www.almonty.com/_resources/news/nr_2017_01_09.pdfALMONTY ANNOUNCES IT HAS RECEVIED THE FINAL PERMITS FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF ITS SANGDONG MINE AND HAS EXERCISED ITS OPTION
TO ACQUIRE 100% CONTROL OF THE VALTREIXAL PROJECT
Toronto January 9, 2017. Almonty Industries Inc. (TSX-V:AII) (“Almonty”) announces that it
has received the final surface permit in respect of its Sangdong Mine that now enables it to begin
construction of the processing plant and the road and river diversion. The project is now fully
permitted and the EPC contract expected to be signed within the next 4 weeks.
Almonty also announces that it has exercised its option on the Valtreixal Project in Spain and
now owns 100% of the project. Almonty acquired the remaining 49% through a series of
payments to Siemcalsa that totalled Euro 1.5 million, having negotiated a Euro 750,000
reduction on the final price. Almonty now owns 100% of the Valtreixal Project and continues to
work on project development with a view to being in a position to bring the project on-line when
market conditions warrant.
Almonty’s Chairman, President and CEO Lewis Black said:
“Obtaining the final permits ahead of schedule will enable Almonty to begin construction of the
Sangdong mine as soon as funding has been finalized. We continue to work with our banks and
an industry participant on the final funding package for the build-out of Sangdong and will
update the market once the agreements have been finalized. We are still anticipating a
commission date of Q1 2018.
Acquiring control of 100% of the Valtreixal Project further cements Almonty’s position as the
leading producer of tungsten concentrate outside of China. We anticipate that the Valtreixal
Project will have a lower cost of production than that of our Los Santos Mine which already
operates at a lower cost than any non-by-product western tungsten mine, enabling Almonty to
benefit further from a recovering market demand for tungsten concentrate. We are currently in
the permitting stage and anticipate receiving all necessary approvals in calendar 2017.
We also continue to discuss with our customers an expansion of our current fixed priced
contracts for 2017, as we believe current industry contract concentrate pricing as priced off spot
APT, to be completely artificial given the appreciation we have seen in other industrial metals
along with that of tungsten scrap, used alongside concentrate, which is pricing some 30% above
concentrate pricing and is valued at the same price as APT, the downstream product.”
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