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Gladstone Pacific Nickel (GPN)
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- 04 May 2007 10:21
Business DescriptionGladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd. The Group's principal activity is exploring for and developing nickel and cobalt minerals. It operates only in the mineral evaluation business within Australia and south-west Pacific region.
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited (GPNL) is an Australian mining development company presently undertaking a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for the Gladstone Nickel Project (GNP). The company's vision is to build a major long-life nickel cobalt refinery at the deepwater Port of Gladstone, in Central Queensland, Australia, treating abundant high grade nickel laterite ores from New Caledonia and other south-west Pacific islands, underpinned by beneficiated ores from its own Marlborough deposits. The Project has the potential to be one of the largest of its type in the world producing some 126,000 tpa nickel (8 -10% of global nickel demand) and 10,400 tpa of cobalt metal from its first two stages.
The GNP will comprise of; a high pressure acid leach (HPAL) plant and metal refinery in the Yarwun Precinct of the Gladstone State Development Area (GSDA); nickel mines and loadout/shipping facilities in New Caledonia and potentially other south-west Pacific islands; ore importation facilities at the Port of Gladstone; a modern nickel mine and beneficiation plant at Marlborough with a proposed slurry pipeline to take the beneficiated ore to Gladstone; and a long-term residue storage facility located in the Aldoga Precinct of the GSDA.
KEY DATA:
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd Ticker: GPN
GPN Directors/Managers :
Chairperson (Exec.): Mr RA Pearce (Robert)
Executive Director an d executive Chairman: Mr PJ Matheson (Peter)
Director (Non-Exec.): Mr AE Daley (Andrew)
Director (Non-Exec.): Mr JG Henderson (James)
Director (Non-Exec.): Mr PJ Watson (Peter)
Exchanges: LON
0 Sales: 0
Currency: Australian Dollars
Fiscal Year Ends: June
Share Type: Ordinary
Country: Australia
Major Industry: Metal Producers & Products Manufacturers
Sub Industry: Miscellaneous Metal Producers
Employees: 9
Market Capitalization: 143,348,407
Ordinary Shares in issue.41,909,716
Closely Held Shares: 9,575,000
16-03-2007 RAB Special Situations - 13,463,642 44.3700
11-04-2006 Andrew Daley - 1,250,000 5.9900
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smiler o
- 15 May 2007 18:49
- 14 of 107
Nickel leaders slug it out
May 16, 2007 12:00am
THE battle for Australia's third-largest nickel miner LionOre is into the third set, with Xstrata lobbing a higher bid over the net after earlier being trumped by Norilsk Nickel.
After a trading halt yesterday, the LionOre board said it would support an increased offer of $C25 ($A27.17) a share from Xstrata, valuing the Canadian miner at $C6.4 billion.
The offer beats Norilsk Nickel's $C21.50 a share bid two weeks ago and is about 35 per cent higher than Xstrata's original $C18.50 a share bid.
It was tabled as LionOre revealed a massive jump in first-quarter earnings, spurred by the soaring price of nickel.
LionOre earned $US148.3 million ($A178.4 million) in the three months to March 31, compared with $US13.2 million the previous year.
The average nickel price realised by the company was $US18.80 a pound compared with $US6.72 a pound a year earlier.
LionOre owns the Emily Ann, Maggie Hays and Black Swan nickel mines in Western Australia and is developing the Waterloo nickel project there.
It also owns the Thunderbox gold mine and 80 per cent of the Honeymoon Well deposit, one of the world's largest undeveloped nickel deposits with an indicated resource of one million tonnes.
LionOre expects to produce about 44,000 tonnes of nickel this year and 80,000 tonnes by 2012.
Xstrata leapfrogged its rivals to become the world's fourth-largest nickel producer after its $US17 billion acquisition of Toronto-based Falconbridge last year, and would maintain that position if it was successful in its bid for LionOre.
Norilsk is the world's largest producer of the metal.
Charles Cooper, a London-based analyst for NCB Group, said he wouldn't be surprised to see Norilsk come back for another go.
"We expect nickel prices to remain high and the payback can be very quick," he said.
Victor Borodin, a spokesman for Norilsk in Moscow, declined to comment.
Xstrata has approval from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Foreign Investment Review Board to proceed with the takeover.
LionOre shares have risen 24 per cent on the Toronto Stock Exchange since Xstrata's original offer. They last traded at $C23.70.
The company has a secondary listing on the ASX where the stock traded at $21.10 before yesterday's trading halt. with BLOOMBERG
May 16, 2007 12:00am
THE battle for Australia's third-largest nickel miner LionOre is into the third set, with Xstrata lobbing a higher bid over the net after earlier being trumped by Norilsk Nickel.
After a trading halt yesterday, the LionOre board said it would support an increased offer of $C25 ($A27.17) a share from Xstrata, valuing the Canadian miner at $C6.4 billion.
The offer beats Norilsk Nickel's $C21.50 a share bid two weeks ago and is about 35 per cent higher than Xstrata's original $C18.50 a share bid.
It was tabled as LionOre revealed a massive jump in first-quarter earnings, spurred by the soaring price of nickel.
LionOre earned $US148.3 million ($A178.4 million) in the three months to March 31, compared with $US13.2 million the previous year.
The average nickel price realised by the company was $US18.80 a pound compared with $US6.72 a pound a year earlier.
LionOre owns the Emily Ann, Maggie Hays and Black Swan nickel mines in Western Australia and is developing the Waterloo nickel project there.
It also owns the Thunderbox gold mine and 80 per cent of the Honeymoon Well deposit, one of the world's largest undeveloped nickel deposits with an indicated resource of one million tonnes.
LionOre expects to produce about 44,000 tonnes of nickel this year and 80,000 tonnes by 2012.
Xstrata leapfrogged its rivals to become the world's fourth-largest nickel producer after its $US17 billion acquisition of Toronto-based Falconbridge last year, and would maintain that position if it was successful in its bid for LionOre.
Norilsk is the world's largest producer of the metal.
Charles Cooper, a London-based analyst for NCB Group, said he wouldn't be surprised to see Norilsk come back for another go.
"We expect nickel prices to remain high and the payback can be very quick," he said.
Victor Borodin, a spokesman for Norilsk in Moscow, declined to comment.
Xstrata has approval from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Foreign Investment Review Board to proceed with the takeover.
LionOre shares have risen 24 per cent on the Toronto Stock Exchange since Xstrata's original offer. They last traded at $C23.70.
The company has a secondary listing on the ASX where the stock traded at $21.10 before yesterday's trading halt. with BLOOMBERG
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- 16 May 2007 16:34
- 15 of 107
A tic up !!!!!
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- 21 May 2007 20:11
- 16 of 107
Nickel May Rise 20% on Smelter Shortage, Credit Suisse Says
By Madelene Pearson
May 21 (Bloomberg) -- The price for nickel, used to make stainless steel, may rise 20 percent as a shortage of smelters to process ore into metal constrains supply, Credit Suisse Group said in a report.
Nickel may reach $65,000 a metric ton in the ``near term,'' Credit Suisse London-based analysts led by Jeremy Gray and Eily Ong said in a report dated May 16. Smelting output may grow at 4.6 percent this year compared with demand growth as high as 5 percent should stainless steelmakers rebuild inventories and global economic growth increase, the report said.
Nickel for immediate delivery rose to a record $54,050 a metric ton in London on May 15 as China's economic growth fueled demand for the metal. Cost overruns and delays at BHP Billiton Ltd.'s Ravensthorpe and Cia. Vale do Rio Doce's Goro projects, the two largest nickel mines under construction, exacerbated supply shortfalls, helping drive price increases.
``Prices will remain strong over the next two years given the lack of supply growth until 2009 at the earliest,'' Gray and Ong wrote in the report. ``The current profile of new smelters is unlikely to be enough to feed ongoing strong demand from the stainless steel industry in the next two years.''
Nickel for immediate delivery rose $1,800, or 3.5 percent, to $54,025 a ton on May 18. Prices have jumped 155 percent in the past year as inventories plunged 78 percent to an amount equal to less than two days of global consumption.
Only three of 11 nickel mine and smelter projects under way, including Ravensthorpe and Goro, will start production before 2010, the analysts said.
Risk of Delay
``Any delay in the 2008 startup of Ravensthorpe and the 2009 startup of Goro will clearly make our global smelter growth forecasts of 4.6 percent in 2007 and 5.3 percent growth in 2008 look too aggressive and would help underpin the current strength in nickel prices,'' the report said.
The forecast by Credit Suisse compares to the $55,000 a ton estimate of Standard Bank analyst Michael Skinner made April 26.
Prices are expected to stay ``strong'' over the next two years given the lack of smelter supply growth until 2009, the report said. They may also gain should an anticipated increase in production of lower grade ferro nickel from China be overestimated, the analysts wrote.
``The strength in today's nickel price is a good lead indicator to suggest that the ramp up of Chinese production is clearly taking longer than expected to make an impact,'' they said. ``Our suspicion is that the ramp up of Chinese production will not make a significant dent in global supply until 2009 at the earliest.''
The bank is assuming demand growth of 3 percent this year, rising to 5 percent should stainless steelmakers build inventories in the third quarter. A ``pronounced'' cutback to stainless steel production may damp demand for nickel and threaten prices, Credit Suisse wrote.
By Madelene Pearson
May 21 (Bloomberg) -- The price for nickel, used to make stainless steel, may rise 20 percent as a shortage of smelters to process ore into metal constrains supply, Credit Suisse Group said in a report.
