Developer Tietto Minerals is fully funded through to gold production in CY2022 at its 88%-owned Abujar project in Côte d’Ivoire with completion of a heavily oversubscribed $A85M placement, complementing up to $US140M debt funding from Taurus Mining Finance Fund No2.
The placement, at $A0.39 per share, includes a material investment by one of China’s largest gold miners, Zhaojin Mining.
Tietto’s DFS last month outlined a $US200M preproduction capital openpit project delivering 155,000ozpa at $832/oz over 11 years.
As part of the placement, board members Caigen Wang, Paul Kitto, Francis Harper and Mark Strizek sold 6M shares to fund the exercise of options.