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Jubilee progresses Kabwe Project
Jubilee Metals Group PLC
Registration number (4459850)
AltX share code: JBL
AIM share code: JLP
ISIN: GB0031852162
(“Jubilee” or “the Company”)
Jubilee progresses Kabwe Project
Jubilee Metals Group Plc is pleased to announce that after comprehensive technical, financial and
legal due diligence it has advised BMR Group PLC (“BMR”) that it intends to exercise its option to
earn a 40 % interest in its Kabwe project in Zambia (“Kabwe Project”).
Highlights:
- Jubilee has advised BMR that it wishes to take up its rights in regards to the Kabwe Project
- This will, conditionally, allow Jubilee to increase its effective interest in the Kabwe Project to
57.41% (comprising 40% direct and 17.41% indirectly as a shareholder in BMR)
- Comprehensive technical due diligence confirms grade predictions
- Further test work provides encouraging processing results for future optimisation
- Jubilee looks forward to fast track implementation along with its partner BMR
- This agreement is subject only to final documentation against previously agreed binding
commercial and material terms
Leon Coetzer, Chief Executive said: “The Jubilee board has satisfied itself that the Kabwe Project is
indeed a project worthy of development. Our test work has confirmed the quality of the base asset
and has provided encouraging results for integration into our future metallurgical studies.
This joint venture with BMR takes Jubilee into the Kabwe Project in Zambia in alternative metals and
countries and, we believe, has the potential to be significantly earnings enhancing once fully
operational. This is consistent with our mission of commodity and country hedge. We intend to work
with BMR to fast track this project into production.”
About the Kabwe Project
The Kabwe Project secures Jubilee a position in Zambia to recover, through its joint venture formed
with BMR, lead, zinc and vanadium from historical surface mine tailings and discards. The Kabwe
Project targets the recovery of lead, zinc and vanadium from an estimated 6.4 million tonnes (3.2
million JORC compliant) of surface assets.
The joint venture will finance and execute the approved works programme with commercial
production expected towards the end of 2018. Jubilee has the option to provide staged financing for
the project secured against the shareholding of the project. The arrangement pools the significant
resources from both companies to bring the project to account.
AIM Rules compliance
As per the announcement made on 23 October 2017, in the event that the increase in Jubilee’s
interest in Kabwe is deemed to be a fundamental change of BMR’s business, in accordance with Rule
15 of the AIM Rules for Companies, the final agreements referred to above will be subject to
approval by BMR’s shareholders. If such approval is not given, Kabwe Operations (guaranteed by
BMR) shall immediately repay £300,000 of debt finance already provided by Jubilee together with
100 per cent interest thereon, Jubilee shall retain its interest in 15% of Kabwe Operations’ voting
share capital and shall have a pre-emptive right to participate in any future equity issue or joint
venture relating to BMR's Kabwe project and the right to realise its interest in Kabwe Operations at
the future equity issue price or joint venture implied value, as appropriate. Furthermore, entering in
to the final agreements referred to above will be a related party transaction for BMR under Rule 13
of the AIM Rules and will be conditional upon the directors of BMR reaching an opinion as to the
fairness of the terms of the agreements for BMR’s shareholders, in consultation with BMR’s
nominated adviser.
United Kingdom
6 February 2018
Contacts
Jubilee Metals Group PLC
Colin Bird/Leon Coetzer
Tel +44 (0) 20 7584 2155 / Tel +27 (0) 11 465 1913
Andrew Sarosi
Tel +44 (0) 1752 221937
Nominated Adviser
SPARK Advisory Partners Limited
Mark Brady/Andrew Emmott
Tel: +44 (0) 203 368 3555
Broker
Beaufort Securities Limited
Jon Belliss
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7382 8300
About Kabwe Mine
Information containing resource statements are based on the information as provided by BMR to
Jubilee which is also referenced on the BMR website at www.bmrplc.com
Mining History
The Kabwe mine was discovered during 1902 and commenced operations in 1904, reaching full-scale
production in 1906. It officially closed down on 3 June 1994 due to its operations becoming
uneconomic at that time. The site was placed under care and maintenance by the national mining
company, The Zambian Consolidated Copper Mines ("ZCCM").