Nickel may reach $65,000 a metric ton in the ``near term,'' Credit Suisse London-based analysts led by Jeremy Gray and Eily Ong said in a report dated May 16. Smelting output may grow at 4.6 percent this year compared with demand growth as high as 5 percent should stainless steelmakers rebuild inventories and global economic growth increase, the report said.
Nickel for immediate delivery rose to a record $54,050 a metric ton in London on May 15 as China's economic growth fueled demand for the metal. Cost overruns and delays at BHP Billiton Ltd.'s Ravensthorpe and Cia. Vale do Rio Doce's Goro projects, the two largest nickel mines under construction, exacerbated supply shortfalls, helping drive price increases.
``Prices will remain strong over the next two years given the lack of supply growth until 2009 at the earliest,'' Gray and Ong wrote in the report. ``The current profile of new smelters is unlikely to be enough to feed ongoing strong demand from the stainless steel industry in the next two years.''
Nickel for immediate delivery rose $1,800, or 3.5 percent, to $54,025 a ton on May 18. Prices have jumped 155 percent in the past year as inventories plunged 78 percent to an amount equal to less than two days of global consumption.
Only three of 11 nickel mine and smelter projects under way, including Ravensthorpe and Goro, will start production before 2010, the analysts said.
Risk of Delay
``Any delay in the 2008 startup of Ravensthorpe and the 2009 startup of Goro will clearly make our global smelter growth forecasts of 4.6 percent in 2007 and 5.3 percent growth in 2008 look too aggressive and would help underpin the current strength in nickel prices,'' the report said.
The forecast by Credit Suisse compares to the $55,000 a ton estimate of Standard Bank analyst Michael Skinner made April 26.
Prices are expected to stay ``strong'' over the next two years given the lack of smelter supply growth until 2009, the report said. They may also gain should an anticipated increase in production of lower grade ferro nickel from China be overestimated, the analysts wrote.
``The strength in today's nickel price is a good lead indicator to suggest that the ramp up of Chinese production is clearly taking longer than expected to make an impact,'' they said. ``Our suspicion is that the ramp up of Chinese production will not make a significant dent in global supply until 2009 at the earliest.''
The bank is assuming demand growth of 3 percent this year, rising to 5 percent should stainless steelmakers build inventories in the third quarter. A ``pronounced'' cutback to stainless steel production may damp demand for nickel and threaten prices, Credit Suisse wrote.
soul traders
- 21 May 2007 21:43
- 17 of 107
Right, I'm building a nickel smelter in the garden shed! Anyone in?
Ni is definitely one to watch at present. TMC is doing me proud, although I'm kicking myself for taking my eye off the ball for so long.
Good luck to all.
Ni is definitely one to watch at present. TMC is doing me proud, although I'm kicking myself for taking my eye off the ball for so long.
Good luck to all.
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- 23 May 2007 08:16
- 18 of 107
Barry Sergeant
23 May 2007
Nickel has again given new meaning to "ten bagger", with a price increase from just over $2/pound late in 2001 to fresh recent records close to $25/pound. Against doomsayers, official stocks of the metal, used mainly in the production of stainless steel, is down to a day or less of global consumption.
Analysts and industry players, not least Dedi Aditya Sumanagara, president director of PT Aneka Tambang Tbk, reckon that the undersupply curve of nickel is such that prices will remain high for another 18 months.
Nickel currently trades around $50 000 a ton and more on the London Metals Exchange, compared to an average price over the past 12 months of $35 387 a ton, and "just" $24 185 in 2006. After years of sitting in the price doldrums, and an all-time nadir (like many other metals) in real price terms in the late 1990s, nickel exploration and projects were either neglected or taken only half seriously.
Based on current information, the biggest increases in nickel supplies are likely to come on stream in Australia and nearby New Caledonia. Eramet, via 60% subsidiary Socile Nickel, has largely operated alone for more than a century in New Caledonia, said to hold a quarter of the world's nickel.
Nickel operators are key acquisition targets; CVRD's recent $17,6bn acquisition of Canada-based Inco now looks like a bargain basement deal, and has pushed CVRD's market capitalisation into second place among the big diversified, miners, ahead of Rio Tinto and Anglo American, and behind BHP Billiton.
Inco delivered CVRD the Goro nickel mine and smelting plant in New Caledonia, where Inco had already spent at least $1bn in development. By now, the project is at least 80% complete, and due to start commissioning up to a nameplate of 60 000 tons a year in early 2009, at a capital cost north of $3bn.
BHP Billiton is meanwhile confident of this year starting up its 70 000 tons a year Ravensthorpe operation in Australia. Nickel is a tough business: there have been expected start-up delays and cost overruns at Goro, Raventhorpe, Vermelho and a number of other development projects.
Consolidation in the industry continues; Xstrata, having first bid $4bn in cash for LionOre, has heavily overbid a counterbid by Norilsk, Russia's mega nickel miner. BHP Billiton, Xstrata's acquisition nemesis, lurks still in the background to that possible deal, but may have ruled itself out on the basis of the huge break fee secured on Xstrata's revised bid.
BHP Billiton two years ago outbid Xstrata for Australia's WMC. The BHP Billiton/WMC west Australian nickel assets possess potentially intimate synergies with LionOre's Activox hydrometallurgical process technology. Industry experts see LionOre's Honeymoon Well 1m-ton contained nickel project as a look-alike in many respects for the jewel of BHP Billiton's nickel business, Mt Keith. Meanwhile, beyond the primary producers of nickel, South Africa's platinum mines continue to enjoy a lucrative side income from a secondary by-product.
The nickel business is taking on a whole new look and most analysts have pushed up the very long term forecast for the metal, not least on the view that such prices are required to ensure a reasonable return to develop new - mainly laterite - nickel mines. Capital expenditure inflation - mainly on the back of higher energy and (ironically) stainless steel costs - have forced the reorganization of industry cost curves.
There could be a sharp short-term correction in nickel prices, given market intelligence suggesting that a single entity holds substantial unofficial stocks, having gone long on the metal for speculative purposes. Trading house and nickel producer Glencore is mentioned most often, though company officials have declined to comment. But as one analyst puts it, "prices at these levels will likely lead to nickel demand destruction which strangely will probably help with stock rationing in what is viewed as a tight market".
23 May 2007
Nickel has again given new meaning to "ten bagger", with a price increase from just over $2/pound late in 2001 to fresh recent records close to $25/pound. Against doomsayers, official stocks of the metal, used mainly in the production of stainless steel, is down to a day or less of global consumption.
Analysts and industry players, not least Dedi Aditya Sumanagara, president director of PT Aneka Tambang Tbk, reckon that the undersupply curve of nickel is such that prices will remain high for another 18 months.
Nickel currently trades around $50 000 a ton and more on the London Metals Exchange, compared to an average price over the past 12 months of $35 387 a ton, and "just" $24 185 in 2006. After years of sitting in the price doldrums, and an all-time nadir (like many other metals) in real price terms in the late 1990s, nickel exploration and projects were either neglected or taken only half seriously.
Based on current information, the biggest increases in nickel supplies are likely to come on stream in Australia and nearby New Caledonia. Eramet, via 60% subsidiary Socile Nickel, has largely operated alone for more than a century in New Caledonia, said to hold a quarter of the world's nickel.
Nickel operators are key acquisition targets; CVRD's recent $17,6bn acquisition of Canada-based Inco now looks like a bargain basement deal, and has pushed CVRD's market capitalisation into second place among the big diversified, miners, ahead of Rio Tinto and Anglo American, and behind BHP Billiton.
Inco delivered CVRD the Goro nickel mine and smelting plant in New Caledonia, where Inco had already spent at least $1bn in development. By now, the project is at least 80% complete, and due to start commissioning up to a nameplate of 60 000 tons a year in early 2009, at a capital cost north of $3bn.
BHP Billiton is meanwhile confident of this year starting up its 70 000 tons a year Ravensthorpe operation in Australia. Nickel is a tough business: there have been expected start-up delays and cost overruns at Goro, Raventhorpe, Vermelho and a number of other development projects.
Consolidation in the industry continues; Xstrata, having first bid $4bn in cash for LionOre, has heavily overbid a counterbid by Norilsk, Russia's mega nickel miner. BHP Billiton, Xstrata's acquisition nemesis, lurks still in the background to that possible deal, but may have ruled itself out on the basis of the huge break fee secured on Xstrata's revised bid.
BHP Billiton two years ago outbid Xstrata for Australia's WMC. The BHP Billiton/WMC west Australian nickel assets possess potentially intimate synergies with LionOre's Activox hydrometallurgical process technology. Industry experts see LionOre's Honeymoon Well 1m-ton contained nickel project as a look-alike in many respects for the jewel of BHP Billiton's nickel business, Mt Keith. Meanwhile, beyond the primary producers of nickel, South Africa's platinum mines continue to enjoy a lucrative side income from a secondary by-product.
The nickel business is taking on a whole new look and most analysts have pushed up the very long term forecast for the metal, not least on the view that such prices are required to ensure a reasonable return to develop new - mainly laterite - nickel mines. Capital expenditure inflation - mainly on the back of higher energy and (ironically) stainless steel costs - have forced the reorganization of industry cost curves.
There could be a sharp short-term correction in nickel prices, given market intelligence suggesting that a single entity holds substantial unofficial stocks, having gone long on the metal for speculative purposes. Trading house and nickel producer Glencore is mentioned most often, though company officials have declined to comment. But as one analyst puts it, "prices at these levels will likely lead to nickel demand destruction which strangely will probably help with stock rationing in what is viewed as a tight market".
