurrently with the consummation of the Recapitalization Transaction.

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“forward purchase warrants” means the warrants to purchase one share of Common Stock at a price of $11.50 per share issued to the sponsor upon consummation of the Recapitalization Transaction pursuant to the Forward Purchase Contract.

“founder shares” means shares of Class B common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company initially purchased by sponsor which were redeemed or converted into shares of Common Stock upon the consummation of the Recapitalization Transaction.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.

“Highbridge” means Highbridge Capital Management, LLC.

“HRD” means Hycroft Resources & Development, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Seller.

“Hycroft,” “Company,” “HYMC,” “we,” “our,” or “us,” means Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation and its subsidiaries.

“Hycroft Mine” means the Hycroft Open Pit Mine, located in Winnemucca, Nevada that historically operated as an open-pit oxide mining and heap leach processing operation.

“Incentive Plan” means the HYMC 2020 Performance and Incentive Pay Plan.

“initial stockholders” means holders of founder shares prior to the IPO.

“Initial Subscribers” means investment funds affiliated with or managed by Mudrick Capital, Whitebox, Highbridge, Aristeia and Wolverine (together with any permitted assigns under the Subscription/Backstop Agreements).

“IPO” means the Company’s initial public offering, consummated on February 12, 2018, through the sale of 20,800,000 public units (including 800,000 units sold pursuant to the underwriters’ partial exercise of their overallotment option) at $10.00 per unit.

“Lender” means Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Collector), LP.

“Modernization Rules” means the Modernization of Property Disclosures for Mining Registrants as promulgated by the SEC and set forth in subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K.

“Mudrick Capital” means Mudrick Capital Management, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, an affiliate of sponsor.

“Mudrick Warrants” means the private placement warrants, forward purchase warrants, PIPE warrants and October 2022 warrants issued to entities managed by Mudrick Capital and for which Mudrick Capital reports beneficial ownership.

“NASDAQ” means the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Capital Market.

“New Warrants” means the warrants issued to AMC and Eric Sprott in the 2022 private placement, where one warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $1.068 per share of Common Stock in accordance with the terms of the 2022 Warrant Agreements.

“October 2020 warrants” means the warrants issued as part of the Company’s October 6, 2020 registered public offering of an aggregate of 9,583,834 units, which warrants are exercisable for $10.50 per share.

“Parent Sponsor Letter Agreement” means that certain letter agreement, dated as of January 13, 2020, by and between the Company and sponsor, as amended from time to time.

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“PIPE warrants” means the warrants to purchase one share of Common Stock at a price of $11.50 per share issued to the Initial Subscribers in the private investment.

“private investment” means the equity financing through a private placement of equity securities in the Company pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, for gross proceeds to the Company in an aggregate amount of approximately $76.0 million funded in accordance with the terms of the Subscription/Backstop Agreements.

“private placement warrants” means the warrants issued to sponsor and Cantor in a private placement simultaneously with the closing of the IPO.

“public shares” means shares of Common Stock sold as part of the units in the IPO.

“public units” means one share of Common Stock and one redeemable public warrant of the Company, whereby each public warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share of Common Stock, sold in the IPO.

“public warrants” means the warrants included in the units issued in the IPO, where one warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share of Common Stock in accordance with the terms of the Warrant Agreement.

“Purchase Agreement” means that certain Purchase Agreement, dated January 13, 2020, as amended on February 26, 2020, by and among the Company, Acquisition Sub and the Seller.

“Recapitalization Transaction” means the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement, the Exchange Agreement and the Second Lien Conversion Agreement consummated on May 29, 2020.

“representatives” means a Person’s officers, directors, employees, accountants, consultants, agents, legal counsel, and other representatives.

“restricted stockholders” means, collectively, sponsor, Cantor, certain directors and officers of the Company (as set forth in the Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement), the 1.5 Lien Noteholders, certain stockholders of the Seller that receive Common Stock in the Recapitalization Transaction, the Initial Subscribers pursuant to the private investment, and Lender.

“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Second A&R Agreement” means the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of March 30, 2022, between Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation, as borrower, MUDS Acquisition Sub, Inc., MUDS Holdco, Inc., Hycroft Resources & Development, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Allied VGH LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as guarantors, Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Collector), LP, as lender, and Sprott Resource Lending Corp., as arranger, as amended from time to time.

“Second Amended and Restated Charter” means the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on May 29, 2020.

“Second Lien Conversion Agreement” means that certain note conversion and consent agreement by and among Seller and the Second Lien Noteholders, dated January 13, 2020.

“Second Lien Notes” means the notes issued pursuant to (a) that certain Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 22, 2015, by and among the Seller, certain of its affiliates and the purchasers named therein and (b) that certain Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of December 2, 2015, by and among Seller, certain of the Seller’s subsidiaries and the purchasers named therein, in each case, entered into pursuant to the 15% Senior Secured Convertible Notes Due 2020 Indenture, dated as of October 22, 2015, by and among Seller, the guarantors (as defined therein) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee and collateral agent as of January 6, 2016 and March 24, 2016.

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“Second Lien Noteholders” means certain funds affiliated with Mudrick Capital, Whitebox, Highbridge, Aristeia and Wolverine and two additional noteholders.

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

“Seller” means Hycroft Mining Corporation, a Delaware corporation.

“Seller common stock” means Seller’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share.

“Seller warrants” means a warrant to purchase shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the Seller Warrant Agreement following the assumption of the Seller Warrant Agreement by the Company pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and effective as of the consummation of the Recapitalization Transaction.

“Seller Warrant Agreement” means that certain warrant agreement, dated as of October 22, 2015, by and between Seller and Computershare Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a federally chartered trust company, collectively as initial warrant agent; such warrant agreement was assumed by the Company pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC is the successor warrant agent.

“sponsor” means Mudrick Capital Acquisition Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which is 100% owned by investment funds and separate accounts managed by Mudrick Capital.

“Sprott Credit Agreement” means that certain amended and restated credit agreement, dated as of May 29, 2020, between Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation, as borrower, MUDS Acquisition Sub, Inc., MUDS Holdco, Inc., Hycroft Resources & Development, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Allied VGH LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as guarantors, Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Collector), LP, as lender, and Sprott Resource Lending Corp., as arranger, as amended from time to time.

“Sprott Royalty Agreement” means that certain royalty agreement between the Company, Hycroft Resources & Development, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Co), Inc.

“Subordinated Notes” means the 10% payment-in-kind subordinated notes of the Seller issued pursuant to the 1.25 Lien Exchange Agreement.

“Subscription/Backstop Agreements” means those certain Subscription/Backstop Agreements, dated as of January 13, 2020, by and among the Company and the Initial Subscribers, as amended on May 28, 2020.

“Treasury Regulation” means the regulations promulgated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury pursuant to and in respect of provisions of the U.S. Tax Code.

“trust account” means the trust account of the Company that held the proceeds from the IPO.

“U.S. Holder” means a beneficial owner of the Company’s securities who or that is, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (i) an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States, (ii) a corporation (or other entity taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state thereof of the District of Columbia, (iii) an estate the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income tax regardless of its source, or (iv) a trust, if (a) a court within the United States is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust or one or more U.S. persons (as defined in the U.S. Tax Code) have authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (b) it has a valid election in effect under Treasury Regulations to be treated as a U.S. person.

“U.S. Tax Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“Warrant Agreement” means the Warrant Agreement, dated February 7, 2018, by and between Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC.

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“Warrants” means unless the context indicates otherwise the public warrants, private placement warrants, forward purchase warrants, PIPE warrants, Seller warrants, October 2020 warrants and New Warrants.

“Whitebox” means Whitebox Advisors, LLC.

“Wolverine” means Wolverine Asset Management, LLC.

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These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any results, performance or achievements expressed or implied

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by such forward-looking statements. Please see our other reports filed with the SEC for more information about these and other risks. You are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements. Although we have attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Although these forward-looking statements were based on assumptions that the Company believes are reasonable when made, you are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results, performance or achievements may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus. In addition, even if our results, performance, or achievements are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus, those results, performance or achievements may not be indicative of results, performance or achievements in subsequent periods. Given these risks and uncertainties, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements made in this prospectus speak only as of the date of those statements, and we undertake no obligation to update those statements or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to any of those statements to reflect future events or developments. For information identifying important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, please see the “Risk Factors” section of this prospectus below.

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. It does not contain all the information that you may consider important in making your investment decision. Therefore, you should read the entire prospectus carefully, including, in particular, the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” and our 2021 Year End Financial Statements and 2021 Year End Notes.

As used in this prospectus, unless the context otherwise requires or indicates, references to “Hycroft,” “Company,” “HYMC,” “we,” “our,” and “us,” refer to Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation and its subsidiaries. “Seller” refers to Hycroft Mining Corporation prior to the Recapitalization Transaction.

Overview

We are a U.S.-based gold and silver development company that owns the Hycroft Mine in the prolific mining region of Northern Nevada.

Our property, the Hycroft Mine, has historically operated as an open-pit oxide mining and heap leach processing operation and is located approximately 54 miles west of Winnemucca, Nevada. Mining operations at the Hycroft Mine were restarted in 2019 on a pre-commercial scale and discontinued in November 2021 as a result of the then current and expected ongoing cost pressures for many of the reagents and consumables used at the Hycroft Mine and the timeline for completing our updated technical studies in 2022 for optimal processing the plan forward. In February 2022, Hycroft, along with its third-party consultants, completed and filed an Initial Assessment Technical Report Summary for the Hycroft Mine (the “2022 Hycroft TRS”) with an effective date of February 18, 2022 and prepared in accordance with the SEC’s Modernization Rules of Property Disclosures for Mining Registrants as set forth in subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K (“Modernization Rules”). The 2022 Hycroft TRS provides an Initial Assessment of the mineral resource estimate utilizing a milling and acid pressure oxidation (“Acid POX”) process for sulfide mineralization and heap leaching process for oxide and transition mineralization. As a result of the milling and Acid POX process presented in the 2022 Hycroft TRS, as compared to the novel two-step oxidation and heap leap process presented in the Hycroft Technical Report Summary, Heap Leaching Feasibility Study, prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Modernization Rules, with an effective date of July 31, 2019 (the “2019 Hycroft TRS”), and the associated fundamental changes to the assumptions underlying the 2019 Hycroft TRS also prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Modernization Rules, the 2022 Hycroft TRS supersedes and replaces the 2019 Hycroft TRS and the 2019 Hycroft TRS and information from such 2019 Hycroft TRS should no longer be relied upon. Our ongoing disclosures and many of management estimates and judgements will be based on the 2022 Hycroft TRS and not the 2019 Hycroft TRS. The Company will continue to build on the work to date and investigate opportunities identified through progressing the technical and data analyses leading up to the 2022 Hycroft TRS and will provide an updated technical report at an appropriate time. During the year ended December 31, 2021 we sold 56,045 ounces of gold and 397,546 ounces of silver. As of December 31, 2021, the Hycroft Mine had measured and indicated mineral resources of 9.6 million ounces of gold and 446.0 million ounces of silver and inferred mineral resources of 5.0 million ounces of gold and 150.4 million ounces of silver, which are contained in oxide, transitional, and sulfide ores.

Our corporate headquarters is located at 4300 Water Canyon Road, Unit 1 Winnemucca, Nevada 89445, and our telephone number is (775) 304-0260. Our website is www.hycroftmining.com. For more information about Hycroft, please see the sections entitled “Description of Business,” “Description of Property,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operation,” “Management” and “Executive Compensation” in this prospectus.

Company History

Seller was incorporated as Allied Nevada Gold Corp. under the laws of the State of Delaware on September 14, 2006 and commenced operations on May 10, 2007. Seller suspended mining operations at the Hycroft Mine on July 8, 2015 to maximize cash flow and minimize spending through the remainder of the chapter 11 process and changed its name from Allied Nevada Gold Corp. to Hycroft Mining Corporation on October 9, 2015 in connection with its restructuring and emergence from federal bankruptcy proceedings. Seller continued to process and produce gold and silver through the operation of the heap leach pads and Merrill-Crowe processing plants located on the property, but in 2017, with revenue no longer covering the cost of the reagents necessary for production, the Hycroft Mine was placed into care and maintenance mode to minimize expenditures and conserve cash. While in care and maintenance, gold and silver production was a byproduct of maintenance activities.

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Recapitalization Transaction with MUDS

On May 29, 2020, we, formerly known as Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation (“MUDS”), consummated a business combination transaction (the “Recapitalization Transaction”) that resulted in MUDS Acquisition Sub, Inc. (“Acquisition Sub”) acquiring all of the issued and outstanding equity interests of the direct subsidiaries of Hycroft Mining Corporation (“Seller”) and substantially all of the other assets of Seller and assuming substantially all of the liabilities of Seller. In conjunction with the Recapitalization Transaction, Seller’s indebtedness existing prior to the Recapitalization Transaction was either repaid, exchanged for indebtedness of the Company, exchanged for shares of common stock or converted into shares of Seller common stock, and our post-Recapitalization Transaction indebtedness included amounts drawn under the Credit Agreement among MUDS, MUDS Holdco Inc., Allied VGH LLC, Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation, Hycroft Resources and Development, LLC Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Collector) Inc., and Sprott Resources Lending Corp. (“Sprott Credit Agreement”) and the assumption of the newly issued Assumed New Subordinated Notes.

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The mineral resources were estimated based upon results of the 2022 Hycroft TRS, as conducted in accordance with the Modernization Rules. With the issuance of the 2022 Hycroft TRS reflecting a different mining process, the 2019 Hycroft TRS is superseded and the 2019 Hycroft TRS and information from such 2019 Hycroft TRS should no longer be relied upon.

2022 Private Placement

On March 14, 2022, the Company entered into subscription agreements (the “Subscription Agreements” and each a “Subscription Agreement”) with each of American Multi-Cinema, Inc. (“AMC”) and 2176423 Ontario Limited, an entity affiliated with Eric Sprott (“Eric Sprott” and together with AMC, the “Purchasers”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell to the Purchasers, in a private placement, an aggregate of 46,816,480 units (“Units”) at a purchase price per Unit of $1.193, with each Unit consisting of one share of the Common Stock and one New Warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock and the shares issuable upon exercise of the New Warrants (the “Warrant Shares”), providing for a total purchase price of approximately $55.9 million (the “2022 Private Placement”). The New Warrants issued in the 2022 Private Placement have an exercise price of $1.068 per Warrant Share, and will expire five years after issuance.

The closing of the sales of securities pursuant to the Subscription Agreements occurred on March 15, 2022 for gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $55.9 million before deducting expenses incurred in connection with the 2022 Private Placement. The Company intends to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment, refinancing, redemption or repurchase of existing indebtedness, working capital or capital expenditures and other investments, which may include additional technical evaluations and studies, advancement of the Initial Assessment in the 2022 Hycroft TRS to a pre-feasibility and/or feasibility study and additional exploration at the Hycroft Mine.

The Subscription Agreement with AMC, as amended as of April 8, 2022, also provided AMC with the right to appoint a director to the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) and the Company agreed to support such director’s nomination so long as AMC retains at least 50% of the Common Stock purchased under the Subscription Agreement with AMC and such ownership constitutes at least 5% of the voting power of the Company’s voting securities.

As part of the Subscription Agreements, the Company is required to file the resale registration statement, of which this prospectus forms a part, with the SEC, following the filing of the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 (the “2021 Form 10-K”) to register the Common Stock, New Warrants and Warrant Shares for sale under the Securities Act.

Agreement with Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Collector), LP

On November 10, 2021, the Company entered into a waiver with Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Collector) (the “Lender”) of certain provisions of the Sprott Credit Agreement effective November 10, 2021 (the “November 2021 Waiver”). Pursuant to the November 2021 Waiver, the Lender permitted the Company to cease active mining operations and to reduce the amount of unrestricted cash required to be maintained by the Company from not less than $10.0 million to not less than $9.0 million for the period ending May 10, 2022.

