3317 days ago
This release should have gone out on Friday but I guess it will go out at 7 AM Monday. In case you can’t wait here is the EMED Mining (EMED) RNS in full and it is good news but EMED is not out of the woods yet. I have also been chatting to the EMED CEO over the weekend – he seems a decent enough guy.
Basically the loans that were due for repayment on March 30th have been extended until June 30th. The company can now draw down on the additional $6 million loan facility. That will give it enough cash to last until mid may. The EMED boss expects to get the final green light for Rio Tinto before then which will trigger another funding round – a mixture of debt and equity to raise c$80 million.
The chat with EMED was constructive and detailed. I will sleep on it and report back in more detail next week. Meanwhile here is the release:
3320 days ago
This has been a bad share tip. The macro scene has been unhelpful but whichever management team has been in charge EMED Mining (EMED) has not prospered. The latest revelation prompts us to apologise sincerely but to advise selling at 3.25p. Enough is enough.
3338 days ago
EMED Mining (EMED) updated investors on 23rd February on “rapid progress being made in the development of onsite operations” at its Rio Tinto copper project and that “we remain in advanced discussions with our funding partners and are confident of securing the financing for the re-start of production without delays to the company's anticipated timetable”.
Operationally, the company updated that rehabilitation activities are expected to be completed during the second quarter of 2015 and that infrastructure development is progressing according to plan, whilst the exploration department is now fully operational.
The current cash position
3381 days ago
Having earlier in the day announced that a delegation from the regional authorities would be visiting the Rio Tinto mine site, EMED Mining (EMED) yesterday morning announced that during a meeting it has received formal communication of the granting of a mining permit – “the last significant regulatory approvals… before normal mining and processing operations can commence”.
3402 days ago
Having initially requisitioned an EGM to ‘bring about much-needed change’ at EMED Mining (EMED), it has been announced that multinational commodities group Trafigura in conjunction with other cornerstone investors in EMED, Orion Mine Finance and Xiangguang International, has now conditionally agreed a $24 million, and up to $30 million, bridging finance facility with the company in conjunction with Ronnie Beevor, Isaac Querub Caro, Ashwath Mehra and Bob Francis all agreeing to resign from the board, with a new Chairman (Roger Davey) and CEO (Alberto Lavandeira) appointed.
3475 days ago
Multinational commodities group Trafigura, the largest shareholder in EMED Mining (EMED), has called an EGM to vote on the removal of most of its board to ‘bring about much-needed change’. Steve Moore and I back Trafigura and urge you to cast proxy votes in support of the calls for change. Small investors, the peasants, can make a difference here and the current board has given the peasants every reason to revolt.
Trafigura says that the present EMED board, under chairman Ronnie Beevor and chief executive officer Isaac Querub, ’is failing to serve the interests of shareholders’ and arguing the company, as currently constituted, lacks the financial resources and management capabilities to achieve its goal of reopening the historic Rio Tinto copper mine in the Spanish province of Andalusia.
Significantly,
3476 days ago
EMED Mining (EMED) has announced that it has completed its application for a mining permit for its Rio Tinto copper project and is “confident that it will receive the mining permit before year end”. Together with restoration plan approval (the final plan having gone through public consultation, with approval “expected within the coming weeks”), these are the final permits needed to allow full scale mining operations to recommence.
3782 days ago
EMED Mining (EMED) has announced that it has conditionally raised £5.5 million (before expenses) to “be largely applied in funding engineering and related works in connection with the re-start of the Rio Tinto copper project and for general working capital”.