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- 27 May 2007 08:59
- 19 of 107
Of Interest
LionOre Mining predicts it may not hit its 2007 nickel production target
Saturday, May 26, 2007
TORONTO (CP) - LionOre Mining International Ltd. TSX: LIM announced Saturday that the company expects a 2.9 per cent shortfall in the group's 2007 total nickel production target of 44,300 tonnes.
It's due to a delay in the target date for full mine production from the Maggie Hays underground mine, at the Lake Johnston operation in Australia, LionOre said in a release.
As a consequence, LionOre anticipates that the group's production for the year could drop to approximately 43,000 tonnes of payable nickel (37,700 tonnes attributable) compared with 44,300 tonnes (39,795 tonnes attributable) published in earlier guidance.
The Maggie Hays sub-level cave operation encountered poor ground conditions during the first quarter of 2007, which required mining activities to focus on rehabilitation to improve ground support in the production drives, LionOre said. A further deterioration in ground conditions has since resulted in a substantial increase in the required rehabilitation program, which will restrict the second quarter 2007 production plan.
As a result of this rehabilitation program, LionOre says it now expects full production levels from Maggie Hays to be attained in the third quarter of 2007. Life-of-mine nickel production is still in line with the current life-of-mine plan.
Management is currently reviewing opportunities at all locations to recover the delayed production, the company said.
LionOre Mining predicts it may not hit its 2007 nickel production target
Saturday, May 26, 2007
TORONTO (CP) - LionOre Mining International Ltd. TSX: LIM announced Saturday that the company expects a 2.9 per cent shortfall in the group's 2007 total nickel production target of 44,300 tonnes.
It's due to a delay in the target date for full mine production from the Maggie Hays underground mine, at the Lake Johnston operation in Australia, LionOre said in a release.
As a consequence, LionOre anticipates that the group's production for the year could drop to approximately 43,000 tonnes of payable nickel (37,700 tonnes attributable) compared with 44,300 tonnes (39,795 tonnes attributable) published in earlier guidance.
The Maggie Hays sub-level cave operation encountered poor ground conditions during the first quarter of 2007, which required mining activities to focus on rehabilitation to improve ground support in the production drives, LionOre said. A further deterioration in ground conditions has since resulted in a substantial increase in the required rehabilitation program, which will restrict the second quarter 2007 production plan.
As a result of this rehabilitation program, LionOre says it now expects full production levels from Maggie Hays to be attained in the third quarter of 2007. Life-of-mine nickel production is still in line with the current life-of-mine plan.
Management is currently reviewing opportunities at all locations to recover the delayed production, the company said.
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- 07 Jun 2007 11:18
- 20 of 107
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
07 June 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
US$40 MILLION FINANCING COMMITTED
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited ('Gladstone' or 'the Company') announces
the completion of a fully subscribed private placement, raising
approximately US$40 million.
Special Warrants to the value of approximately US$30 million have been
issued today while Special Warrants to the value of approximately US$10
million have been committed and the issue will be closed as soon as possible
and not later than 13 August 2007.
These funds will enable Gladstone to progress its business plan including
the completion of its Integrated Definitive Feasibility Study for the
Gladstone Nickel Project ('GNP') and the furtherance of ore supply
agreements.
Gladstone is pursuing a listing of its ordinary shares on the Toronto
Stock Exchange or the TSX Venture Exchange within 180 days of this closing,
which is expected to assist in expanding its shareholder base in North
America.
Pursuant to its US$40 million placement that was approved by shareholders at the
Extraordinary General Meeting held on 29 May 2007 (the 'Placement'), the Company
issued today a total of 8,368,000 Special Warrants, raising approximately US$30
million. The remaining 2,789,000 Special Warrants will be issued, and the
balance of approximately US$10 million will be received, by the Company as soon
as possible but not later than 13 August 2007.
The issue of 2,789,000 Special Warrants to RAB Special Situations (Master) Funds
Ltd ('RAB') will occur only upon Australian Foreign Investment Review Board
('FIRB') approval. Should FIRB not approve the issue of these Special Warrants,
Transocean Group Holdings Pty Ltd (an entity related to Transocean Securities
Pty Ltd - an Agent) will subscribe for the 2,789,000 Special Warrants, on
similar terms, pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement with the Company. No
amounts are payable in respect of the Underwriting Agreement other than
reasonable legal costs and expenses incurred by Transocean Group Holdings Pty
Ltd.
Completing the Placement in two parts will have no adverse affect on Gladstone's
business plan.
John Downie, Chief Executive Officer of Gladstone, commented:
'The proceeds of the placing will underpin the significant progress being made
by the Company, in particular facilitating further ore supply agreements which
will ensure the long term substantial supply of high grade ore to the Project
and also supporting the expenditures associated with completion of the
Integrated Definitive Feasibility Study for the Project, due in the third
quarter of 2007.'
The Special Warrants are as described in the Explanatory Memorandum which
accompanied the Notice of Meeting for the Extraordinary General Meeting held on
29 May 2007.
As explained in that Explanatory Memorandum the Company will use its commercial
best-effort to obtain a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange or the TSX Venture
Exchange, within 180 days of this closing ('Listing Date').
Special Warrant holders, holding 3,793,130 Special Warrants, have already elected
to convert them into Ordinary Shares listed on the AIM market and the Company has
today allotted the same number of Ordinary Shares. Application has been made for
3,793,130 Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. The Shares rank pari
passu with the Company's issued Ordinary Shares and are expected to trade on AIM
from 8 June, 2007. As a result of this allotment the Company has 34,145,846 Ordinary
Shares in issue.
Transocean Securities Pty Ltd and Research Capital Corporation acted as agents
on the Placement and received a fee equal to 7% of the Placement and 780,990
Broker Special Warrants in consideration for their services. Each Broker Special
Warrant represents a right to receive one Broker Option. Details of the Broker
Options are set out in the Explanatory Memorandum which accompanied the Notice
of Meeting for the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 29 May 2007 as
augmented by the Company's letter to shareholders dated 18 May 2007.
For further information contact:
07 June 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
US$40 MILLION FINANCING COMMITTED
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited ('Gladstone' or 'the Company') announces
the completion of a fully subscribed private placement, raising
approximately US$40 million.
Special Warrants to the value of approximately US$30 million have been
issued today while Special Warrants to the value of approximately US$10
million have been committed and the issue will be closed as soon as possible
and not later than 13 August 2007.
These funds will enable Gladstone to progress its business plan including
the completion of its Integrated Definitive Feasibility Study for the
Gladstone Nickel Project ('GNP') and the furtherance of ore supply
agreements.
Gladstone is pursuing a listing of its ordinary shares on the Toronto
Stock Exchange or the TSX Venture Exchange within 180 days of this closing,
which is expected to assist in expanding its shareholder base in North
America.
Pursuant to its US$40 million placement that was approved by shareholders at the
Extraordinary General Meeting held on 29 May 2007 (the 'Placement'), the Company
issued today a total of 8,368,000 Special Warrants, raising approximately US$30
million. The remaining 2,789,000 Special Warrants will be issued, and the
balance of approximately US$10 million will be received, by the Company as soon
as possible but not later than 13 August 2007.
The issue of 2,789,000 Special Warrants to RAB Special Situations (Master) Funds
Ltd ('RAB') will occur only upon Australian Foreign Investment Review Board
('FIRB') approval. Should FIRB not approve the issue of these Special Warrants,
Transocean Group Holdings Pty Ltd (an entity related to Transocean Securities
Pty Ltd - an Agent) will subscribe for the 2,789,000 Special Warrants, on
similar terms, pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement with the Company. No
amounts are payable in respect of the Underwriting Agreement other than
reasonable legal costs and expenses incurred by Transocean Group Holdings Pty
Ltd.
Completing the Placement in two parts will have no adverse affect on Gladstone's
business plan.
John Downie, Chief Executive Officer of Gladstone, commented:
'The proceeds of the placing will underpin the significant progress being made
by the Company, in particular facilitating further ore supply agreements which
will ensure the long term substantial supply of high grade ore to the Project
and also supporting the expenditures associated with completion of the
Integrated Definitive Feasibility Study for the Project, due in the third
quarter of 2007.'
The Special Warrants are as described in the Explanatory Memorandum which
accompanied the Notice of Meeting for the Extraordinary General Meeting held on
29 May 2007.
As explained in that Explanatory Memorandum the Company will use its commercial
best-effort to obtain a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange or the TSX Venture
Exchange, within 180 days of this closing ('Listing Date').
Special Warrant holders, holding 3,793,130 Special Warrants, have already elected
to convert them into Ordinary Shares listed on the AIM market and the Company has
today allotted the same number of Ordinary Shares. Application has been made for
3,793,130 Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. The Shares rank pari
passu with the Company's issued Ordinary Shares and are expected to trade on AIM
from 8 June, 2007. As a result of this allotment the Company has 34,145,846 Ordinary
Shares in issue.
Transocean Securities Pty Ltd and Research Capital Corporation acted as agents
on the Placement and received a fee equal to 7% of the Placement and 780,990
Broker Special Warrants in consideration for their services. Each Broker Special
Warrant represents a right to receive one Broker Option. Details of the Broker
Options are set out in the Explanatory Memorandum which accompanied the Notice
of Meeting for the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 29 May 2007 as
augmented by the Company's letter to shareholders dated 18 May 2007.