For 88 years of continuous operation until final closure in 1994, Kabwe was regarded as one of the
famous mines in Africa and held a key position of national economic importance. During its life time
the mine produced the following:
- Zinc (Zn) 1,800,000 tonnes
- Lead (Pb) 800,000 tonnes
- Vanadium Oxide (V2O) 7,816 tonnes
- Silver (Ag) 80,000kg
- Cadmium (Cd) 235,000kg
Over the years the complex expanded to include open cast and underground workings, mineral
processing, smelting and refining facilities. By 1994, the Pb-Zn massive sulphide ore was exhausted
but it was estimated that there was still between 1.1Mt and 1.6Mt of Pb/Zn-rich silicate ore in situ.
Importantly, the above-ground dumps of mineral-rich tailings, slag and waste left onsite during
the mining years are still in place.
A large project conducted by the World Bank and the Nordic Development Fund commenced in 2005
for the environmental rehabilitation of the Kabwe mine area and is still ongoing.
On closure of the operations in 1994, much of the site area and plant infrastructure was sold in
discrete lots to private investors, with the overall responsibility for decommissioning and
rehabilitation of the sites retained by ZCCM. In recent years, the ownership of the Kabwe complex
has been rationalised and since 2008 has been steadily acquired by BMR which now owns all the
surface rights over the 705 hectares site.
The Kabwe Tailings Stockpiles
Enviro Processing Ltd holds the Small Scale Licence 7081-HQ-SML in respect of the Tailings Stockpiles
on and the Large Scale Licence 6990-HQ-LML (applying to the whole 703 hectares of the BMR Kabwe
site.
BMR has acquired all the stockpiles of tailings at the Kabwe mine complex. These assets are held by
Enviro Mining Ltd, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BMR, and its two Zambian-registered
subsidiaries, Enviro Processing Ltd and Enviro Props Ltd.
Stockpile 1 The Wash Plant Tailings Dump
The wash plant tailings dumps include process residue historically produced at Kabwe prior to its
closure through the washing of newly mined and crushed ore. These have a high combined grade of
Lead and Zinc at 17.87%.
JORC Mineral Resource estimates on Zinc (Zn) and Lead (Pb) for the Kabwe wash plant tailings are:
Mineral Dry Bulk Contained Contained
Resource Volume Density Zn Pb Dry Tonnes of Tonnes of Metal
Class (m3) (t/m3) (%) (%) Tonnage Metal – Zinc – Lead
Measured 304,771 1.92 10.66 7.21 573,458 61,147 41,345
Stockpile 2 The Leach Plant Residue
JORC Mineral Resource estimates on Zinc (Zn) and Lead (Pb) for the central section of the leach plant
tailings are:
Contained Contained
Mineral Resource Zn Pb Tonnes of Tonnes of Metal
Classification (%) (%) Dry Tonnage Metal – Zinc – Lead
Measured 3.88 8.71 2,648,920 102,690 230,810
Metallurgical Testwork on the Tailings Stockpile
Following intensive and wide ranging metallurgical investigative testwork, BMR achieved the
following extraction efficiencies;
Lead and Zinc extractions for the Wash Plant Tailings of 90% Pb and 79% Zn have been
achieved. Recoveries for the Leach Plant Residue are in the region of 80% Pb and 50% Zn.
Further testwork will focus on finalising the flow sheet, the process design and establishing the
quality of the products
Other Above Ground Dumps
In addition to the aforementioned stockpiles, further aggregate stockpiles from previous mine
operations including all at the Kabwe site, totals an approximate 6,4 million tonnes containing an
estimated 356 843 tonnes of zinc and 351 386 tonnes of lead.
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