$7.75M Secured in Institutional Backed Raise
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ASX Announcement
16 May 2025
$7.75M equity raising to accelerate exploration at Drake &
Thomson Gold-Copper-Silver Projects
Proceeds to underpin accelerated drilling and exploration across two strategically located
projects to deliver growth in scale and unlock substantial regional potential
Legacy Mineral Holdings Limited (ASX: LGM, Legacy Minerals, or the Company) is pleased to announce
that it has successfully completed a A$7.75 million placement.
Highlights
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Binding commitments received to raise A$7.75 million at an issue price of $0.18 per share.
(Placement)
Placement was significantly upsized following strong support from specialist global resources
investors.
Following completion, Legacy Minerals will have approximately A$9 million to support expansive
exploration and drilling programs at the strategically located Drake and Thomson Projects, to test
recently identified targets and accelerate exploration activities.
Drilling underway at the Thomson Project, with the Drake Project drilling expected to commence
in Q3-Q4 in parallel with the further drilling campaigns planned at the Thomson.
Company is well-funded to deliver on the exploration strategy
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Proceeds raised pursuant to the Placement, together with existing cash reserves, position LGM to
fund the following exploration activities:
1. Expansion of Thomson Project drilling;
2. Drake Project drill targeting of high-priority near mine and regional targets;
3. Drake Project Stage 2 Scoping Study; and
4. Low-cost generative exploration and working capital.
Thomson Drilling and Near-Term News
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A diamond drill rig is on site at Thomson targeting a large, intrusion-related gold target across the
belt-scale Project.
The Drake Airborne Magneto-Telluric survey is complete, with interpretation underway.
Drake Drilling
o Brownfield and greenfield drilling targeting gold, silver, and copper.
Drake Stage 2 Scoping Study
o This study will expand the Stage 1 Study, leveraging the planned drilling and exploration
upside to the robust financials delivered from the Stage 1 Study.
Management comment - Legacy Minerals CEO & Managing Director, Christopher Byrne said:
“This large, institutional-led raise sets a strong foundation for the aggressive exploration program
across the Legacy Minerals Portfolio. We are pleased to welcome several new shareholders and thank
them and our existing shareholders for supporting the Company.
Securing $7.75 million is a strong validation of the Legacy Minerals strategy and the prospectivity of
its flagship projects Thomson and Drake. It also supports the wider, discovery focused value from the
Company’s project generation and joint-venture projects in the including those with earn-in partners
Newmont, Earth AI, and S2 Resources”.
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Placement
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Legacy Minerals has secured binding commitments to raise A$7,750,000 at a share issue price of
$0.18 each with 43.1 million ordinary fully paid shares (New Shares) being issued to professional
and sophisticated investors.
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The Placement will comprise two tranches. Tranche 1 Shares (31.1 million) will be issued under
the capacity of Listing Rules 7.1 and 7.1A, with Tranche 2 Shares (12.0 million) and all the attaching
options (Tranche 1 and Tranche 2) to be approved by shareholders at a general meeting (General
Meeting).
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Participants in the Placement will receive an aggregate of 21.5 million attaching options issued for
no additional consideration on the basis of 1 new option for 2 New Shares. The options will be
exercisable at $0.30 on or before the date that is two years from the date of issue (New Options).
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The New Share issue price of $0.18 represents a 16.3% discount to the last share price ($0.215)
and a 18.4% discount to the 10-day volume weighted average share price (VWAP) ($0.221), and a
22.3% discount to the 15-day VWAP ($0.232).
Tranche 1
Tranche 1 New Shares issued in the Placement will be issued pursuant to the Company’s existing
placement capacity under ASX Listing Rules 7.1 and 7.1A. Capacity under 7.1 and 7.1A is respectively
18,739,606 Equity Securities and 12,493,070 New Shares.
Tranche 2
Tranche 2 New Shares, totalling 11,388,889, will be issued once shareholder approval is obtained at a
General Meeting.
Cumulus Wealth Pty Ltd and Bell Potter Securities Limited (together, the Joint Lead Managers) acted
as Joint Lead Managers to the Placement.
