REG - Thor Energy PLC - Equity Placing & Lifting of ASX Trading Halt

Thor EnergyAnnouncement

13/05/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 1308O  Thor Energy PLC  13 May 2024

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of
the UK version of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 which is part of UK law by
virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended ("MAR"). Upon
the publication of this announcement via a Regulatory Information Service,
this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

 

13 May 2024

Thor Energy PLC

 

("Thor" or the "Company")

 

Equity Placing to Accelerate Uranium and Copper Exploration

 

Lifting of ASX Trading Halt

 

The directors of Thor Energy Plc ("Thor" or the "Company") (AIM, ASX: THR,
OTCQB: THORF) are pleased to announce a capital raise of A$1.3m before
expenses to advance the Company's 100% owned uranium assets located in
Colorado and Utah, USA and copper assets in South Australia.

As a result, the trading halt on the Company's shares on the ASX has now been
lifted.

 

Highlights

·    The Company has conditionally raised, in aggregate, gross proceeds of
A$1.3 million via the placing of 100,000,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1p each
("Ordinary Shares") (the "Placing Shares") at a price of 1.3 cents per
Ordinary Share (the "Placing Price"), comprising:

 

o  approximately A$467,890 by means of a firm placing ("Firm Placing") with
certain institutional shareholders of 35,991,508 new ordinary shares ("Firm
Placing Shares") at the Placing Price

o  approximately A$832,110 by means of a conditional placing ("Conditional
Placing" and together with the Firm Placing "Placings") with certain
institutional shareholders of 64,008,492 new ordinary shares ("Conditional
Placing Shares" and Firm Placing Shares being "New Ordinary Shares") at the
Placing Price.

o  All placees to receive, one option for each two Placing Shares, to
subscribe for a further new Ordinary Share at 2.6 cents expiring in 3 years.
All options for both the Firm Placing and the Conditional Placing will be
subject to shareholder approval.

 

·    Strong support was received from a broad range of new institutional
and sophisticated investors, adding strength to the Company's share register.
Prenzler Group acted as lead manager for the Placement.

 

·    The Company's Non-Executive Chairman Mr Alastair Clayton to invest
A$100,000 in the Conditional Placing, subject to shareholder approval.

 

·    The Company's Managing Director Ms Galloway Warland to invest
A$13,000 in the Conditional Placing, subject to shareholder approval.

 

·    The Conditional Placing is conditional on the Company obtaining the
requisite approvals from Shareholders at a General Meeting, details of which
the Company will circulate in due course.

 

Nicole Galloway Warland, Managing Director of Thor Energy, commented:

"With the addition of these funds the Company is now in a position to plan for
the next phases of exploration at its' USA and South Australian projects. We
thank existing and new investors for recognising the significant potential of
our uranium and copper portfolio. The Board looks forward to updating the
market in the near future on our exploration and project development plans."

 

 

Capital Raise

 

Thor Energy Plc seeks to raise A$1.3 million by way of a two-tranche placement
of 100,000,000 new fully paid ordinary shares in the Company at A$0.013 per
New Ordinary Share.

 

Firm Placing Shares (35,991,508 New Ordinary Shares) will be issued under
current authorities pursuant to the Company's available placement capacity
under ASX Listing Rules 7.1. The Firm Placing Shares will be listed on the ASX
and AIM and will rank pari-passu with the existing fully paid ordinary shares
on issue.

 

Conditional Placing Shares (64,008,492 New Ordinary Shares) will be listed on
the ASX and AIM, together with 70,000,000 unlisted options being 50,000,000
options to investors on the basis of 1 option for every two shares issued,
plus 20,000,000 options to be issued to the Prenzler Group (or nominee) as
part payment for services rendered.  All options have an exercise price of
A$0.026 and a term of 3 years.  The Conditional Placing Shares and all of the
options will require shareholder approval at the upcoming EGM to be held on or
around 20 June 2024.

 

The Placing Price represents a discount of 23.5% to the ASX closing share
price of $0.017 on 8 May 2024. The Placing Shares being issued represent
approximately 35.9% of the existing issued ordinary share capital of the
Company prior to the Placing.

