Employee Shares Scheme and Issue of Shares (2002Y)
December 21 2010 - 2:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 2002Y
Bellzone Mining PLC
21 December 2010
21 December 2010
Bellzone Mining plc
("Bellzone" or the "Company")
Adoption of Employee Shares Scheme and Issue of Shares
Further to the stated intention in the Company's AIM admission
document to adopt an employee share scheme as soon as practicable,
Bellzone Mining plc (AIM:BZM), the iron ore and nickel/copper
company developing the Kalia Iron Mine in the Republic of Guinea,
West Africa is pleased to announce that 10,000,000 ordinary shares
of no par value that rank pari passu with the existing ordinary
shares of the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), were today issued at
GBP0.01 each to the Bellzone Employee Share Plan Trust
("ESPT").
The ESPT trustees will award paid up shares over the next 48
months to incentivise the team in driving the development of the
flagship Kalia Mine and other development projects after
considering recommendations from the Board of Directors'
Remuneration Committee. Employees are incentivised by having paid
up shares nominally allocated at current prices which may be issued
by the ESPT at a future date, ranging between 12 and 48 months
hence, dependent on various performance criteria and achievement of
specified project milestones. Eligible employees will include
senior management and executive directors.
In accordance with the details disclosed in the AIM admission
document, the total number of shares eligible for the ESPT will not
exceed 10 per cent of the number of issued Ordinary Shares from
time to time. This translates to 52,712,449 shares being available
for allocation to the ESPT at this time.
Application has been made for the 10,000,000 Ordinary Shares, or
18.9 per cent. of the total number of shares available for
allocation to the ESPT, to be admitted to trading on AIM. Admission
is expected to take place at 8.00 a.m. on 23 December 2010.
Following admission of the new Ordinary Shares, the Bellzone
ESPT will account for 1.86 per cent. of the Company's current
issued share capital and the Company now has a total of 537,124,485
ordinary shares in issue, none of which are held in treasury.
Enquiries:
Bellzone Mining plc
Graham Fyfe/Terry Larkan +61 8 9420 8900
Canaccord Genuity Limited
Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker
to Bellzone
Andrew Chubb/Tarica Mpinga +44 (0)20 7050 6500
Renaissance Capital Limited
Joint Broker to Bellzone
Simon Matthews/Thomas Beattie +44 (0)20 7367 7777
Conduit PR +44 (0)20 7429 6603
Jos Simson/Paul Youens +44 (0)7843 260 623
Bellzone Mining plc
Bellzone Mining plc is an exploration and resource development
company with iron ore and nickel / copper permits in the Republic
of Guinea, West Africa.
The Company's flagship project, the Kalia Iron Mine has a JORC
resource of 3.74 billion tonnes, located on the Kalia I prospect.
Drilling results and internal estimates indicate that Kalia
Prospect has the potential to host more than 10 billion tonnes of
magnetite and 2.55 billion tonnes of oxide at surface.
Exploration work continues to further define the potential at
Kalia I on both the magnetite and oxide at surface.
Bellzone is committed to the staged development of the Kalia
Iron Project, which includes a 50mtpa iron ore facility, rail and
port, with initial production scheduled in 2014. Stage one is
planned to bring online 20mtpa direct shipping ore ('DSO') capacity
in 2014 and a 10mtpa magnetite concentrator in 2015. Stage two
increasing the DSO output to 30mtpa in 2017 and doubling the
concentrate capacity to 20mtpa by 2018.
Bellzone signed an Infrastructure Accord with the Republic of
Guinea giving the Company exclusive rights to the designated port
and rail areas for purposes of conducting studies for the
development of the infrastructure leading to the signing of a
convention and concession. The infrastructure forms a key part of
the Guinea Government's infrastructure strategy and will support
the development of iron ore, bauxite and other minerals in Guinea
through its availability for 3rd party use.
On 2 August 2010, Bellzone signed definitive agreements with
China International Fund ('CIF'). CIF will finance and develop the
rail and port infrastructure and offer a finance package to
Bellzone for the development of the Kalia Mine in exchange for the
first right to purchase 100% of the off-take of the Kalia Mine at
market price.
An exploration programme is currently underway at the Forecariah
Iron Permits that lie between 40 and 80kms from the Guinea coast.
Bellzone and CIF will jointly develop these permits which are
prospective for oxide and magnetite. The oxide has the potential to
deliver cash flow from a Direct Shipping Ore project in the short
term.
Bellzone has competed an intensive mapping and surface sampling
programme and has defined highly prospective drilling targets at
its Sadeka Nickel/Copper Project and will commence a drilling
programme on these targets in Q4 2010.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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