$40m Senior Secured Loan Facility with Glencore
Released
Released
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ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
30 August 2024
$40M SENIOR SECURED LOAN FACILITY WITH GLENCORE
Cyprium Metals Limited (ASX: CYM) (Cyprium or the Company) is pleased to advise that further
to the 26 July 2024 announcement regarding the Company’s commercial strategic partnership with
Glencore International AG (Glencore), the parties have entered into a binding term sheet for offtake
financing as follows:
•
Binding term sheet in which the Company will enter into offtake financing with
Glencore through a AUD40 million senior secured loan facility with 4-year term (Loan
Facility), subject to long form documentation;
•
Use of funds includes repayment of existing senior secured facility, advancement of
Nifty early works and feasibility studies, and general corporate purposes;
•
Commitment from Company to raise AUD20 million through any combination of
equity raise, asset sales, royalty sales and exercise of existing options and warrants
before end of current calendar year; and
•
On closing, simultaneous execution of previously announced and now fully
negotiated copper cathode offtake agreement and copper concentrate offtake
agreement.
“Our commercial strategic partnership with Glencore continues to gain momentum,” said Cyprium
Executive Chair Matt Fifield. “We are pleased to announce that we have signed a binding term
sheet with Glencore for an AUD40 million Loan Facility. This new loan completes the refinancing
of our near-term maturities which has been a top corporate priority. With that step completed, we
are now heightening our focus on bringing Nifty’s copper products to market.”
“Commercially, we have advanced our relationship with Glencore significantly. First, our offtake
agreements for copper products are in final form. We expect to execute them alongside the Loan
Facility in the coming weeks.”
“Next, we’ve been working with Glencore to streamline our access to their downstream processing
facilities – the Townsville Copper Refinery and the Mt Isa Smelter. We have already executed a
small sale of off-spec material to work through logistics from Nifty mine site to Townsville.”
“Finally, we have settled the physical specifications in our concentrate sales terms. The Nifty
orebody makes a clean concentrate that is low in certain impurities. We expect it will be a useful
component of blended ore feed at Mt Isa as it becomes available.”
“Cyprium is one of the near-term expected suppliers of Australian copper,” said a Glencore
spokesperson. “We are pleased with our growing strategic commercial partnership. This is another
example of Glencore working with other Australian miners to develop and bring critical minerals
and metals to market.”
ABN 48 002 678 640
T +61 8 6374 1550
ASX: CYM
Level 1, 437 Roberts Road
Subiaco, WA, 6008
www.cypriummetals.com
The material terms of the Loan Facility are set out in Annexure A of this announcement.
This ASX announcement was approved and authorised by the Board.
Further information:
Matt Fifield
Manu Trivedi
John Gardner
Executive Chair
Chief Financial Officer, Interim
Investor and Media Relations
matt.fifield@cypriummetals.com
manu.trivedi@cypriummetals.com
communications@cypriummetals.com
T +61 8 6374 1550
E communications@cypriummetals.com
About Cyprium Metals Limited
Cyprium Metals Limited (ASX: CYM) is an ASX-listed Australian copper company. Its flagship property
is the Nifty Copper Mine in Western Australia, which previously produced significant copper from both
oxide and sulphide resources. Cyprium is focused on redeveloping Nifty, which has the advantage of
significant invested capital, data from a long operating history, large-scale resources, current operational
approvals, and recent investment in the property.
The Company’s other assets include significant copper-focused properties in the Paterson and
Murchison Provinces, including multiple defined resources.
Visit www.cypriummetals.com for further information.
Cyprium Metals (ASX:CYM)
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Annexure A – Material terms of Loan Facility
The material terms of the Loan Facility are as follows:
Facility
A$40 million senior secured loan facility
Approved
Purposes
Pay down of all existing secured indebtedness as well general
corporate purposes including specifically advancing studies and early
works for the New Surface Mine at the Nifty Copper Mine.
Interest rate
3M Term SOFR + a market based fixed margin for the Term of the
Facility, interest paid quarterly
Term
4 years following the first drawdown
Security
First fixed and floating over all assets (including shares of any relevant
affiliates or subsidiaries)
Maturity
No later than 31 December 2028
Repayment
To commence following the Repayment Holiday, via quarterly
instalments of A$5m, with all final balances due on Maturity
Repayment
Holiday
24 months following first drawdown
Conditions
precedent
Including but not limited to the following:
- Duly executed definitive documentation
Additional
Funding
The Company will raise a minimum of A$20 million via new equity,
option and warrant exercise, and royalty and asset sales before 31
December 2024.
The Loan Facility contains other terms and conditions that are customary for an
agreement of this nature.
Cyprium Metals (ASX:CYM)
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