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Shanta inks $20m Stanbic loan, lifts New Luika production by 45 pct

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14/06/2022
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Shanta inks $20m Stanbic loan, lifts New Luika production by 45 pct
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East Africa-focused gold producer, developer and explorer Shanta Gold has signed binding definitive documents with Stanbic Bank Tanzania for a $20-million loan facility to accelerate the growth of the company’s portfolio.

Stanbic Bank Tanzania Head Office in Dar es Salaam. Shanta Gold has signed binding definitive documents with Stanbic Bank Tanzania for a $20-million loan facility to accelerate the growth of the company’s portfolio. Photo courtesy of the internet

Shanta CEO Eric Zurrin says the signing of the four-year $20-million facility is a significant step for Shanta, as it will enable the company to accelerate growth across the wider portfolio, specifically at the Singida project where Shanta is now fully funded, as the company looks to reach its target of becoming a more than 100 000 oz/y gold producer in Tanzania.

The Singida project capital expenditure is fully funded into positive cash flow, while Singida is scheduled for the first gold pour in the first quarter of 2023.

The loan facility, with a one-year capital grace period, requires 12 equal capital repayments following the end of the capital grace period with no early repayment penalties.

The facility offers gold price protection covering 16 000 oz over the next 12 months, representing about 2% of Shanta’s total gold reserves and about 20% of the next 12 months of production.

A range of hedging alternatives is also being considered.

The facility is secured over the business assets of Shanta Gold’s Tanzanian subsidiary – Shanta Mining Company Limited (SMCL), and a pledge over the company’s shares in SMCL.

“The loan facility increases our financial flexibility to demonstrate the significant value of our assets. Combined post-tax net present value from our growth projects at Singida and West Kenya alone is in excess of $450-million, with New Luika gold mine (NLGM)  increasing that to well over half-a-billion dollars of NPV,” he says.

NEW LUIKA

Meanwhile, Shanta forecasts that its Tanzania-based NLGM is expected to produce about 45% more gold in the second quarter, when compared with the first quarter of this year.

In the first full month of mining the Crown Pillar, May has seen gold production of 6 354 oz – the highest monthly production level in over 12 months.

“At NLGM . . . we have seen the strongest level of output in over 12 months, we [are] confident that the task of reaching that +100 000 oz target by [the first quarter of] 2023 has been significantly de-risked,” says Zurrin.

Not only was NLGM’s gold production in May at the highest level in over 12 months, but monthly gold production is expected to be in excess of this level in the near term, Shanta reports.

This serves to underpin Shanta’s confidence in its reiterated 2022 financial year production guidance of between 68 000 oz and 76 000 oz.

Source: Mining Weekly

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