The Northern Miner August 31 2020 Issue 18

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Trilogy completes feasibility on Alaskan project DEVELOPMENT

| Study suggests 12-year operation

BY MAGDA GARDNER

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T Loading a truck at Endeavour’s Ity gold mine in southern Cote d’Ivoire, 480 km northwest of Abidjan.  ENDEAVOUR MINING

Endeavour Mining eyes dual listing after Semafo acquisition | Canadian miners eye additional exchanges

FINANCING BY CARL A. WILLIAMS

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ndeavour Mining (TSX: EDV), a Toronto-listed gold mining company with assets in West Africa, is assessing whether to dual list on either the London or New York exchanges as it looks to attract new investors following its recent acquisition of Semafo (TSX: SMF), its smaller rival in the region. “We are going to move to one or the other,” Sébastien de Montessus, Endeavour’s director and CEO, said in an interview with The Financial Times on Aug. 11. “We are currently assessing which is the most relevant and attractive given our portfolio and locations and also the fit in terms of governance and liquidity.” During a conference call with analysts a few days earlier, James Andrew Keith, mining analyst at RBC Capital Markets, asked de Montessus whether an additional listing looked more attractive given the company’s increase in market capital liquidity following the acquisition of Semafo. “The objective for us was first to close the transaction with Semafo and progress on the integration,” de Montessus replied. “I believe that things are now in the right place. And we always said that at the right time, we would consider secondary listing.” He added that the company is currently assessing the pros and cons of a London listing or a New York listing. “As you know, management is based in London, and I do believe that London would be a natural

landing for us. But New York has also some interest,” de Montessus said. “We’ve been sharing yesterday with our board, our thoughts on the options between the two.” He said a formal recommendation to Endeavour’s board would be made over the next two to three months. The London Stock Exchange (LSE) lost its largest and most successful gold mining company last year after Randgold Resources was delisted following its acquisition by Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX). However, other Canadian-based miners are currently eyeing opportunities to list on additional exchanges. On July 20, Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY), one of Canada’s biggest gold producers, outlined its plan to list on the main market of the LSE. The day before the announcement, Peter Marrone, Yamana’s founder and chairman, told The Financial Times that “our due diligence tells us that there is billions of dollars of capital available in London that we should be exploiting.” “This is an ideal time to be joining,” he added. South Africa’s AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) had been expected to move to London but the plans have been shelved for now following the recent departure of its chief executive officer, Kevin Dushnisky. Toronto-based Barrick also signalled its intention to join the S&P 500 Index in the United States, opening up the giant miner to an even larger pool of investors, including

large institutional investors such as index funds. “That’s something that’s always been of interest to me, because if we got on the S&P, the index demand See FINANCING / 5

rilogy Metals (TSX: TMQ; NYSE-AM: TMQ) has announced the results of a feasibility study on its 50%-held Arctic copper-zinc-lead-silver-gold project in northwestern Alaska’s Ambler mining district. The study suggests a 10,000-tonneper-day, 12-year open-pit operation, with a conventional mill and flotation process, producing copper, zinc and lead concentrates. The proposed operation would produce an average of 155 million lb. copper, 192 million lb. zinc, 32 million lb. lead, 32,165 oz. gold and 3.4 million oz. silver annually, at allin cash costs (which include initial and sustaining capital, as well as operating and closure costs, net of by-product credits) of US98¢ per lb. payable copper. With an initial capital cost requirement of US$905.6 million and basecase long-term metal prices of US$3 per lb. copper, US$1.1 per lb. zinc, US$1 per lb. lead, US$1,300 per oz. gold and US$18 per oz. silver, the after-tax net present value estimate

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“ARCTIC IS A SPECIAL PROJECT DUE TO ITS UNIQUE, HIGH-GRADE, POLYMETALLIC NATURE.” TONY GIARDINI PRESIDENT AND CEO, TRILOGY METALS

for the project comes in at US$1.1 billion, at an 8% discount rate, with a 27% internal rate of return and 2.6-year payback period. “Arctic is a special project due to its unique, high-grade, polymetallic nature. The only other time that I’ve seen a project of this quality, where the grades were similar was in an underground mining scenario,” Tony Giardini, the company’s president and CEO, said in a news release. “However, Arctic is mineable in an open pit scenario. I also want to highlight that Arctic contains a significant amount of gold and silver.” Giardini added that, at current spot prices, gold and silver account See DEVELOPMENT / 3 PM40069240


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