 

Director Participation in the Conditional Placing

Alastair Clayton and Nicole Galloway Warland, both directors of the Company,
have committed to participate in the Conditional Placing by subscribing for
7,692,380 and 1,000,000 New Ordinary Shares respectively on the terms above,
for an aggregate subscription of A$113,000, subject to shareholder approval at
the forthcoming general meeting of shareholders.

Subject to receiving shareholder approval at the forthcoming general meeting
to be convened shortly, and assuming there are no further changes to the
shareholdings and warrant holdings of Alastair Clayton and Nicole Galloway
Warland after the completion of the Conditional Placing, the beneficial
holdings of these directors and their connected parties will be:

                          Subscription                                       Resultant holding
 Director                 Amount (A$)  Number of Shares  Number of Warrants  Number of Shares  % of enlarged capital(2)  Number of warrants
 Alastair Clayton          100,000      7,692,308        3,846,154           7,692,308         2.0%                      4,646,154
 Nicole Galloway Warland   13,000        1,000,000       500,000             1,325,000         0.4%                      1,700,000

(2)The resultant holding % as a proportion of total issued capital is stated
assuming all resolutions associated with the Conditional Placing are approved
by shareholders at the forthcoming general meeting and the Conditional Placing
Shares are issued.

General Meeting

The Conditional Placing is not being underwritten and is conditional, inter
alia, on the approval of shareholders at a General Meeting. The Company
expects to despatch a circular and notice of general meeting to Shareholders
in due course, to convene a general meeting of the Company on or around 20
June 2024.  The notice of the general meeting will also be made available on
the Company's website https://thorenergyplc.com/ (https://thorenergyplc.com/)
.

 

Settlement and dealings

 

First Admission and Total Voting Rights

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for admission of the
Firm Placing Shares to trading on AIM and to the ASX for admission on that
market (the "First Admission"). It is expected that admission will become
effective and dealings in the Firm Placing Shares commence at 8.00 a.m. on or
around 16 May 2024.

The Firm Placing Shares does not require Shareholder approval as the Firm
Placing Shares will be issued pursuant to the Company's pre-existing share
capital authorities granted at its 29 November 2023 general meeting.

Following First Admission, the total number of Ordinary Shares in the capital
of the Company in issue will be 314,601,576 Ordinary Shares with voting
rights. This figure may be used by shareholders in the Company 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's share capital.

Second Admission and Total Voting Rights

Admission of the Conditional Placing Shares (the "Second Admission") is,
conditional, inter alia, on the First Admission becoming effective and upon
the approval of Shareholders at the Company's forthcoming General Meeting
proposed to be held on or around 20 June 2024, notice of which will be
included in the Circular to shareholders expected in due course.

Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange for admission of the
Conditional Placing Shares to trading on AIM and to the ASX for admission on
that market. It is expected that admission will become effective and dealings
in the Conditional Placing Shares commence at 8.00 a.m. on or around 21 June
2024.

Following Second Admission, the total number of Ordinary Shares in the capital
of the Company in issue will be 378,610,068 with voting rights. This figure
may be used by Shareholders 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's share capital pursuant to the
Company's Constitution.

The issue of the Firm Placing Shares is not conditional on issue of the
Conditional Placing Shares. Should the Resolutions not be passed at the
General Meeting, the issue of the Conditional Placing Shares will not proceed.
The issue of the Firm Placing Shares will not be affected by any or all of the
Conditional Placing failing to complete for any reason.

The Placing Shares will be issued fully paid and will rank pari passu in all
respects with the Company's existing Ordinary Shares.