The Joint Lead Managers will receive a cash fee equal to 6% (plus GST) of the funds raised under the
Placement and an aggregate of 7,750,000 unquoted options exercisable at $0.27 on or before the date
that is three years from the date of issue (Broker Options) as partial consideration for lead manager
services provided with respect to the Placement.
Shareholder Approvals
The Company proposes to convene a General Meeting on or around Thursday 24 July 2025, to obtain
the approval of its shareholders for the following non-exhaustive list of resolutions:
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the issue of Tranche 2 New Shares;
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issue of New Options under the Placement (Tranche 1 and Tranche 2), for no additional
consideration,
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the issue of 555,556 New Shares and 277,778 New Options allocated under the Placement to a
director; and
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the issue of the Broker Options to the Joint Lead Managers (or their nominees) as partial
consideration for lead manager services provided in respect of the Placement.
Details of the resolutions and further information will be included in the Notice of Meeting for the
General Meeting to be dispatched by the Company in due course.
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Capital Structure
As at the date of this announcement
To be issued under the Placement
Total number after the Placement
Number of
Shares
Number of
Quoted Options
Number of
Unquoted Options
124,930,707
43,055,556
167,986,263
32,146,349
32,146,349
8,151,833
29,277,779
37,429,612
Expected Timing
Event
Date
Placement Announced
Settlement and Placement
Allotment and Trading of New Shares
General Meeting
Friday 16 May 2025
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Wednesday 21 May 2025
July 2025
Dates are indicative only and subject to change. Any material changes will be notified by ASX market
announcement. All dates are references to AEST, Australia.
The trading halt can now be lifted.
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Approved by the Board of Legacy Minerals Holdings Limited.
For more information:
Investors:
Chris Byrne
CEO & Managing Director
chris.byrne@legacyminerals.com.au
+61 (0) 499 527 547
Media:
Nicholas Read
Read Corporate
nicholas@readcorporate.com.au
+61 (0) 419 929 046
DISCLAIMER AND PREVIOUSLY REPORTED INFORMATION
Information in this announcement is extracted from reports lodged as market announcements referred to above and
available on the Company’s website https://legacyminerals.com.au/. The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new
information that materially affects the information included in the original market announcement and that all material
assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the relevant market announcement continue to apply
and have not materially changed.
This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements. Forward looking statements are only predictions and are
subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions which are outside of the control of Legacy Minerals Holdings Limited (LGM).
These risks, uncertainties and assumptions include commodity prices, currency fluctuations, economic and financial market
conditions, environmental risks and legislative, fiscal or regulatory developments, political risks, project delay, approvals and
cost estimates. Actual values, results or events may be materially different to those contained in this announcement. Given
these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place reliance on forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking
statements in this announcement reflect the views of LGM only at the date of this announcement. Subject to any continuing
obligations under applicable laws and ASX Listing Rules, LGM does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any
information or any of the forward-looking statements in this announcement to reflect changes in events, conditions or
circumstances on which any forward-looking statements is based.
COMPETENT PERSON’S STATEMENT
The information in this Report that relates to Exploration Targets, Exploration Results, Mineral Resources or Ore Reserves is
based on information compiled by Thomas Wall, a Competent Person who is a Member of the Australian Institute of
Geoscientists. Mr Wall is the Technical Director and a full-time employee of Legacy Minerals Pty Limited, the Company’s
wholly-owned subsidiary, and a shareholder of the Company. Mr Wall has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style
of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity being undertaken to qualify as a Competent
Person as defined in the 2012 edition of the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and
Ore Reserves. Mr Wall consents to the inclusion of the matters based on this information in the form and context in which
it appears in this announcement.
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About Legacy Minerals
Legacy Minerals is an ASX-listed public company that has been exploring gold, copper, and base-metal projects
in NSW since 2017. The Company has ten projects that present significant opportunities for shareholders.
0BAu-Ag Black Range (EL9464, EL9589)
1BCu-Au Drake (EL6273, EL9616, EL9727, ALA75)
Extensive low-sulphidation, epithermal system with
limited historical exploration. Epithermal occurrences
across 30km of strike.