On February 28, 2022 the Company entered into a waiver and amendment agreement with the Lender and Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Co) Inc. (the “February 2022 Waiver and Amendment”) amending the November 2021 Waiver and requiring that the Company maintain at least $7.5 million of unrestricted cash on the last day of February 2022 and at least $9.0 million of unrestricted cash on the last day of each month thereafter during the waiver period, waived all obligations of the Company to prepay the facility with the net cash proceeds of any mill asset sales until the earlier of the date on which the Company completes a private placement or other offering or issuance of its equity securities and March 31, 2022, and extended the payment due date for the February additional interest payment and the February principal payment until the earlier of any such offering date and March 31, 2022.

On March 11, 2022, the Company entered into an agreement (the “March 2022 Sprott Agreement”) with the Lender with respect to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 29, 2020 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Sprott Credit Agreement”) among the Company, the Lender, the Guarantors (as defined in the Sprott Credit Agreement) and the other parties thereto. As described in the March 2022 Sprott Agreement, the Company was contemplating the sale or issuance of its equity securities pursuant to one or more transactions to be completed on or before March 31, 2022 (the “Equity Financing Transactions”). Pursuant to the March 2022 Sprott Agreement, if the Equity Financing Transactions result (or are likely to result pursuant to definitive subscription underwriting and/or similar legally binding agreements) in the Company’s receipt of total

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gross cash proceeds (before deduction of fees and expenses) of at least $50 million on or before March 31, 2022 (the “Required Equity Amount”), the Lender and the Company agreed to amend the principal repayment terms under the Sprott Credit Agreement such that no further scheduled payments of principal shall be required prior to May 31, 2025 (the “Maturity Date”) (i.e., there will be no required regular amortization payments of the Facility (as defined in the Sprott Credit Agreement) and the full principal balance of the facility shall be due and payable in a single “bullet” payment on the Maturity Date). The consummation of the 2022 Private Placement as described under “2022 Private Placement” above satisfied the Required Equity Amount condition in the March 2022 Sprott Agreement.

The March 2022 Sprott Agreement also provided that, in connection with the modification of the required facility amortization payments, the Company shall pay in-kind to the Lender an amount equal to $3.3 million, with such amount to be capitalized and added to the principal amount owing under the Sprott Credit Agreement and accrue interest at the same rate and upon the same terms as the existing loans under the Sprott Credit Agreement; provided, the payment or prepayment of such capitalized principal amount shall not be subject to the Prepayment Premium (as defined in the Sprott Credit Agreement) or any other penalty or premium.

Second Amendment and Restatement of Sprott Credit Agreement

On March 14, 2022, the Company reached an agreement in principle with the Lender to modify the terms of the Sprott Credit Agreement and other applicable loan documents. On March 30, 2022, the Company and Lender under the Sprott Credit Agreement entered into the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated March 30, 2022 (“Second A&R Agreement”), which (a) extended the maturity date for all of the loans and other principal obligations under the Sprott Credit Facility (as such term is defined in the Second A&R Agreement) by two years, to May 31, 2027; (b) provided for the Company to prepay principal under the Sprott Credit Facility in the amount of $10.0 million promptly upon the Company’s receipt of cash proceeds from the 2022 Private Placement offering with AMC and Eric Sprott (the “Initial Equity Proceeds Prepayment”); (c) provided for the Company to prepay principal under the Second A&R Agreement in the amount of $13.9 million (representing 10% of the subsequent issuance of its equity interests consummated on or prior to March 31, 2022) (the “Subsequent Equity Proceeds Prepayments”); and (d) eliminated the prepayment premiums otherwise payable with respect to the Initial Equity Proceeds Prepayment, the Subsequent Equity Proceeds Prepayments and all future prepayments of principal under the Sprott Credit Facility. In addition, the Company’s obligations (i) to prepay principal with proceeds of asset sales will be credited/offset by the $23.9 million aggregate amount of Initial Equity Proceeds Prepayment and the Subsequent Equity Proceeds Prepayments, and (ii) to maintain a minimum amount of Unrestricted Cash (as defined in the Second A&R Agreement) was increased to $15.0 million. Pursuant to the agreement in principal, the Company made the Initial Equity Proceeds Prepayment of $10.0 million and paid in kind a $3.3 million fee in connection with the modification and capitalized it to principal on March 16, 2022 and following the execution of the Second A&R Agreement on March 30, 2022, the Company (i) paid the previously deferred additional interest payment of $0.5 million, and (ii) made the Subsequent Equity Proceeds Prepayment of $13.9 million. After giving effect to such prepayments the outstanding principal balance under the Second A&R Agreement was estimated as of March 30, 2022 to be $57.9 million (before issuance discounts) including unpaid additional interest of approximately $7.1 million.

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Amendment to the 10% Senior Secured Notes and Note Exchange Agreement

On March 14, 2022, the Company entered into an amendment to the 10% Senior Secured Notes and Note Exchange Agreement (the “Note Amendment”), with (i) certain direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company as Guarantors; (ii) holders of the 10% Senior Secured Notes (the “Assumed New Subordinated Notes”), including certain funds affiliated with, or managed by, Mudrick Capital Management, L.P., Whitebox Advisors, LLC, Highbridge Capital Management, LLC, Aristeia Capital, LLC and Wolverine Asset Management, LLC (collectively, the “Amending Holders”), and (iii) Wilmington Trust, National Association, in its capacity as collateral agent. The Note Amendment amended the Note Exchange Agreement, dated as of January 13, 2020 (the “Note Exchange Agreement”), and the Assumed New Subordinated Notes issued thereunder in order to extend the maturity date of the Assumed New Subordinated Notes from December 1, 2025 to December 1, 2027. The Note Amendment also removed the requirements that a holder receive the consent of the Company and the other holders in order to transfer any Note. The Amending Holders constituted all of the holders of the Subordinated Notes. The Note Amendment became effective upon the closing of the 2022 Private Placement upon receipt of $55.9 million gross cash proceeds (before deduction of fees and expenses).

Amendment to the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation

On March 11, 2022, the Board approved an amendment to the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation increasing the number of authorized shares of the Common Stock by 1,000,000,000 to a total of 1,400,000,000 (the “Certificate of Incorporation Amendment”) and directed that the Certificate of Incorporation Amendment be submitted for consideration by the Company’s stockholders. On March 15, 2022, AMC, Eric Sprott, and entities affiliated with Mudrick Capital, which together constituted the holders of a majority of the Common Stock, approved the Certificate of Incorporation Amendment by written consent. The Certificate of Incorporation Amendment will not become effective until 20 days after the Company distributes an Information Statement on Schedule 14C to the stockholders of the Company. The Company commenced mailing of the Information Statement on Schedule 14C to the stockholders of the Company on April 1, 2022 and expects the Certificate of Incorporation Amendment to become effective upon filing with the Secretary of State of Delaware on or about April 22, 2022.

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Industry-related risks including:

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Risks related to our Common Stock and Warrants, including:

You should carefully review and consider the risk factors set forth under the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 20 of this prospectus.

Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company

We qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the “JOBS Act.” An emerging growth company may take advantage of specified reduced requirements and is relieved of certain other significant requirements that are otherwise generally applicable to public companies. As an emerging growth company:

We may take advantage of these provisions for up to five full fiscal years or such earlier time that we are no longer an emerging growth company. We may choose to take advantage of some but not all of these reduced burdens. We would cease to be an emerging

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growth company if we have more than $1 billion in annual revenues, have more than $700 million in market value of our shares of common stock held by non-affiliates, or issue more than $1 billion of non-convertible debt over a three-year period. The Company has elected not to opt out of the extended transition period which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, the Company, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of the Company’s financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company which has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

Corporate Information

We were incorporated on August 28, 2017 as a Delaware corporation under the name “Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation” and formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. On May 29, 2020, in connection with the consummation of the Recapitalization Transaction, we changed our name to “Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation”.

Our corporate headquarters is located at 4300 Water Canyon Road, Unit 1 Winnemucca, Nevada 89445, and our telephone number is (775) 304-0260. Our website is www.hycroftmining.com. The information found on, or that can be accessed from or that is hyperlinked to, our website is not part of this prospectus.

THE OFFERING

We are registering the issuance by us of up to 94,258,841 shares of our Common Stock that may be issued by us upon exercise of the Warrants to purchase Common Stock, including the public warrants, private placement warrants, forward purchase warrants, PIPE warrants, Seller warrants, October 2022 warrants and New Warrants. We are also registering the resale by the Selling Securityholders or their permitted transferees of (i) up to 71,211,526 shares of Common Stock, and (ii) up to 60,125,009 warrants to purchase Common Stock, including the private placement warrants, forward purchase warrants, PIPE warrants, October 2022 warrants and New Warrants. Any investment in the securities offered hereby is speculative and involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the information set forth under “Risk Factors” on page 20 of this prospectus.

As of April 12, 2022, we had 197,029,741 shares of Common Stock outstanding.

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Business-related risks including:

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Risks Related to Changes in Hycroft Mine Operations

We have mineral resources at the Hycroft Mine but they may not be brought into production.

We are not currently conducting commercial mining operations at the Hycroft Mine. There is no certainty that the mineral resources estimated at the Hycroft Mine will be mined or, if mined, processed profitably. We have no specific plans and cannot currently predict when we will be able to bring the Hycroft Mine back into production. The commercial viability of the Hycroft Mine is dependent on a number of factors, including metal prices, the availability of and ability to raise capital for development, government policy and regulation and environmental protection, which are beyond our control. We may not generate commercial-scale revenues until we bring the Hycroft Mine back into production.

The figures for our mineral resources are estimates based on interpretation and assumptions and the properties may yield less mineral production or less profit under actual conditions than is currently estimated.

Unless otherwise indicated, mineral resource figures in our filings with the SEC, press releases and other public statements that may be made from time to time are based upon estimates made by our personnel and independent geologists. These estimates are imprecise and depend upon geologic interpretation and statistical inferences drawn from drilling and sampling analysis, which may prove to be inaccurate. There can be no assurance that mineral resource or other mineralization figures will be accurate or that this mineralization could be mined or processed profitably.

Because we have not completed a feasibility study or recommenced commercial production at the Hycroft Mine, mineral resource estimates for our properties may require adjustments or downward revisions based upon further exploration or advancement work or actual production experience. In addition, the grade of ore ultimately mined, if any, may differ from that indicated by drilling results. There can be no assurance that recovery of minerals in small-scale tests will be duplicated in large-scale tests under on-site conditions or in production scale.

Until mineral resources are mined and processed, the quantity of ore and grades must be considered as an estimate only. In addition, the quantity of mineral resources may vary depending on metal prices, which largely determine whether mineral resources are classified as ore (economic to mine) or waste (uneconomic to mine). Current mineral resource estimates were calculated using sales prices of $1,800 per ounce of gold and $23.00 per ounce of silver. A material decline in the current price of gold or silver or material changes in our processing methods or cost assumptions could require a reduction in our mineral resource estimates. Any material reductions in estimates of mineral resources, or of our ability to upgrade these mineral resources to mineral reserves and extract these mineral resources, could have a material adverse effect on the our prospects and could restrict our ability to successfully implement our strategies for long-term growth. In addition, we can provide no assurance that gold and silver recoveries experienced in small-scale laboratory tests will be duplicated in larger scale tests under on-site conditions or during production.

We have not completed a feasibility study for the proposed processing method for the Hycroft Mine and actual capital costs, operating costs, production and economic returns may differ significantly from those the Company has anticipated. There are no assurances future advancement activities by the Company, if any, will lead to a favorable feasibility study or profitable mining operations.

We have completed and issued the 2022 Hycroft TRS with an effective date of February 18, 2022 which was prepared in accordance with the SEC’s Modernization Rules and which replaced the prior 2019 Hycroft TRS, prepared in accordance with the Modernization Rules. The 2022 Hycroft TRS is an Initial Assessment and is not a feasibility study for the Hycroft Mine. Typically a company will not make a production decision until it has completed a feasibility study. Feasibility studies derive estimates of cash operating costs based upon, among other things:

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Completing a feasibility study of the Hycroft Mine will require significant additional work and study in order to reduce the range of uncertainty associated with the study’s estimates and conclusions. Cash operating costs, production and economic returns, and other estimates contained in studies or estimates prepared by or for us may differ significantly from those anticipated by us and estimated costs as they are developed if too high may result in further delays or cancellation of advancement at the Hycroft Mine.

There is no certainty that a feasibility study for the Hycroft Mine will be completed or, if completed, that it will result in sufficiently favorable estimates of the economic viability of the Hycroft Mine to justify a construction decision.

We may not be able to successfully re-establish mining operations or profitably produce precious metals.

We currently have no ongoing commercial mining operations or sustaining revenue from the care and maintenance processing operations currently conducted at the Hycroft Mine. Mineral exploration and advancement involves a high degree of risk and few properties that are explored are ultimately developed into producing mines. The future advancement of the Hycroft Mine will require obtaining permits and financing and the construction and operation of the mine, processing plants and related infrastructure. Our ability to establish mining operations or profitably produce precious metals from the Hycroft Mine will be affected by:

It is common in new mining operations to experience unexpected problems and delays during advancement, construction, start-up commissioning, and transition to commercial operations. In addition, delays in the commencement of mineral production often occur. Accordingly, there are no assurances that, if we decide to initiate construction or mining activities, that we will be able to successfully establish mining operations or profitably produce gold and silver at the Hycroft Mine.

Industry-Related Risks

The market prices of gold and silver are volatile. A decline in gold and silver prices could result in decreased revenues, decreased net income, increased losses and decreased cash inflows which may negatively affect our business.

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disposal of precious metals stockpiles, global and regional demand and production, political and economic conditions and other factors. The prices of gold and silver, as quoted by The London Bullion Market Association on April 11, 2022, December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, were $1,952, $1,820 and $1,891 per ounce for gold, respectively, and $25.05, $23.09 and $26.49 per ounce for silver, respectively. The prices of gold and silver may decline in the future. A substantial or extended decline in gold or silver prices would adversely impact our financial position, revenues, net income and cash flows, particularly in light of our current strategy of not engaging in hedging transactions with respect to gold or silver. In addition, sustained lower gold or silver prices may adversely affect our business, including:

The COVID-19 pandemic may adversely impact our business and financial condition.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused, and is expected to continue to cause, disruptions in regional economies and the world economy and financial and commodity markets in general. The transmission of COVID-19 and efforts to contain its spread have resulted in international, national and local border closings, travel restrictions, significant disruptions to business operations, supply chains and customer activity and demand, service cancellations, workforce reductions and other changes, significant challenges in healthcare service provision and delivery, mandated closures and quarantines, as well as considerable general concern and uncertainty, all of which have negatively affected the economic environment and may in the future have further and larger impacts. The full extent of the impact of the pandemic on the economy and commodity prices, including gold and silver prices, is not known at this time and it is not known what measures will be implemented by governmental authorities in the future and how long these measures, or the measures currently in effect, will be in place. The COVID-19 global pandemic and efforts to reduce its spread have led to a significant decline of economic activity and significant disruption and volatility in global markets. Additionally, COVID-19 has disrupted the capital markets world-wide and commodity prices, including gold prices, and we may be unable to complete future capital raising transactions if continued concerns relating to COVID-19 cause further significant market disruptions. We cannot at this time predict the duration of the coronavirus pandemic or the impact of government regulations that might be imposed in response of the pandemic; however, the coronavirus pandemic may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations and cash flows.

We face intense competition in the recruitment and retention of qualified employees.

The mining industry is intensely competitive for employees and includes several large established mining companies with substantial mining capabilities and with greater financial and technical resources than ours. We compete with other mining companies in the recruitment and retention of qualified managerial and technical employees. If we are unable to successfully attract and retain qualified employees, our exploration and development programs and/or our care and maintenance operations may be slowed down or suspended, which may adversely impact our development, financial condition and results of operations and our ability to raise additional capital.

We cannot be certain that our future development activities will be commercially successful.

