$2.5m Share Placement to Accelerate Exploration
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ASX Announcement
2 February 2024
$2.5m Share Placement to Accelerate Exploration
Key points:
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Firm commitments received for 31.2 million fully paid ordinary shares (“New
Shares”) to raise A$2.5 million (before costs).
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Placement shares priced at $0.08, being a discount of 5.9% to the 5-day VWAP
and 11.1% to the last traded price.
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Following settlement, Yandal will have approximately $7.7m cash on hand.
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Placement was oversubscribed with strong support received from major
shareholders and significant interest from new investors.
•
This is a “top up” of the November 2023 capital raising in response to positive
drilling results announced in January. Funds raised will be used to expand and
further accelerate exploration including:
•
o
RC and diamond drill testing and MRE related activities at Exploration
Targets within the Ironstone Well-Barwidgee Project and;
o
advancement of high priority targets at the Mt McClure and Gordons
projects.
MST Financial acted as lead manager to the Placement.
Commenting on the capital raising, Yandal Resources’ Managing Director, Mr Tim Kennedy said: “We’re very pleased
with the support received from the participants of this capital raising who are keen to see the Company have a solid funding
runway to expand and further accelerate exploration activities at our key target areas. We are in the advanced planning stage
of our forthcoming drilling program at Ironstone Well-Barwidgee in the Northern Yandal Belt which will include RC and diamond
drill testing of key targets including Oblique, Quarter Moon and New England Granite. Weather permitting, we expect to
mobilise in early March and look forward to reporting progress as results come to hand.”
For further information or to ask questions in relation to this announcement, please visit our Investor
Hub at: https://investorhub.yandalresources.com.au/link/lejX0P
Registered Address
Board Members
Yandal Resources Limited
Tim Kennedy
Managing Director/CEO
Greg Evans
Chair
Katina Law
Non-Executive Director
Chris Oorschot
Technical Director
Greg Fitzgerald
Company Secretary
T +61 8 9389 9021
E yandal@yandalresources.com.au
W www.yandalresources.com.au
ACN 108 753 608
ABN 86 108 753 608
A Level 1, 5/62 Ord Street
West Perth WA 6005
P PO Box 1104
Nedlands WA 6909
Yandal Resources Limited (“YRL”, “Yandal”, or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that it has
received firm commitments to place 31.2m fully paid ordinary shares (“Placement Shares”) in the
Company at $0.08 per share under a Placement to professional and sophisticated investors and existing
shareholders to raise $2.5 million (before costs) (“Placement”). The offer price represents a 5.9%
discount to the 5-day VWAP and an 11.1% discount to the last traded price.
Following settlement, Yandal will have approximately $7.7m cash on hand.
The Placement will be unconditional and in accordance with the Company’s current placement capacity
under ASX Listing Rule 7.1.
All New Shares issued will rank equally with existing shares on issue, and the Company will apply for
quotation of the New Shares. Following the issue of the New Shares, the Company will have 265.9m
shares on issue.
Use of Funds
Funds from the Placement will be primarily focused on:
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•
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Drilling, Exploration Target testing and MRE related activities at the Ironstone Well, Barwidgee, Mt
McClure and Gordons projects
General Exploration Activities
Working capital
Timetable1
Settlement of New Shares
Proposed Issue of New Shares
1.
8 February 2024
9 February 2024
All dates and times are indicative only.
Authorised by the Board of Yandal Resources
For further information, please contact:
Tim Kennedy
Managing Director
Yandal Resources Limited
yandal@yandalresources.com.au
ASX Announcement 2 February 2024
Greg Fitzgerald
Company Secretary
+61 8 9389 9021
yandal@yandalresources.com.au
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About Yandal Resources Limited
Yandal Resources listed on the ASX in December 2018 and has a portfolio of advanced gold exploration projects
in the highly prospective Yandal and Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belts of Western Australia.
Yandal Resources’ gold project locations.
