Successful Completion of US$4 million Private Placement
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1 November 2024
ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
(ASX:TGM)
Successful Completion of US$4 million Private Placement
Theta Gold Mines Limited (“Theta Gold” or the “Company”) (ASX:TGM) refers to its ASX
announcement dated 26 June 20241 with regards to an additional Private Placement for US$4 million
(~AU$6.022 million) before costs.
Following the approval of resolutions 15 and 16 by shareholders at a General Meeting held on 28
October 2024, the Company has issued 46,276,113 new TGM fully paid Ordinary Shares at the issue
price of $0.13 (13 cents per share) and granted 23,138,057 unlisted attaching options on 31 October
2024 to sophisticated and professional investors on the same terms as those applied in the twotranche Placement announced on 11 June 20243.
Each Placement Option will have an exercise price equal to an 8% discount to the 15-day VWAP to the
last closing price at the time of exercise (but no less than $0.13 cents), and expiry date 2 years from
the date of issue. Options issued under the Placement will not be quoted.
Both the issue of new Shares and the granting of new Options have been done so following
shareholder approvals and therefore will not utilise the Company’s existing placement capacity
available under Listing Rules 7.1.
The new shares issued will rank equally with existing fully paid ordinary shares of Theta Gold.
This placement was arranged by Golden Asia Investment Group Limited out of Hong Kong who acted
as Lead Manager.
An Appendix 2A – Application for quotation of securities and Appendix 3G – Notification regarding
unquoted securities will be released following today’s announcement.
[ENDS]
This announcement was approved for release by Theta Gold Mines Limited’s Board.
For more information, please visit www.thetagoldmines.com or contact:
Bill Guy, Chairman
Theta Gold Mines Limited
T: + 61 2 8046 7584
E: billg@thetagoldmines.com
1 Ref ASX release dated 26 June 2024 titled, “Theta Completes a Further US$4 million Private Placement to Complete the Detailed
Engineering Design and Construction Tenders”.
2 The conversion price of (USD:AUD) was based on the closing spot price(s) published by the RBA on the date placement proceeds were
received which was an average of 0.649.
3 Ref ASX release dated 11 June 2024 titled, “Equity Funding Placement Update”.
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The Company encourages shareholders to please join the Theta Investor Hub which allows you to ask
questions directly to the Company, view video’s and keep up to date on progress of the TGME Gold
Project at http://investors.thetagoldmines.com.
Webpage: www.thetagoldmines.com
https://twitter.com/ThetaGoldMines
https://www.linkedin.com/company/thetagoldmines/
ABOUT THETA GOLD MINES LIMITED
Theta Gold Mines Limited (ASX:TGM) is a gold development company that holds a range of prospective
gold assets in a world-renowned South African gold mining region. These assets include several surface
and near-surface high-grade gold projects which provide cost advantages relative to other gold
producers in the region.
Theta Gold’s core project is located next to the historical gold mining town of Pilgrim’s Rest, in
Mpumalanga Province, some 370km northeast of Johannesburg by road or 95km north of Nelspruit
(Capital City of Mpumalanga Province). Following small scale production from 2011 – 2015, the
Company is currently focussing on the construction and financing of a new gold processing plant
within its approved footprint at the TGME plant.
The company has completed a Feasibility Study (FS) released to ASX on 27 July 2022, for the first four
mines Beta, CDM, Frankfort and Rietfontein (TGME Underground Project). The Base Case LOM plan
comprises a 12.9-year mining operation starting in 2023 and delivering production of 1.24 million
ounces of contained gold.
The estimated development capital or peak funding requirement is USD77 million (AUD102 million),
with the Project forecast to generate a pre-tax NPV10% of USD324 million (AUD432 million) and pretax Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 65% at the forecast gold price of averaging USD1,642/oz over the
LOM.
The Company aims to build a solid production platform to over next 5 years to 160kozpa based
primarily around shallow, open-pit or adit-entry shallow underground hard rock mining sources. Theta
Gold has access to over 43 historical mines and prospect areas that can be accessed and explored, with
over 6.7Moz of historical production recorded.
Theta Gold holds 100% issued capital of its South African subsidiary, Theta Gold SA (Pty) Ltd (“TGSA”).
TGSA holds a 74% shareholding in both Transvaal Gold Mining Estates Limited (“TGME”) and Sabie
Mines (Pty) Ltd (“Sabie Mines”). The balance of shareholding is held by Black Economic Empowerment
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(“BEE”) entities. The South African Mining Charter requires a minimum of 26% meaningful economic
participation by the historically disadvantaged South Africans (“HDSAs”). The BEE shareholding in
TGME and Sabie Mines is comprised of a combination of local community trusts, an employee trust
and a strategic entrepreneurial partner.
DISCLAIMER
This announcement has been prepared by and issued by Theta Gold Mines Limited to assist in
informing interested parties about the Company and should not be considered as an offer or invitation
to subscribe for or purchase any securities in the Company or as an inducement to make an offer or
invitation with respect to those securities. No agreement to subscribe for securities in the Company
will be entered into on the basis of this announcement.
This announcement may contain forward looking statements. Whilst Theta Gold has no reason to
believe that any such statements and projections are either false, misleading or incorrect, it does not
warrant or guarantee such statements. Nothing contained in this announcement constitutes
investment, legal, tax or other advice. This overview of Theta Gold does not purport to be all inclusive
or to contain all information which its recipients may require in order to make an informed assessment
of the Company’s prospects. Before making an investment decision, you should consult your
professional adviser, and perform your own analysis prior to making any investment decision. To the
maximum extent permitted by law, the Company makes no representation and gives no assurance,
guarantee or warranty, express or implied, as to, and take no responsibility and assume no liability
for, the authenticity, validity, accuracy, suitability or completeness of, or any errors in or omissions,
from any information, statement or opinion contained in this announcement. This announcement
contains information, ideas and analysis which are proprietary to Theta Gold.
The Company confirms that all material assumptions underpinning the production target, or the
forecast financial information derived from the production target continue to apply and have not
materially changed from those previously released to ASX in a Feasibility Study dated 27 July 2022.
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