For further information contact:
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- 21 Jun 2007 11:13
- 21 of 107
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
21 June 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
Additional Listing
The directors of Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited ('Gladstone' or 'the Company')
advise that they have allotted 1,394,000 ordinary shares following the
instruction, by a Special Warrant Holder, to convert the same number of Special
Warrants into Ordinary Shares on the AIM market. Special Warrants were issued
to investors as part of the recently announced US$40 million private placement.
In accordance with the terms of the Special Warrants no further consideration
has been received.
The new shares rank pari passu with the Company's issued ordinary shares.
Application will be made for 1,394,000 ordinary shares to be admitted to trading
on AIM and dealings are expected to commence on 25 June 2007.
As a result of this allotment the Company will have 35,539,846 ordinary shares
on issue.
For further information contact:
21 June 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
Additional Listing
The directors of Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited ('Gladstone' or 'the Company')
advise that they have allotted 1,394,000 ordinary shares following the
instruction, by a Special Warrant Holder, to convert the same number of Special
Warrants into Ordinary Shares on the AIM market. Special Warrants were issued
to investors as part of the recently announced US$40 million private placement.
In accordance with the terms of the Special Warrants no further consideration
has been received.
The new shares rank pari passu with the Company's issued ordinary shares.
Application will be made for 1,394,000 ordinary shares to be admitted to trading
on AIM and dealings are expected to commence on 25 June 2007.
As a result of this allotment the Company will have 35,539,846 ordinary shares
on issue.
For further information contact:
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- 02 Jul 2007 15:08
- 22 of 107
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
02 July 2007
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd (the 'Company')
ACN 104 261 887
Directors' Dealings
Prior to the end of the Australian financial/tax year, Robash Pty Ltd (an
associated company of the Chairman, Mr R A Pearce) transferred 100,000 shares in
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd on 29 June 2007 to Mr Pearce personally at a price
of 180p per share. Mr Pearce then transferred 90,000 of those shares to his
private superannuation fund (Mustang Asset Pty Ltd) at a price of 180p per share
and gifted the balance of 10,000 shares to various parties. On 2 July 2007,
Belgrave Square Pty Ltd (an associated company of Executive Director, Mr P J
Matheson) transferred 10,000 shares in the Company to Mr Matheson personally at
a price of 180p per share. Mr Matheson gifted 10,000 shares in the Company to
various parties.
Further to these transactions, these Directors' interests in the Company's
shares are as follows:
Director Total holding Percentage of issued
share capital
Mr R A Pearce 4,115,000 11.58%
Mr P J Matheson 4,115,000 11.58%
Enquiries to:
Julien McInally - Company Secretary
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited TEL: +61 7 3211 8899
Simon Rothschild - Bankside Consultants TEL: +44 207 367 8888
Christopher Caldwell - Insinger de Beaufort TEL: + 44 207 190 7022
02 July 2007
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd (the 'Company')
ACN 104 261 887
Directors' Dealings
Prior to the end of the Australian financial/tax year, Robash Pty Ltd (an
associated company of the Chairman, Mr R A Pearce) transferred 100,000 shares in
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd on 29 June 2007 to Mr Pearce personally at a price
of 180p per share. Mr Pearce then transferred 90,000 of those shares to his
private superannuation fund (Mustang Asset Pty Ltd) at a price of 180p per share
and gifted the balance of 10,000 shares to various parties. On 2 July 2007,
Belgrave Square Pty Ltd (an associated company of Executive Director, Mr P J
Matheson) transferred 10,000 shares in the Company to Mr Matheson personally at
a price of 180p per share. Mr Matheson gifted 10,000 shares in the Company to
various parties.
Further to these transactions, these Directors' interests in the Company's
shares are as follows:
Director Total holding Percentage of issued
share capital
Mr R A Pearce 4,115,000 11.58%
Mr P J Matheson 4,115,000 11.58%
Enquiries to:
Julien McInally - Company Secretary
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited TEL: +61 7 3211 8899
Simon Rothschild - Bankside Consultants TEL: +44 207 367 8888
Christopher Caldwell - Insinger de Beaufort TEL: + 44 207 190 7022
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- 31 Jul 2007 15:56
- 23 of 107
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
31 July 2007
NOT FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES OR FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE
SERVICES
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
US$40M Private Placement Complete
Gladstone Pacific Nickel ('the Company') is pleased to announce the receipt of
the final US$10 million of its US$40M Private Placement.
The Company has successfully completed its Private Placement, which was
announced on 7 June, 2007, with the receipt of US$10 million from RAB Special
Situations (Master) Funds ('RAB').
Australian Foreign Investment Review Board ('FIRB') approval for the issue of
2,789,000 Special Warrants has been granted to RAB. RAB has elected to
immediately convert its 2,789,000 Special Warrants into the same number of
Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM.
The directors of Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited advise that the Company will
allot 2,789,000 Ordinary Shares to RAB and an Application has been made for the
same number of Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM where dealings
are expected to commence on 1 August, 2007. The new shares will rank pari passu
with the Company's issued Ordinary Shares.
As a result of this allotment the Company will have 38,328,846 ordinary shares
on issue.
The Company has made a successful application to obtain a listing on the Toronto
Stock Exchange ('TSX') to compliment the Company's AIM listing. Shares will
begin trading on the TSX at opening of trading on the 31 July 2007.
Note to Editors:
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited (GPNL) is an Australian mining development
company presently undertaking an Integrated Definitive Feasibility Study (IDFS)
for the Gladstone Nickel Project (GNP). The company's vision is to build a major
long-life nickel cobalt refinery at the deepwater Port of Gladstone, in Central
Queensland, Australia, treating abundant high grade nickel laterite ores from
New Caledonia and other south-west Pacific islands, underpinned by beneficiated
ores from its own Marlborough deposits. The Project has the potential to be one
of the largest of its type in the world producing some 126,000 tpa nickel (8
-10% of global nickel demand) and 10,400 tpa of cobalt metal from its first two
stages.
31 July 2007
NOT FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES OR FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE
SERVICES
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
US$40M Private Placement Complete
Gladstone Pacific Nickel ('the Company') is pleased to announce the receipt of
the final US$10 million of its US$40M Private Placement.
The Company has successfully completed its Private Placement, which was
announced on 7 June, 2007, with the receipt of US$10 million from RAB Special
Situations (Master) Funds ('RAB').
Australian Foreign Investment Review Board ('FIRB') approval for the issue of
2,789,000 Special Warrants has been granted to RAB. RAB has elected to
immediately convert its 2,789,000 Special Warrants into the same number of
Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM.
The directors of Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited advise that the Company will
allot 2,789,000 Ordinary Shares to RAB and an Application has been made for the
same number of Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM where dealings
are expected to commence on 1 August, 2007. The new shares will rank pari passu
with the Company's issued Ordinary Shares.
As a result of this allotment the Company will have 38,328,846 ordinary shares
on issue.
The Company has made a successful application to obtain a listing on the Toronto
Stock Exchange ('TSX') to compliment the Company's AIM listing. Shares will
begin trading on the TSX at opening of trading on the 31 July 2007.
Note to Editors:
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited (GPNL) is an Australian mining development
company presently undertaking an Integrated Definitive Feasibility Study (IDFS)
for the Gladstone Nickel Project (GNP). The company's vision is to build a major
long-life nickel cobalt refinery at the deepwater Port of Gladstone, in Central
Queensland, Australia, treating abundant high grade nickel laterite ores from
New Caledonia and other south-west Pacific islands, underpinned by beneficiated
ores from its own Marlborough deposits. The Project has the potential to be one
of the largest of its type in the world producing some 126,000 tpa nickel (8
-10% of global nickel demand) and 10,400 tpa of cobalt metal from its first two
stages.
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- 31 Jul 2007 16:03
- 24 of 107
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
31 July 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
LISTING ON THE TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd (the 'Company') is pleased to advise that the
Ordinary Shares of the Company will be listed and posted for trading on the
Toronto Stock Exchange ('TSX') at the opening today, 31 July 2007. The Company's
shares will trade on the TSX under the symbol 'GPN' and will continue to trade
on the Alternative Investment Market ('AIM') of the London Stock Exchange under t
he same symbol.
http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200707311150041959B.html
31 July 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
LISTING ON THE TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd (the 'Company') is pleased to advise that the
Ordinary Shares of the Company will be listed and posted for trading on the
Toronto Stock Exchange ('TSX') at the opening today, 31 July 2007. The Company's
shares will trade on the TSX under the symbol 'GPN' and will continue to trade
on the Alternative Investment Market ('AIM') of the London Stock Exchange under t
he same symbol.
http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200707311150041959B.html
smiler o
- 20 Aug 2007 11:29
- 25 of 107
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
20 August 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
('GPNL' or 'the Company')
GPNL ESTABLISHES 49% MINING JOINT VENTURE & INTEREST IN SEVERAL MINING TENEMENTS
IN THE SOUTHEAST REGION OF NEW CALEDONIA
GPNL establishes a mining Joint Venture with the shareholders in
Societe Miniere Georges Montagnat ('SMGM') in New Caledonia.
GPNL will acquire a 49% interest in the Joint Venture that will own and
mine the tenements for US$5 million in cash and approximately 12 million shares
in GPNL issued to SMGM Shareholders.
The Joint Venture which will own the tenements in New Caledonia will
supply the laterite ore mined from them to GPNL's proposed High Pressure Acid
Leach ('HPAL') facility in Gladstone, Australia
GPNL is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with SMGM and its
shareholders, which, once conditions precedent have been satisfied, will
establish an incorporated mining joint venture ('JV') in New Caledonia.
