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07/06/2022 10:15

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RNS Number : 9757N  Future Metals NL   07 June 2022

Future Metals NL
Options Placement and Quotation

 

Future Metals NL ("Future Metals" or the "Company", ASX | AIM: FME), a
platinum group metals ("PGM") focused company, announces that it has lodged a
prospectus ("Prospectus") with the Australian Securities and Investments
Commission ("ASIC") in respect of a placement of 1,000,000 options over new
ordinary shares in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") exercisable at a price of
A$0.10 per Ordinary Share on or before 11 June 2024 ("Options"). The Options
are to be issued at a price of A$0.05 per Option (for total proceeds of
A$50,000) (the "Options Offer").  The purpose of the Options issue is not to
raise funds, but rather to facilitate an application to ASX Limited ("ASX")
for admission to quotation of the Options offered under the associated
Prospectus in accordance with ASX Listing Rules 2.4 and 2.7.  Admission to
quotation of the Options is at the ASX's absolute discretion; however, the
Company anticipates that quotation will be granted for the Options subject to
the Company demonstrating that there is a minimum spread of holders of a
marketable parcel of Options in accordance with ASX Listing Rule 2.5 condition
6, satisfying any other conditions of quotation imposed by ASX, and completion
of the issue of the Options under the Prospectus.

The Options are to be issued on the same terms as the 87,500,000 options
already on issue, also exercisable at A$0.10 each on or before 11 June 2024
("Existing Options").  The Existing Options are currently subject to an ASX
imposed escrow period pursuant to Chapter 9 of the ASX Listing Rules. The
escrow period in respect of 47,375,000 of these Existing Options will end on
11 June 2022, with the remaining 40,125,000 escrowed to 22 June 2023.

Assuming that quotation is granted for the class of Options, the Company will
apply for quotation of Options classified as restricted securities at the end
of their respective escrow periods in accordance with Listing Rule 2.8.5.

The Company believes that quotation of the Options, which remains subject to
ASX approval, will provide a transparent pricing mechanism for the Options and
Existing Options, which are freely-tradable, and may therefore reduce
potential excess liquidity caused by holders of the Existing Options
exercising options and selling the resultant new Ordinary Shares issued upon
their exercise.

The indicative timetable for the issue of the Options and ASX quotation is as
follows:

 Key events                                               Date
 Lodgement of a copy of the Prospectus with ASIC and ASX  7 June 2022
 Closing date of Options Offer                            10 June 2022
 Issue of New Options                                     13 June 2022
 Expected date for quotation of the Options on the ASX    15 June 2022

 

Note: The above timetable is indicative only. The Company reserves the right,
subject to the Corporations Act, the Listing Rules and other applicable laws,
to vary the dates without notice.

 

The Options Offer is open to persons by invitation from the Company only.  No
action has been taken to register the Prospectus or otherwise to permit an
offering of securities under the Prospectus in any jurisdiction outside
Australia.

The Options are only intended to be quoted, subject to ASX approval, on the
ASX, and accordingly will not be tradable, directly or indirectly, on AIM.

Full details of the Options Offer are contained within the Prospectus, a copy
of which will be made available on the Company's website at
https://future-metals.com.au/ (https://future-metals.com.au/) .

This announcement has been approved for release by the Board of Future Metals
NL.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

 

 Future Metals NL                               +61 8 9480 0414
 Jardee Kininmonth                              info@future-metals.com.au (mailto:info@future-metals.com.au)

 Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated Adviser)      +44 (0) 20 7409 3494
 James Harris/James Bellman

 W H Ireland Limited (UK Broker)                +44 (0) 207 220 1670

 Harry Ansell/Katy Mitchell

 White Noise Communications (Australian IR/PR)  + 61 400 512 109

 Fiona Marshall

 

Competent Person's Statement:

The information in Appendix One to this announcement which relates to Mineral
Resources was stated in the Company's ASX Prospectus dated 18 May 2021. The
Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that
materially affects the information included in the Prospectus relating to
Mineral Resources, and that all material assumptions and technical parameters
underpinning the Mineral Resource Estimate continue to apply and have not
materially changed.

 

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to
constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulation
(EU) No. 596/2014 as is forms part of United Kingdom domestic law pursuant to
the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended.

Notes to Editors:

 

About Panton PGM Project

The 100% owned Panton PGM project is located 60 kilometres north of the town
of Halls Creek in the eastern Kimberly region of Western Australia, a tier one
mining jurisdiction. The project is located on three granted mining licences
and situated just 1 kilometre off the Great North Highway which accesses the
Port of Wyndham.

The Panton PGM Project has a JORC Mineral Resource estimate of 14.32Mt @
4.89g/t PGM, 0.31g/t Au and 0.27% Ni.

The Panton mineralisation occurs within a layered, differentiated
mafic-ultramafic intrusion referred to as the Panton intrusive which is a 10km
long and 3km wide, south-west plunging synclinal intrusion. PGM mineralisation
is hosted within two stratiform chromite reefs, the Upper and Middle reefs,
within the ultramafic sequence.

 

About Platinum Group Metals (PGMs)

PGMs are a group of six precious metals being Platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd),
iridium (Ir), osmium (Os), rhodium (Rh), and ruthenium (Ru). Exceptionally
rare, they have similar physical and chemical properties and tend to occur, in
varying proportions, together in the same geological deposit. The usefulness
of PGMs is determined by their unique and specific shared chemical and
physical properties.

PGMs have many desirable properties and as such have a wide variety of
applications. Most notably, they are used as auto-catalysts (pollution control
devices for ICE vehicles), but are also used in jewellery, electronics,
hydrogen production / purification and in hydrogen fuel cells.  The unique
properties of PGMs help convert harmful exhaust pollutant emissions to
harmless compounds, improving air quality and thereby enhancing health and
wellbeing.

 

 

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