Mankayan Project Update
RNS Number : 5604D
Bezant Resources PLC
03 April 2025
3 April 2025
Bezant Resources Plc
("Bezant" or the "Company")
Mankayan Project Update
Blackstone Unlocks High Grade Copper-Gold at Mankayan
Bezant (AIM: BZT), the copper-gold exploration and development company, announced on 6 February 2025 that ASX listed Blackstone Minerals Ltd ("Blackstone") had announced a proposed merger (the "Proposed IDM Merger") with IDM International Limited ("IDM") through which the Company holds its interest in the Mankayan Copper Gold project in the Philippines ("Mankayan Project"). Blackstone have on 3 April 2025 released an announcement that it has "received assay results from drillhole BRC-60, drilled in 2013 by Goldfields Limited . This previously unreleased drillhole is the deepest completed to date at the world-class Mankayan Copper-Gold Porphyry project. The project is strategically located 2.5km along strike of the Lepanto gold mine and Far Southeast project in the Philippines. The project is currently the subject of a merger between Blackstone and IDM International (_"IDM_")."_ _
Please follow the link to Blackstone's announcement titled "Blackstone Unlocks High Grade Copper-Gold at Mankayan " as published on ASX: https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20250403/pdf/06hbcm7tb06r31.pdf
Under the Proposed IDM Merger IDM shareholders will receive 7.4 Blackstone shares for every 1 (one) IDM share they hold.
If the Proposed IDM Merger is completed Bezant will receive 148,985,657 Blackstone shares and 2,543,750 options to acquire Blackstone shares at AUD0.06 expiring on 5 February 2029 for its IDM shares and IDM options.
For further information, please contact:
| Bezant Resources Plc Colin Bird Executive Chairman |
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| Beaumont Cornish (Nominated Adviser) Roland Cornish / Asia Szusciak | +44 (0) 20 7628 3396 | |
| Novum Securities Limited (Joint Broker) Jon Belliss | +44 (0) 20 7399 9400 | |
| Shard Capital Partners LLP (Joint Broker) Damon Heath | +44 (0) 20 7186 9952 |