The agreement is conditional on the receipt of various approvals by 31 December
2007. These include all approvals required in connection with the proposed issue
of GPNL shares to the SMGM Shareholders and those approvals necessary for SMGM
to transfer the tenements to the JV Company. Four tenements in the region
currently owned by SMGM will be transferred to the JV in which GPNL (through its
wholly owned subsidiary Gladstone Nouvelle Caledonie SAS) will have a 49%
interest and SMGM shareholders will hold 51%. GPNL will pay a deposit of US$5
million immediately and issue, in about three years, approximately 12 million
shares to the SMGM shareholders, In the meantime GPNL will have a nominal
shareholding in the JV Company, and the right to appoint half the JV Company's
directors.
'SMGM, a highly regarded major New Caledonian mining company, has successfully
managed mining operations in New Caledonia since 1956 and has considerable
experience and an extensive mining fleet. GPNL is proud and very fortunate to be
associated with SMGM ', said CEO, John Downie.
'SMGM has mapped the southern area of the tenements and already drilled 229
diamond drill holes for a total of 5,728 m. Based on our internal review of the
data, we believe that a resource exists of a size and grade that would
significantly support GPNL's Gladstone Nickel Project for a period way in excess
of 20 years.', he added .
Historical results from some selected drill holes referred to above are provided
in the table below:
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|Drill Hole|Width (m) |Drill Hole |Drill Hole| Ni% | Co% |
| | |depth: From |depth: To | | |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 02 | 32.6 | 12 | 44.6 | 1.42 | 0.17 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 10 | 24 | 8 | 32 | 1.47 | 0.05 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 13 | 26 | 15 | 41 | 1.27 | 0.14 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 30 | 18 | 19 | 37 | 1.89 | 0.10 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 37 | 22 | 11 | 33 | 1.47 | 0.09 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 53 | 33 | 1 | 34 | 1.46 | 0.16 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 74 | 16.2 | 16 | 32.2 | 1.37 | 0.29 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM6 12 | 29.3 | 3 | 32.3 | 1.48 | 0.17 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM6 14 | 33 | 8 | 41 | 1.37 | 0.10 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM6 104 | 14 | 13 | 27 | 1.52 | 0.22 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM6 112 | 22 | 14 | 36 | 1.47 | 0.09 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
Additional confirmation drilling, known as 'twinning', is being undertaken in
order to upgrade the existing known deposit to JORC compliant resource status.
This work has already commenced and will be completed within two months. Over
the next 6 months, further exploration drilling will be completed to generate
detailed mining, water management and environmental plans for presentation to
the Department for Industry Mines and Energy New Caledonia (DIMENC) in Noumea,
for its approval.
Mr Downie said, 'The tenement area covered by the JV is highly prospective
beyond the previously drilled southern area and further resource verification
work will be conducted. The mining tenements are ideally located with close
access to deep water shipping channels.
'Our objective is to contribute to a sustainable, long term and mutually
respectful relationship with our local communities and partners', said Olivier
Pecqueux, GPNL's Director-General in New Caledonia. He added 'As Gladstone
completes the final processing of the ore in Australia there will be no
requirement for residue dams to be constructed in New Caledonia, which is a
distinct advantage for us in our environmental commitments'.
It is intended that the JV's environmental commitment will include a plan to
implement a revegetation strategy with the objective of re-establishing the
native plant ecosystem and preserving the diversity of the flora. Floral
inventories, species selection for reforestation, seed collection and
propagation will be commenced well before mining begins.
The JV agreement is structured on commercial terms with final details of the ore
pricing formula to be agreed within one month. All necessary approvals to mine
and GPNL's access to appropriate funding for the Gladstone Nickel Project are
key milestones associated with the success of the Project, failure of which
could result in the agreement ending. The JV will be funded by the parties in
proportion to their respective interests in the JV. Development expenditures, to
the extent not funded by external sources, would be funded in the same manner
unless the SMGM shareholders elect not to contribute their share, when GPNL must
contribute the shortfall. Any such shortfall is to be repaid in proportion to
amounts contributed
GPNL will seek the approval of its shareholders for the share issue provided for
in the JV agreement as soon as practicable.
For further information contact:
John Downie, Chief Executive Officer - Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd:
Tel: +61 7 3211 8899
Christopher Caldwell/ Joe Lunn - Insinger de Beaufort:
Tel: +44 207 190 7000
Simon Rothschild/Keith Irons - Bankside Consultants:
Tel: +44 207 367 8888
20 August 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
('GPNL' or 'the Company')
GPNL ESTABLISHES 49% MINING JOINT VENTURE & INTEREST IN SEVERAL MINING TENEMENTS
IN THE SOUTHEAST REGION OF NEW CALEDONIA
GPNL establishes a mining Joint Venture with the shareholders in
Societe Miniere Georges Montagnat ('SMGM') in New Caledonia.
GPNL will acquire a 49% interest in the Joint Venture that will own and
mine the tenements for US$5 million in cash and approximately 12 million shares
in GPNL issued to SMGM Shareholders.
The Joint Venture which will own the tenements in New Caledonia will
supply the laterite ore mined from them to GPNL's proposed High Pressure Acid
Leach ('HPAL') facility in Gladstone, Australia
GPNL is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement with SMGM and its
shareholders, which, once conditions precedent have been satisfied, will
establish an incorporated mining joint venture ('JV') in New Caledonia.
The agreement is conditional on the receipt of various approvals by 31 December
2007. These include all approvals required in connection with the proposed issue
of GPNL shares to the SMGM Shareholders and those approvals necessary for SMGM
to transfer the tenements to the JV Company. Four tenements in the region
currently owned by SMGM will be transferred to the JV in which GPNL (through its
wholly owned subsidiary Gladstone Nouvelle Caledonie SAS) will have a 49%
interest and SMGM shareholders will hold 51%. GPNL will pay a deposit of US$5
million immediately and issue, in about three years, approximately 12 million
shares to the SMGM shareholders, In the meantime GPNL will have a nominal
shareholding in the JV Company, and the right to appoint half the JV Company's
directors.
'SMGM, a highly regarded major New Caledonian mining company, has successfully
managed mining operations in New Caledonia since 1956 and has considerable
experience and an extensive mining fleet. GPNL is proud and very fortunate to be
associated with SMGM ', said CEO, John Downie.
'SMGM has mapped the southern area of the tenements and already drilled 229
diamond drill holes for a total of 5,728 m. Based on our internal review of the
data, we believe that a resource exists of a size and grade that would
significantly support GPNL's Gladstone Nickel Project for a period way in excess
of 20 years.', he added .
Historical results from some selected drill holes referred to above are provided
in the table below:
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|Drill Hole|Width (m) |Drill Hole |Drill Hole| Ni% | Co% |
| | |depth: From |depth: To | | |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 02 | 32.6 | 12 | 44.6 | 1.42 | 0.17 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 10 | 24 | 8 | 32 | 1.47 | 0.05 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 13 | 26 | 15 | 41 | 1.27 | 0.14 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 30 | 18 | 19 | 37 | 1.89 | 0.10 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 37 | 22 | 11 | 33 | 1.47 | 0.09 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 53 | 33 | 1 | 34 | 1.46 | 0.16 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM5 74 | 16.2 | 16 | 32.2 | 1.37 | 0.29 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM6 12 | 29.3 | 3 | 32.3 | 1.48 | 0.17 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM6 14 | 33 | 8 | 41 | 1.37 | 0.10 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM6 104 | 14 | 13 | 27 | 1.52 | 0.22 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
|SGM6 112 | 22 | 14 | 36 | 1.47 | 0.09 |
+----------+----------+------------+----------+-------------+-------------+
Additional confirmation drilling, known as 'twinning', is being undertaken in
order to upgrade the existing known deposit to JORC compliant resource status.
This work has already commenced and will be completed within two months. Over
the next 6 months, further exploration drilling will be completed to generate
detailed mining, water management and environmental plans for presentation to
the Department for Industry Mines and Energy New Caledonia (DIMENC) in Noumea,
for its approval.
Mr Downie said, 'The tenement area covered by the JV is highly prospective
beyond the previously drilled southern area and further resource verification
work will be conducted. The mining tenements are ideally located with close
access to deep water shipping channels.
'Our objective is to contribute to a sustainable, long term and mutually
respectful relationship with our local communities and partners', said Olivier
Pecqueux, GPNL's Director-General in New Caledonia. He added 'As Gladstone
completes the final processing of the ore in Australia there will be no
requirement for residue dams to be constructed in New Caledonia, which is a
distinct advantage for us in our environmental commitments'.
It is intended that the JV's environmental commitment will include a plan to
implement a revegetation strategy with the objective of re-establishing the
native plant ecosystem and preserving the diversity of the flora. Floral
inventories, species selection for reforestation, seed collection and
propagation will be commenced well before mining begins.
The JV agreement is structured on commercial terms with final details of the ore
pricing formula to be agreed within one month. All necessary approvals to mine
and GPNL's access to appropriate funding for the Gladstone Nickel Project are
key milestones associated with the success of the Project, failure of which
could result in the agreement ending. The JV will be funded by the parties in
proportion to their respective interests in the JV. Development expenditures, to
the extent not funded by external sources, would be funded in the same manner
unless the SMGM shareholders elect not to contribute their share, when GPNL must
contribute the shortfall. Any such shortfall is to be repaid in proportion to
amounts contributed
GPNL will seek the approval of its shareholders for the share issue provided for
in the JV agreement as soon as practicable.
