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Bluebird Merchant Ventures Limited
10 January 2024
Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd / EPIC: BMV.L / Market: FTSE /
Sector: Mining
10 January 2024
Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd ('Bluebird' or 'the Company')
TR-1 Notification
Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd, a gold company primarily focused
on bringing historic mines back into production, has received a
TR-1 Notification as set out below.
The Company wishes to remind shareholders that it is a non-UK
issuer for the purposes of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency
Rules. As such, a person must notify the issuer of the percentage
of its voting rights he holds as a shareholder if the percentage of
voting rights reaches, exceeds, or falls below 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%,
25%, 30%, 50% and 75%.
TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings
1. Issuer Details
ISIN
VGG118701058
Issuer Name
BLUEBIRD MERCHANT VENTURES LTD
UK or Non-UK Issuer
Non-UK
2. Reason for Notification
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
3. Details of person subject to the notification obligation
Name
Iondrive Limited (formerly Southern Gold Limited)
City of registered office (if applicable)
STEPNEY
Country of registered office (if applicable)
Australia
4. Details of the shareholder
Full name of shareholder(s) if different from the person(s)
subject to the notification obligation, above
City of registered office (if applicable)
Country of registered office (if applicable)
5. Date on which the threshold was crossed or reached
03-Jan-2024
6. Date on which Issuer notified
07-Jan-2024
7. Total positions of person(s) subject to the notification
obligation
% of voting rights % of voting rights Total of both in % Total number of
attached to shares through financial (8.A + 8.B) voting rights held
(total of 8.A) instruments (total in issuer
of 8.B 1 + 8.B 2)
Resulting situation
on the date on
which threshold
was crossed or
reached 3.542000 0.000000 3.542000 25250000
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Position of
previous
notification (if
applicable) 7.049000 0.000000 7.049000
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8. Notified details of the resulting situation on the date on
which the threshold was crossed or reached
8A. