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RNS Number : 2994E  Celsius Resources Limited  16 September 2024

ASX/AIM RELEASE

16 SEPTEMBER 2024

Corporate Funding Update

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Celsius Resources Limited ("Celsius" or the "Company") (ASX,AIM: CLA) is
pleased to announce that it has entered into the following binding financing
agreements with Patras Capital Pte. Ltd ("Patras"), a Hong Kong based
investment company with a strong track record of supporting companies in
growth sectors, including mining, energy and technology.

Celsius has entered into the following agreements with respect to financing of
the Company:

1.   A share placement agreement for the placement of 120 million shares to
raise A$1.5 million ("Share Placement Agreement"); and

 

2.   A committed equity facility of up to A$10 million through placement
tranches of shares in the Company over the next 24 months ("Committed Equity
Facility Agreement" or "Facility"). The Company has full discretion to utilise
the Facility as well as set the share issue price, determine the amount of
funds raised through placement tranches and when the placement of shares will
occur under the Facility, subject to the terms and conditions detailed below.

 

Celsius Executive, Mark van Kerkwijk, said:

 

"As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering value for our shareholders,
the funds raised will be strategically deployed to advance key milestones in
CLA's Philippine assets/projects. This will enhance our operational
capabilities and strengthen our long-term sustainability. We remain focused on
generating strong returns, fostering innovation, and managing our resources
responsibly to ensure continued success."

 

Background

 

Celsius is a multi-asset company with a well-developed project portfolio
including its Maalinao -Caigutan-Biyog Copper-Gold Project ("MCB" or
"Project"). Having recently received a Certificate Precondition on 4(th)
September 1 , Celsius has completed all material permitting stages for the MCB
Project and is well advanced in finalising the project funding.

The financing proposal will equip Celsius with the funds needed to advance its
project portfolio, including the Sagay and Botilao projects, and support
corporate functions. Furthermore, Celsius has the option to draw from a
Committed Equity Facility agreed upon with Patras, if required. This Facility
provides a funding envelope for the next two years from which Celsius will
continue to work on attracting high quality equity partners to advance our
other highly prospective projects.

Together, these agreements are intended to provide the Company with the
following key benefits:

-     On-going access to funding: These agreements allow Celsius to secure
both immediate and medium-term access to funding for the Company. This will
allow Celsius to fund future development expenditure on its Sagay and Botilao
Projects in the Philippines, along with other exploration targets in the
Philippines.

 

-     Terms of funding: The agreements conditionally allow the Company to
source funds, rather than seek funding in the future via other more
traditional forms of equity financing (often that require unattractive
discounted pricing with dilutive attached options).

Share Placement Agreement

Under the Share Placement Agreement, Celsius will issue 120 million shares
("Placement Shares") to Patras (or its nominee) at an issue price of A$0.0125
per share ("Placement Price") to raise $1.5 million. The Placement proceeds
will be paid to the Company as follows:

·    50% of the Placement proceeds (i.e. $750,000), will be paid on
completion; and

·    payment of the remaining 50% ("Swap Deposit") will be deferred until
the Trading Day immediately after the relevant Pricing Period ("Swap Payment
Date").

On the Swap Payment Date:

·    Patras must pay the Swap Deposit to the Company;

·    where the Adjustment Price (defined below) is positive, Patras must
pay the Swap Amount (defined below) to the Company; and

·    where the Adjustment Price is negative, then the Company must pay the
Swap Amount to Patras.

The Swap Amount will be calculated as follows:

Where:

A =      Number of Placement Shares (i.e. 120,000,000).

B =      Adjustment Price, calculated as the difference between the
"Market Price" (being the 10 day VWAP of Celsius shares (as determined by
Patras) over the 150 day trading period after completion) minus the "Benchmark
Price" (being 115% of the Placement Price).

The Placement Shares are being issued pursuant to the Company's Listing Rule
7.1 capacity.