Substantial expenditures are required to construct and operate the Hycroft Mine including additional equipment and infrastructure such as is typically seen in a milling and Acid POX plant to allow for extraction of gold and silver from the sulfide mineral resource, to further develop our Hycroft Mine to establish mineral reserves and identify new mineral resources through drilling and analysis. In 2022, our current plan is to continue to advance the Acid POX evaluation reflected in the Initial Assessment in the 2022 Hycroft TRS. In conjunction with that Initial Assessment, we intend to focus much of our technical efforts for 2022 on, among other things, (1) completing metallurgical testing including bench top autoclave tests and review the results thereof; (2) reviewing historical drilling data in the drillhole database to identify areas of potential underestimated silver and improve where applicable through rerunning available pulps; (3) follow-up on higher grades encountered during the 2021 drill program to improve overall grade of mineral resources; (4) assessing the potential to convert material currently considered waste and upgrade inferred material to a higher resource

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classification in the designed pits through a drill program and initiate said program. We cannot provide any assurance that an economic process can be developed for the sulfide mineral resource using Acid POX or other similar sulfide extraction processes, that any mineral resources discovered will be in sufficient quantities and grades to justify commercial operations or that the funds required for development can be obtained on a timely or economic basis.

A number of factors, including costs, actual mineralization, consistency and reliability of ore grades and commodity and reagent quantities and prices affect successful project development. The efficient operation of processing facilities, the existence of competent operational management, as well as the availability and reliability of appropriately skilled and experienced consultants also can affect successful project development. We can provide no assurance that the development and advancement of the Hycroft Mine sulfide processing operations will result in economically viable mining operations.

Our reliance on third-party contractors and consultants to conduct our exploration and development projects exposes us to risks.

In connection with the exploration and development of the Hycroft Mine, we contract and engage third party contractors and consultants to assist with aspects of such projects. As a result, we are subject to a number of risks, some of which are outside our control, including:

In addition, we may incur liability to third parties as a result of the actions of our contractors or consultants. The occurrence of one or more of these risks could increase our costs, interrupt or delay our exploration or development activities or our ability to access our ores, and adversely affect our liquidity, results of operations and financial position.

A shortage of equipment and supplies and/or the time it takes such items to arrive at our Hycroft Mine could adversely affect our ability to operate our business.

We are dependent on various supplies and equipment to engage in exploration and development activities. The shortage of such supplies, equipment and parts and/or the time it takes such items to arrive at our Hycroft Mine could have a material adverse effect on our ability to explore and develop the Hycroft Mine. Such shortages could also result in increased costs and cause delays in exploration and development projects.

Mining development and processing operations pose inherent risks and costs that may negatively impact our business.

Mining development and processing operations involve many hazards and uncertainties, including, among others:

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These occurrences could result in damage to, or destruction of, our properties or production facilities, personal injury or death, environmental damage, delays in future mining or processing, increased future production costs, asset write downs, monetary losses and legal liability, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our future development plans and ability to raise additional capital.

Environmental regulations could require us to make significant expenditures or expose us to potential liability.

To the extent we become subject to environmental liabilities, the payment of such liabilities or the costs that we may incur, including costs to remedy environmental pollution, would reduce funds otherwise available to us and could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity. If we are unable to fully remedy an environmental violation or release of hazardous substances, we might be required to suspend operations or enter into interim compliance measures pending completion of the required remedy or corrective action. The environmental standards that may ultimately be imposed at a mine site can vary and may impact the cost of remediation. Actual remedial costs may exceed the financial accruals that have been made for such remediation. Additionally, the timing of the remedial costs may be materially different from the current remediation plan. The potential exposure may be significant and could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Moreover, governmental authorities and private parties may bring lawsuits based upon damage to property or natural resources and injury to persons resulting from the environmental, health and safety impacts of our past and current operations, which could lead to the imposition of substantial fines, remediation costs, penalties, injunctive relief and other civil and criminal sanctions. Substantial costs and liabilities, including those required to restore the environment after the closure of mines, are inherent in our operations. We cannot provide any assurance that any such law, regulation, enforcement or private claim will not have a negative effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

We are subject to numerous governmental permits that are difficult to obtain and we may not be able to obtain or renew all of the permits we require, or such permits may not be timely obtained or renewed.

In the ordinary course of business we are required to obtain and renew governmental permits for our current limited operations at the Hycroft Mine. We will also need additional governmental permits to accomplish our long-term plans to mine sulfide ores under plans yet to be developed. Obtaining or renewing the necessary governmental permits is a complex and time-consuming process involving costly undertakings by us. The duration and success of our efforts to obtain and renew permits are contingent upon many variables not within our control, including the interpretation of applicable requirements implemented by the permitting authority and intervention by third parties in any required environmental review. We may not be able to obtain or renew permits that are necessary on a timely basis or at all, and the cost to obtain or renew permits may exceed our estimates. Failure to comply with the terms of our

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permits may result in injunctions, fines, suspension or revocation of permits and other penalties. We can provide no assurance that we have been, or will at all times be, in full compliance with all of the terms of our permits or that we have all required permits. The costs and delays associated with compliance with these permits and with the permitting process could alter all or a portion of any mine plan we may propose in the future, delay or stop us from proceeding with the development of the Hycroft Mine or increase the costs of development or production, any or all of which may materially adversely affect our business, prospects, results of operations, financial condition and liquidity.

Failure to comply with environmental regulations could result in penalties and costs.

While the Hycroft Mine is not conducting active mining operations, our facilities and prior operations have been and are, and our future development plans may continue to be, subject to extensive federal and state environmental regulation, including those enacted under the following laws:

Additional regulatory authorities may also have or have had jurisdiction over some of our operations and mining projects including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, BLM, and the Nevada Department of Wildlife.

These environmental regulations require us to obtain various permits, approvals and licenses and also impose standards and controls relating to development and production activities. For instance, we are required to hold a Nevada Reclamation Permit with respect to the Hycroft Mine. This permit mandates concurrent and post-mining reclamation of mines and requires the posting of reclamation bonds sufficient to guarantee the cost of mine reclamation. Changes to the amount required to be posted for reclamation bonds could materially affect our financial position, results of operations, cash flows and liquidity. Also, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may designate critical habitat and suitable habitat areas it believes are necessary for survival of a threatened or endangered species. A critical habitat or suitable habitat designation could result in further material restrictions to land use and may materially delay or prohibit land access for our development. For example, we had to obtain certain permits associated with mining in the area of an eagle habitat. Failure to obtain such required permits or failure to comply with federal and state regulations could also result in delays in beginning or expanding exploration, future operations, incurring additional costs for investigation or cleanup of hazardous substances, payment of penalties for non-compliance or discharge of pollutants, and post-mining closure, reclamation and bonding, all of which could have a material adverse impact on our financial performance, results of operations and liquidity.

Compliance with current and future government regulations may cause us to incur significant costs.

Mining operations are subject to extensive federal and state legislation governing matters such as mine safety, occupational health, labor standards, prospecting, exploration, production, exports, toxic and hazardous substances, explosives, management of natural resources, land use, water use, air emissions, waste disposal, environmental review and taxes. While we have ceased operations at the Hycroft Mine, continued compliance with these regulations and other legislation relating to our obligations with respect to the Hycroft Mine and its future development could require us to make significant financial outlays to comply with these

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laws. The enactment of new legislation or more stringent enforcement of current legislation may also increase these costs, which could have a negative effect on our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity. We cannot provide any assurances that we will be able to adapt to these regulatory developments on a timely or cost-effective basis. Violations of these laws, regulations and other regulatory requirements could lead to substantial fines, penalties or other sanctions, including possible shutdown of future operations, as applicable.

There are uncertainties as to title matters in the mining industry. Any defects in such title could cause us to lose our rights in mineral properties and jeopardize our business.

Our mineral properties consist of private mineral rights, leases covering private lands, leases of patented mining claims and unpatented mining claims. Areas of the Hycroft Mine are unpatented mining claims located on lands administered by the BLM Nevada State office to which we have only possessory title. Because title to unpatented mining claims is subject to inherent uncertainties, it is difficult to determine conclusively ownership of such claims. These uncertainties relate to such things as sufficiency of mineral discovery, proper location and posting and marking of boundaries, and possible conflicts with other claims not determinable from descriptions of record. We believe a substantial portion of all mineral exploration, development and mining in the United States now occurs on unpatented mining claims, and this uncertainty is inherent in the mining industry.

The present status of our unpatented mining claims located on public lands allows us the right to mine and remove valuable minerals, such as precious and base metals, from the claims conditioned upon applicable environmental reviews and permitting programs. We also are generally allowed to use the surface of the land solely for purposes related to mining and processing the mineral-bearing ores. However, legal ownership of the land remains with the United States. We remain at risk that the mining claims may be forfeited either to the United States or to rival private claimants due to failure to comply with statutory requirements. Prior to 1994, a mining claim locator who was able to prove the discovery of valuable, locatable minerals on a mining claim, and to meet all other applicable federal and state requirements and procedures pertaining to the location and maintenance of federal unpatented mining claims, had the right to prosecute a patent application to secure fee title to the mining claim from the Federal government. The right to pursue a patent, however, has been subject to a moratorium since October 1994, through federal legislation restricting the BLM from accepting any new mineral patent applications. If we do not obtain fee title to our unpatented mining claims, we can provide no assurance that we will be able to obtain compensation in connection with the forfeiture of such claims.

There may be challenges to title to the mineral properties in which we hold a material interest. If there are title defects with respect to any properties, we might be required to compensate other persons or perhaps reduce our interest in the affected property. Also, in any such case, the investigation and resolution of title issues would divert our management’s time from ongoing business operations.

Our insurance may not cover all of the risks associated with our business.

The mining business is subject to risks and hazards, including, but not limited to, environmental hazards, industrial accidents, the encountering of unusual or unexpected geological formations, slide-ins, flooding, earthquakes and periodic interruptions due to inclement or hazardous weather conditions. These occurrences could result in damage to, or destruction of, mineral properties, equipment or facilities, personal injury or death, environmental damage, asset write-downs, monetary losses and possible legal liability. Insurance fully covering many of these risks is not generally available to us and if it is, we may elect not to obtain it because of the high premium costs or commercial impracticality. Any liabilities incurred for these risks and hazards could be significant and could materially and adversely affect our results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.

Legislation has been proposed periodically that could, if enacted, significantly affect the cost of mine development on our unpatented mining claims.

Members of the U.S. Congress have periodically introduced bills which would supplant or alter the provisions of the Mining Law of 1872. Such bills have proposed, among other things, to either eliminate or greatly limit the right to a mineral patent and to impose a federal royalty on production from unpatented mining claims. Such proposed legislation could change the cost of holding unpatented mining claims and could significantly impact our ability to develop mineralized material on unpatented mining claims. A majority of our mining claims are unpatented claims. Although we cannot predict what legislated royalties might be, the enactment of these proposed bills could adversely affect the potential for development of our unpatented mining claims and the economics of any future

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mine operations on federal unpatented mining claims. Passage of such legislation could adversely affect our financial performance and results of operations.

Regulations and pending legislation governing issues involving climate change could result in increased operating costs, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.

A number of governments or governmental bodies have introduced or are contemplating regulatory changes in response to various climate change interest groups and the potential impact of climate change. Legislation and increased regulation regarding climate change could materially increase our costs, and the costs of our suppliers, for further exploration and development of the Hycroft Mine, including costs related to increased energy requirements, capital equipment, environmental monitoring and reporting and other costs to comply with such regulations. Any adopted future climate change regulations could also negatively impact our ability to compete with companies situated in areas not subject to such regulations. Given the emotion, political significance and uncertainty around the impact of climate change and how it should be dealt with, we cannot predict how legislation and regulation will affect our financial condition, operating performance and ability to compete. Furthermore, even without such regulation, increased awareness and any adverse publicity in the global marketplace about potential impacts on climate change by us or other companies in our industry could harm our reputation.

Climate change could have an adverse impact on our cost of operations.

The potential physical impacts of climate change on our development activities or future operations are highly uncertain and would be particular to the area in which we operate. These climate changes may include changes in rainfall and storm patterns and intensities, water shortages and changing temperatures. These changes in climate could adversely affect our mining operations, including by affecting the moisture levels and pH of ore on our leach pads, could materially and adversely affect the cost to construct and operate the Hycroft Mine and materially and adversely affect the financial performance of our operations.

Business-Related Risks

We will need to raise additional capital, but such capital may not be available on favorable terms or at all.

The exploration and development of our Hycroft Mine for mining and processing our mineral resources will require significant investment. Failure to obtain sufficient financing may result in the delay or indefinite postponement of exploration, development or production at the Hycroft Mine. The covenants in the Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, could significantly limit our ability to secure new or additional credit facilities, increase our cost of borrowing, and make it difficult or impossible to raise additional capital on favorable terms or at all.

Our primary future cash requirements for 2022 will be to fund working capital needs, capital and project expenditures, satisfying debt service required under the Sprott Credit Agreement, , as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, and other corporate expenses so that we can continue to develop the Hycroft Mine by conducting targeted exploration and completing the necessary technical studies to determine the likely timeline to bring the sulfide mineral resources into commercial scale operation. As of December 31, 2021 we had cash of $12.3 million and as of March 30, 2022 had raised approximately $194.4 million in gross proceeds, before (i) deduction of commissions, fees and expenses, from a private placement of our equity securities and from an “at-the-market” public equity offering of our common stock and (ii) prepayments of debt under the Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement. You are cautioned that management’s expectations regarding our liquidity and capital resources are based on a number of assumptions that we believe are reasonable but could prove to be incorrect. For example, our expectations are based on assumptions regarding exploration and development costs, commodity prices, gold and silver recovery percentages and rates, production estimates, anticipated costs and other factors that are subject to a number of risks, many of which are beyond our control. If our assumptions prove to be incorrect, we may require additional financing sooner than we expect to continue to operate our business, which may not be available on favorable terms or at all and which could have a material adverse effect on our prospects, results of operations, financial condition and liquidity.

If we lose key personnel or are unable to attract and retain additional personnel, we may be unable to develop our business.

Our development in the future will be highly dependent on the efforts of key management employees, specifically, Diane R. Garrett, Ph.D., our President and Chief Executive Officer, Stanton Rideout, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer,

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and other key employees that we may hire in the future. We will need to recruit and retain other qualified managerial and technical employees to build and maintain our operations. If we are unable to successfully recruit and retain such persons, our development and growth could be significantly curtailed.

The Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, imposes significant operating and financial restrictions that may limit our ability to operate our business.

The Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, imposes significant operating and financial restrictions on us and our restricted subsidiaries. These restrictions limit our ability and the ability of our restricted subsidiaries to, among other things, as applicable:

These restrictions could limit our ability to finance our future operations or capital needs, make acquisitions or pursue available business opportunities.

In addition, the Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, requires us to comply with a number of customary covenants, including:

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We have received several waivers to date from covenant obligations under the Sprott Credit Agreement prior to the amendment and restatement in the Second A&R Agreement. We cannot assure you that we will satisfy these covenants or that our lenders will continue to waive any future failure to do so. A breach of any of the covenants under the Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, could result in a default. If a default occurs under the Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, and/or the Royalty Agreement among the Company, our wholly owned subsidiary Hycroft Resources and Development, LLC and Sprott Private Resource Lending II (CO) Inc., (the “Sprott Royalty Agreement”), the lenders could elect to declare the debt, together with accrued interest and other fees, to be immediately due and payable and proceed against the collateral securing that debt, which, in the case of the Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, and the Sprott Royalty Agreement, constitutes all or substantially all of our assets.

Our substantial indebtedness could adversely affect our financial condition.

As of March 31, 2022, we had substantial outstanding indebtedness under the Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, and the Assumed New Subordinated Notes. Subject to the limits and terms contained in the Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, if we are able to incur additional debt or grant additional security interests from time to time to finance working capital, capital expenditures, investments or acquisitions, or for other purposes, then the risks related to our high level of debt could intensify. Our high level of debt with no active mining operations to generate revenue, could:

Any of the above-listed factors could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and our ability to meet our payment obligations under our debt, and the price of our Common Stock. The Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, contains restrictive covenants that limit our ability to engage in activities that may be in our long-term best interest. Our failure to comply with those covenants could result in an event of default which, if not cured or waived, could result in the acceleration of nearly all of our debt.

If we default on our obligations to pay any of our indebtedness or otherwise default under the agreements governing our indebtedness, lenders could accelerate such debt and we may be subject to restrictions on the payment of our other debt obligations or cause a cross-acceleration.

