Chinese language big Zijin paying $35m to Xanadu Mines to fund copper-gold mine feasibility research

Smallcap copper-gold explorer working in Mongolia, Xanadu Mines (ASX:XAM), on Wednesday additional outlined its relationship with Chinese language mining big Zijin. 

The latter will fund Xanadu’s PFS for its copper-gold mine initiatives overlaying the Purple Mountain and Kharmagati tenements respectively. The PFS will focus completely on Kharmagati. 

Xanadu will stay the operator of the venture till publication of the PFS, at which level Zijin is about to take over. 

The entire funding into the venture from Zijin is estimated at roughly $64m – some $12m into Xanadu shares and $51m into the Kharmagati venture. 

As a part of the deal, Zijin will turn into a 19.99% shareholder, a transfer authorised by Canberra again in August. Xanadu will concern 179.1m shares to this finish.

50:50 JV

As a part of the brand new funding association, Zijin and Xanadu will now flip the latter’s subsidiary entity Khuiten right into a 50:50 JV. 

Khuiten in flip holds an efficient 76.5% curiosity within the Kharmagati venture, which suggests Zijin will successfully be capable to enhance its stake even additional. 

An additional 13.5% is held by an government director of Xanadu, Ganbayar Lkhagvasuren. The opposite 10% is held by an entity referred to as QGX Restricted. 

Xanadu eyeing a potential exit 

As soon as the PFS for Kharmagati is printed, Xanadu can have three choices: 

• Stay on board and fund its share of the venture 

• Promote 25% of the JV to Zijin for US$25m, with an obligation for Zijin to supply Xanadu a mortgage permitting it to cowl the share of building prices repayable in dividends 

• Promote Xanadu’s 50% of the Kharmagati JV to Zijin for US$50m, permitting Xanadu to exit 

Zijin requires Xanadu to publish a JORC-compliant useful resource within the PFS and exhibit a mine lifetime of no less than 20 years. 

The inner price of return should even be no less than 20% and the payback interval, ambitiously, should be lower than six years. 

Administration factors to long-term relationship

Regardless of this, administration is bullish on the information. 

“We’re happy to have finalised these agreements, reaching a mutually useful, long run partnership with Zijin,” Xanadu chief Colin Moorhead mentioned. 

“The deal construction permits us to ship worth for our shareholders sooner or later, no matter the prevailing market situations.”

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