The Share Placement Agreement has a Swap Close Out clause, where at any time,
the Company may give notice to Patras to terminate the Share Placement
Agreement, and if such notice is given, within two Trading Days, the Investor
may give notice to require the Company to buyback or procure the purchase by a
third party of a specified number of the Investor's Shares ("Exclusion
Notice", "Exclusion Shares"). The Investor may give notice, at any time, to
the Company to terminate the Share Placement Agreement following an unremedied
default. If such notice is given, within two Trading Days, the Company must
purchase or procure the purchase by a third party of the Exclusion Shares from
the Investor at the Benchmark Price, with the amount payable being the
Exclusion Shares Payment.

 

Celsius will pay Patras's legal fees and expenses of A$30,000 in relation to
the Share Placement Agreement and the Committed Equity Facility Agreement.

 

 As conditions to the Share Placement Agreement, Patras undertakes that:

 

(i)         it, its directors and officers, will not participate in
short selling of any of the Company's securities over the term of the
agreement.

(ii)        upon request by the Company, Patras will notify the Company
as to the name in which it holds shares, and provide summaries of its trading
of the Company's shares, it will only sell the Company's shares in compliance
with applicable laws, including the insider trading and market manipulation
provisions of the Corporations Act,

(iii)       it will not trade more than 1,500,000 shares per day (other
than off-market trades) below $0.03 per Share during the Pricing Period.

 

 

Committed Equity Facility Agreement

In addition to the Share Placement Agreement, Celsius and Patras have entered
into a Committed Equity Facility Agreement which will provide Celsius with a
further funding facility. Celsius is not required to draw down on the Facility
and there is no minimum amount contemplated. The Facility enables the Company
to conditionally access further capital to fund its project portfolio in the
Philippines and the Company's ongoing working capital. The Facility is
structured so that the timing of any or all drawdowns (and therefore an
acceptable issue price of any shares issued under the agreement) are entirely
at Celsius' discretion.

Under the terms of the Facility, Celsius may, at its discretion, place new
ordinary shares in the Company with Patras up to a total of A$10 million over
the next 24 months. Celsius may draw in tranches of up to A$500,000 at its
full discretion, and up to A$3 million with mutual consent, which may be
further increased by up to 15% by Patras.

The Facility may be terminated by the Company prior to completion of the
two-year term without penalty, and the Facility does not restrict Celsius
obtaining any form, or combination, of equity or debt financing from third
parties or any other source.

For each placement under the Facility, Celsius can nominate a price in which
it is willing to place shares to Patras (or its nominee) provided it is not
below A$0.01 per share ("Nominated Price"). The ultimate placement price
however shall be 95% of the higher of the Nominated Price, or the "Market
Price" (being the 5 day VWAP of Celsius shares (for 5 days nominated by
Patras) over the 30 day trading period following the issue of a placement
notice to Patras ("Pricing Period")). Patras may reduce the cash amount
payable in a tranche requested by Celsius by up to 1/30 for each trading day
during the Pricing Period of which the VWAP is equal or less than the
Nominated Price.

In addition to the above, Celsius has agreed to:

·    Implementation Fee: issue 7,500,000 shares to Patras (or its nominee)
in lieu of a cash implementation fee of A$75,000.

 

·    Options: issue 30 million options to Patras (or its nominee)
exercisable on or before 3 years from the date of issue at A$0.025 each.

 

·    Security Shares: issue 60,000,000 shares to Patras (or its nominee)
prior to the first placement which, upon expiry or termination of the
Committed Equity Facility Agreement, will be transferred to the Company's
nominee. The Company's nominee shall place or sell those shares and deliver
the proceeds to the Company.

 

·    Commission: pay a 5% cash commission on each placement tranche under
the Facility.

The Implementation Fee shares, Options and Security Shares will be issued
pursuant to the Company's Listing Rule 7.1 capacity.

The Committed Equity Facility and Share Placement Agreements contain typical
investor protections such as negative covenants and representations and
warranties.

As conditions to the Committed Equity Facility Agreement, Patras undertakes
that:

(i)         its directors and officers, will not participate in short
selling of any of the Company's securities over the term of the agreement.

(ii)        not to sell Shares during a Pricing Period for aggregate
sale proceeds that exceed the Placement Amount specified in the relevant
Placement Notice.