Any default under the agreements governing our indebtedness that is not waived by the required lenders or holders of such indebtedness, and the remedies sought by the holders of such indebtedness, could prevent us from paying principal, premium, if any, and interest on other debt instruments. If we are unable to generate sufficient cash flow or are otherwise unable to obtain funds necessary to meet required payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest on our indebtedness and royalty payment obligations, or if we otherwise fail to comply with the various covenants in any agreement governing our indebtedness, we would be in default

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under the terms of the agreements governing such indebtedness and other indebtedness under the cross- default and cross-acceleration provisions of such agreements. In the event of such default:

As a result of such default and any actions the lenders may take in response thereto, we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation.

We may not have sufficient cash or we may not be able to generate sufficient cash to service our outstanding indebtedness and may be forced to take other actions to satisfy our obligations under our indebtedness, which may not be successful.

Our ability to make scheduled payments on our debt and royalty obligations or refinance our debt obligations (if necessary) depends on our unrestricted cash on hand, financial condition, which is subject to prevailing economic and competitive conditions and to certain financial, business, legislative, regulatory and other factors beyond our control, including the market prices of gold and silver. We may be unable to maintain a level of cash flow sufficient to permit us to pay the principal, premium, if any, and interest on our indebtedness.

If our cash flows and capital resources are insufficient to fund our debt service obligations, we could face substantial liquidity problems and could be forced to reduce or delay investments and capital expenditures or to dispose of material assets, seek additional debt or equity capital or restructure or refinance our indebtedness. We may not be able to effect any such alternative measures, if necessary, on commercially reasonable terms or at all and, even if successful, those alternative actions may not allow us to meet our scheduled debt service obligations. The Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, restricts our ability to dispose of assets and use the proceeds from those dispositions and may also restrict our ability to raise debt to be used to repay other indebtedness when it becomes due. We may not be able to consummate those dispositions or to obtain proceeds in an amount sufficient to meet any debt service payment obligations then due.

Our inability to generate sufficient cash flows to satisfy our debt obligations, or to refinance our indebtedness on commercially reasonable terms or at all, would materially and adversely affect our financial position and results of operations and our ability to satisfy our obligations.

If we cannot make scheduled payments on our debt, we will be in default and the lenders under the Sprott Credit Agreement, as amended and restated in the Second A&R Agreement, could foreclose against the assets securing their borrowings and we could be forced into bankruptcy or liquidation.

Land reclamation requirements for the Hycroft Mine may be burdensome and expensive and include requirements that we provide financial assurance supporting those requirements.

Land reclamation requirements are generally imposed on companies with mining operations in order to minimize long-term effects of land disturbance. Reclamation may include requirements to control dispersion of potentially deleterious effluents, treat ground and surface water to drinking water standards, and reasonably re-establish pre-disturbance landforms and vegetation.

In order to carry out reclamation obligations imposed on us in connection with our activities, we must allocate financial resources that might otherwise be spent on further development programs. We have established a provision for our reclamation obligations on the Hycroft Mine property, as appropriate, but this provision may not be adequate. If we are required to carry out unanticipated reclamation work, our financial position could be adversely affected.

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available to us or we may elect not to obtain it because of the high costs, associated collateral requirements may be too expensive or it may be commercially impractical which could adversely affect our financial position.

We are dependent upon information technology systems that are subject to disruption, damage, failure and risks associated with implementation and integration.

We are dependent upon information technology systems in the conduct of our operations. Our information technology systems are subject to disruption, damage or failure from a variety of sources, including, without limitation, computer viruses, security breaches, cyber-attacks, natural disasters and defects in design. Cybersecurity incidents, in particular, are evolving and include, but are not limited to, malicious software, attempts to gain unauthorized access to data and other electronic security breaches that could lead to disruptions in systems, extortion to prevent or the unauthorized release of confidential or otherwise protected information and the corruption of data. Given the unpredictability of the timing, nature and scope of information technology disruptions, we could potentially be subject to operational downtimes, operational delays, extortion, the compromising of confidential or otherwise protected information, destruction or corruption of data, security breaches, other manipulation or improper use of our systems and networks or financial losses from remedial actions, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our cash flows, financial condition or results of operations.

We could also be adversely affected by system or network disruptions if new or upgraded information technology systems are defective, not installed properly or not properly integrated into our operations. System modification failures could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position and results of operations and could, if not successfully implemented, adversely impact the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting.

We identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting and determined that our disclosure controls and procedures were ineffective which, if not remediated, may result in material misstatements of our consolidated financial statements or cause us to fail to meet our periodic reporting obligations.

In connection with the restatement of our consolidated financial statements on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2020, management concluded there was a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim consolidated financial statements would not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

Management identified a material weakness in our controls over the accounting for the 5-Year Private Warrants issued in connection with the initial public offering of MUDS and recorded to our consolidated financial statements as a result of the Recapitalization Transaction that was consummated on May 29, 2020. Our controls to evaluate the accounting for complex financial instruments, such as for warrants issued by MUDS, did not operate effectively to appropriately apply the provisions of ASC 815-40. This material weakness resulted in a material error in our accounting for the 5-Year Private Warrants recorded as part of the Recapitalization Transaction and a restatement of our previously issued consolidated financial statements as more fully described in Note 25 - Restatement of Previously Issued Audited Financial Statements to the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements set forth in our Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2020. As a result, Management concluded that, as of December 31, 2020, our internal control over financial reporting and our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective.

To remediate the material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, management implemented additional review procedures, and additional training and enhancements to the accounting policy related to the accounting for equity and liability instruments (including those with warrants) to determine proper accounting in accordance with GAAP.

Although our remediation plan has been implemented and completed as of the filing date of the 2021 Form 10-K, the material weakness cannot be considered remediated until the controls operate for a sufficient period and management has concluded, through testing, that our internal controls are operating effectively. While management believes that the remedial efforts will resolve the identified material weakness, there is no assurance that management’s remedial efforts conducted to date will be sufficient or that additional remedial actions will not be necessary. In addition, there can be no assurance that additional material weaknesses will not be identified in the future. If we are unsuccessful in remediating our existing or any future material weaknesses or other deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures, investors may lose confidence in our financial reporting and the accuracy and timing of our financial reporting and disclosures and our business, reputation, results of operations, liquidity, financial condition, ability to access the capital markets, perceptions of our creditworthiness, and stock price could be

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adversely affected. In addition, we may be unable to maintain or regain compliance with applicable securities laws or stock market listing requirements.

In addition, there can be no assurance that additional material weaknesses will not be identified in the future. If we are unsuccessful in remediating our existing or any future material weaknesses or other deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures, investors may lose confidence in our financial reporting and the accuracy and timing of our financial reporting and disclosures and our business, reputation, results of operations, liquidity, financial condition, ability to access the capital markets, perceptions of our creditworthiness, and stock price could be adversely affected. In addition, we may be unable to maintain or regain compliance with applicable securities laws or stock market listing requirements.

Our three largest stockholders are able to exert significant influence over matters submitted to stockholders for approval, which could delay or prevent a change in corporate control or result in the entrenchment of management or the Board, possibly conflicting with the interests of our other stockholders.

As of March 31, 2022, Mudrick Capital, Eric Sprott and AMC owned approximately 12.4%, 11.9% and 11.9% of our outstanding voting securities, respectively, and have the right to acquire 13,308,529, 23,408,240 and 23,408,240 additional shares of Common Stock, respectively, upon the exercise of New Warrants held by them, subject to any election of a beneficial ownership blocker. Because of their significant stockholdings, each of Mudrick Capital, Eric Sprott and AMC could exert significant influence in determining the outcome of corporate actions requiring stockholder approval and otherwise influence our business. In addition, AMC has exercised its contractual right under its Subscription Agreement, as amended, to appoint a representative to our Board. This influence could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of the Company or entrenching management or the Board, which could conflict with the interests of other stockholders and, consequently, could adversely affect the market price of our Common Stock.

Risks related to our Common Stock and Warrants

The market prices and trading volume of shares of our Common Stock have recently experienced, and may continue to experience, extreme volatility, which could cause purchasers of our Common Stock to incur substantial losses.

The market prices and trading volume of shares of our Common Stock have recently experienced, and may continue to experience, extreme volatility, which could cause purchasers of our Common Stock to incur substantial losses. For example, during 2022 to April 12, 2022, the market price of our Common Stock has fluctuated from an intra-day low of $0.284 per share on March 2, 2022 to an intra-day high of $3.10 on March 29, 2022, and the last recorded sales price of our common stock on Nasdaq on April 12, 2022, was $2.00 per share. During 2022 to April 12, 2022, daily trading volume ranged from approximately 78,900 to 386,186,700 shares.

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The market price of our shares of Common Stock and publicly-traded warrants may fluctuate widely.

The trading price of our Common Stock and Warrants listed for trading may fluctuate substantially and may be lower than their current prices. The market prices and trading volume of shares of our Common Stock have recently experienced, and may continue to experience, extreme volatility, which could cause purchasers of our Common Stock to incur substantial losses. We may continue to incur rapid and substantial increases or decreases in our stock price in the foreseeable future that may not coincide in timing with the disclosure of news or developments by or affecting us. Accordingly, the market price of shares of our Common Stock may fluctuate dramatically, and may decline rapidly, regardless of any developments in our business. Overall, there are various factors, many of which are beyond our control, that could negatively affect the market price of our common stock or result in fluctuations in the price or trading volume of our common stock, including:

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In addition, in the past, following periods of volatility in the overall market and the market prices of particular companies’ securities, securities class action litigations have often been instituted against these companies. Litigation of this type, if instituted against us, could result in substantial costs and a diversion of our management’s attention and resources. Any adverse determination in any such litigation or any amounts paid to settle any such actual or threatened litigation could require that we make significant payments.

You may experience dilution as a result of future equity offerings.

On March 14, 2022, we entered into definitive agreements to issue 46,816,480 Units in the 2022 Private Placement, with each Unit consisting of one share of our Common Stock and one New Warrant to purchase one share of Common Stock. In addition, we conducted an “at-the-market” registered public offering in which we sold 89,553,602 additional shares of our Common Stock. The 2022 Private Placement and the “at-the-market’ registered public offering substantially increased the number of our issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock. In the future, we may issue additional shares of our Common Stock to raise cash to bolster our liquidity, to pay indebtedness, for working capital, to finance strategic initiatives and future acquisitions or for other purposes. We may also issue securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, shares of our Common Stock. We may also acquire interests in other companies or other assets by using a combination of cash and shares of our Common Stock or just shares of our Common Stock. We may sell shares of our Common Stock or other securities in any other offering at a price per share that is less than the prices per share paid by investors, and investors purchasing shares or other securities in the future could have rights superior to existing stockholders. The price per share at which we sell additional shares of our Common Stock, or securities convertible into, exercisable or exchangeable for shares of our Common Stock, in future transactions may be higher or lower than the prices per share paid by investors. Additional equity offerings may dilute the holdings of our existing stockholders or reduce the market price of our Common Stock, or both. Any of these events may dilute the ownership interests of current stockholders, reduce our earnings per share or have an adverse effect on the price of shares of our Common Stock. Further, sales of substantial amounts of our Common Stock, or the perception that these sales could occur, could have a material adverse effect on the price of our Common Stock.

A “short squeeze” due to a sudden increase in demand for shares of our Common Stock that largely exceeds supply and/or focused investor trading in anticipation of a potential short squeeze have led to, may be currently leading to, and could again lead to, extreme price volatility in shares of our Common Stock.

Investors may purchase shares of our Common Stock to hedge existing exposure or to speculate on the price of our Common Stock. Speculation on the price of our Common Stock may involve long and short exposures. To the extent aggregate short exposure exceeds the number of shares of our Common Stock available for purchase on the open market, investors with short exposure may have to pay a premium to repurchase shares of our Common Stock for delivery to lenders of our Common Stock. Those repurchases may, in turn, dramatically increase the price of shares of our Common Stock until additional shares of our Common Stock are available for trading or borrowing. This is often referred to as a “short squeeze.” With the recent substantial increase in volume of our shares being traded and trading price, the proportion of our Common Stock that may be traded in the future by short sellers may increase the likelihood that our Common Stock will be the target of a short squeeze. A short squeeze and/or focused investor trading in anticipation of a short squeeze have led to, may be currently leading to, and could again lead to volatile price movements in shares of our Common Stock that may be unrelated or disproportionate to our financial performance or prospects and, once investors purchase the shares of our Common Stock necessary to cover their short positions, or if investors no longer believe a short squeeze is viable, the price of our Common Stock may rapidly decline. Investors that purchase shares of our Common Stock during a short squeeze may lose a significant portion of their investment. Under the circumstances, we caution you against investing in our Common Stock, unless you are prepared to incur the risk of losing all or a substantial portion of your investment.

Information available in public media that is published by third parties, including blogs, articles, online forums, message boards and social and other media may include statements not attributable to us and may not be reliable or accurate.

We have received, and may continue to receive, a high degree of media coverage that is published or otherwise disseminated by third parties, including blogs, articles, online forums, message boards and social and other media. This includes coverage that is not attributable to statements made by our directors, officers or employees. You should read carefully, evaluate and rely only on the

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information contained in documents filed with the SEC in determining whether to purchase shares of our Common Stock. Information provided by third parties may not be reliable or accurate and could materially impact the trading price of our Common Stock which could cause losses to your investments.

Increases in market interest rates may cause potential investors to seek higher returns and therefore reduce demand for our Common Stock, which could result in a decline in our stock price.

One of the factors that may influence the price of our Common Stock is the return on our Common Stock (i.e., the amount of distributions as a percentage of the price of our Common Stock) relative to market interest rates. An increase in market interest rates, which are currently at low levels relative to historical rates, may lead prospective purchasers of our Common Stock to expect a return, which we may be unable or choose not to provide as we have never paid a dividend and have no current intention to pay any dividends. Further, higher interest rates would likely increase our borrowing costs and potentially decrease the cash available. Thus, higher market interest rates could cause the market price of our Common Stock to decline.

Volatility in the price of our Common Stock may subject us to securities litigation.

As discussed above, the market for our Common Stock has been characterized recently by significant price volatility when compared to seasoned issuers, and we expect that our share price will continue to be more volatile than a seasoned issuer for the indefinite future. In the past, plaintiffs have often initiated securities class action litigation against a company following periods of volatility in the market price of its securities. We may in the future be the target of similar litigation. Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and liabilities and could divert management’s attention and resources.

We do not anticipate paying dividends on our Common Stock in the foreseeable future.

We currently plan to invest all available funds and future cash flows, if any, in the development and growth of our business. We have never paid dividends on our Common Stock and currently have no plans to do so. Our debt agreements contain provisions that restrict our ability to pay dividends. As a result, a rise in the market price of our Common Stock, which is uncertain and unpredictable, will be your sole source of potential gain in the foreseeable future and you should not rely on an investment in our Common Stock for dividend income.

Future offerings of debt, which would be senior to our Common Stock upon liquidation, and/or preferred equity securities, which may be senior to our Common Stock for purposes of distributions or upon liquidation, could adversely affect the market price of our Common Stock.

In the future, we may attempt to increase our capital resources by making additional offerings of debt or preferred equity securities, including convertible or non-convertible senior or subordinated notes, convertible or non-convertible preferred stock, medium-term notes and trust preferred securities. Upon liquidation, holders of our debt securities and shares of preferred stock and lenders with respect to other borrowings will receive distributions of our available assets prior to the holders of our Common Stock. In addition, any preferred stock we may issue could have a preference on liquidating distributions or a preference on distribution payments that could limit our ability to make a distribution to the holders of our Common Stock. Since our decision to issue securities in any future offering will depend on market conditions and other factors beyond our control, we cannot predict or estimate the amount, timing or nature of our future offerings. Thus, our stockholders bear the risk of our future offerings reducing the market price of our Common Stock.

We may receive a delisting notice from the Nasdaq Stock Market and our Common Stock and Warrants could be delisted from trading unless our Common Stock price trades above $1.00 per share.

