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MKANGO RESOURCES LTD.
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550 Burrard Street
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Suite 2900
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Vancouver
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BC V6C 0A3
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Canada
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MKANGO ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
EXERCISE OF CALL OPTION - EIT
RAW MATERIALS
London / Vancouver: November 26, 2024
- Mkango Resources Ltd.
(AIM/TSX-V: MKA) ("Mkango) announces that at its Annual General
Meeting ("AGM") held today all resolutions were duly passed.
Furthermore, in accordance with the Put and Call Option Agreement
entered into between Mkango and EIT RawMaterials GmbH dated 12
August 2024, Mkango announces that it is exercising its call option
as of today, 26 November 2024, to acquire the 6 shares in Mkango
Polska with a nominal value of PLN 50 each, currently held by EIT
RawMaterials. To settle the agreed purchase price of EUR 200,000
and PLN 300, Mkango Resources Limited will issue 2,041,855 Mkango
shares, calculated based on a price of CAD 0.145 per
share.
AGM
Results
All business put forth at the
Meeting was approved by shareholders of the Company,
including:
- the
election of Derek Linfield, William Dawes, Alexander Lemon, Philipa
Varris, Susan Muir and Shaun Treacy as Directors of the
Company;
- appointment of MNP LLP as auditors of the Company and
authorising the Directors to fix their remuneration; and
- approval of the Company's amended stock option plan, amended
Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) plan and amended Restricted
Stock Unit (RSU) plan in accordance with the policies of the TSX
Venture Exchange.
Exercise of Call Option
In
accordance with the Put and Call Option Agreement entered into
between Mkango Resources Limited and EIT RawMaterials GmbH
("EITRM") announced 21 August 2024, Mkango announces that it is exercising its
call option as of today, 26 November 2024, to acquire the 6 shares
in Mkango Polska with a nominal value of PLN 50 each, currently
held by EIT RawMaterials. To settle the
agreed purchase price of EUR 200,000 and PLN 300, Mkango Resources
Limited will issue 2,041,855 Mkango shares
("Settlement Shares"), calculated on a price of CAD 0.145 per
share.
Issuing Settlement Shares
The Settlement Shares are expected
to be issued on or around 5 December 2024 and is subject to the
receipt of the approval of the TSX-V, and admission of the
Placement Shares to trading on AIM.
The Settlement Shares will rank pari
passu with the Company's existing shares and application will be
made for the Placement Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM
("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective
and dealings in the Placement Shares will commence at 8:00 am on or
around 5 December 2024. The Placement Shares will be subject to a
statutory hold period in Canada expiring on the date that is four
months and one day from issuance of the Placement Shares, and will
also be listed for trading on the TSX-V.
In accordance with the Disclosure
Guidance and Transparency Rules (DTR 5.6.1R) the Company hereby
notifies the market that immediately following Admission, its
issued and outstanding share capital will consist of 297,078,761
shares. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury.
Shareholders may use this figure as the denominator for the
calculations by which they will determine if they are required to
notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the
Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and
Transparency Rules.
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure
The information
contained within this
announcement is deemed by the Company to
constitute inside information as stipulated under the
Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014 ('MAR') which
has been incorporated into UK law by the European Union
(Withdrawal) Act 2018. Upon the
publication of this announcement via
Regulatory Information Service, this inside information is now
considered to be in the public domain.
For
further information on Mkango, please contact:
Mkango Resources Limited
William Dawes
Alexander Lemon
Chief Executive
Officer
President
will@mkango.ca
alex@mkango.ca
Canada: +1 403 444 5979
www.mkango.ca
@MkangoResources
SP
Angel Corporate Finance LLP
Nominated Adviser and Joint
Broker
Jeff Keating, Caroline
Rowe
UK: +44 20 3470 0470
Alternative Resource Capital
Joint Broker
Alex Wood, Keith Dowsing
UK: +44 20 7186 9004/5
About Mkango Resources Ltd.
Mkango is listed on the AIM and the
TSX-V. Mkango's corporate strategy is to become a market leader in
the production of recycled rare earth magnets, alloys and oxides,
through its interest in Maginito Limited ("Maginito"), which is
owned 79.4 per cent by Mkango and 20.6 per cent by CoTec, and to
develop new sustainable sources of neodymium, praseodymium,
dysprosium and terbium to supply accelerating demand from electric
vehicles, wind turbines and other clean energy
technologies.
Maginito holds a 100 per cent
interest in HyProMag and a 90 per cent direct and indirect interest
(assuming conversion of Maginito's convertible loan) in HyProMag
GmbH, focused on short loop rare earth magnet recycling in the UK
and Germany, respectively, and a 100 per cent interest in Mkango
Rare Earths UK Ltd ("Mkango UK"), focused on long loop rare earth
magnet recycling in the UK via a chemical route.
Maginito and CoTec
are also rolling out HyProMag's recycling
technology into the United States via the 50/50 owned HyProMag USA
LLC joint venture company. HyProMag is also
evaluating other jurisdictions, and recently launched a
collaboration with Envipro on rare earth magnet recycling in
Japan.
Mkango also owns the advanced stage
Songwe Hill rare earths project and an extensive rare earths,
uranium, tantalum, niobium, rutile, nickel and cobalt exploration
portfolio in Malawi, and the Pulawy rare earths separation project
in Poland.
For more information, please
visit www.mkango.ca