3 April 2020
Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited
Issue of Ordinary Shares & Total Voting Rights
Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited (the "Company") (LSE: FAR) has allotted and issued 500,000 new fully paid ordinary shares of no par value in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to a financial services provider in consideration for their retained services.
Applications has been made to the FCA and to the London Stock Exchange for the 500,000 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to the standard segment of the Official List of the FCA and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's Main Market for listed securities respectively ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective at 8:00 a.m. on 6 April 2020. The new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing Ordinary Shares in issue.
Following Admission, the Company will have in issue a total of 313,478,848 Ordinary Shares. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, following Admission, the total number of voting rights in the Company will be 313,478,848 which may be used by shareholders or other persons 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 FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
For further information, visit www.ferro-alloy.com or contact:
Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited
Nick Bridgen, Chief Executive Officer [email protected]
Shore Capital (Broker)
Corporate Advisory: Toby Gibbs / Mark Percy / John More Tel: +44 (0)207 408 4090
Corporate Broking: Jerry Keen
St Brides Partners Limited (Financial PR & IR Adviser)
Catherine Leftley / Prit Piip Tel: +44 (0)207 236 1177
Further information about Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited
The Company's operations are all located at the Balasausqandiq Deposit in Kyzylordinskaya Oblast in the South of Kazakhstan. Currently the Company has two main business activities:
a) the high grade Balasausqandiq Vanadium Project (the "Project"); and
b) an existing profitable vanadium concentrate processing operation (the "Existing Operation")
Balasausqandiq is a very large deposit, situated in Kyzylordinskaya Oblast in Southern Kazakhstan. The ore contains vanadium as the principal product, together with by-products of carbon, molybdenum, uranium, rare earth metals, potassium, and aluminium.
A reserve on the JORC 2012 basis has been estimated only the first ore-body number which amounts to 23 million tonnes, not including the small amounts of near-surface oxidised material which is in the Inferred resource category. In the system of Reserve estimation used in Kazakhstan the Reserves are estimated to be over 70m tonnes in ore-bodies 1 to 5 but this does not include the full depth of ore-bodies 2-5.
There is an additional existing concentrate processing operation is situated at the site of the Balasausqandiq Deposit. The production facilities were originally created from a 15,000 tonnes per year pilot plant which was then adapted to treat low-grade concentrates and is now in the process of being expanded and further adapted to treat a wider variety of raw-materials.
The Company has already completed the first steps of a development plan which is expected to result in annualised production capacity increasing gradually to around 1,500 tonnes of contained vanadium pentoxide. The development plan includes upgrades to infrastructure, an extension to the existing factory and the installation of equipment to increase the throughput and to add the facilities to convert AMV into vanadium pentoxide.
The strategy of the Company is to develop both the Existing Operation and the Project in parallel. Although they are located on the same site and use some of the same infrastructure, they are separate operations.