(iii)       it agrees to provide to the Company summaries of the
Investor's trading in the Shares, upon request buy the Company.

(iv)       not to hold more than 19.99% of the Shares at any time during
the Commitment Period.

Silvercorp Metals Inc ("Silvercorp") Participation Right

As disclosed in the Company's announcement of 15 May 2023, as part of
Silvercorp's investment into the Company it was granted a conditional right to
participate in future equity offers. Silvercorp have indicated that they
intend to invest in the Company in connection with the above arrangements. A
further announcement will be made in due course, once the terms of
Silvercorp's participation have been finalised. It should be noted however
that any such investment is subject to the execution of a binding subscription
agreement.

 

Admission to trading on AIM

 

Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for admission of a
total of 127,500,000 new ordinary shares as described above to  trading on
AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that admission will become effective and
dealings in the new ordinary shares, which will rank pari passu with all
existing ordinary shares, commence at 8.00 a.m. on or around 23 September
2024.

 

Total Voting Rights

 

Following Admission, Celsius will have 2,555,412,743 ordinary shares in issue
which will also represent the total number of voting rights in the Company.
From Admission the above figure should 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 under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and
Transparency Rules.

 

Forward Looking Statements

 

Some of the statements appearing in this announcement may be in the nature of
forward-looking statements. You should be aware that such statements are only
predictions and are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. Those risks
and uncertainties include factors and risks specific to the industries in
which the Company operates and proposes to operate as well as general economic
conditions, prevailing exchange rates and interest rates and conditions in the
financial markets, among other things. Actual events or results may differ
materially from the events or results expressed or implied in any
forward-looking statement.

 

No forward-looking statement is a guarantee or representation as to future
performance or any other future matters, which will be influenced by a number
of factors and subject to various uncertainties and contingencies, many of
which will be outside the Company's control.

 

The Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or release
any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or
circumstances after today's date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
events. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is made as to the
fairness, accuracy, completeness or correctness of the information, opinions
or conclusions contained in this announcement. To the maximum extent permitted
by law, none of the Company's Directors, employees, advisors, or agents, nor
any other person, accepts any liability for any loss arising from the use of
the information contained in this announcement. You are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on any forward-looking statement. The forward-looking
statements in this announcement reflect views held only as at the date of this
announcement.

 

This announcement has been authorised by the Board of Directors of Celsius
Resources Limited.

 

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to
constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations
(EU) No. 596/2014 as it forms part of UK Domestic Law by virtue of the
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

 

Celsius Resources Contact Information

Level 5, 191 St. Georges Terrace

Perth WA 6000

 

PO Box 7059

Cloisters Square PO

Perth WA 6850

 

P: +61 8 9324 4516

E: info@celsiusresources.com.au

W: www.celsiusresources.com

 Celsius Resources Limited
 Mark van Kerkwijk                            P: +61 8 9324 4516

 (Executive Director)                         E: info@celsiusresources.com.au

                                              W: www.celsiusresources.com
 Multiplier Media

 Jon Cuthbert                                 M: +61 402 075 707

                                              E: jon.cuthbert@multiplier.com.au
 Beaumont Cornish Limited

 (Nominated Adviser)                          P: +44 (0) 207 628 3396

 Roland Cornish/Felicity Geidt/Andrew Price   E: corpfin@b-cornish.com.uk

 Zeus Capital Limited (Broker)                P: +44 (0) 20 7220 1666

 Harry Ansell/James Joyce/Isaac Hooper

 

Beaumont Cornish Limited ("Beaumont Cornish") is the Company's Nominated
Adviser and is authorised and regulated by the FCA. Beaumont Cornish's
responsibilities as the Company's Nominated Adviser, including a
responsibility to advise and guide the Company on its responsibilities under
the AIM Rules for Companies and AIM Rules for Nominated Advisers, are owed
solely to the London Stock Exchange. Beaumont Cornish is not acting for and
will not be responsible to any other persons for providing protections
afforded to customers of Beaumont Cornish nor for advising them in relation to
the proposed arrangements described in this announcement or any matter
referred to in it.

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