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Phoenix Copper Limited
22 February 2021
Phoenix Copper Limited / Ticker: PXC / Sector: Mining
22 February 2021
Phoenix Copper Limited
("Phoenix" or the "Company")
GBP2 million debt facility to accelerate development of Empire
Mine open pit copper project
Phoenix Copper Ltd (AIM: PXC, OTCQX: PXCLF), the AIM quoted
North American focused base and precious metals emerging producer
and exploration company, announces that it has drawn down on a GBP2
million debt facility (the "Facility") to accelerate development of
the Empire Mine open pit copper project in Idaho, USA. The Facility
has a nine month term, is unsecured and pays interest at an
annualised rate of 8%.
Richard Wilkins, Chief Financial Officer, commented: "On 16
February we announced the results of our updated Economic Model
("EM") on the Empire Mine open pit copper project. The open pit
contains Measured & Indicated resources of some $1.4 billion,
and the base case EM generates net revenue of almost $800 million
and an EBITDA of over $300 million over an initial 10 year project
life, at a copper price of $3.60 /lb. The pre-production capital
expenditure is expected to be paid off in under two years, with
over $40 million of free cash generated in the first year of
operations.
"The Facility will allow the Company to accelerate project
development whilst we work on the final project financing package,
which will be primarily debt related, and will be used to repay the
Facility. Our next objective is to submit the project Plan of
Operations to the relevant authorities as soon as possible, so that
we can commence the final stages of construction permitting. We
consider that the terms of the Facility demonstrate a strong vote
of confidence in our operations, and we look forward to becoming a
copper-led US mining operation, delivering copper into the US
electrification programme on a timely basis."
Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance
Phoenix is committed to meeting and exceeding the environmental
standards required by law as a core value of the Company. The
baseline environmental data collected to date will be used for
furthering the permitting process, but as importantly, will be used
as the building blocks for the Company's future Environmental,
Social, and Corporate Governance ("ESG") platform.
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure
Certain information contained in this announcement would have
been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of
Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this
announcement.
Contacts
For further information please visit
www.phoenixcopperlimited.com or contact:
Phoenix Copper Ryan McDermott Tel: +1 208 954
Limited Dennis Thomas 7039
Richard Wilkins Tel: +44 7827
290 849
Tel: +44 7590
216 657
SP Angel (Nominated David Hignell / Caroline Rowe Tel: +44 20 3470
Adviser) 0470
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Brandon Hill Capital Jonathan Evans / Oliver Stansfield Tel: +44 20 3463
(Joint Broker) 5000
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WH Ireland (Joint Harry Ansell / Adam Pollock Tel: +44 207
Broker) / Katy Mitchell 2201666
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EAS Advisors (US Matt Bonner / Rogier de la Tel: +1 (646)
Corporate Adviser) Rambelje 495-2225
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Blytheweigh Tim Blythe / Megan Ray Tel: +44 20 7138
(Financial PR) 3204
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Notes
Phoenix Copper Limited is a North American focused, base and
precious metal emerging producer and exploration company, which has
carried out a drilling programme and generated a copper, gold,
silver and zinc resource on which it is carrying out a feasibility
study to bring the historically producing Empire Mine in Idaho,
USA, back into production. It is also evaluating the silver and
gold resources around three other past producing mines within the
23 km (2) Empire claims block as well as cobalt in two claims
blocks north of Empire in Idaho.
Phoenix's primary operations are focused near Mackay, Idaho in
the Alder Creek mining district. This district includes the
historical Empire, Horseshoe, White Knob and Blue Bird Mines, past
producers of copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead and tungsten from
underground mines in the first half of the twentieth century.
Additionally, the district includes Navarre Creek a Carlin-trend
gold discovery which hosts a 6.1 km gold strike length within a 9.8
km(2) area.
Phoenix acquired an 80% interest in the historical Empire Mine
property in 2017 and, based on a total of 320 drill holes, an oxide
resource was completed in late 2017. A NI 43-101 compliant PEA
(preliminary economic assessment) for an open pit heap leach
solvent extraction and electrowinning ("SX-EW") mine was completed
in April 2018. In 2018 a further 8,600 metres in 93 holes was
completed to upgrade the oxide resources, provide samples for
ongoing metallurgical test work, geotechnical and hydrological
studies and condemnation drilling for the heap leach pad site,
waste dump and plant site. An updated NI 43-101 compliant resource
was completed in early May 2020 and October 2020 for all metals.
Present contained metal in all NI 43-101 compliant categories of
resources, measured, indicated and inferred, stand at 355,523
ounces of gold, 129,641 tonnes of copper, 10,133,772 ounces of
silver and 58,440 tonnes of zinc. Following the latest NI 43-101
compliant resource, Phoenix updated its economic model in February
2021 to include the processing of all contained metals through a
two phased approach.
Since acquiring the Empire project, Phoenix has increased the
claim area from 818 acres to 5,717 acres, mainly to the northwest
and west, and in so doing has increased the potential for
additional oxide and sulphide copper resources, as well as the
potential for stand-alone gold and silver resources, along a strike
length of approximately 5.4 km towards the other brownfield mines
of the Horseshoe, White Knob and Blue Bird Mines now within the
property boundary. In particular, a new discovery at Red Star, 330
metres north west of the Empire Mine proposed open pit, has
revealed sulphide ore and from three shallow exploration drill
holes a NI 43-101 compliant maiden resource of 1.6 million silver
equivalent ounces was reported.
At Empire, it is estimated that less than 1% of the potential
ore system has been explored to date and, accordingly, there is
significant opportunity to increase the resource through phased
exploration.
More details on the Company, its assets and its objectives can
be found on PXC's website at phoenixcopperlimited.com .
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