Restructuring of Short-Term Loan Facility
Phoenix Copper restructured short-term loan facility with US$640k drawdown, extended to June 2026, and converted US$676.8k debt to shares.
- Additional drawdown US$640,000
- Debt converted to shares US$676,800
- New ordinary shares issued 16,926,724
- Conversion price per share 3.0 pence
- Outstanding facility balance after restructuring US$2,005,000
- Empire Open-Pit Proven and Probable reserves (copper) 109,487,970 lbs
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Phoenix Copper Limited (AIM: PXC; OTCQX ADR: PXCLY), the AIM quoted, USA focused base and precious metals emerging producer and exploration company, is pleased to announce that, further to announcements on 4 March 2024 and 12 June 2025[1], it has completed a restructuring of its short-term loan facility (the "Facility") by way of an additional drawdown, extension and partial conversion (the "Restructuring").
Pursuant to the Restructuring, the Company has drawn down a further US$640,000 gross against the Facility (the "Draw Down"), the Facility has been extended until 30 June 2026 (the "Extension"), and the Facility provider has converted a total of US$676,800 of outstanding principal and interest into 16,926,724 new ordinary shares in the Company (the "New Ordinary Shares") at a price of 3.0 pence per Ordinary Share (the "Partial Conversion").
The Draw Down provides the Company with additional working capital whilst it completes its placement of US$75 million of corporate copper bonds, due between 2029 and 2033, further to the announcement of 12 June 2025.
As a result of the Restructuring, the outstanding balance on the Facility now stands at US$2,005,000. Application has been made for the New Ordinary Shares, which rank pari-passu with the existing ordinary shares of no par value ("Ordinary Shares") in issue, to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective and dealings will occur at 8.00 am UK time on or around 19 August 2025.
Total Voting Rights
Following the Partial Conversion, the Company has 241,464,024 Ordinary Shares outstanding. Shareholders may use this number as the denominator for the calculation, by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interests in, or a change to their interest in, the issued share capital of the Company.
Since 2017, Phoenix has executed extensive drilling initiatives, resulting in an expansion of the Empire Open-Pit resource by over 200%. In May 2024 the Company published its inaugural mineral reserve statement for the Empire Open-Pit Mine. Proven and Probable mineral reserves are 10.1 million tonnes containing 109,487,970 lbs of copper, 104,000 oz of gold and 4,654,400 oz of silver. This reserve was estimated using assay data from 485 drill holes, extensive geological modelling, metallurgical recovery test work, geotechnical evaluation, and mine design. The reserve represents a combined 66,467 tonnes of copper equivalent metal.
In addition to the Empire Mine, Phoenix's holdings in the district also encompass the Horseshoe, White Knob, and Blue Bird Mines, all of which have been producers of copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead, and tungsten from underground operations, a new high-grade silver and lead orebody at Red Star, and the Navarre Creek gold exploration project, which was first drilled in 2023. The Company's land package at Empire spans 8,434 acres (34 sq km).
[1] The terms of the Company's short term loan were initially announced on 24 March 2023. Further updates were provided in the Company's announcements dated 19 February 2024, 4 March 2024 and 12 June 2025
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