For further information contact:
John Downie, Chief Executive Officer - Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd:
Tel: +61 7 3211 8899
Christopher Caldwell/ Joe Lunn - Insinger de Beaufort:
Tel: +44 207 190 7000
Simon Rothschild/Keith Irons - Bankside Consultants:
Tel: +44 207 367 8888
flash123 - 20 Aug 2007 12:23 - 26 of 107
interesting one this smiler not sure about it with the price of nickel taking a hit, may be a good long term bet?.
smiler o
- 20 Aug 2007 12:32
- 27 of 107
Agree flash, a safe ish bet long term, you may get a tic up on some news ?
smiler o
- 12 Sep 2007 09:59
- 28 of 107
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
12 September 2007
12 SEPTEMBER 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
Additional Listing
The Directors of Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited ('Gladstone' or 'the Company')
advise that they have allotted 1,161,800 ordinary shares in the Company to
Special Warrant Holders, in accordance with the terms of the Special Warrants
following the exercise of Special Warrants by investors who participated in the
US$40 million placing announced on 7 June 2007.
The new shares rank pari passu with the Company's issued ordinary shares. The
ordinary shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and application will
be made for the shares to be admitted for trading on AIM on September 18, 2007.
The shares are subject to a four-month lock-in period that expires on December
1, 2007 and cannot be traded on AIM or the Toronto Stock Exchange prior to that
expiry date.
As a result of this allotment the Company will have 39,490,646 ordinary shares
on issue.
For further information contact:
12 September 2007
12 SEPTEMBER 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
Additional Listing
The Directors of Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited ('Gladstone' or 'the Company')
advise that they have allotted 1,161,800 ordinary shares in the Company to
Special Warrant Holders, in accordance with the terms of the Special Warrants
following the exercise of Special Warrants by investors who participated in the
US$40 million placing announced on 7 June 2007.
The new shares rank pari passu with the Company's issued ordinary shares. The
ordinary shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, and application will
be made for the shares to be admitted for trading on AIM on September 18, 2007.
The shares are subject to a four-month lock-in period that expires on December
1, 2007 and cannot be traded on AIM or the Toronto Stock Exchange prior to that
expiry date.
As a result of this allotment the Company will have 39,490,646 ordinary shares
on issue.
For further information contact:
smiler o
- 17 Sep 2007 11:52
- 29 of 107
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
17 September 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
('GPNL' or 'the Company')
GNPL ACHIEVES ANOTHER KEY MILESTONE SECURING LAND FOR THE GLADSTONE NICKEL
PROJECT
Gladstone Nickel Project Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GPNL, has
finalised an approximate A$33 million Land Purchase Agreement ('Agreement') with
the Queensland Government's Minister for Industrial Development which secures
the land required for the Company's proposed Gladstone Nickel Project.
The Agreement is conditional on the Company meeting several requirements
including securing sufficient debt and equity to fund the Project's development.
A deposit of 5% of the total land value has been provided to the Vendor. This
deposit is refundable if the conditions of the Contract have not been met.
The land comprises approximately:
200 hectares, secured for the proposed nickel refinery and associated
facilities, and
1800 hectares, secured for residue storage requirements.
Both sites are located in the Gladstone State Development Area (GSDA). The GSDA
was established as an initiative of the Queensland Government to secure a
precinct with ready access to a deep water port to cater for large-scale,
industrial development.
The combined land package provides sufficient area to support both Stages 1 and
2 in terms of residue disposal capacity, sufficient space for the proposed Stage
1 nickel refinery (60,000 tonnes of nickel per annum) and any future expansions
to increase capacity as the nickel market dictates.
John Downie, GPNL's CEO said: 'Securing sufficient land for both Stages 1 and 2
of the Project is an important milestone for Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd. It
provides us with a higher level of certainty and confidence in the future of the
world-class nickel project we are developing in Queensland.'
'The Gladstone region brings some strategic benefits for our project including
sufficient industrial land for development, and a history of support for other
large projects associated with both the minerals and chemicals industries.'
For further information contact:
John Downie, Chief Executive Officer - Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd:
Tel: +61 7 3211 8899
Christopher Caldwell/ Joe Lunn - Insinger de Beaufort:
Tel: +44 207 190 7000
Simon Rothschild/Keith Irons - Bankside Consultants:
Tel: +44 207 367 8888
17 September 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED (ACN 104 261 887)
('GPNL' or 'the Company')
GNPL ACHIEVES ANOTHER KEY MILESTONE SECURING LAND FOR THE GLADSTONE NICKEL
PROJECT
Gladstone Nickel Project Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GPNL, has
finalised an approximate A$33 million Land Purchase Agreement ('Agreement') with
the Queensland Government's Minister for Industrial Development which secures
the land required for the Company's proposed Gladstone Nickel Project.
The Agreement is conditional on the Company meeting several requirements
including securing sufficient debt and equity to fund the Project's development.
A deposit of 5% of the total land value has been provided to the Vendor. This
deposit is refundable if the conditions of the Contract have not been met.
The land comprises approximately:
200 hectares, secured for the proposed nickel refinery and associated
facilities, and
1800 hectares, secured for residue storage requirements.
Both sites are located in the Gladstone State Development Area (GSDA). The GSDA
was established as an initiative of the Queensland Government to secure a
precinct with ready access to a deep water port to cater for large-scale,
industrial development.
The combined land package provides sufficient area to support both Stages 1 and
2 in terms of residue disposal capacity, sufficient space for the proposed Stage
1 nickel refinery (60,000 tonnes of nickel per annum) and any future expansions
to increase capacity as the nickel market dictates.
John Downie, GPNL's CEO said: 'Securing sufficient land for both Stages 1 and 2
of the Project is an important milestone for Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd. It
provides us with a higher level of certainty and confidence in the future of the
world-class nickel project we are developing in Queensland.'
'The Gladstone region brings some strategic benefits for our project including
sufficient industrial land for development, and a history of support for other
large projects associated with both the minerals and chemicals industries.'
For further information contact:
John Downie, Chief Executive Officer - Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd:
Tel: +61 7 3211 8899
Christopher Caldwell/ Joe Lunn - Insinger de Beaufort:
Tel: +44 207 190 7000
Simon Rothschild/Keith Irons - Bankside Consultants:
Tel: +44 207 367 8888
smiler o
- 25 Sep 2007 14:47
- 30 of 107
Of Interest :
Big Nickel - BHP's mines in the West
September 24, 2007
BHP Billiton's chief executive, Chip Goodyear, is fond of pointing out that the ability to move dirt - and lots of it - is one of his company's key competitive advantages.
It is therefore fitting that the world's largest mining company operates the world's largest open-pit nickel mine, which in turn is part of the world's third-largest nickel business.
The dimensions of BHP's Mount Keith nickel mine, 720 kilometres north-east of Perth, are appropriately jaw-dropping.
The mine is 2.4 kilometres long and 1.4 kilometres wide, and its pit is 300 metres deep. Given the low but consistent grade of the ore, it is necessary to mine 150 kilograms of material to eventually produce an 80-gram nickel briquette the size of a large marble.
In May, a single briquette would have been worth more than $US4, given the price of nickel had risen to a record $US54,000 a tonne. But a steep fall in the nickel price in recent months - the commodity was worth $US31,975 a tonne on the London Metal Exchange on Friday - means the price of a briquette has fallen to $US2.70 as nickel stocks have risen.
BHP doesn't appear to be overly concerned about the recent price fall, and for good reason.
At the time of its $9.2 billion purchase of WMC Resources - the previous owner of Mount Keith and BHP's other nickel sulphide operations in Western Australia - nickel was trading at about $US16,000 a tonne. BHP earned a record $US3.7 billion ($4.3 billion) before interest and tax from its nickel division last year, compared to $US901 million the previous year, but the figure could fall this year along with the nickel price.
"The market has big variations; it is volatile," Marcelo Bastos, the president of BHP's WA nickel operations, noted last week. "I would like to have a crystal ball."
UBS resource analysts may not have a crystal ball either, but in a recent report they predicted the nickel price could rebound during the second half of the year as stainless steel producers restock the raw material. About 65 per cent of nickel production is sold to stainless steel makers.
Merrill Lynch has expressed a similar sentiment.
"Whilst we are looking for a small fourth-quarter rebound in nickel prices, it really is a story of sustainable high prices around current levels, as opposed to further price appreciation," the analyst Vicky Binns said earlier this month, advising clients to go "long" on nickel.
Over the longer term, UBS expects nickel to trade at $US15,400 a tonne - much higher than old long-term prices - since producers are being forced to process more difficult laterite ore bodies as sulphide mines such as Mount Keith are depleted.
BHP has helped accelerate the growing laterite trend. It already processes laterite at its Yabulu refinery in Queensland, gained through its merger with Billiton, but its laterite production will increase substantially when its $2.2 billion Ravensthorpe laterite mine near Esperance starts production next year. The project, plagued by delays and massive cost blowouts, will eventually produce about 50,000 tonnes of nickel a year - after an extended ramp-up period.
Meanwhile, BHP is also considering potential expansion of its sulphide operations. In Western Australia, it owns three nickel concentrators. Two of the concentrators are filled with material from its own mines at Mount Keith and Leinster, whereas the Kambalda concentrator receives third-party ore from smaller miners such as Mincor, Independence Group and Consolidated Minerals. Once the nickel is concentrated into a higher-grade product, it is transported to BHP's Kalgoorlie smelter to be turned into nickel matte. Nickel matte contains about 68 per cent nickel, 2 to 3 per cent copper and 1 per cent cobalt.
About one-third of the matte is sold directly to customers, but the other two-thirds is sent to BHP's nickel refinery in Kwinana, about 30 kilometres south of Perth. At Kwinana, the matte is transformed into briquettes containing more than 99 per cent nickel before being shipped to steel makers and other customers.
