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Notice of Annual General Meeting
The Company announces that its Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday
26 June 2025, at the offices of Travers Smith LLP, 10 Snow Hill, London EC1A
2AL, England at 4.00 pm (BST). The Company has published the formal notice of
the meeting (the “Notice”) on its website which can be accessed using the
following LINK
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Proxy voting forms are being posted to all shareholders providing details of
how to access the Notice and instructions for voting. A copy of the Notice
together with proxy voting forms is being posted to all shareholders who are
required to receive or have formally requested to receive these documents.
The Notice contains a letter from the Chairman of the Company, Mr Michael
Lynch-Bell, which is set out below in Appendix 1.
The person who arranged for the release of this announcement on behalf of the
Company was Andrew Khov, Vice President, Investor Relations and Business
Development.
Enquiries
SERABI GOLD plc Michael Hodgson t +44 (0)20 7246 6830 Chief Executive m +44 (0)7799 473621 Colm Howlin m +353 89 6078171 Chief Financial Officer Andrew Khov m +1 647 885 4874 Vice President, Investor Relations and Business Development e contact@serabigold.com www.serabigold.com BEAUMONT CORNISH Limited Nominated Adviser & Financial Adviser Roland Cornish / Michael Cornish t +44 (0)20 7628 3396 PEEL HUNT LLP Joint UK Broker Ross Allister t +44 (0)20 7418 9000 TAMESIS PARTNERS LLP Joint UK Broker Charlie Bendon/ Richard
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Copies of this announcement are available from the Company's website at
www.serabigold.com.
Neither the Toronto Stock Exchange, nor any other securities regulatory
authority, has approved or disapproved of the contents of this announcement.
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Appendix 1
The letter from the Chairman of the Company included in the Notice is
reproduced below (without material adjustment or amendment):
Dear Shareholder
This document provides the formal notice (the "Notice") of the 2025 Annual
General Meeting of the Company to be held at the offices of Travers Smith LLP,
10 Snow Hill, London EC1A 2AL England on 26 June 2025 at 4.00 p.m. (London
time) (the "AGM"). The purpose of the AGM is to seek Shareholders' approval of
the resolutions.
Action to be taken by Shareholders
A form of proxy for use by Shareholders accompanies this document. To be
valid, forms of proxy must be completed and returned so as to be received at
either the offices of the Company's UK Registrar, Computershare Investor
Services Plc, The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol, BS99 6ZZ or the offices
of the Company's Canadian Registrar, Computershare Investor Services Inc., 100
University Avenue, 8th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2Y1 by not later than 4.00
p.m. (London time) (11.00 a.m. Eastern time) on 24 June 2025. Alternatively,
Shareholders can appoint a proxy electronically by going to either
www.eproxyappointment.com (for UK appointments) or www.investorvote.com (for
Canadian appointments) or, if they hold their shares in CREST, Shareholders
can appoint a proxy using the CREST electronic proxy appointment service, in
each case by not later than 4.00 p.m. (London time) (11.00 a.m. Eastern time)
on 24 June 2025 in accordance with the instructions set out in the "Proxy
Instructions" section below and the form of proxy.
Completion and return of a form of proxy will not prevent Shareholders from
attending and voting in person at the AGM should they so wish.
Beneficial Shareholders (as defined in the "Voting by Beneficial Shareholders"
section below on page 11) should note that only registered Shareholders or
their duly authorised proxy holders are entitled to vote at the AGM. Each
Beneficial Shareholder should ensure that their voting instructions are
communicated to the appropriate person well in advance of the AGM.
Electronic Communications
The Company actively encourages all shareholders to register for the
electronic communications service. UK Shareholders can elect for electronic
communications and manage their shareholdings online at
www.investorcentre.co.uk. Canadian Shareholders can enrol to receive future
securityholder communications electronically by visiting
www.investorcentre.com.
Background
As I noted in our Annual Report, 2024 was a remarkable year in which the Group
achieved some key milestones, including receiving the renewal of the
three-year GU trial mining license at the Coringa mine as well as installing
and commissioning the classification plant at the Coringa mine. The first five
months of 2025 has continued in this way as well, so we are on track with our
plans for the current year which will build the platform for further future
growth.
The matters being considered at the 2025 Annual General Meeting, as set out in
the Notice, are items that are routinely considered at such meetings.
I am very much looking forward to meeting with Shareholders at the AGM and
having the opportunity to discuss with them my hopes and expectations for
Serabi for the future.