On December 29, 2021, we received a written notice from the Listing Qualifications department of The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) indicating that we were not in compliance with the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (the “Listing Rule) for continued listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market. On March 24, 2022, Nasdaq informed us that we had resolved our deficiency and regained compliance with the Listing Rule. We can provide no assurance that the trading price of our Common Stock will not again fall below $1.00 per share for a period of 30 consecutive trading days and that we will not receive another notice that we were not in compliance with the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement set forth in Listing Rule for continued

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listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market or that we will be able to regain compliance with the minimum bid price requirement, even if we maintain compliance with the other listing requirements.

There is no guarantee that our outstanding public warrants will ever be in the money, and they may expire worthless.

We have 34,289,898 publicly traded warrants outstanding that entitle holders to purchase one share of our Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share for a period of five years from the Recapitalization Transaction. On October 6, 2020, we issued 9,583,334 units in an underwritten public offering at an offering price to of $9.00 per unit, with each unit consisting of one share of our Common Stock and one October 2020 warrant to purchase one share of our Common Stock at an exercise price of $10.50 per share.

Additionally, we assumed the obligations and liabilities under that certain warrant agreement, dated as of October 22, 2015, by and between Seller and Computershare Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its wholly owned subsidiary Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a federally chartered trust company, collectively as initial warrant agent; and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC was named as the successor warrant agent (the “Seller Warrant Agreement”). Pursuant to the assumption of the Seller Warrant Agreement, the warrants issued thereunder (the “Seller warrants”) became exercisable into shares of our common stock. The Seller warrants will expire by the terms on October 22, 2022. As of April 12, 2022, the exercise price for the Seller warrants was $40.31 per share of our Common Stock.

There is no guarantee that any or all of the public warrants will ever be in the money prior to their expiration, and as such, the warrants may expire worthless.

Our 5-Year Private Warrants are being accounted for as a warrant liability and are being recorded at fair value upon issuance with changes in fair value each period reported in earnings, which could increase the volatility in our net income (loss) and may have an adverse effect on the market price of our common stock.

In addition to other securities, warrants to purchase shares of our Common Stock were issued in a private placement to the SPAC sponsor and underwriter (the “5 Year Private Warrants”) in the aggregate amount of 7,740,000 shares of our Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share on May 29, 2020, and concurrently with the closing of the Recapitalization Transaction, as part of a forward purchase unit offering, we issued an additional 2,500,000 5-Year Private Warrants to the SPAC sponsor at an exercise price of $11.50 per share.

We have determined that the 5-Year Private Warrants are a liability that is marked-to-market with the non-cash fair value adjustments recorded in earnings at each reporting period. Changes in the trading price of our Common Stock and the fair value of the 5-Year Private Warrants could result in significant volatility in our warrant liability and our net income (loss) in our Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Anti-takeover provisions contained in our charter and bylaws, as well as provisions of Delaware law, could impair a takeover attempt.

Our charter contains provisions that may discourage unsolicited takeover proposals that stockholders may consider to be in their best interests. We are also subject to anti-takeover provisions under Delaware law, which could delay or prevent a change of control. Together, these provisions may make it more difficult to remove management and may discourage transactions that otherwise could involve payment of a premium over prevailing market prices for our securities. These provisions include:

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We are an “emerging growth company” and a “smaller reporting company,” and the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to us as such may make our common stock less attractive to our stockholders.

We qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Securities Act, as modified by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, which we refer to as the “JOBS Act.” As such, we have elected to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies for as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, including (i) the exemption from the auditor attestation requirements with respect to internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (ii) the exemptions from say-on-pay, say-on-frequency and say-on-golden parachute voting requirements and (iii) reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in its periodic reports and proxy statements. As a result, our stockholders may not have access to certain information they deem important. We will remain an emerging growth company until the earliest of (i) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following February 12, 2023, the fifth anniversary of the IPO, (b) in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion or (c) in which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which means the market value of our common stock that are held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the last business day of the Company’s prior second fiscal quarter, and (ii) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt during the prior three-year period.

In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of the exemption from complying with new or revised accounting standards provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act as long as we qualify as an emerging growth company. An emerging growth company can therefore delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. The JOBS Act provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies, but any such election to opt out is irrevocable. We have elected not to opt out of such extended transition period, which means that when a standard is issued or revised and it has different application dates for public or private companies, we, as an emerging growth company, can adopt the new or revised standard at the time private companies adopt the new or revised standard. This may make comparison of our consolidated financial statements with another public company which is neither an emerging growth company nor an emerging growth company that has opted out of using the extended transition period difficult or impossible because of the potential differences in accounting standards used.

We are also a “smaller reporting company”, and we will remain a smaller reporting company until the fiscal year following the determination that our voting and non-voting common stock held by non-affiliates is $250 million or more measured on the last business day of our second fiscal quarter, or our annual revenues are $100 million or more during the most recently completed fiscal year and our voting and non-voting common stock held by non-affiliates is $700 million or more measured on the last business day of our second fiscal quarter. Similar to emerging growth companies, smaller reporting companies are able to provide simplified executive compensation disclosure and have certain other reduced disclosure obligations, including, among other things, being required to provide only two years of audited financial statements. Our stockholders may find our common stock less attractive as a result of our status as an “emerging growth company” and “smaller reporting company” and our reliance on the reduced disclosure requirements afforded to these companies.

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and slags are sent to refineries to produce bullion that meets the required market standards of 99.95% pure gold and 99.90% pure silver. Under the terms of our refining agreements, doré bars and gold and silver laden carbons and slags are refined for a fee, and our share of the separately recovered refined gold and refined silver are credited to our account or delivered to our buyers.

Product Revenues and Customers

In 2021, revenues from gold and silver recovered from our pre-commercial scale heap leaching operations made up 91% and 9%, respectively, of our total revenue and, as such, we consider gold our principal product. In 2021, all of our revenues were derived from metal sales to two customers; however, we do not believe we have any dependencies on these customers due to the liquidity of the metal markets and the availability of other metal buyers and financial institutions.

Gold and Silver Uses

Gold and silver have two main categories of use: fabrication and investment. Fabricated gold has a variety of end uses, including jewelry, electronics, dentistry, industrial and decorative uses, medals, medallions and coins. Fabricated silver also has a variety of end uses, including jewelry, mirrors, cameras, electronics, energy, engines, novelty explosives and coins. Gold and silver investors buy gold and silver bullion, coins and jewelry.

Gold and Silver Supply and Demand

The supply of gold consists of a combination of current production from mining and metal recycling and the draw-down of existing stocks of gold held by governments, financial institutions, industrial organizations and private individuals. Based on publicly available information, gold production from mines increased 2% in 2021 compared with 2020 totaling approximately 3,561 metric tons (or 114.5 million troy ounces) and represented approximately 76.3% of the 2021 global gold supply of 4,666 metric tons. According to the World Gold Council, gold demand in 2021 was approximately 4,021 metric tons (or 129.3 million troy ounces) and totaled approximately $232.6 billion in value. In 2021, gold demand by sector was comprised of jewelry (54%), investments including bar and coin and ETFs (26%), central bank purchases (12%), and technology (8%).

The supply of silver consists of a combination of current production from mining (approximately 80%) and metal recycling and other (approximately 20%). Based on publicly available information, estimated silver production from mines increased approximately 8% in 2021 compared with 2020 totaling approximately 849 million troy ounces and represented approximately 80% of the estimated 2021 global silver supply of 1,056 million troy ounces. Estimated silver demand in 2021 was approximately 1,033 million troy ounces and totaled approximately $25.9 billion in value. In 2021, silver demand by sector was comprised of photovoltaics (10%), other industrial (41%), jewelry (18%), silverware (4%), photography (3%), and investments (24%).

Gold and Silver Prices

The price of gold and silver is volatile and is affected by many factors beyond our control, such as the sale or purchase of gold by central banks and financial institutions, inflation or deflation and monetary policies, fluctuation in the value of the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies, global and regional demand, and the political and economic conditions of major gold and silver producing countries throughout the world. The following table presents the annual high, low, and average last reported prices for gold and silver over the past three years on the London Bullion Market (in U.S. dollars per ounce).

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Nevada State Route 49 (Jungo Road), an all-weather, unpaved road that is maintained by Humboldt County and Hycroft. A major east–west railway runs immediately adjacent to the property.

The Hycroft Mine straddles Townships 34, 35, 35½ and 36 North and Ranges 28, 29 and 30 East (MDB&M) with an approximate latitude 40°52’ north and longitude 118°41’ west. The mine is situated on the western flank of the Kamma Mountains on the eastern edge of the Black Rock Desert.

The Hycroft Mine consists of 30 private parcels with patented claims that comprise approximately 1,912 acres, and 3,247 unpatented mining claims that encompass approximately 68,759 acres. The combined patented and unpatented claims comprise approximately 70,671 acres. The mining claims are comprised of two primary properties, Crofoot and Lewis. The Crofoot and Lewis properties together include approximately 11,829 acres. The Crofoot property covers approximately 3,500 acres and is virtually surrounded by the 8,400 acres of the Lewis property.

Existing facilities on-site include two administration buildings, a mobile maintenance shop, a light vehicle maintenance shop, a warehouse, three Heap Leach Pads – Crofoot, North, and Brimstone, primary, secondary and tertiary crushing systems, two Merrill-Crowe process plants and a refinery. It is considered that existing components of the mine property would be utilized for future development. The Hycroft Mine operates under permit authorizations from the BLM, Nevada Department Environmental Protection, Nevada Department Of Wildlife, Nevada Department of Water Resources and County agencies.

2022 Hycroft TRS

In February 2022, we, along with our third-party consultants, completed and filed the 2022 Hycroft TRS prepared in accordance with the Modernization Rules. The 2022 Hycroft TRS provides an Initial Assessment of the mineral resource estimate utilizing a milling and Acid POX process for sulfide mineralization and heap leaching process for oxide and transition mineralization. As a result of the milling and Acid POX process presented in the 2022 Hycroft TRS, as compared to the novel two-step oxidation and heap leach process in the 2019 Hycroft TRS prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Modernization Rules, and the associated fundamental changes to the assumptions underlying the 2019 Hycroft TRS, the 2022 Hycroft TRS supersedes and replaces the 2019 Hycroft TRS and the 2019 Hycroft TRS and information from such 2019 Hycroft TRS should no longer be relied upon. In addition, please see the sections entitled “Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors Regarding Mineral Resources”, “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements”, and “Risk Factors” when reviewing the information set forth in this section of the prospectus.

The information that follows relating to the Hycroft Mine is derived, for the most part, from, and in some instances is an extract from, the Initial Assessment 2022 Hycroft TRS. Portions of the following information are based on assumptions, qualifications and procedures that are not fully described herein. Reference should be made to the full text of the 2022 Hycroft TRS which is filed as Exhibit 96.1 to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part and is incorporated by reference herein.

The Company, together with its consultants, has continued to advance work on the mill Acid POX process through 2021 to treat the Hycroft sulfide mineral resource. The mill and Acid POX process remains the focus of ongoing work, as it generates higher gold and silver recoveries than the sulfide heap oxidation and leach process, which will be foundational in optimizing the economics of the deposit. Recoveries become a critical factor when mining begins in the higher-grade silver Vortex deposit. Acid POX recoveries will be further verified with ore-specific variability testing. As the work progressed, the Company also identified several opportunities that may yield significant additional economic benefits to the project.

Upon furnishing the 2022 Hycroft TRS, the Hycroft Mine had measured and indicated mineral resources of 9.6 million ounces of gold and 446.0 million ounces of silver and inferred mineral resources of 5.0 million ounces of gold and 150.4 million ounces of silver, which are contained in oxide, transitional, and sulfide ores. The Hycroft Mine does not have comparable mineral reserves and mineral resources to provide for the prior year or periods due to changes in its intended mining process and the fact that such information would have been under the 2019 Hycroft TRS that has been superseded and replaced by the 2022 Hycroft TRS. As a result, any meaningful comparison of year-end mineral resources and mineral reserves is not possible.

Overview and Highlights

The 2022 Hycroft TRS summarizes the results of an Initial Assessment and supports the disclosure of mineral resources at the Hycroft Mine utilizing a milling and acid POX process for sulfide mineralization and heap leaching process for oxide and transition

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mineralization. The work has been prepared at the request of the Company and completed by third-party consultants including Ausenco Engineering USA South Inc. (“Ausenco”), Independent Mining Consultants, Inc. (“IMC”), and WestLand Engineering & Environmental Services, Inc. (“Westland”). Employees of IMC and Ausenco who have worked on and approved this mineral resource estimate are Qualified Persons as defined under the Modernization Rules.

After evaluating the information obtained, and carefully considering the numerous and significant opportunities developed during the assessment process that warrant follow-up analysis and work, coupled with the highly inflationary environment for equipment and cost inputs, the Company filed the 2022 Hycroft TRS as an Initial Assessment. The 2022 Hycroft TRS supersedes all previous technical studies. As a result of the milling and Acid POX process presented in the 2022 Hycroft TRS, as compared to the novel two-step oxidation and heap leap process in the 2019 Hycroft TRS, and the associated fundamental changes to the assumptions underlying the 2019 Hycroft TRS, our ongoing disclosures will be based on the 2022 Hycroft TRS and not the 2019 Hycroft TRS. The Company will continue to build on the work to date and investigate opportunities identified through progressing the technical and data analyses leading up to the Initial Assessment and will provide an updated technical report at an appropriate time.

The mineral resource is based on information provided by the Company which has been checked and validated wherever possible by IMC. The calculations and interpretations presented here are the work of IMC, who takes responsibility for the published mineral resource.

Hycroft Mine

The Hycroft Mine and related facilities are located approximately 54 miles west of Winnemucca, Nevada. Winnemucca, a city with a population of approximately 8,431 (2020 Census data), is a commercial community on Interstate 80, 164 miles northeast of Reno. The mine property straddles Townships 34, 35, 351∕2 and 36 North and Ranges 28, 29 and 30 East (MDB&M) with an approximate latitude 40°52’ north and longitude 118°41’ west.

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Additionally, the following map shows the current property and facilities layout.

The town is served by a transcontinental railroad and has a municipal airport. Access to the Hycroft Mine from Winnemucca is by Jungo Road, formerly designated as State Route 49, a good-quality, unpaved road, and a short access road to the main entrance of the mine. Well-maintained mine and exploration roads provide access throughout the property. Access is also possible from Imlay, Gerlach and Lovelock by unpaved roads intersecting Interstate 80 and Nevada State Route 447. The majority of our employees live in the Winnemucca area. The site receives electrical power provided by NV Energy from the northwestern Nevada power grid. Initial surveys indicate that the town of Winnemucca has the required infrastructure (shopping, emergency services, schools, etc.) to support the maximum workforce and dependents. The Hycroft Mine currently has water rights which we believe is adequate to support potential future operations. The mine is situated on the eastern edge of the Black Rock Desert and on the western flank of the Kamma

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Mountains between Winnemucca and Gerlach, Nevada. There are no streams, rivers or major lakes in the general area. Elevations in the mine area range between 4,500 and 5,500 feet above sea level.

The climate of the region is arid, with precipitation averaging 7.7 inches per year. Average temperatures during the summer range from 50°F to 90°F and average winter temperatures range from 20°F to 40°F.

The Hycroft Mine property consists of 30 private parcels with patented claims that comprise 1,912 acres, and 3,247 unpatented mining claims that encompass 68,759 acres. Combining the patented and unpatented claims, total claims cover approximately 70,671 acres. The Hycroft Mine patented claims occupy private lands and our unpatented claims occupy public lands, administered by the BLM. These claims are governed by the laws and regulations of the U.S. federal government and the State of Nevada. To maintain the patented claims in good standing, we must pay the annual property tax payments to the county in which the claims are held. To maintain the unpatented claims in good standing, we must file a notice of intent to maintain the claims within the county and pay the annual mineral claim filing fees to the BLM. Such filing fees amounted to $0.6 million in 2021. As long as we file the annual notice and pay the claim filing fees, there is no expiration date for our unpatented claims.

