Bauxite miner Metro Mining is after $20 million at 2¢ a share, in a placement via Shaw and Partners and Petra Capital on Wednesday morning.
Bauxite miner Metro Mining is after $20 million at 2¢ a share in a placement via Shaw and Partners and Petra Capital.
The company’s shares went into a trading halt on Wednesday morning, as its brokers started offering placement stock to clients.The deal was at 2¢ a share which was a 15.6 per cent discount to the five day VWAP, according to terms sent to potential investors. The stock last traded at 2.4¢. Funds raised would be to help Metro Mining boss Simon Wensley, a 20-year veteran at Rio Tinto, ramp up the company’s turnaround plans.
The next leg of the plans involve expanding its bauxite production to 7 million tonnes from 4 million, backed by additional binding offtake agreements totalling 5mtpa in 2023 and 6mtpa the year after. [Bauxite is used to make aluminium].The expansion requires $28 million capital expenditure and was forecast to deliver a 78 per cent internal rate of return and two-year payback, investors were told.
At 7mpta and current prices, the operations could generate $98 million EBITDA a year, which is more than the Queensland miner’s $71 million market capitalisation and $100 million-odd enterprise value.co-edits Street Talk, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets. He has 10 years' experience as a business journalist and worked at PwC, auditing and advising financial services companies.
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