REG-Anglesey Mining Plc: UK 2024 Criticality Assessment

Anglesey MiningAnnouncement

04/12/2024 07:15

 

 

Trading Symbol

AIM: AYM

 

04 December 2024

 

Anglesey Mining plc

(“Anglesey”)

 

UK 2024 Criticality Assessment

 

Following a study by the UK Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre (CMIC),
commissioned by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and hosted at the
British Geological Survey (BGS), Anglesey Mining plc (AIM:AYM), is pleased to
announce that Zinc (Zn) has now been added to the UK Critical Minerals List.
The report can be accessed via the following link:

 

https://www.ukcmic.org/downloads/reports/ukcmic-2024-criticality-assessment.pdf

 

Anglesey considers the classification of zinc as a critical mineral to be a
significant positive step for the importance of its Parys Mountain resource in
Anglesey, North Wales.  The current declared resources at Parys Mountain
include over 200,000 tonnes of contained zinc along with other minerals
including copper, silver, gold and lead, as can be seen in the following
table:

 

 Parys Mountain Resources, Combined March 2023 and January 2021                                
 Classification  Tonnes (Mt)  Grades                          Contained Metal                  
                 Cu                 Zn    Pb    Ag     Au     Cu     Zn    Pb    Ag     Au     
                 (%)                (%)   (%)   (g/t)  (g/t)  (kt)   (kt)  (kt)  (Moz)  (koz)  
 Measured        1.30         0.33  2.32  1.28  33     0.43   4.3    30.1  16.6  1.36   18.0   
 Indicated       3.98         0.37  2.39  1.29  27     0.23   14.7   95.3  51.5  3.47   29.7   
 Inferred        10.79        1.29  0.81  0.43  9      0.11   139.4  87.7  46.6  3.05   38.9   
 Total           16.06        0.98  1.33  0.71  15     0.17   158    213   115   7.9    86     

Source: Parys Mountain Resource Update notification released by Anglesey on 3
April 2023 (link)
(https://www.angleseymining.co.uk/parys-mountain-resource-update/)

Copper (Cu) is currently on the critical minerals lists in China, USA, Canada,
India, Japan and South Korea. Although not meeting their normal thresholds, it
has been added this year to the Australian Critical Minerals list and has been
listed on the EU critical minerals list as a “strategic mineral.” Copper
is not at present on the UK Critical Minerals List; however, the report
recognises (Section 4.2) that the latest Criticality Assessment represents the
current picture of demand and supply risk based on data for 2018 to 2022. The
report also suggests that new technologies are emerging which will lead to
increasing demand for numerous materials which are already listed as critical,
but also many that are not, such as Cu, Ag, Cr, Mo etc. 

 

Section 4.3.1 involves a detailed analysis of the increasing demand for copper
linked to emerging technologies and carbon net zero targets versus the
possible supply chain risks in being able to increase mining output to meet
the higher demand.  Section 4.3.1 ends with the comment “It is simply
reasonable to acknowledge that, although Cu remains below the criticality
threshold at present, this may change in the near future.”

 

Rob Marsden, CEO of Anglesey Mining, commented: “Whilst our recent focus at
Parys Mountain has been to push forward with the planning and permitting for
the new mining project, it is very encouraging to note that at the same time a
number of the minerals making up our resource are becoming more widely
recognised as being of major importance to emerging technologies and the drive
for net carbon zero. We are hopeful that an increase in demand for those
minerals will make the project more attractive to investors and will also
provide stable commodity prices to support our business plan. The 4th annual
Critical Minerals Conference, which took place on the 2nd of December in
London, was very well attended and afforded me the opportunity to discuss with
the MPs present the importance of the Parys Mountain deposit” 

 

 

About Anglesey Mining plc:

 

Anglesey Mining is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and
currently has 461,593,017 ordinary shares in issue.

 

Anglesey is developing the 100% owned Parys Mountain Cu-Zn-Pb-Ag-Au VMS
deposit in North Wales, UK with a reported resource of 5.3 million tonnes at
over 4.0% combined base metals in the Measured and Indicated categories and
10.8 million tonnes at over 2.5% combined base metals in the Inferred
category. 

Anglesey also holds a 49.75% interest in the Grängesberg iron ore project in
Sweden and 12% of Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited, which through its 52%
owned subsidiaries, is engaged in the exploration and development of direct
shipping iron ore deposits in Labrador and Quebec.

 

For further information, please contact:

Anglesey Mining plc

Rob Marsden, Chief Executive Officer – Tel: +44 (0)7531 475111

Andrew King, Interim-Chairman – Tel: +44 (0)7825 963700

 

Davy

Nominated Adviser & Joint Corporate Broker

Brian Garrahy / Daragh O’Reilly – Tel: +353 1 679 6363

 

Zeus Capital Limited

Joint Corporate Broker

Katy Mitchell / Harry Ansell – Tel: +44 (0)161 831 1512

 

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