A portion of the Hycroft Mine is subject to a mining lease requiring us to pay 4% net profit royalty to the owner of certain patented and unpatented mining claims, subject to a maximum of $7.6 million, of which $3.0 million has been satisfied and $4.6 million remained outstanding as of December 31, 2021. There is no expiration date on the net profit royalty.

The Hycroft Mine is also subject to the Sprott Royalty Agreement and that requires us to pay a perpetual royalty equal to 1.5% of the Net Smelter Returns, as such term is defined in such agreement, from our Hycroft Mine. There is no expiration and no limit on the amount that can be paid on the Sprott Royalty Agreement.

The Hycroft Mine was formerly known as the Crofoot-Lewis open pit mine, which was a small heap leaching operation that commenced in 1983. Vista Gold Corp., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Yukon Territory (“Vista”), acquired the Crofoot-Lewis claims and mine in 1987 and 1988. During this first operating period the mine produced over 1.0 million ounces of gold and 2.5 million ounces of silver. The mine production continued until it was placed on a care and maintenance program in December 1998 due to low gold prices. Seller acquired the Hycroft Mine in 2007 pursuant to an arrangement agreement where Vista transferred its Nevada mining properties to Seller’s predecessor. Seller restarted the Hycroft Mine in 2008 and suspended mining operations on July 8, 2015. During 2016, Seller was actively processing and producing gold from the ore within the heap leach pads. On January 1, 2017, Seller went into a care and maintenance mode when it stopped adding lime to the leach pads and continued to operate in a care and maintenance mode throughout 2017 and 2018. Prior to restarting operations, production of gold and silver was a byproduct of Seller’s maintenance activities on the Hycroft Mine. In December 2018, Seller began restart activities, including the rehabilitation of the crushing facility and construction of a new leach pad, with active mining operations beginning in the second quarter of 2019 with six haul trucks, two hydraulic shovels and one wheel loader. Initial gold and silver production occurred in August 2019 and continued until the Company ceased active mining operations in November 2021.

On site facilities include an administration building, mobile maintenance shop, light vehicle maintenance shop, warehouse, five leach pads, crushing system, two Merrill-Crowe process plants and a refinery. The components for a second refinery are on-site and will be constructed as part of the expansion of mining activities. The crushing system was refurbished as part of the restart activities and all other facilities are operational with the exception of the North Merrill-Crowe plant, which will be rehabilitated and brought on line as is required. The gross book value of plant and equipment associated with the Hycroft Mine as of December 31, 2021, was $88.2 million.

Geology and Mineralization

The Hycroft Mine is located on the western flank of the Kamma Mountains. The deposit is hosted in a volcanic eruptive breccia and conglomerates associated with the Tertiary Kamma Mountain volcanics. The volcanics are mainly acidic to intermediate tuffs, flows and coarse volcanoclastic rocks. Fragments of these units dominate the clasts in the eruptive breccia. The Central Fault and East Fault control the distribution of mineralization. A post-mineral range-front fault separates the ore-body from the adjacent Pleistocene Lahontan Lake sediments in the Black Rock Desert. The geological events have created a physical setting ideally suited to the open-pit, heap-leach mining operation at the Hycroft Mine. The heap leach method is widely used in the southwestern United States and allows the economical treatment of oxidized low-grade ore deposits in large volumes. The Company is currently contemplating a milling and Acid POX process that is commonly used worldwide to treat refractory sulfide ores.

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The deposit is typically broken into six major zones based on geology, mineralization, and alteration. These zones include Brimstone, Vortex, Central, Bay, Boneyard, and Camel. Breaks between the zones are major faults.

Mineralization at Hycroft has been deposited through multiple phases. An early silica sulfide flooding event deposited relatively low-grade gold and silver mineralization generally along bedding. This mineralization is cross cut by later, steeply dipping quartz alunite veins. Late-stage silver bearing veins are found in the Vortex zone and at depth in the Central area. Late to present supergene oxidation along faults has liberated precious metals from sulfide mineralization and further enriched gold and silver mineralization, along water table levels.

The known gold mineralization extends for a distance of three miles in a north-south direction by 1.5 miles in an east-west direction. Mineralization extends to a depth of less than 330 feet in the outcropping to near-outcropping portion of the deposit on the northwest side to over 2,500 feet in the Vortex deposit in the east.

Drilling

The Hycroft mineral resource model includes data from 1981 to 2018 and includes 5,501 holes, representing 2,482,722 ft of drilling. There have been 5,576 drill holes reported completed in the Hycroft project area; some are water wells or are outside the resource model domain and were not applied to estimation. As of February 18, 2022, there were 5,323 drill holes in the resource model area of which 134 have been drilled to define stockpiles or the Crofoot leach pad.

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Drill hole collar locations are shown in the figure below.

Consistent with Seller’s suspension of mining operations and conducting only care and maintenance activities on the Hycroft Mine, during 2017 and through December 2018, only drilling to obtain ore for metallurgical testing purposes was conducted. In December 2018, Seller began confirmation drilling of certain sulfide ore stockpiles that we planned to mine.

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Any expansion of the Hycroft Mine necessary to exploit any additional mineral resources that may be established through our exploration drilling program beyond the mineral resources in the 2022 Hycroft TRS, will require us to obtain all permits, approvals and consents of regulatory agencies responsible for the use and development of mines in Nevada.

Measured, Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resources

Our mineral resource estimates are calculated in accordance with the Modernization Rules. Measured, indicated and inferred mineral resources may not be comparable to similar information regarding mineral resources disclosed in accordance with the guidance of other countries. The estimates of mineral resources may be materially affected if mining, metallurgical, or infrastructure factors change from those currently anticipated at the Hycroft Mine. Estimates of inferred mineral resources have significant geological uncertainty and it should not be assumed that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource will be converted to the measured or indicated categories. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not meet the threshold for reserve modifying factors, such as estimated economic viability, that would allow for conversion to mineral reserves. The Hycroft Mine contains a large precious metals deposit, based on measured and indicated mineral resource size. The mineral resource estimates were prepared by and are the responsibility of IMC, as set forth in the 2022 Hycroft TRS.

The following description of the Hycroft Mine measured, indicated and inferred mineral resources does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the full text of the 2022 Hycroft TRS, which is filed as Exhibit 96.1 to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part and is incorporated by reference herein.

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Mineral resources were developed based on a conventional computer-based block model of the deposit and the application of open pit optimization software to determine the mineralization with reasonable expectation of economic extraction. Each block was evaluated to determine which process provides the best net return after operating cost. The two processes identified were:

Other assumptions used to develop measured, indicated and inferred mineral resources were:

See Table 11-15 in Section 11 of the 2022 Hycroft TRS for a more detailed presentation of the economic parameters for mineral resource estimation.

Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and detailed economic considerations have not been applied. Modifying factors for mine and process design have not been applied.

Internal Controls and Material Assumptions

IMC developed and updated the block model for the 2022 Hycroft TRS. Below is the summary of the work and checks they used to develop the block model.

The Hycroft resource model includes data from 1981 to 2018 and includes 5,501 holes, representing 2,482,722 ft of drilling. There have been 5,576 drill holes reported completed in the Hycroft Project Area; some are water wells or are outside the resource model domain and were not applied to estimation. The drillhole collar locations are shown in the 2022 Hycroft TRS and later in this text. At this time, there are 5,323 drill holes in the resource model area of which 134 have been drilled to define stockpiles or the Crofoot leach pad.

In addition to drilling activity, the Company has also conducted geophysical surveys, soil and rock chip sampling programs, field mapping, historical data compilation, and regional reconnaissance at the Hycroft Mine site. These efforts are designed to improve the understanding of the known mineralization, as well as provide data for further exploration of the greater property position.

A soil sampling grid was conducted over the Vortex and Brimstone areas historically (1,797 samples) and was extended approximately 5,200 ft north and 29,600 ft south of the mine in 2011–2012 (1,834 samples). The soil sampling program was

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conducted primarily along the East Fault exposure, which is a primary ore-controlling feature at Vortex and Brimstone. Soil samples are taken on an evenly spaced grid, and screened for coarse material and wind-blown material, resulting in a fraction between 2 mm and 180 um being prepped for analysis. These samples are considered representative of local soil geochemistry and are used to guide the regional exploration effort.

Rock chip sampling has been conducted both historically in the active mine area, and on a regional basis (2007–present). A database of 2,416 samples has been compiled, covering the greater land position. Au values range from 0 to 0.372 oz/ton, while Ag values range from 0 to 71.8 oz/ton. Rock chip samples have been taken on most outcrops, with a focus on alteration and potential mineralization. These samples are used as a guide to exploration and are point samples only.

The land position has been surveyed with both gravity and induced polarity (IP) geophysical techniques by Hycroft. The current ground-based gravity survey covers approximately 130 square miles, centered on the mine site. Gravity indicates several structural features and density changes. Gravity has also defined the basin edge to the west, approximately 4 miles west of the Brimstone Pit.

Ground IP surveys were run over the mine site and Vortex in 2007 and extended outward in 2011 to cover approximately 24 square miles. The survey results focus on chargeability anomalies, that potentially identify sulfide material (> approximately 1.5%) at depth, and resistivity anomalies, that potentially identify silicification at depth.

Field mapping was historically and is currently carried out in all active mine areas. Mapping focuses on structure, bedding, joints, lithology, and alteration. The near mine data is incorporated into the three-dimensional geology model, while the regional work is focused on defining exploration targets for future drilling. A regional geology map covering the land position was compiled in 2012.

The drillhole database was assembled over many years by multiple companies using at least four different drill methods.

The gold assay values in the Hycroft legacy database prior to 2000 were stated to be historically factored upward by a factor of 1.19. Prior to this resource model estimation, that factor was removed by multiplying all gold assays prior to 2000 by 1/1.19 = 0.8403. The removal of the factor does not have substantial impact on the deeper sulfide mineralization component of the deposit, but it does remove an observed sample bias in the near surface data.

There are stockpiles and historical leach pads at the Hycroft Mine that are within the block model area. Many of those have been drilled after the original excavation of hard rock by sonic or rotary methods. The stockpile holes have been used to estimate the stockpile and leach pad areas, they have not been used to estimate in-situ rock. In total, the Hycroft database contains 5,377 drill holes with 500,960 sample intervals. Within the area of the block model, there are 5,323 drill holes with 493,357 drill intervals amounting to 2,838,923 ft of drilling.

The block model was verified by several methods before being used to determine mineral resource, including:

IMC completed visual checks on plan and section for all of the estimated variables in the model. In addition to IMC visual checks, the Hycroft engineering and geology team on site also reviewed the model and assisted IMC with identifying and correcting coding issues prior to finalizing the block model.

Swath plots are a practice now common among resource modelers to provide a visual indication if the block model follows the grade trends indicated by the supporting data and if there is any observable local bias in the block grade estimation.

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Quality assurance and quality control methods utilized in the 2022 Hycroft TRS included the use of a test by IMC to understand the amount of grade smoothing within the block model and to confirm that the model grades are not high biased, referred to internally as the “smear check.”

The procedure utilized by IMC was as follows:

IMC completed a reconciliation of the model against 19 months of reported production for the year ended December 31, 2020 and for the seven months ended July 31, 2021. The reported 2019 production from Hycroft included substantial stockpile reclaim that would not be indicative of the block model response. The 19-month time period for the test is relatively short with a total of 13,584 Ktons of oxide ore delivered to the leach pad. This represented approximately 65% of processing the sulfide mineralized materials for one year.

During 2020, Hycroft delivered ROM to the leach pad and crush leach to the crusher prior to loading on the pad. Sulfide material that was being considered for a sulfide atmospheric leach was stockpiled for future processing. Hycroft provided IMC with calculations for materials control routing that are used at site. Those methods were set up for application to the 2021 block model by IMC.

Some modifications were made by IMC during the installation of the materials control procedure. During 2021, Hycroft stopped crushing leached oxide ore and shipped ROM oxide ore only to the pad. IMC assumed that material that would report to crush leach would instead be shipped directly as ROM to the pad.

Hycroft provided surface files that reflect the mine survey progress. The surface files were used to measure the material within the block model for each of the time periods at the cutoffs reportedly applied during the control.

Tonnage from the model is about 4% less than reported by the materials control. Gold grade is substantially lower than the materials control grade from blast holes.

A check of the database composites contained within the materials control shapes indicate that average of the composites contained in the materials control are less than the materials control grade and match the predicted grade from the block model. As a result, the composite data could not generate a gold grade as high as that reported by materials control. The difference may be due to smaller selective mining units or blast hole bias. In summary, the data within the mining shapes could not support grades that are different from those estimated in the model.

Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors Regarding Mineral Resources

The mineral resource estimates included herein or incorporated by reference herein, including in the 2022 Hycroft TRS, have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Modernization Rules as set forth in subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K which became widely applicable on January 1, 2021. These disclosures differ in material respects from the prior requirements set forth in Industry Guide 7, including in that mineral resource information was not permitted and mineral resources have been calculated in accordance with the provision of subpart 1300 of Regulation S-K. These standards differ significantly from the disclosure requirements of Industry Guide 7 in that mineral resource information contained herein may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by U.S. companies that have not implemented the Modernization Rules promulgated by the SEC. Under SEC standards, mineralization, such are mineral resources, may not be classified as a “mineral reserve” unless the determination has been made that

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the mineralization could be economically and legally produce or extracted at the time of the reserve determination. The term “economically,” as was used in the SEC’s Industry Guide 7 definition of mineral reserves, means that profitable extraction or production has been established or analytically demonstrated in a feasibility study to be viable and justifiable under reasonable investment and market assumptions. The term “legally” as used in the SEC’s Industry Guide 7 definition of mineral reserves, does not imply that all permits needed for mining and processing have been obtained or that other legal issues have been completely resolved. However, for a reserve to exist, we must have a justifiable expectation, based on applicable laws and regulations, that issuance of permits or resolution of legal issues necessary for mining and processing at a particular deposit will be accomplished in the ordinary course and in a timeframe consistent with our current mine plans. The terms “mineral resource”, “measured mineral resource”, “indicated mineral resource” and “inferred mineral resource” and “Inferred Mineral Resource” are defined and used in accordance with the Modernization Rules. You are specifically cautioned not to assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits (including mineral resources) in these categories will ever be converted into mineral reserves, as defined by the SEC. You are further cautioned that, except for any portion of mineral resources, as applicable, classified as mineral reserves, mineral resources do not have demonstrated economic value. Inferred mineral resources have a high degree of uncertainty as to their existence as to whether they can be economically or legally mined. Under the Modernization Rules, estimates of inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of an economic analysis. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. A significant amount of exploration must be completed in order to determine whether an inferred mineral resource may be upgraded to a higher category. Therefore, you are cautioned not to assume that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource exists, that it can be economically or legally mined, or that it will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Likewise, you are cautioned not to assume that all or any part of measured or indicated mineral resources will be upgraded to mineral reserves.

Technical Report Summaries and Qualified Persons

The scientific and technical information concerning our mineral properties in this prospectus have been reviewed and approved by third-party “qualified persons” under the Modernization Rules, including Ausenco, IMC and WestLand. For a description of the key assumptions, parameters and methods used to estimate mineral resources included in this prospectus, as well as data verification procedures and a general discussion of the extent to which the estimates may be affected by any known environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, sociopolitical, marketing or other relevant factors, please review the 2022 Hycroft TRS attached as Exhibit 96.1 to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part and incorporated by reference herein.

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

Environmental Regulation

Our mining projects are subject to various federal and state laws and regulations governing protection of the environment. These laws and regulations are continually changing and, in general, are becoming more restrictive. The federal laws and regulations, among other things:

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We cannot predict at this time what changes, if any, to federal laws or regulations may be adopted or imposed by the current governmental administration. At the state level, mining operations in Nevada are regulated by the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Division of Environmental Protection (the “Division”), which has the authority to implement and enforce many of the federal regulatory programs described above as well as state environmental laws and regulations. Compliance with these and other federal and state laws and regulations could result in delays in obtaining, or failure to obtain, government permits and approvals, delays in beginning or expanding operations, limitations on production levels, incurring additional costs for investigation or cleanup of hazardous substances, payment of fines, penalties or remediation costs for non-compliance, and post-mining closure, reclamation and bonding.