Canadian Designated Foreign Issuer Status
The Company is a "designated foreign issuer" for the purposes of Canadian
Securities Administrators’ National Instrument 71-102 - Continuous
Disclosure and Other Exemptions Relating to Foreign Issuer ("NI 71-102") and,
as such, the Company is not subject to the same ongoing reporting requirements
as most other reporting issuers in Canada. Generally, the Company complies
with Canadian ongoing reporting requirements by complying with the regulatory
requirements of AIM, which is a "foreign regulatory authority" (as defined in
NI 71-102), and filing any documents required to be filed with or furnished to
AIM with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada.
Recommendation and importance of vote
The Directors consider that the resolutions set out in the Notice being put to
the AGM are in the best interests of the Company and its Shareholders and are
most likely to promote the success of the Company for the benefit of the
Shareholders as a whole.
Accordingly, the Directors unanimously recommend that Shareholders vote in
favour of the proposed resolutions as they intend to do so in respect of their
own holdings, where relevant, amounting to an aggregate of 70,066 Ordinary
Shares, representing approximately 0.1% of the Company's Ordinary Shares in
issue at the date of this document.
Yours faithfully
(Signed) "Michael D Lynch-Bell"
Michael D Lynch-Bell
Non-executive Chairman
Assay Results
Assay results reported within this release are those provided by the Company's
own onsite laboratory facilities at Palito and have not yet been independently
verified. Serabi closely monitors the performance of its own facility against
results from independent laboratory analysis for quality control purpose. As a
matter of normal practice, the Company sends duplicate samples derived from a
variety of the Company's activities to accredited laboratory facilities for
independent verification. Since mid-2019, over 10,000 exploration drill core
samples have been assayed at both the Palito laboratory and certified external
laboratory, in most cases the ALS laboratory in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. When
comparing significant assays with grades exceeding 1 g/t gold, comparison
between Palito versus external results record an average over-estimation by
the Palito laboratory of 6.7% over this period. Based on the results of this
work, the Company's management are satisfied that the Company's own facility
shows sufficiently good correlation with independent laboratory facilities for
exploration drill samples. The Company would expect that in the preparation of
any future independent Reserve/Resource statement undertaken in compliance
with a recognised standard, the independent authors of such a statement would
not use Palito assay results without sufficient duplicates from an
appropriately certificated laboratory.
Forward-looking statements
Certain statements in this announcement are, or may be deemed to be, forward
looking statements. Forward looking statements are identified by their use of
terms and phrases
such as ‘‘believe’’, ‘‘could’’, “should”
‘‘envisage’’, ‘‘estimate’’, ‘‘intend’’,
‘‘may’’, ‘‘plan’’, ‘‘will’’ or the negative of those,
variations or comparable expressions, including references to assumptions.
These forward-looking statements are not based on historical facts but rather
on the Directors’ current expectations and assumptions regarding the
Company’s future growth, results of operations, performance, future capital
and other expenditures (including the amount, nature and sources of funding
thereof), competitive advantages, business prospects and opportunities. Such
forward looking statements reflect the Directors’ current beliefs and
assumptions and are based on information currently available to the Directors.
A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the
results discussed in the forward-looking statements including risks associated
with vulnerability to general economic and business conditions, competition,
environmental and other regulatory changes, actions by governmental
authorities, the availability of capital markets, reliance on key personnel,
uninsured and underinsured losses and other factors, many of which are beyond
the control of the Company. Although any forward-looking statements contained
in this announcement are based upon what the Directors believe to be
reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure investors that actual
results will be consistent with such forward looking statements.
Qualified Persons Statement
The scientific and technical information contained within this announcement
has been reviewed and approved by Michael Hodgson, a Director of the Company.
Mr Hodgson is an Economic Geologist by training with over 30 years' experience
in the mining industry. He holds a BSc (Hons) Geology, University of London, a
MSc Mining Geology, University of Leicester and is a Fellow of the Institute
of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a Chartered Engineer of the Engineering
Council of UK, recognizing him as both a Qualified Person for the purposes of
Canadian National Instrument 43-101 and by the AIM Guidance Note on Mining and
Oil & Gas Companies dated June 2009.
Notice
Beaumont Cornish Limited, which is authorised and regulated in the United
Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority, is acting as nominated adviser to
the Company in relation to the matters referred herein. Beaumont Cornish
Limited is acting exclusively for the Company and for no one else in relation
to the matters described in this announcement and is not advising any other
person and accordingly will not be responsible to anyone other than the
Company for providing the protections afforded to clients of Beaumont Cornish
Limited, or for providing advice in relation to the contents of this
announcement or any matter referred to in it.
Neither the Toronto Stock Exchange, nor any other securities regulatory
authority, has approved or disapproved of the contents of this news release