During a site visit, Kwinana's general manager, Brett Swayn, said the price BHP received for briquettes was about 15 per cent higher than the price it received for matte. At the moment, BHP sells about 35,000 to 45,000 tonnes of matte and 65,000 tonnes of briquettes. The company might therefore consider expanding Kwinana's capacity to 100,000 tonnes - giving it the ability to process almost all of its matte - if it found that option could lead to superior returns.
"We do have optionality there, but it becomes an economic decision at the end of the day," Swayn said.
Expanding the Kalgoorlie smelter - already the world's second-largest - is expected to happen at a more incremental rate. Simon Hay, the smelter's acting general manager, said BHP's strategy was to gain access to as much concentrate as possible and then to try to increase the smelter's capacity to accommodate the concentrate. Any extra concentrate could be sold into a very tight market to overseas customers.
BHP increased its access to some premium nickel concentrate recently when it signed a one-year offtake agreement with Jubilee Mines, replacing CVRD Inco as the purchaser of the WA miner's product. The first concentrate from Jubilee's high-grade Cosmos mine entered the smelter last week, in what Hay deemed "a really big positive for us".
Jubilee's concentrate is prized because, when blended, its high iron content helps offset some of the impurities in BHP's Mount Keith ore. Therefore, several analysts have suggested it might make sense for BHP to purchase Jubilee at some point. But BHP could have competition from Russia's Norilsk Nickel, which has become a key player on the WA nickel scene since its $C6.8 billion ($7.8 billion) purchase of Canada's LionOre Mining earlier this year.
"Mergers and acquisitions is always part of the plan," Bastos, the WA nickel president, said. "Obviously we are more focused on exploration. That is cheaper and more efficient, but we are in the market [for acquisitions]."
As part of BHP's increased emphasis on exploration, it plans to spend an unprecedented $US120 million hunting for more nickel near its existing WA operations over the next three years. Bastos said the company was also "constantly reviewing" the prospects of its Yakabindie deposit near Mount Keith and Leinster. Once touted as a major discovery by WMC, a pre-feasibility study was completed on the large, low-grade deposit, but its development has been deferred due in part to the heated WA labour market. "It's still a good project for us, but not a priority," Mount Keith's general manager, Adriano Espeschit, said.
The Yakabindie ore is a similar grade to Mount Keith but higher in talc, which is an impurity. Instead, BHP has focused on expanding its higher-grade Leinster operations.
As Credit Suisse noted last month, BHP's incoming chief executive, Marius Kloppers, has deemed nickel production growth a key plank of its plan to increase overall growth by 9 per cent a year until 2015.
And Bastos noted Chinese consumption - which Merrill Lynch predicts will rise 54 per cent this year - is unlikely to fall any time soon.
The reporter travelled to BHP's WA nickel operations courtesy of the company.
Big Nickel - BHP's mines in the West
September 24, 2007
BHP Billiton's chief executive, Chip Goodyear, is fond of pointing out that the ability to move dirt - and lots of it - is one of his company's key competitive advantages.
It is therefore fitting that the world's largest mining company operates the world's largest open-pit nickel mine, which in turn is part of the world's third-largest nickel business.
The dimensions of BHP's Mount Keith nickel mine, 720 kilometres north-east of Perth, are appropriately jaw-dropping.
The mine is 2.4 kilometres long and 1.4 kilometres wide, and its pit is 300 metres deep. Given the low but consistent grade of the ore, it is necessary to mine 150 kilograms of material to eventually produce an 80-gram nickel briquette the size of a large marble.
In May, a single briquette would have been worth more than $US4, given the price of nickel had risen to a record $US54,000 a tonne. But a steep fall in the nickel price in recent months - the commodity was worth $US31,975 a tonne on the London Metal Exchange on Friday - means the price of a briquette has fallen to $US2.70 as nickel stocks have risen.
BHP doesn't appear to be overly concerned about the recent price fall, and for good reason.
At the time of its $9.2 billion purchase of WMC Resources - the previous owner of Mount Keith and BHP's other nickel sulphide operations in Western Australia - nickel was trading at about $US16,000 a tonne. BHP earned a record $US3.7 billion ($4.3 billion) before interest and tax from its nickel division last year, compared to $US901 million the previous year, but the figure could fall this year along with the nickel price.
"The market has big variations; it is volatile," Marcelo Bastos, the president of BHP's WA nickel operations, noted last week. "I would like to have a crystal ball."
UBS resource analysts may not have a crystal ball either, but in a recent report they predicted the nickel price could rebound during the second half of the year as stainless steel producers restock the raw material. About 65 per cent of nickel production is sold to stainless steel makers.
Merrill Lynch has expressed a similar sentiment.
"Whilst we are looking for a small fourth-quarter rebound in nickel prices, it really is a story of sustainable high prices around current levels, as opposed to further price appreciation," the analyst Vicky Binns said earlier this month, advising clients to go "long" on nickel.
Over the longer term, UBS expects nickel to trade at $US15,400 a tonne - much higher than old long-term prices - since producers are being forced to process more difficult laterite ore bodies as sulphide mines such as Mount Keith are depleted.
BHP has helped accelerate the growing laterite trend. It already processes laterite at its Yabulu refinery in Queensland, gained through its merger with Billiton, but its laterite production will increase substantially when its $2.2 billion Ravensthorpe laterite mine near Esperance starts production next year. The project, plagued by delays and massive cost blowouts, will eventually produce about 50,000 tonnes of nickel a year - after an extended ramp-up period.
Meanwhile, BHP is also considering potential expansion of its sulphide operations. In Western Australia, it owns three nickel concentrators. Two of the concentrators are filled with material from its own mines at Mount Keith and Leinster, whereas the Kambalda concentrator receives third-party ore from smaller miners such as Mincor, Independence Group and Consolidated Minerals. Once the nickel is concentrated into a higher-grade product, it is transported to BHP's Kalgoorlie smelter to be turned into nickel matte. Nickel matte contains about 68 per cent nickel, 2 to 3 per cent copper and 1 per cent cobalt.
About one-third of the matte is sold directly to customers, but the other two-thirds is sent to BHP's nickel refinery in Kwinana, about 30 kilometres south of Perth. At Kwinana, the matte is transformed into briquettes containing more than 99 per cent nickel before being shipped to steel makers and other customers.
During a site visit, Kwinana's general manager, Brett Swayn, said the price BHP received for briquettes was about 15 per cent higher than the price it received for matte. At the moment, BHP sells about 35,000 to 45,000 tonnes of matte and 65,000 tonnes of briquettes. The company might therefore consider expanding Kwinana's capacity to 100,000 tonnes - giving it the ability to process almost all of its matte - if it found that option could lead to superior returns.
"We do have optionality there, but it becomes an economic decision at the end of the day," Swayn said.
Expanding the Kalgoorlie smelter - already the world's second-largest - is expected to happen at a more incremental rate. Simon Hay, the smelter's acting general manager, said BHP's strategy was to gain access to as much concentrate as possible and then to try to increase the smelter's capacity to accommodate the concentrate. Any extra concentrate could be sold into a very tight market to overseas customers.
BHP increased its access to some premium nickel concentrate recently when it signed a one-year offtake agreement with Jubilee Mines, replacing CVRD Inco as the purchaser of the WA miner's product. The first concentrate from Jubilee's high-grade Cosmos mine entered the smelter last week, in what Hay deemed "a really big positive for us".
Jubilee's concentrate is prized because, when blended, its high iron content helps offset some of the impurities in BHP's Mount Keith ore. Therefore, several analysts have suggested it might make sense for BHP to purchase Jubilee at some point. But BHP could have competition from Russia's Norilsk Nickel, which has become a key player on the WA nickel scene since its $C6.8 billion ($7.8 billion) purchase of Canada's LionOre Mining earlier this year.
"Mergers and acquisitions is always part of the plan," Bastos, the WA nickel president, said. "Obviously we are more focused on exploration. That is cheaper and more efficient, but we are in the market [for acquisitions]."
As part of BHP's increased emphasis on exploration, it plans to spend an unprecedented $US120 million hunting for more nickel near its existing WA operations over the next three years. Bastos said the company was also "constantly reviewing" the prospects of its Yakabindie deposit near Mount Keith and Leinster. Once touted as a major discovery by WMC, a pre-feasibility study was completed on the large, low-grade deposit, but its development has been deferred due in part to the heated WA labour market. "It's still a good project for us, but not a priority," Mount Keith's general manager, Adriano Espeschit, said.
The Yakabindie ore is a similar grade to Mount Keith but higher in talc, which is an impurity. Instead, BHP has focused on expanding its higher-grade Leinster operations.
As Credit Suisse noted last month, BHP's incoming chief executive, Marius Kloppers, has deemed nickel production growth a key plank of its plan to increase overall growth by 9 per cent a year until 2015.
And Bastos noted Chinese consumption - which Merrill Lynch predicts will rise 54 per cent this year - is unlikely to fall any time soon.
The reporter travelled to BHP's WA nickel operations courtesy of the company.
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Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
09 October 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED
(ACN 104 261 887)
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2007
CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT and CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S REVIEW
The past year was a significant one for the Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd
('GPNL') Project. A number of critical milestones have been completed and
agreements concluded to secure substantial additional offshore ore supplies. As
such the project, is now poised for the next implementation phase. The
achievement of these goals is the result of a dedicated team of personnel and
consultants lead by the new CEO, John Downie, who has achieved an enormous
amount since he started early this year.
