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26/03/2025 07:16

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RNS Number : 1451C  Keras Resources PLC  26 March 2025

Keras Resources plc / Index: AIM / Epic: KRS / Sector: Mining

 

26 March 2025

 

Keras Resources plc ('Keras' or the 'Company')

 

Corporate Update

 

Keras Resources plc (AIM: KRS) is pleased to announce an update on the
Company's high-grade organic phosphate mine and processing operations in Utah,
USA held through its 100% owned subsidiary Falcon Isle Resources Corp ("Falcon
Isle").

 

Falcon Isle's primary business is producing high grade rock phosphate from its
100% owned Diamond Creek phosphate mine in Utah ("Diamond Creek") and
processing it into organic fertilisers at the Integrated Processing Facility
in Delta, Utah ("Delta Facility").

 

Following the January management restructure the Company has appointed Colton
Hale as Managing Director ("MD") of Falcon Isle.

 

·     Colton is a Finance graduate with significant "hands-on" experience
in the mining space, including Burningham Enterprises, Bodell Construction and
Rio Tinto. Colton studied part-time for his Bachelor's degree while working
for Burningham Enterprises as an equipment operator from 2014-18 and then as a
mining supervisor from 2020-22 (this included the construction of the access
roads and maiden mining campaign at Diamond Creek).  Subsequently Colton was
a Project Superintendent at Bodell Construction and Senior Financial Analyst
at Rio Tinto.

·     Operations at the Delta Facility are progressing well where we are
producing both Phosul® granulate under the Phosul Utah LLC joint venture
("JV") as announced on 22 January 2024 and Falcon Isle's dry rock phosphate
products, sold under the PhosAgri Organic banner.

·      PhosAgri Organic, Falcon Isles primary rock phosphate product has
available P(2)O(5) of between 11%-15% which is 3x higher than any other
organic phosphate produced in the United States and is certified organic by
the three key agencies namely;

·     CDFA - California Department of Food & Agriculture

·     OMRI - Organic Materials Review Institute

·     WSDA - Washington State Department of Agriculture

·      Sales of PhosAgri Organic for 2024 totalled 5,297 tons, an
increase of 15% from the 4,606 tons sold in 2023.

·      Phosul® is the 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Award winner for
making phosphate fertilizer that avoids hazardous chemicals and waste
emissions associated with traditional phosphate fertilizer production, such as
strong acids, heavy metals, and radioactive materials.  Sales of Phosul®
from the JV only materially started in January of this year when the demand
for Spring planting began.  The JV saw a significant increase in demand in
the first quarter of 2025 and we expect this to continue through the year.

 

Russell Lamming, Interim Executive Chairman of Keras, commented, "I have just
returned from the US where I spent time at our operation in Delta, at our
Phosul JV partners' operations in Idaho and with customers and potential
partners.  Our US based high-grade phosphate products are extremely well
positioned for both the organic and conventional fertiliser markets and it is
time to deliver into both of those markets.  Securing Colton, who is both a
hands-on operator and a financial MD, is very important to our strategy and I
would like to welcome him to the team and look forward to growing the Falcon
Isle brand with him leading the US team. I look forward to updating
shareholders in the near term on progress on both fronts."

 

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to
constitute inside information as stipulated under Article 7 of the Market
Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 (as amended) as it forms part of the
domestic law of the United Kingdom by virtue of the European
Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (as amended). Upon the publication of this
announcement via the Regulatory Information Service, this inside information
is now considered to be in the public domain.

 

**ENDS**

 

For further information please visit www.kerasplc.com
(http://www.kerasplc.com/) , follow us on Twitter @kerasplc or contact the
following:

 

 Russell Lamming                       Keras Resources plc             info@kerasplc.com

 Nominated Adviser & Joint Broker      SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP  +44 (0) 20 3470 0470

 Ewan Leggat / Jen Clarke

 Joint Broker                          Shard Capital Partners LLP      +44 (0) 207 186 9900

 Damon Heath / Erik Woolgar

Notes:

Keras Resources (AIM: KRS) wholly owns the Diamond Creek organic rock
phosphate mine in Utah, US. Diamond Creek is one of the highest-grade
organic phosphate deposits in the US and is a fully integrated mine to market
operation with in-house mining and processing facilities. The operation
produces a variety of organic phosphate products that can be tailored to
customer organic fertiliser requirements.

 

The Company is focused on continuing to increase market share in the
fast-growing US organic fertiliser market and build Diamond Creek into the
premier organic phosphate producer in the US.

 

 

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