For further information, please contact:

 Thor Energy PLC

 Nicole Galloway Warland, Managing Director              Tel: +61 (8) 7324 1935

 Ray Ridge, CFO / Company Secretary                      Tel: +61 (8) 7324 1935

 WH Ireland Limited                                      Tel: +44 (0) 207 220 1666

 (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)

 Antonio Bossi / Darshan Patel / Isaac Hooper
 SI Capital Limited                                      Tel: +44 (0) 1483 413 500

 (Joint Broker)

 Nick Emerson
 Yellow Jersey                                           thor@yellowjerseypr.com

 (Financial PR)

 Sarah Hollins / Shivantha Thambirajah / Bessie Elliot

 

About Thor Energy Plc

The Company is focused on uranium and energy metals that are crucial in the
shift to a 'green' energy economy. Thor has a number of highly prospective
projects that give shareholders exposure to uranium, nickel, copper, lithium
and gold. Our projects are located in Australia and the USA.

Thor holds 100% interest in three uranium and vanadium projects (Wedding Bell,
Radium Mountain and Vanadium King) in the Uravan Belt in Colorado and Utah,
USA with historical high-grade uranium and vanadium drilling and production
results.

At Alford East in South Australia, Thor has earnt an 80% interest in oxide
copper deposits considered amenable to extraction via In Situ Recovery
techniques (ISR). In January 2021, Thor announced an Inferred Mineral Resource
Estimate¹.

Thor also holds a 26.3% interest in Australian copper development company
EnviroCopper Limited (ECL), which in turn holds rights to earn up to a 75%
interest in the mineral rights and claims over the resource on the portion of
the historic Kapunda copper mine and the Alford West copper project, both
situated in South Australia, and both considered amenable to recovery by way
of ISR.²³ Alligator Energy recently invested A$0.9M for a 7.8% interest in
ECL with the rights to gain a 50.1% interest by investing a further A$10.1m
over four years.

Thor holds 100% of the advanced Molyhil tungsten project, including measured,
indicated and inferred resources⁴, in the Northern Territory of Australia,
which was awarded Major Project Status by the Northern Territory government in
July 2020. Thor executed a A$8m Farm-in and Funding Agreement with
Investigator Resources Limited (ASX: IVR) to accelerate exploration at the
Molyhil Project on 24 November 2022.(6)

Adjacent to Molyhil, at Bonya, Thor holds a 40% interest in deposits of
tungsten, copper, and vanadium, including Inferred resource estimates for the
Bonya copper deposit, and the White Violet and Samarkand tungsten deposits.
⁵ Thor's interest in the Bonya tenement EL29701 is planned to be divested as
part of the Farm-in and Funding agreement with Investigator Resources
Limited.(6)

Thor owns 100% of the Ragged Range Project, comprising 92 km(2) of exploration
licences with highly encouraging early-stage gold and nickel results in the
Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Notes

(1)
https://thorenergyplc.com/investor-updates/maiden-copper-gold-mineral-resource-estimate-alford-east-copper-gold-isr-project/

(2)
www.thorenergyplc.com/sites/thormining/media/pdf/asx-announcements/20172018/20180222-clarification-kapunda-copper-resource-estimate.pdf
(http://www.thormining.com/sites/thormining/media/pdf/asx-announcements/20172018/20180222-clarification-kapunda-copper-resource-estimate.pdf)

³
www.thorenergyplc.com/sites/thormining/media/aim-report/20190815-initial-copper-resource-estimate---moonta-project---rns---london-stock-exchange.pdf
(http://www.thormining.com/sites/thormining/media/aim-report/20190815-initial-copper-resource-estimate---moonta-project---rns---london-stock-exchange.pdf)

(4)
https://thorenergyplc.com/investor-updates/molyhil-project-mineral-resource-estimate-updated/

(5)
www.thorenergyplc.com/sites/thormining/media/pdf/asx-announcements/20200129-mineral-resource-estimates---bonya-tungsten--copper.pdf
(http://www.thormining.com/sites/thormining/media/pdf/asx-announcements/20200129-mineral-resource-estimates---bonya-tungsten--copper.pdf)

(6)
https://thorenergyplc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/20221124-8M-Farm-in-Funding-Agreement.pdf

The Company notes that for the relevant market announcements noted above, that
it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects this
information and that all material assumptions and technical parameters
underpinning any estimates continue to apply and have not materially changed.

 

 

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