During the year the nickel market price continued to rise to unprecedented highs
(+US$24/lb). Major socio-economic development taking place in the significant
economies of China and India, as well as the increasing investment in
infrastructure in countries such as Russia, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Brazil
and Indonesia will help to provide a platform for the growth in demand for
metals. Supply shortages in the nickel business and forecasts of continued
increases in price and demand for the metal in both traditional and new uses are
driving the industry pipeline for major capital expansion.
Our strategy is unique, creating value from our own Marlborough ore deposits as
well as ore from second tier deposits in the various Islands in the Pacific.
These ore bodies would otherwise be too small to justify a standalone processing
plant in their own right, for the benefit of the owners, communities,
governments and international nickel markets. With our refinery located in the
Queensland Government's designated regional industrial zone at the Gladstone
deep water port, the Project will be able to import ores, process them into
high-grade metal product and dispose of process residues in an
environmentally-safe storage facility. This approach offers those Pacific
Island nations a long-term, low impact environmental solution and significant
incremental social benefits. Additionally, pre-approved Australian
environmental permits will provide GPNL shareholders with a shortened delivery
time to nickel metal revenue and a repeatable model for growth.
Significant progress was also made this past year in the areas of handling and
processing of ore. This is in preparation for the implementation phase of the
GPN project. Our thanks go to Gavin Becker, Project Manager, and his energetic
team in achieving the goals set in the timeframes allowed.
Your company has continued to act responsibly in relation to environmental,
community and societal obligations.
- The Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) has completed the public display
and review stages in relation to Stages 1 and 2 of the processing and
refinery development and Supplementary EIS work is underway to reinforce
and clarify aspects of our plans and ensure GPNL's responsible interaction
with the Gladstone community;
- Relationships have been built, respected and managed with the traditional
land owners of the site of the Marlborough resource. An Indigenous Land Use
Agreement has been signed and registered by the National Native Title
Tribunal;
- Gladstone Nouvelle Caledonie (GNC) has developed and communicated to the
community our social commitments, focussing on opportunities relating to
legacy and long term relationships
- A Village Awareness Management Program was undertaken and successfully
completed in regard to our Solomon Island activities.
The plant's location at Gladstone provides unique opportunities for synergies
with other adjacent major industrial facilities, including co-disposal of acidic
residues with alkaline red mud produced in the vicinity and as such is a
springboard for growth. Further expansion of Rio's Gladstone Alumina refinery is
well underway and other industry developments such as the massive Santos coal
seam gas conversion plant are proposed for the area. The size and scale of
Stage 1 of the GPNL Project is consistent with the technical and economic scale
currently in favour within the industry.
The estimated capital cost of the Project, whilst having increased, benchmarks
well against similar projects in the industry. The capital cost is readily
supported by a better understanding of the value of the business given high
quality ore supplies and an improved long term view of the nickel price. The
Project offers sufficient cash flow to support an optimized financing structure
and excellent returns at manageable risk to shareholders and equity partners.
There is great upside potential as the market for lower grade laterites develops
and adequate quantities of suitable materials are identified to support two- or
four-fold expansion of the Gladstone refinery complex
09 October 2007
GLADSTONE PACIFIC NICKEL LIMITED
(ACN 104 261 887)
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2007
CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT and CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S REVIEW
The past year was a significant one for the Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd
('GPNL') Project. A number of critical milestones have been completed and
agreements concluded to secure substantial additional offshore ore supplies. As
such the project, is now poised for the next implementation phase. The
achievement of these goals is the result of a dedicated team of personnel and
consultants lead by the new CEO, John Downie, who has achieved an enormous
amount since he started early this year.
During the year the nickel market price continued to rise to unprecedented highs
(+US$24/lb). Major socio-economic development taking place in the significant
economies of China and India, as well as the increasing investment in
infrastructure in countries such as Russia, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Brazil
and Indonesia will help to provide a platform for the growth in demand for
metals. Supply shortages in the nickel business and forecasts of continued
increases in price and demand for the metal in both traditional and new uses are
driving the industry pipeline for major capital expansion.
Our strategy is unique, creating value from our own Marlborough ore deposits as
well as ore from second tier deposits in the various Islands in the Pacific.
These ore bodies would otherwise be too small to justify a standalone processing
plant in their own right, for the benefit of the owners, communities,
governments and international nickel markets. With our refinery located in the
Queensland Government's designated regional industrial zone at the Gladstone
deep water port, the Project will be able to import ores, process them into
high-grade metal product and dispose of process residues in an
environmentally-safe storage facility. This approach offers those Pacific
Island nations a long-term, low impact environmental solution and significant
incremental social benefits. Additionally, pre-approved Australian
environmental permits will provide GPNL shareholders with a shortened delivery
time to nickel metal revenue and a repeatable model for growth.
Significant progress was also made this past year in the areas of handling and
processing of ore. This is in preparation for the implementation phase of the
GPN project. Our thanks go to Gavin Becker, Project Manager, and his energetic
team in achieving the goals set in the timeframes allowed.
Your company has continued to act responsibly in relation to environmental,
community and societal obligations.
- The Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) has completed the public display
and review stages in relation to Stages 1 and 2 of the processing and
refinery development and Supplementary EIS work is underway to reinforce
and clarify aspects of our plans and ensure GPNL's responsible interaction
with the Gladstone community;
- Relationships have been built, respected and managed with the traditional
land owners of the site of the Marlborough resource. An Indigenous Land Use
Agreement has been signed and registered by the National Native Title
Tribunal;
- Gladstone Nouvelle Caledonie (GNC) has developed and communicated to the
community our social commitments, focussing on opportunities relating to
legacy and long term relationships
- A Village Awareness Management Program was undertaken and successfully
completed in regard to our Solomon Island activities.
The plant's location at Gladstone provides unique opportunities for synergies
with other adjacent major industrial facilities, including co-disposal of acidic
residues with alkaline red mud produced in the vicinity and as such is a
springboard for growth. Further expansion of Rio's Gladstone Alumina refinery is
well underway and other industry developments such as the massive Santos coal
seam gas conversion plant are proposed for the area. The size and scale of
Stage 1 of the GPNL Project is consistent with the technical and economic scale
currently in favour within the industry.
The estimated capital cost of the Project, whilst having increased, benchmarks
well against similar projects in the industry. The capital cost is readily
supported by a better understanding of the value of the business given high
quality ore supplies and an improved long term view of the nickel price. The
Project offers sufficient cash flow to support an optimized financing structure
and excellent returns at manageable risk to shareholders and equity partners.
There is great upside potential as the market for lower grade laterites develops
and adequate quantities of suitable materials are identified to support two- or
four-fold expansion of the Gladstone refinery complex
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- 26 Oct 2007 08:11
- 32 of 107
Gladstone ups cost estimate for Gladstone Nickel Project to 3.4 bln usd UPDATE
AFX
(Adds details)
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd said the estimated cost of carrying out Stage 1 of its Gladstone Nickel Project has been raised to 3.4 bln usd, according to a feasibility study.
The previous capital cost estimate of 2.8 bln usd, announced in the company's December 2006 half yearly report, has been increased to take into account foreign exchange movements and escalation rates over the past year.
The feasibility study estimates cash operating cost of 2.19 usd per pound of nickel, net of by-product credits, at full production of 63,000 tonnes of nickel and 6,200 tonnes of cobalt a year, a slight increase from previously announced tonnages.
Gladstone Pacific plans to build the world's largest nickel and cobalt refining centre, treating South West Pacific nickel laterite ores at its site in Queensland, Australia.
Stage 2 of the project is looking to increase production to about 120,000 tonnes a year of nickel and 10,000 tonnes of cobalt.
julie.crust@thomson.com
jc
COPYRIGHT
AFX
(Adds details)
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Gladstone Pacific Nickel Ltd said the estimated cost of carrying out Stage 1 of its Gladstone Nickel Project has been raised to 3.4 bln usd, according to a feasibility study.
The previous capital cost estimate of 2.8 bln usd, announced in the company's December 2006 half yearly report, has been increased to take into account foreign exchange movements and escalation rates over the past year.
The feasibility study estimates cash operating cost of 2.19 usd per pound of nickel, net of by-product credits, at full production of 63,000 tonnes of nickel and 6,200 tonnes of cobalt a year, a slight increase from previously announced tonnages.
Gladstone Pacific plans to build the world's largest nickel and cobalt refining centre, treating South West Pacific nickel laterite ores at its site in Queensland, Australia.
Stage 2 of the project is looking to increase production to about 120,000 tonnes a year of nickel and 10,000 tonnes of cobalt.
julie.crust@thomson.com
jc
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- 29 Oct 2007 12:57
- 33 of 107
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited
29 October 2007
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited ACN 104 261 887
(the 'Company')
Annual Report and Annual General Meeting
The Company is pleased to announce that its Annual Report for the year ended
30 June 2007 and the Notice of Annual General have been posted to shareholders.
The Company's Annual General Meeting will take place at 8.00pm (AEST) on
22 November 2007 at the Company's offices in Brisbane. The Annual Report and the
Notice of Meeting will be available for viewing on the
Company's website:
29 October 2007
Gladstone Pacific Nickel Limited ACN 104 261 887
(the 'Company')
Annual Report and Annual General Meeting
The Company is pleased to announce that its Annual Report for the year ended
30 June 2007 and the Notice of Annual General have been posted to shareholders.
The Company's Annual General Meeting will take place at 8.00pm (AEST) on
22 November 2007 at the Company's offices in Brisbane. The Annual Report and the
Notice of Meeting will be available for viewing on the
Company's website:
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