Impact funded to complete Pre-Feasibility Study at Lake Hope
Released
Released
Announcement PDF
ASX Code: IPT
May 17, 2024
Impact funded to complete Pre-Feasibility Study at the
Lake Hope High Purity Alumina Project, WA
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Strategic A$3 million placement mostly supported by major shareholders to be issued under the
Company's existing available placement capacity under ASX Listing Rule 7.1.
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In addition, funds being received from exercise of listed options (IPTOB) into shares.
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Anticipated Research and Development Rebate of $395,000 due shortly.
Impact Minerals Limited (ASX:IPT) (Company) is pleased to advise that it has received firm commitments
from sophisticated investors for a strategic placement (Placement) to raise A$3,000,000 (before costs)
via the issue of 150,000,000 fully paid ordinary shares (Placement Shares) in the capital of the Company
(Shares) at an issue price of A$0.02 per Placement Share. For every three Placement Shares subscribed
for, one free-attaching option will be issued with an exercise price of $0.027 per option and an expiry
date that is 15 months after the date of issue (Placement Options).
Major shareholders strongly supported the placement, an endorsement of the Company's future
strategic plans.
Impact Minerals’ Managing Director Dr Mike Jones, said, “We are now very well-funded to complete the
Pre-Feasibility Study on our unique Lake Hope High Purity Alumina Project located here in Western
Australia by the end of this year. We have deliberately placed most of the shares to our major
shareholders which is a strong endorsement of our plan to move forward as quickly as possible with Lake
Hope and we thank them for their support.
We would also like to thank those new shareholders who have recently exercised our listed IPTOB 2 cent
per share options I would like to encourage other holders of IPTOB to consider doing the same before the
expiry date of June 2nd. As well as the Lake Hope project we will also be able to progress our Arkun
battery and strategic metals project for which we recently received up to $180,000 in co-funding from
the WA Governments Exploration Incentive Scheme for drilling of our exciting Caligula copper target”.
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The proposed use of funds of the placement funds is as follows:
Pre-Feasibility Study costs - Lake Hope Project
Exploration – Arkun Project
General working capital
Costs of the Placement
Total
$1,500,000
$500,000
$895,340
$104,660
$3,000,000
Notes: The above table is a statement of the Company’s intentions as at the date of this Announcement. As with any budget,
the allocation of funds set out in the above table may change depending on a number of factors, including development of
new opportunities, market factors and general business and economic conditions. As such, actual expenditure levels may
differ significantly from the above estimates.
Evolution Capital and Barclay Pearce Capital acted as the Joint Lead Managers to the Placement (Broker)
and will be issued a cumulative total of 15,000,000 options exercisable at A$0.027 each with an expiry
date 15 months after the date of issue (Broker Options). The Broker Options will be split equally between
the Joint Lead Managers.
In addition to the Broker Options, the Brokers will receive a Management fee of 2% of Proceeds from
the Offer and a Selling Fee of 4% of Proceeds from the Offer excluding the Chairman’s List.
The Placement Shares, Placement Options and Broker Options will be issued under the Company’s
existing available placement capacity under ASX Listing Rule 7.1. The issue price of the Placement Shares
represents a 5.6% discount to the volume weighted average price for the 15 days immediately before
15 May 2024 being $0.0211.
All Placement Shares and Shares issued upon exercise of the Placement Options and Broker Options
will rank equally with the Company’s existing Shares on issue.
Provided all the requirements under the ASX Listing Rules have been met, the Company intends to
seek quotation of the Placement Options and Broker Options, and to issue the Placement Options and
Broker Options under a prospectus.
The Company intends to issue the Placement Shares and Placement Options on or about 24 May 2024.
Indicative Timetable
Entry into Trading Halt and bookbuild commences
ASX Announcement and resume trading
Settlement of Placement Shares
Expected date of issue and commencement of trading of
Placement Shares
Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Friday, 17 May 2024
Thursday, 23 May 2024
Friday, 24 May 2024
Conversion of IPTOB Quoted Options
The Company notes the receipt of option exercise forms for the IPTOB securities class and is issuing and
allotting today the first exercise of 9,655,621 options into shares that totals approx. $193,000.
ASX:IPT | ABN 52 119 062 261
Further Information
Nothing contained in this announcement constitutes investment, legal, tax or other advice. Investors
should seek appropriate professional advice before making any investment decision.
This announcement was approved and authorised for release by the Board.
Dr Michael G Jones
Managing Director
ASX:IPT | ABN 52 119 062 261
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