Large caldera (~150km2) with similar geological
characteristics to other major pacific rim low-sulphidation
deposits.
2BCu-Au Rockley (EL8926)
3B Au-Cu (Pb-Zn) Cobar (EL9511) Helix JV
Prospective for porphyry Cu-Au and situated in the
Macquarie Arc Ordovician host rocks with historic highgrade copper mines.
Undrilled targets next door to the Peak Gold Mines and
along strike of the CSA copper mine.
Au-Ag Bauloora (EL8994, EL9464) Newmont JV
6B Au Harden (EL9657)
One of NSW’s largest low-sulphidation, epithermal
systems with a 27km2 epithermal vein field.
Substantial historical gold production from two high-grade
and poorly tested orogenic systems.
Cu-Au Glenlogan (EL9614) S2 Resources JV
Au-Cu Fontenoy (EL8995) Earth AI JV
Untested porphyry search space located 55kms from
Australia’s largest porphyry complex, Cadia Valley.
A highly prospective and underexplored area for PGE, Ni,
Au and Cu mineralisation with significant drill intercepts.
4BCCu-Au Thomson (EL9190, EL9194, EL9728)
Ni-Co Nico Young (ELA6901)
A new and unexplored Intrusion-related gold and copper
system search space with numerous ‘bullseye’ magnetic
and gravity anomalies that remain untested.
One of the 10 largest nickel deposits in Australia with
significant counter-cyclical exposure.
Figure 1. Location summary of Legacy Minerals’ Projects in NSW, Australia, and major mines and deposits
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Schedule 1– Terms and conditions of the New Options
The terms and conditions of the Tranche 1 Placement Options, (defined as New Options) are:
(a)
Entitlement
Each New Option entitles the holder to subscribe for one Share upon exercise of the New Option.
(a)
Issue Price
New Options will be issued for nil cash consideration.
(b)
Exercise Price
Subject to section i. below, the amount payable upon exercise of each New Option will be $0.30
(Exercise Price).
(c)
Expiry Date
Each New Option will expire on the date that is two years from the date of issue (Expiry Date). A New
Option not exercised before the Expiry Date will automatically lapse on the Expiry Date.
(d)
Exercise Period
The New Options are exercisable at any time on or prior to the Expiry Date (Exercise Period).
(e)
Notice of Exercise
The New Options may be exercised during the Exercise Period by notice in writing to the Company in
the manner specified on the Option certificate (Notice of Exercise) and payment of the Exercise Price
for each New Option being exercised in Australian currency by electronic funds transfer or other
means of payment acceptable to the Company.
(f)
Exercise Date
A Notice of Exercise is only effective on and from the later of the date of receipt of the Notice of
Exercise and the date of receipt of the payment of the Exercise Price for each New Option being
exercised in cleared funds (Exercise Date).
(g)
Timing of issue of Shares on exercise
Within 5 Business Days after the Exercise Date, the Company will:
i.
issue the number of Shares required under these terms and conditions in respect of the
number of New Options specified in the Notice of Exercise and for which cleared funds have
been received by the Company;
ii.
if required, give ASX a notice that complies with section 708A(5)(e) of the Corporations Act,
or, if the Company is unable to issue such a notice, lodge with ASIC a prospectus prepared in
accordance with the Corporations Act and do all such things necessary to satisfy section
708A(11) of the Corporations Act to ensure that an offer for sale of the Shares does not require
disclosure to investors; and
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iii.
if admitted to the official list of ASX at the time, apply for official quotation on ASX of Shares
issued pursuant to the exercise of the New Options.
If a notice delivered under this section for any reason is not effective to ensure that an offer for sale
of the Shares does not require disclosure to investors, the Company must, no later than 20 Business
Days after becoming aware of such notice being ineffective, lodge with ASIC a prospectus prepared in
accordance with the Corporations Act and do all such things necessary to satisfy section 708A(11) of
the Corporations Act to ensure that an offer for sale of the Shares does not require disclosure to
investors.
(h)
Shares issued on exercise
Shares issued on exercise of the New Options rank equally with the then issued shares of the
Company.
