REG-Pensana Plc: US$4M Equity Placement to M & G Investment Management

PensanaAnnouncement

21/12/2022 07:15

21 December 2022

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION

Pensana Plc

("Pensana" or the "Company")

                                        
                                                   
  US$4 Million Equity Placement to M & G Investment Management

Pensana announces that M&G Investment Management (“M&G”), one of the
UK’s largest fund managers and a long standing Pensana shareholder, has
agreed to invest US$4 million (£3.19 million) in the Company by way of a
placement of 7,250,000 new ordinary shares of £0.001 each in the capital of
Pensana (“Ordinary Shares”) (the “Placing Shares”) at a price of 44
pence per share (the “Placing Price”). Following admission of the Placing
Shares to trading M&G will have an interest in approximately 7.7% of the
Company’s enlarged issued share capital.

Pensana Chairman, Paul Atherley noted:

“We very much appreciate M&G’s continuing support as a major shareholder
over the past 12 months. Initial site works are underway at Saltend and
Longonjo, and this additional investment will take us through to main
financing and the commencement of main construction at both projects during Q1
of 2023.  We look forward to delivering on the strong support from major
shareholders and developing an independent and sustainable rare earth supply
chain based in the UK to meet the burgeoning demand from automotive and wind
turbine OEMs.”

Application has been made for the Placing Shares to be admitted to the
Official List (Standard Listing Segment) and to trading on the London Stock
Exchange’s Main Market for listed securities. Admission is expected to occur
on or about 8.00 a.m. on Thursday 5 January 2023 (“Admission”). The
Placing Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with each other and with
the existing Ordinary Shares, including, without limitation, the right to
receive all dividends and other distributions declared, made or paid after the
date of issue. 

Following Admission, the Company’s issued share capital will consist of
255,180,873 Ordinary Shares. No shares are held in treasury and, therefore,
the total number of voting rights of the Company on Admission will be
255,180,873. This figure may 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 in their interest in, the Company under the
Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

The information contained within this announcement is considered by the
Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse
Regulations (EU) No.596/2014. Upon the publication of this announcement via a
Regulatory Information Service, this inside information will be considered to
be in the public domain. The person responsible for arranging for the release
of this announcement on behalf of the Company is Paul Atherley (Chairman).

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For further information, please contact:

Shareholder/analyst enquiries:

Pensana Plc      

Paul Atherley,
Chairman                                                         
IR@pensana.co.uk

Tim George, Chief Executive Officer

Rob Kaplan, Chief Financial Officer

George Zacharias, Group Company Secretary

Media enquiries:

FGS Global:

Gordon Simpson / Richard
Crowley                                       
Pensana-LON@fgsglobal.com

About Pensana Plc

The electrification of motive power is the most important part of the energy
transition if we are to tackle climate change and one of the biggest energy
transitions in history. Magnet metal rare earths are central to that
transition, forming a critical part of the technology for efficient electric
vehicle motors and offshore wind turbines.

Pensana plans to establish its Saltend processing hub as an independent and
sustainable supplier of the key rare earth magnet metal oxides to a market
which is currently dominated by China.

The US$195 million Saltend facility is being designed to produce circa 12,500
tonnes per annum of rare earth products, of which 4,500 tonnes will be
neodymium and praseodymium oxide (NdPrO), representing over 5% of the world
market in 2025.

Pensana’s plug-and-play facility is located within the world-class Saltend
Chemicals Park, a cluster of leading chemicals and renewable energy businesses
in the Humber Freeport and will create over 500 jobs during construction and
over 125 direct jobs once in production.

Powered by low-carbon offshore wind, it will be the first major separation
facility to be established in over a decade and will become one of the few
major producers located outside China.

Feedstock will be shipped as a clean, high purity mixed rare earth sulphate
(MRES) from the Company’s Longonjo low-impact operations in Angola. The
mine's state-of-the-art concentrator and proprietary MRES processing plant are
designed by Wood to the highest international standards.

The operations will be powered by renewable energy from hydroelectric power
and connected to the Port of Lobito by the recently upgraded Benguela railway
line.

Pensana believes that provenance of critical rare earth materials supply, life
cycle analysis and GHG Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions will all become significant
factors in supply chains for major customers.

The Company intends to offer customers an independently and sustainably
sourced supply of the metal oxides and carbonates of increasing importance to
a range of applications central to addressing the energy transition.

Pensana is also aiming to establish Saltend as an attractive alternative to
mining houses that may otherwise be limited to selling their products to
China, having designed the facility to be easily adapted to cater for a range
of rare earth feedstocks.

www.pensana.co.uk



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