Phoenix Copper Limited / Ticker: PXC / Sector: Mining

11 February 2022

Phoenix Copper Limited

('Phoenix' or the 'Company')

 Warrant status update  

Phoenix Copper Ltd (AIM: PXC, OTCQX ADR: PXCLY), the AIM quoted USA focused base and precious metals emerging producer and exploration company, refers to the announcement on 31 January 2022 which extended the expiry date on a class of Warrants for certain Warrant holders who are deemed to be Insiders.

The Company confirms that it is currently in discussions with a number of US broker-dealers with a view to leading a proposed placement of non-dilutive loan notes to finance construction and development of the Empire Open Pit Copper Mine in Idaho, USA.

Until these discussions are concluded, or terminated, and the proposed terms of the loan notes made public, the Directors consider the Insiders to remain in a "close period."

Accordingly, the expiry date of the 121,111 Warrants, which are held by the Insiders, will be further extended until such time that the "close period" has ended (the "Warrant Extension"). The exercise price of the Warrants will remain unchanged.

Related Party Transaction

As 93,847 of the Warrants are held by Directors of the Company, the Warrant Extension constitutes a related party transaction under Rule 13 of the AIM Rules. Accordingly, Catherine Evans, as the independent director, considers, having consulted with the Company's nominated adviser, that the terms of the Warrant Extension are fair and reasonable insofar as shareholders of the Company are concerned. 

Capitalised terms used in this announcement carry the same meanings as those ascribed to them in the Company's announcement of 31 January 2022, unless the context requires otherwise.

Contacts

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Notes

Phoenix Copper Limited is a USA focused, base and precious metals emerging producer and exploration company, initially targeting copper and zinc production from an open pit mine from late 2022.

Phoenix's primary operations are focused near Mackay, Idaho in the Alder Creek mining district, at the 80% owned Empire Mine property, which historically produced copper at grades of up to 8%, as well as gold, silver, zinc and tungsten, from an underground mine. 

Since 2017, Phoenix has carried out extensive drill programmes which have defined a NI 43-101 compliant PEA (preliminary economic assessment) for an open pit heap leach solvent extraction and electrowinning ("SX-EW") mine, which was updated in October 2020. The contained metal in all NI 43-101 compliant categories of resources, Measured, Indicated and Inferred, stand at 129,641 tonnes of copper, 355,523 ounces of gold, 10,133,772 ounces of silver and 58,440 tonnes of zinc. Phoenix updated its economic model in February 2021 to include the processing of all contained metals through a two phased approach.

In addition to Empire, the district includes the historic Horseshoe, White Knob and Blue Bird Mines, past producers of copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead and tungsten from underground mines. A new discovery at Red Star, 330 metres northwest of the Empire Mine proposed open pit, has revealed high grade silver / lead sulphide ore, and from three shallow exploration drill holes a maiden resource of 103,000 tonnes containing 173.4 g/tonne silver, 0.85 g/tonne gold and 3.85% lead (1.6 million ounces silver equivalent) was reported in an NI 43-101 technical report published in May 2019. Additionally, the district includes Navarre Creek, a volcanic hosted precious metals target in a 14.48 sq km area. The Company's total land package at Empire comprises 8,034 acres (32.51 sq kms).

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. The stated aim of the Company is to fund this phased exploration through free cashflow generated by its initial mine. A Plan of Operations in respect of the initial open pit mine was filed with the relevant regulatory authorities in June 2021.

Phoenix also has two wholly owned cobalt properties on the Idaho Cobalt Belt to the north of Empire. An Earn-In Agreement has been signed with Electra Battery Metals (formerly First Cobalt Corporation), Toronto, in respect of one of those properties.

Phoenix is listed on London's AIM (PXC), and trades on New York's OTCQX Market (PXCLF and PXCLY (ADRs)). More details on the Company, its assets and its objectives can be found on PXC's website at https://phoenixcopperlimited.com/