It is our policy to conduct business in a way that safeguards our employees, public health and the environment. We believe that our operations are, and will be, conducted in material compliance with applicable laws and regulations. However, our past and future activities in the United States may cause us to be subject to liability under such laws and regulations. For information about the risks to our business related to environmental regulation, please see “Risk Factors - Industry Related Risks

‘Environmental regulations could require us to make significant expenditures or expose us to potential liability’; ‘We are subject to numerous governmental permits that are difficult to obtain and we may not be able to obtain or renew all of the permits we require, or such permits may not be timely obtained or renewed’; ‘Failure to comply with environmental regulations could result in penalties and costs’; and ‘Compliance with current and future government regulations may cause us to incur significant costs’” in this prospectus above.

During 2021 and 2020, there were no known material environmental incidents or non-compliance with any applicable environmental regulations on the properties now held by us. We did not incur material capital expenditures for environmental control facilities during 2021 and 2020 and do not expect to incur any material expenditures in 2022 for such environmental control facilities.

Reclamation

We are required to mitigate long-term environmental impacts by amending, backfilling, stabilizing, contouring, re-sloping and re-vegetating various portions of a site after mining and mineral processing are completed, mitigating potential impacts to surface water and groundwater resources. These reclamation efforts will be conducted in accordance with detailed plans, which must be reviewed and approved by the appropriate regulatory agencies. Our reclamation obligations at the Hycroft Mine are secured by surface management surety bonds that meet the financial assurance requirements of the State of Nevada and the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”). Our most recent reclamation cost estimate was approved by the BLM and the State of Nevada in July 2020. At December 31, 2021, our surface management surety bonds totaled $59.3 million, of which $58.3 million secures the financial assurance requirements for the Hycroft Mine, and $1.0 million secures the financial assurance requirements for the adjacent water supply well field and exploration project. Based on the December 31, 2021 estimate, no material reclamation expenditures are expected to be incurred until after mining and mineral processing are completed. If we incur additional long-term environmental impacts from future mining activities, we will likely have additional reclamation obligations as well as additional financial assurance requirements. For our existing obligations, as well as any future obligations we may incur we may choose to engage in reclamation activities before mining and mineral processing are completed, but these expenses are not anticipated to be material to the overall reclamation obligation. When we perform reclamation work in the future, the work will be planned to conform to our mining operations and will be required to be documented when completed under our governing permits with the government regulatory agencies. The reclamation obligation would be adjusted accordingly as allowed under current regulations, and the financial assurance requirements would be adjusted to account for the completed reclamation work. If we are required to comply with material unanticipated financial assurance requirements in the future, our financial position could be adversely affected, or our posted financial assurance may be insufficient. For financial information about our estimated future reclamation costs refer to Note 13 - Asset Retirement Obligation to our 2021 Year End Financial Statements.

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Mine Safety and Health Administration Regulations

Safety and health is a core value which is why we have mandatory mine safety and health programs that include employee and contractor training, risk management, workplace inspection, emergency response, accident investigation and program auditing. We consider these programs to be essential at all levels to ensure that our employees, contractors, and visitors only operate in a safe and healthy workplace.

Our operations and exploration properties are subject to regulation by the MSHA under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (the “Mine Act”). Pursuant to Section 1503(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”), issuers are required to disclose specified health and safety violations, orders and citations, related assessments and legal actions, and mining-related fatalities in periodic reports. MSHA inspects our mines on a regular basis and issues various citations and orders when it believes a violation has occurred under the Mine Act. The number of citations and orders charged against mining operations in the U.S., and the dollar penalties assessed for such citations, have generally increased in recent years.

Property Interests and Mining Claims

Our development activities are conducted in the State of Nevada. Mineral interests in Nevada may be owned by the United States, the State of Nevada, or private parties. Where prospective mineral properties are held by the United States, mineral rights may be acquired through the location of unpatented mineral claims upon unappropriated federal land. Where prospective mineral properties are owned by the State of Nevada or private parties, some type of property acquisition agreement is necessary in order for us to explore or develop such property. Mining claims are subject to the same risk of defective title that is common to all real property interests. Additionally, mining claims are self-initiated and self-maintained and, therefore, possess some unique vulnerabilities not associated with other types of property interests. It is impossible to ascertain the validity of unpatented mining claims solely from an examination of the public real estate records and, therefore, it can be difficult or impossible to confirm that all of the requisite steps have been followed for location and maintenance of a claim. For general information about our mineral properties and mining claims please see “Description of Property” above. For information about the risks to our business related to our property interests and mining claims, see the following risk factors in “Risk Factors - Industry Related Risks “There are uncertainties as to title matters in the mining industry. Any defects in such title could cause us to lose our rights in mineral properties and jeopardize our business operations’; and ‘Legislation has been proposed periodically that could, if enacted, significantly affect the cost mine development in our unpatented mining claims ’” in this prospectus above.

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which contemplates processing gold and silver ore using milling and pressure oxidation to process sulfide ore along with heap leaching to process oxide and transition ore.

As discussed throughout this MD&A, including within the Hycroft Mine section, during the year ended December 31, 2021, while we have been able to achieve or improve on certain of our internal operating, processing, sales and production cost targets, because the Company was operating at a pre-commercial scale until it ceased mining operations in November 2021, it has incurred a net operating loss with negative cash flows before financing activities. Refer to the Liquidity and Capital Resources section of this MD&A for additional details.

Health and Safety

We believe that safety is a core value and we support that belief through our philosophy of safe work performance. Our mandatory mine safety and health programs include employee engagement and ownership of safety performance, accountability, employee and contractor training, risk management, workplace inspection, emergency response, accident investigation, and program auditing. This integrated approach is essential to ensure that our employees, contractors, and visitors operate safely.

During the year ended December 31, 2021, we reported no lost time accidents. The Hycroft Mine’s Total Reportable Injury Frequency Rate (“TRIFR”) for the trailing twelve months, is one of the metrics we use to assess safety performance, and it is well below industry averages and significantly below historical levels experienced at the Hycroft Mine. During the year ended December 31, 2021, we continued our critical focus on safety, including allocating additional personnel, resources, workforce time, and communications to mine safety. These actions contributed to a reduction in our TRIFR to approximately 0.64 at December 31, 2021, compared with approximately 2.30 at December 31, 2020, an approximate 80% reduction. We will continue our safety efforts to reach the level of safety we expect and need to keep our workforce, contractors, and visitors safe.

For health and safety actions specific to COVID-19, refer to the “Recent Developments – COVID-19” section of this MD&A.

Executive Summary

During the year ended December 31, 2021, we operated a conventional ROM heap leach operation at pre-commercial scale using a mix of the Hycroft-owned mining fleet and a rental mining fleet until ceasing mining operations in November 2021 due to cost pressures for many of the reagents and consumables used at the Hycroft Mine, and the timeline for completing our updated technical studies in early 2022. We will continue to produce gold and silver from ore on the leach pads as long as it is economic. When the operation was re-started in 2019, mining oxide and transition ore allowed us to pre-strip overburden with some revenue offset to gain access to commercial scale sulfide mineralization. With the change in focus from the two-stage heap oxidation and leach to a milling operation, there is ample time to align the remaining pre-stripping with the start-up of commercial scale sulfide operations. We believe that this action will conserve cash and focus our time and resources on our technical studies for sulfide ore. The metallurgical and variability drill program concluded in the first quarter of 2022 and metallurgical analysis and test work is expected to continue through the third quarter of 2022.

We had previously discussed our strategy for developing an economic sulfide process for Hycroft. Based on our findings to-date, including the analysis completed by an independent third-party research laboratory and the independent reviews by two metallurgical consultants, we do not believe the novel two-stage sulfide heap oxidation and leach process (“Novel Process”), as currently designed in the 2019 Hycroft TRS, is economic at current metal prices or those metal prices used in the 2019 Hycroft TRS. Subject to the challenges discussed below, we will complete test work that is currently underway and may advance our understanding of the Novel Process in the future.

Following a review of past and recent test work and based on the currently contemplated designs and operating parameters of the alternative sulfide processing methods being studied including the Novel Process, and milling with atmospheric alkaline oxidation or alkaline POX, working closely with our industry leading technical consultants, we completed pit optimization runs and trade-off analyses comparing the alternative processes which reflected that an Acid POX process had significantly better economics than other processes studied. Therefore, we focused our study efforts and resources solely on the Acid POX Initial Assessment which was prepared by Ausenco, with an effective date of February 18, 2022. The Acid POX process included in the 2022 Hycroft TRS is a conventional crushing, grinding, and flotation circuit that generates a concentrate to be fed to an autoclave facility commonly used for refractory gold ores in this region.

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2021 Highlights

2021 Development Highlights

Recent Developments

COVID-19

In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a pandemic, which continues to spread throughout the United States with new variants of the virus. Efforts implemented by local and national governments, as well as businesses, including temporary closures, have had adverse impacts on local, national and global economies. We have implemented health and safety policies and protocols for employees, contractors, and visitors that follow guidelines published by the CDC and MSHA. During 2021, and the fourth quarter of 2020, our operations were limited by COVID-19 related absences, however the impact while negative, did not materially and adversely affect our operations. The extent of the impact of COVID-19 on our operational and financial performance going forward will depend on certain developments, including but not limited to the duration and continued spread of the outbreak and strand mutations, the availability and use of vaccines, the development of therapeutic drugs and treatments, and the direct and indirect impacts on our employees, vendors, and customers, all of which are uncertain and cannot be fully anticipated or predicted. Since the Hycroft Mine represents the entirety of our operations, any further COVID-19 outbreaks at the mine site or any governmental restrictions implemented to combat the pandemic could result in a partial or an entire shutdown of the Hycroft Mine itself, which would adversely impact our financial position, operating results, and cash flows.

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During the year ended December 31, 2021, the site continued to manage COVID-19 control restrictions in accordance with state, national, and CDC guidelines and will continue to monitor and follow those guidelines going forward.

To date, COVID-19 related absences have limited our operations from time-to-time but did not materially disrupt our operations. Additionally, we have not experienced any material disruptions to our supply chain because of COVID-19. However, we can provide no assurance that our operations will not be materially adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the future that could result from any worsening of the pandemic, the effect of mutating strains, additional outbreaks of the pandemic, actions taken to contain the pandemic’s spread or treat its impact, continued availability of vaccines, and their distribution, acceptance and efficacy, and governmental, business and individual actions taken in response to the pandemic including government-imposed regulations regarding, among other things, COVID-19 testing, vaccine mandates and related workplace restrictions.

Mineral Resource Update

Gold equivalent mineral resources totaled 15.5 million ounces of measured and indicated and 6.9 million ounces of inferred. For this study, IMC developed the Hycroft Mine resource block model which includes data from 1981 to 2018 and includes 5,501 holes, representing 2,482,722 ft of drilling. The current inflationary environment and change in processing technique has resulted in increased cost assumptions and an associated higher cut-off grade partially mitigated by higher recoveries leading to a change in the mineral resource estimate, when compared with the prior model.

The mineral resources were estimated based upon results of the 2022 Hycroft TRS, as conducted in accordance with the Modernization Rules. With the issuance of the 2022 Hycroft TRS reflecting a different mining process, the 2019 Hycroft TRS is superseded and the 2019 Hycroft TRS and information from such 2019 Hycroft TRS should no longer be relied upon.

2022 Private Placement

On March 14, 2022, the Company entered into the 2022 Private Placement pursuant to the execution of Subscription Agreements with each of AMC and Eric Sprott, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell to them, in a private placement, an aggregate of 46,816,480 Units at a purchase price per Unit of $1.193 providing for a total purchase price of approximately $55.9 million before deducting expenses incurred in connection with the Private Placement. The New Warrants issued in the Private Placement have an exercise price of $1.068 per Warrant Share, and will expire five years after issuance. The closing of the sales of Units pursuant to the Subscription Agreements occurred on March 15, 2022 for gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $55.9 million. (before deduction of fees and expenses). We intend to use the proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include the repayment, refinancing, redemption or repurchase of existing indebtedness, working capital or capital expenditures and other investments, which may include additional technical evaluations and studies, advancement of the Initial Assessment in the 2022 Hycroft TRS to a pre-feasibility and/or feasibility study and additional exploration at the Hycroft Mine.

Agreement with Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Collector), LP

On November 10, 2021, the Company entered into the November 2021 Waiver with the Lender of certain provisions of the Sprott Credit Agreement. Pursuant to the November 2021 Waiver, the Lender permitted the Company to cease active mining operations and to reduce the amount of unrestricted cash required to be maintained by the Company from not less than $10.0 million to not less than $9.0 million for the period ending May 10, 2022.

On February 28, 2022 the Company entered into the February 2022 Waiver and Amendment with the Lender and Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Co) Inc. amending the November 2021 Waiver and (i) required that the Company maintain at least $7.5 million of unrestricted cash on the last day of February 2022 and at least $9.0 million on the last day of each month thereafter during the waiver period, (ii) waived all obligations of the Company to prepay the facility with the net cash proceeds of any mill asset sales until the earlier of the date on which the Company completes a private placement or other offering or issuance of its equity securities and March 31, 2022, and (iii) extended the payment due date for the February additional interest payment and the February principal payment until the earlier of any such offering date and March 31, 2022.

On the basis of the Company’s contemplated sale or issuance of its equity securities pursuant to one or more transactions to be completed on or before March 31, 2022 (the “Equity Financing Transactions”), on March 11, 2022, the Company entered into the “March 2022 Sprott Agreement with the Lender with respect to the Sprott Credit Agreement. Pursuant to the March 2022 Sprott

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Agreement, if the Equity Financing Transactions result (or are likely to result pursuant to definitive subscription underwriting and/or similar legally binding agreements) in the Company’s receipt of total gross cash proceeds (before deduction of fees and expenses) of at least $50 million on or before March 31, 2022 (the “Required Equity Amount”), the Lender and the Company agreed to amend the principal repayment terms under the Sprott Credit Agreement such that no further scheduled payments of principal shall be required prior to May 31, 2025 (the “Maturity Date”) (i.e., there will be no required regular amortization payments of the Facility (as defined in the Sprott Credit Agreement) and the full principal balance of the facility shall be due and payable in a single “bullet” payment on the Maturity Date). The consummation of the 2022 Private Placement satisfied the Required Equity Amount condition in the March 2022 Sprott Agreement.

The March 2022 Sprott Agreement also provided that, in connection with the modification of the required facility amortization payments, the Company shall pay in-kind to the Lender an amount equal to $3.3 million, with such amount to be capitalized and added to the principal amount owing under the Sprott Credit Agreement and accrue interest at the same rate and upon the same terms as the existing loans under the Sprott Credit Agreement; provided, the payment or prepayment of such capitalized principal amount shall not be subject to the Prepayment Premium (as defined in the Sprott Credit Agreement) or any other penalty or premium.

Second Amendment and Restatement of Sprott Credit Agreement

On March 14, 2022, the Company reached an agreement in principle with the Lender to modify the terms of the Sprott Credit Agreement and other applicable loan documents. On March 30, 2022, the Company and Lender under the Sprott Credit Agreement entered into the Second A&R Agreement, which:

In addition, the Company’s obligations (i) to prepay principal with proceeds of asset sales will be credited/offset by the $23.9 million aggregate amount of Initial Equity Proceeds Prepayment and the Subsequent Equity Proceeds Prepayments, and (ii) to maintain a minimum amount of Unrestricted Cash (as defined in the Second A&R Agreement) was increased to $15.0 million. Pursuant to the agreement in principal, the Company made the Initial Equity Proceeds Prepayment of $10.0 million and paid in kind a $3.3 million fee in connection with the modification and capitalized it to principal on March 16, 2022 and following the execution of the Second A&R Agreement on March 30, 2022, the Company (i) paid the previously deferred additional interest payment of $0.5 million, and (ii) made the Subsequent Equity Proceeds Prepayment of $13.9 million. After giving effect to such prepayments the outstanding principal balance under the Second A&R Agreement was estimated as of March 30, 2022 to be $57.9 million (before issuance discounts) including unpaid additional interest of approximately $7.1 million.