(i)
Reconstruction of capital
If at any time the issued capital of the Company is reconstructed, all rights of a New Option holder are
to be changed in a manner consistent with the Corporations Act and the Listing Rules at the time of
the reconstruction.
(j)
Participation in new issues
There are no participation rights or entitlements inherent in the New Options and holders will not be
entitled to participate in new issues of capital offered to Shareholders during the currency of the New
Options without exercising their New Options.
(k)
Change in exercise price
A New Option does not confer the right to a change in Exercise Price or a change in the number of
underlying securities over which the New Option can be exercised.
(l)
Transferability
The New Options are transferable subject to any restriction or escrow arrangements imposed by ASX
or under applicable Australian securities laws.
(m)
Quotation
The Company will seek to have the New Options quoted by ASX.
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Schedule 2 – Terms and conditions of the Broker Options
The terms and conditions of the Broker Options are:
(a)
Entitlement
Each Broker Option entitles the holder to subscribe for one Share upon exercise of the Broker Option.
(b)
Issue Price
Broker Options will be issued for nil cash consideration.
(c)
Exercise Price
Subject to section i. below, the amount payable upon exercise of each Broker Option will be $0.27
(Exercise Price).
(d)
Expiry Date
Each Broker Option will expire on the date that is three years from the date of issue (Expiry Date). A
New Option not exercised before the Expiry Date will automatically lapse on the Expiry Date.
(e)
Exercise Period
The Broker Options are exercisable at any time on or prior to the Expiry Date (Exercise Period).
(f)
Notice of Exercise
The Broker Options may be exercised during the Exercise Period by notice in writing to the Company
in the manner specified on the Broker Option certificate (Notice of Exercise) and payment of the
Exercise Price for each Broker Option being exercised in Australian currency by electronic funds
transfer or other means of payment acceptable to the Company.
(g)
Exercise Date
A Notice of Exercise is only effective on and from the later of the date of receipt of the Notice of
Exercise and the date of receipt of the payment of the Exercise Price for each New Option being
exercised in cleared funds (Exercise Date).
(h)
Timing of issue of Shares on exercise
Within 5 Business Days after the Exercise Date, the Company will:
i.
issue the number of Shares required under these terms and conditions in respect of the
number of Broker Options specified in the Notice of Exercise and for which cleared funds
have been received by the Company;
ii.
if required, give ASX a notice that complies with section 708A(5)(e) of the Corporations Act,
or, if the Company is unable to issue such a notice, lodge with ASIC a prospectus prepared in
accordance with the Corporations Act and do all such things necessary to satisfy section
708A(11) of the Corporations Act to ensure that an offer for sale of the Shares does not
require disclosure to investors; and
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iii.
if admitted to the official list of ASX at the time, apply for official quotation on ASX of Shares
issued pursuant to the exercise of the Broker Options.
If a notice delivered under this section for any reason is not effective to ensure that an offer for sale
of the Shares does not require disclosure to investors, the Company must, no later than 20 Business
Days after becoming aware of such notice being ineffective, lodge with ASIC a prospectus prepared in
accordance with the Corporations Act and do all such things necessary to satisfy section 708A(11) of
the Corporations Act to ensure that an offer for sale of the Shares does not require disclosure to
investors.
(i)
Shares issued on exercise
Shares issued on exercise of the Broker Options rank equally with the then issued shares of the
Company.
(j)
Reconstruction of capital
If at any time the issued capital of the Company is reconstructed, all rights of a Broker Option holder
are to be changed in a manner consistent with the Corporations Act and the Listing Rules at the time
of the reconstruction.
(k)
Participation in new issues
There are no participation rights or entitlements inherent in the Broker Options and holders will not
be entitled to participate in new issues of capital offered to Shareholders during the currency of the
Broker Options without exercising their Broker Options.
(l)
Change in exercise price
A Broker Option does not confer the right to a change in Exercise Price or a change in the number of
underlying securities over which the Broker Option can be exercised.
(m)
Transferability
The Broker Options are transferable subject to any restriction or escrow arrangements imposed by
ASX or under applicable Australian securities laws.
(n)
Quotation
The Company will not seek to have the Broker Options quoted by ASX.
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