Yandal Resources Ltd - Mineral Resource Summary
Deposit
Ironstone Well
Flushing Meadows1
Mt McClure
Challenger2
Success3
Parmelia4
HMS Sulphur5
Gilmore6
Sub-total - MMC
Gordons
Gordons Dam7
Grand-total8
Indicated
Tonnes Grade
(‘000s)
(g/t)
2,141
2,141
1.3
1.3
Au
(oz)
91,000
91,000
Inferred
Tonnes
Grade
(‘000)
(g/t)
Au
(oz)
Tonnes
(000’s)
Total
Grade
(g/t)
Au
(Oz)
5,245
1.1
177,000
7,386
1.1
268,000
718
1,255
252
1010
134
3,369
1.9
1.9
2.1
1.2
1.7
1.7
44,000
75,000
17,000
39,000
7,200
182,200
718
1,255
252
1010
134
3,369
1.9
1.9
2.1
1.2
1.7
1.7
44,000
75,000
17,000
39,000
7,200
182,200
365
8,979
1.7
1.3
20,000
379,200
365
11,120
1.7
1.4
20,000
470,200
Due to the effects of rounding, totals may not represent the sum of the individual components.
1. Reported above 0.5g/t Au lower cut-off grade; refer to Yandal Resources Ltd ASX announcement dated 4 November 2020 for full details.
2. Reported above 1.0g/t Au lower cut-off grade; refer to Yandal Resources Ltd ASX announcement dated 22 August 2022 for full details.
3. Reported above 1.0g/t Au lower cut-off grade; refer to Yandal Resources Ltd ASX announcement dated 6 September 2022 for full details.
4. Reported above 1.0g/t Au lower cut-off grade; refer to Yandal Resources Ltd ASX announcement dated 20 September 2022 for full details.
5. Reported above 0.5g/t Au lower cut-off grade; refer to Yandal Resources Ltd ASX announcement dated 3 October 2023 for full details.
6. Reported above 1.0g/t Au lower cut-off grade; refer to Yandal Resources Ltd ASX announcement dated 3 October 2023 for full details.
7. Reported above 1.0g/t Au lower cut-off grade; refer to Yandal Resources Ltd ASX announcement dated 6 April 2023 for full details.
8. All Resources are reported as global estimates, not constrained by optimised pit shells.
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Competent Person Statement
The information in this document that relates to Exploration Results, Exploration Targets, geology and
data compilation is based on information reviewed or compiled by Mr Chris Oorschot, a Competent
Person who is a Member of The Australasian Institute Geoscientists. Mr Oorschot is the Exploration
Manager for the Company, is a full-time employee and holds options in the Company. Mr Oorschot has
sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under
consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in
the 2012 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and
Ore Reserves’. Mr Oorschot consents to the inclusion in this announcement of the matters based on this
information in the form and context in which it appears.
The information in this announcement that relates to the Flushing Meadows, Mt McClure and Gordons
Dam Mineral Resource Estimates is based on information compiled and generated by Andrew Bewsher,
an employee of BM Geological Services Pty Ltd (“BMGS”). Both Andrew Bewsher and BMGS hold
shares in the company. BMGS consents to the inclusion, form and context of the relevant information
herein as derived from the original resource reports. Mr Bewsher has sufficient experience relevant to
the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which is being
undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the JORC ‘Australasian
Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’.
YRL confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information
included in the original market announcement. The Company confirms that the form and context in which
the Competent Person’s findings are presented have not been materially modified from the original
market announcement.
Forward Looking Statements
This document may contain certain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but
are not limited to, statements concerning Yandal Resources Limited’s (Yandal’s) current expectations,
estimates and projections about the industry in which Yandal operates, and beliefs and assumptions
regarding Yandal’s future performance. When used in this document, words such as “anticipate”, “could”,
“plan”, “estimate”, “expects”, “seeks”, “intends”, “may”, “potential”, “should”, and similar expressions are
forward-looking statements. Although Yandal believes that its expectations reflected in these forwardlooking statements are reasonable, such statements are subject to known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond the control of Yandal and no assurance can
be given that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. Drilling results
presented indicate geological potential for mineralisation but there can be no certainty that these results
will eventually form part of a Mineral Resource Estimate.
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