At-the-market Offering of Common Stock

On March 15, 2022, the Company implemented an ATM Program by entering into the Sales Agreement with B. Riley Securities, Inc. as the Agent. Under the terms of the Sales Agreement, the Company had the right from time to time to or through the Agent, acting as sales agent or principal, offer and sell shares of the Company’s common stock having a gross sales price of up to $500 million. The compensation payable to the Agent for sales of shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement was equal to 3.0% of the gross sales price for any shares of common stock sold through the ATM Program by Agent as sales agent under the Sales Agreement. Shares sold under the Sales Agreement, were issued pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3

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(No. 333-257567) that the SEC declared effective on July 13, 2021, including the prospectus, dated July 13, 2021, and the prospectus supplement, dated March 15, 2022.

On March 25, 2022, the Company announced that it had terminated the ATM Program having sold 89,553,602 shares of common stock and generated aggregate gross proceeds, before commissions and offering expenses, of approximately $138.6 million.

Amendment to the 10% Senior Secured Notes and Note Exchange Agreement

On March 14, 2022, the Company entered into the Note Amendment with (i) certain direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company as Guarantors; (ii) holders of the Subordinated Notes, including certain funds affiliated with, or managed by, Mudrick Capital Management, L.P, Whitebox Advisors, LLC, Highbridge Capital Management, LLC, Aristeia Capital, LLC and Wolverine Asset Management, LLC (collectively, the “Amending Holders”), and (iii) Wilmington Trust, National Association, in its capacity as collateral agent. The Note Amendment amended the Note Exchange Agreement and the Assumed New Subordinated Notes issued thereunder in order to extend the maturity date of the Subordinated Notes from December 1, 2025 to December 1, 2027. The Note Amendment also removed the requirements that a holder receive the consent of the Company and the other holders in order to transfer any Assumed New Subordinated Note. The Amending Holders constituted all of the holders of the Assumed New Subordinated Notes. The Note Amendment became effective upon the closing of the 2022 Private Placement upon receipt of $55.9 million gross cash proceeds (before deduction of fees and expenses).

Amendment to the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation

On March 11, 2022, the Board approved an amendment to the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation increasing the number of authorized shares of the Common Stock by 1,000,000,000 to a total of 1,400,000,000 (the “Certificate of Incorporation Amendment”) and directed that the Certificate of Incorporation Amendment be submitted for consideration by the stockholders of the Corporation. On March 15, 2022, AMC, Eric Sprott, and entities affiliated with Mudrick Capital, who together constituted the holders of a majority of the Common Stock, approved the Certificate of Incorporation Amendment by written consent. The Certificate of Incorporation Amendment will not become effective until 20 days after the Company distributes an Information Statement on Schedule 14C to the stockholders of the Company. The Company commenced mailing of the Information Statement on Schedule 14C to the Stockholders of the Company on April 1, 2022 and expects the Certificate of Incorporation Amendment to become effective upon filing with the Secretary of State of Delaware on or about April 22, 2022.

2022 Outlook

Our current operating plan is to: (i) operate safely as we continue to process heap leach inventory until it is no longer economic; (ii) complete the metallurgical test work associated with the variability drilling program; (iii) conduct exploration activities and targeted exploration drilling; and (iv) continue to advance the Acid POX technical study to a pre-feasibility or feasibility level.

Technical Activities

During 2021, we continued to work alongside our industry leading consultants to provide additional and expanded information on the ore body and investigate opportunities for improvements in operating parameters for commercial scale operations at the Hycroft Mine. This information is critical in understanding the mineralogical properties of the deposit and ultimately the most economic processing technology for the various ore domains. Accordingly, we developed an approximate $10 million program for drilling and additional metallurgical and mineralogical studies in 2021 and early 2022. The drilling program was completed in January 2022, and the metallurgical test work portion of the program is expected to be completed in the early third quarter of 2022. Lab testing continues to be challenged by labor shortages and equipment availability. As of December 31, 2021, we have spent $7.3 million under the program.

Ongoing and future technical work for the Hycroft Mine will be primarily focused on the Acid POX milling for processing sulfide ore and completing the variability and metallurgical test work. We also plan to evaluate exploration opportunities targeting higher ore grades and expect to continue to advance the Novel Process as time and resources permit.

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Hycroft Mine. For the near term, we currently plan to complete the following test work which is important and will benefit all processing methods for the Hycroft Mine:

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As reflected above, tons mined, ounces produced, ounces sold and average realized prices increased during the year ended December 31, 2021, compared with the same period of the prior year due to higher tons mined in 2021. The average price increased during the year ended December 31, 2021 consistent with the increase in the spot price of gold compared with the same period of the prior year. As planned for 2021, all mined ore was routed to the leach pad as ROM and sulfide ore encountered was stockpiled. Due to the ROM plan for 2021, the crusher did not operate during the year.

Production and sales for the year ended 2021 increased over the comparable 2020 period due to increased quantities of ROM ounces placed during 2021. The gold and silver ounces produced in the year ended December 31, 2021 resulted from continued leach production of inventory ounces added to the leach pad in 2020, additional ounces placed under leach from mining in 2021, higher leach solution flows to the pad, and improved flows and recovery performance from the Brimstone plant.

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During the year ended December 31, 2021, gold revenue was $100.5 million compared to $44.3 million for the comparable period of 2020. The significant increase in revenue during 2021 was attributable to the mine having more ore under leach as mining and processing operations increased beginning in the second quarter of 2020, resulting in higher production-related inventory balances and gold revenue during the year ended December 31, 2021. Gold revenue was also adversely affected during the year ended December 31, 2020 due to lower gold ounces available for sale as a result of write-downs of recoverable gold ounces on the leach pads. Please see “Note 4 - Inventories and Ore on Leach Pads to the 2021 Year End Notes for an explanation of the write-down.

Silver revenue

The table below summarizes silver sales, ounces sold and average realized prices for the following periods (dollars in thousands, except per ounce amounts):

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During the year ended December 31, 2021, silver revenue was $10.2 million compared to $2.8 million for the comparable period of 2020. Similar to gold revenue, the increase in silver revenue during 2021 was attributable to the mine having more ore under leach as compared to the same 2020 period. During the year ended December 31, 2021, we also benefited from favorable silver prices, which were more than $5 per ounce higher compared to the same period of 2020. Silver revenue was also adversely affected during the year ended December 31, 2020 due to lower silver ounces available for sale as a result of write-downs of recoverable ounces on the leach pads.

Total cost of sales

Total cost of sales consists of Production costs, Depreciation and amortization, Mine site period costs, and Write-down of inventories. The table below summarizes total cost of sales for the following periods (dollars in thousands):

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Production costs

For the year ended December 31, 2021, we recognized $102.8 million in Production costs, or $1,833 per ounce of gold sold, compared to $41.7 million or $1,675 per ounce of gold sold during the same period of 2020. The increase in Production costs was primarily due to a respective increase in the sales volumes of gold and silver of 31,153 and 261,308 ounces sold, respectively, at a higher average inventory cost per ounce during the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the same period of 2020. As discussed in the below Mine site period costs section, throughout 2021 and 2020, a high operating cost structure at current levels of production has resulted in Mine site period costs to adjust ending inventory values of gold that approximate the net realizable value per ounce of gold (after considering future costs to complete and sell) as determined in accordance with our accounting policies. Accordingly, production costs per ounce of gold sold has been partially limited by the impact of recognizing Mine site period costs, which lowers the carrying value of production-related inventories. Reductions in the spot price of gold at the reporting periods as compared to prior reporting periods can result in additional Mine site period costs.

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Depreciation and amortization

Depreciation and amortization was $8.5 million, or $152 per ounce of gold sold, for the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $2.9 million, or $116 per ounce of gold sold, during the same periods of 2020. The increase in total depreciation and amortization costs per ounce of gold sold was largely due to an increase of 31,153 gold ounces sold during the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the same period of 2020.

Mine site period costs

During the year ended December 31, 2021, inclusive of depreciation and amortization, we recorded $38.2 million of Mine site period costs for costs that were in excess of the net realizable value per ounce of gold inventories, compared to $47.1 million during the same period of 2020. Such period costs are generally the result of costs related to activities at the Hycroft Mine that do not qualify for capitalization to production-related inventories or adjustments to production inventories that are the result of recurring or significant downtime or delays, unusually high levels of repairs, inefficient operations, overuse of processing reagents, inefficient cost-volume structures, or other unusual costs and activities, and cannot be recorded to production-related inventories based on the threshold established by the calculation of the estimated net realizable value per ounce of gold.

Write-down of inventories

We recorded a Write-down of inventories of $13.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021 related to the following:

As discussed in Note 4 - Inventories and Ore on Leach Pads to the 2021 Year End Notes, based on metallurgical balancing results, during the year ended December 31, 2020, we determined that 10,492 ounces of gold that had been placed on the leach pads were no longer recoverable and recognized $17.9 million of Write-down of inventories on the Consolidated Statements of Operations, which included production costs of $16.7 million, and capitalized depreciation and amortization costs of $1.2 million, respectively.

General and administrative

General and administrative totaled $14.6 million during the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $21.1 million during the year ended December 31, 2020. The decrease of $6.4 million during the year ended December 31, 2021 was primarily due to decreases in: (i) salary and compensation costs of $6.2 million; (ii) insurance costs of $1.2 million; partially offset by increases in: (i) legal, professional, and consulting fees associated with general corporate matters and obligations as a public company of $0.4 million; and (ii) director compensation for the members of our committees created upon becoming a public company of $0.5 million.

Projects, exploration and development

During the year ended December 31, 2021, Projects, exploration and development costs totaled $13.6 million and were related to the following activities: (i) analyzing established feasibility studies; (ii) conducting geological studies; (iii) oversight and project management; and (iv) exploration drilling, engineering, and metallurgical activities. Upon determining that the 2019 Hycroft TRS was not likely to be economic, we determined that previously capitalized mine development costs related to the 2019 Hycroft TRS no

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longer qualified for capitalization. As a result we recorded an impairment charge of $6.7 million for the previously capitalized amounts that was included in Projects, exploration and development during the year ended December 31, 2021. We did not incur any such costs during the year ended December 31, 2020.

Write-off of deposit

During the year ended December 31, 2021, we determined that additional equipment was no longer expected to be purchased under the current mine plan. Accordingly, a full reserve was applied against the $0.9 million deposit previously paid by us to an equipment supplier. Refer to Note 5 - Prepaids and Other, Net to the 2021 Year End Notes for further detail.

Accretion

We recorded $0.4 million of Accretion during both of the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, which related to our Asset retirement obligation and future reclamation costs. Refer to Note 13 - Asset Retirement Obligation to the 2021 Year End Notes for further detail.

Interest expense, net of capitalized interest

As discussed and detailed in Note 10 - Debt, Net to the Year End Notes, Interest expense, net of capitalized interest totaled $20.6 million during the year ended December 31, 2021 compared to $43.5 million during the same period in 2020. The decrease of $23.0 million during the year ended December 31, 2021 was a result of completing the Recapitalization Transaction on May 29, 2020, which caused the exchange or conversion of the majority of Seller’s $627.8 million outstanding indebtedness to equity, thus resulting in post-Recapitalization Transaction indebtedness totaling $159.8 million for the Sprott Credit Agreement and Assumed New Subordinated Notes.

Fair value adjustments to warrants

During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Fair value adjustments to warrants resulted in a non-cash gain $14.4 million as the market trading values of our publicly listed warrants decreased, which was primarily due to a decrease in the underlying trading price of our common shares. We did not incur any such warrant adjustment during the year ended December 31, 2020. Refer to Note 12 - Warrants to the 2021 Year End Notes for further detail.

Interest income

Interest income totaled approximately $Nil during the year ended December 31, 2021 compared with $0.2 million during the year ended December 31, 2020. During the second quarter of 2021, we replaced certain surety bonds with new surety bonds with lower cash collateral requirements, in which none of the accounts holding the cash collateral earns interest income, resulting in no Interest income for the year ended December 31, 2021.

Income taxes

During the year ended December 31, 2021, we recognized an income tax benefit of $1.5 million which was the result of carrying back our net operating losses to periods that we paid income tax prior to the Recapitalization Transaction. There was no income tax benefit or expense, net, recognized during the year ended December 31, 2020. We have not recorded any future income tax benefits for net losses generated after the completion of the Recapitalization Transaction, due to a full valuation allowance recorded against our net operating loss carryforward earned after the Recapitalization Transaction. For additional details, refer to Note 17 - Income Taxes to the 2021 Year End Notes.

Net loss

For the reasons discussed above, we recorded a net loss of $88.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, respectively, which included a gain from Fair value adjustments to warrants of $14.4 million, compared to a net loss of $136.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2020.

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We have undertaken and continue to undertake additional efforts to:

In addition, as of October 6, 2021, we entered into an agreement with Randy Buffington, our former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer to terminate $0.7 million in aggregate future cash payments in exchange for the termination of the remainder of his restrictive covenant of non-competition and issuance of up to 275,000 shares of our Common Stock.

Cash and liquidity

We have placed substantially all of our cash in operating accounts with a well-capitalized financial institution, thereby ensuring balances remain readily available. Due to the nature of our operations and the composition of our current assets, our Cash, Accounts receivable, and metal in Inventories represent substantially all of our liquid assets on hand. Additionally, we are provided with additional liquidity as ounces are recovered from the Ore on leach pads, processed into finished goods, and sold at prevailing spot prices to our customers.

The following table summarizes our projected sources of future liquidity, as recorded within the Consolidated Financial Statements (dollars in thousands):

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The year ended December 31, 2021 compared to the year ended December 31, 2020

The following table summarizes our sources and uses of cash for the following periods (dollars in thousands):

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Cash used in operating activities

During the year ended December 31, 2021, we used $37.0 million of cash in operating activities primarily attributable to a net loss of $88.6 million, the cash impact of net loss was equal to $57.7 million, and $20.7 million provided by working capital, which included $29.0 million used to increase production-related inventories. The largest non-cash items included in net income during the year ended December 31, 2021 included Impairment charges of $17.3 million related to the Write-down of inventories and Impairment on equipment not in use, a $14.4 million gain from Fair value adjustments to warrants and Non-cash portion of interest expense of $16.8 million.

For the year ended December 31, 2020, we used $110.5 million of cash for operating activities primarily attributable to a net loss of $136.4 million, the cash impact of net loss was equal to $59.6 million, and $50.9 million used for working capital, including the operational ramp up following the 2019 restart of the Hycroft Mine using a net $43.8 million to increase production-related inventory balances. Cash outflows during the year ended December 31, 2020 were partially offset by certain non-cash expenses included in Net loss, including $38.8 million of non-cash interest expense and a $17.9 million Write-down of inventories.

Cash used in investing activities

For the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, we used $6.9 million and $31.1 million, respectively, in investing activities. For the year ended December 31, 2021, expenditures included (i) $2.7 million for purchased equipment and refurbishments; (ii) $2.5 million spent for the leach pad expansion project (which excludes $0.7 million of capitalized interest) to complete construction to the appropriate point in which we believe there would be minimal risk of adverse impacts to the leach pad. For the year ended December 31, 2020, the majority of the capital expenditures related to construction of new leach pad space.

Cash (used in) provided by financing activities

During the year ended December 31, 2021 we repaid $5.4 million of the Additional Interest and principal which is classified as debt under the terms of our Sprott Credit Agreement. Cash provided by financing activities was $188.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2020, which included proceeds from financing instruments consummated in connection with the Recapitalization Transaction of $254.8 million, offset by principal payments on debt of $132.4 million and payments for legal and consulting fees related to the Recapitalization Transaction of $16.1 million.

Future capital and cash requirements

The following table provides our gross contractual cash obligations as of December 31, 2021, which are grouped in the same manner as they were classified in the cash flows in order to provide a better understanding of the nature of the obligations and to

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provide a basis for comparison to historical information. We believe the following provides the most meaningful presentation of near-term obligations expected to be satisfied using current and available sources of liquidity (dollars in thousands):