Option to Acquire Sapphire Project, Australia (6592H)
2011年6月2日 - 3:00PM
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Tanzanite One Limited
02 June 2011
TanzaniteOne Limited
("TanzaniteOne" or "the Company") (AIM: TNZ)
Option to Acquire Sapphire Project, Australia
TanzaniteOne Limited ("TanzaniteOne" or the "Company") is
pleased to announce the continuation of its strategy to leverage
its position as a leading premium coloured gemstone producer to
diversify its gemstone portfolio, by entering into an option to
acquire an established Sapphire project (the "Project").
TanzaniteOne has entered into an option, for an upfront cash fee
of AUD$120,000 to acquire at its sole discretion, following
necessary and appropriate due diligence, an unencumbered 100%
ownership of the Project (the "Option Agreement"). Under the Option
Agreement, TanzaniteOne has an exclusivity period for a minimum of
three months and a maximum of six months to conduct its due
diligence.
The Sapphire Project
The Company can disclose the following information in relation
to the Project:
- it will comprise two mining leases covering around 490 Ha;
- has previously been partially mined and has produced
significant quantities of gemstone quality sapphire; and
- is situated in a known Sapphire field in Australia.
While under the exclusivity period of the Option Agreement, the
Company is, due to confidentiality conditions specified, unable to
disclose any further details of the Project at this stage.
The leases have been partially mined and delivered significant
quantities of sapphire. Further details of the Project will be
released on completion of due diligence including, the resource,
historical mining data and an evaluation of operational and sales
records. Some bulk sampling may be carried out during the due
diligence period. In addition, the scale of the commercial
operations will be modelled during the due diligence period.
Assets acquired and Conditions Precedent
The assets to be acquired comprise the mining licences, tangible
assets, completed exploration, operational and sales data over the
mining licence area. Exercise of the option is conditional upon the
mining licence(s) being granted.
The total consideration for the Project, if the Company elects
to proceed on completion of the due diligence will be cash of
AUD$1,200,000 and 18 million fully paid common shares in
TanzaniteOne, at the market price at the time of completion,
representing approximately 13.5% of the enlarged issued
capital.
Commenting on the acquisition, Bernard Olivier, CEO of
TanzaniteOne said: "As demonstrated by our return to profitability
and enhanced margins TanzaniteOne has become a highly effective
miner and marketer of coloured gemstones. We are delighted to have
secured an option over the Project as it fits into our
diversification strategy by expanding into a new coloured gemstone
through a project where we can rapidly implement advanced mining
and recovery techniques. Our growth strategy is to leverage our
extensive coloured gemstone mining, distribution and marketing
infrastructure to maximise value of the asset."
Diversification Strategy
TanzaniteOne is the largest and most scientifically advanced
miner and supplier of rough tanzanite, a unique position that
affords it the opportunity to support and influence the entire
channel, from mine to market, ensuring that maximum stakeholder
value is achieved at each stage of the process. The strategic move
to new premium coloured gemstones commenced with a move into
tsavorite, a brilliant green gemstone found in Tanzania with a
remarkably similar geology to tanzanite, yet enjoying a current
price per carat of approximately three times that of tanzanite.
Sapphire enjoys a current quality-for-quality market price per
carat significantly higher than that of tanzanite
Sapphire
Sapphire is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum an
aluminium oxide (<ALPHA>-Al(2) 0(3) ), when it is a colour
other than red or dark pink; in which case the gem would instead be
called a ruby, considered to be a different gemstone. Trace amounts
of other elements such as iron, titanium, or chromium can give
corundum blue, yellow, pink, purple, orange, or greenish colour.
Pink-orange sapphires are also called padparadscha. Sapphires are
mined from alluvial deposits or from primary underground workings.
Sapphire is not only highly transparent to wavelengths of light
between 170 nm (UV) and 5.3 <MU>m (IR) (the human eye can
discern wavelengths from about 380 nm to 750 nm), but it is also
five times stronger than glass and ranks a 9 on the Mohs Scale.
Sapphire enjoys a current quality-for-quality market-price per
carat significantly higher than that of tanzanite. Because of the
remarkable hardness of sapphires (and of aluminium oxide in
general), sapphires are used in some non-ornamental applications,
including infrared optical components, such as in scientific
instruments; high-durability windows (also used in scientific
instruments); wristwatch crystals; and very thin electronic wafers,
which are used as the insulating substrates of very special-purpose
solid state electronics (most of which are integrated
circuits).
For more information please contact:
Willi Boehm
Company Secretary
+61(0) 409 969 955
Bernard Olivier
Chief Executive Officer
+61(0) 4089 48182
Nominated Advisor & Broker (AIM)
Ambrian Partners Limited
Samantha Harrison/Jen Boorer
+44 (0) 20 7634 4700
Joint Broker XCAP Securities PLC
John Grant/Jon Belliss/David Newton
+44 (0) 20 7101 7070
Threadneedle Communications
Laurence Read/Beth Harris
+44 (0)20 7653 9855
+44 (0)7979 955 923
This information is provided by RNS
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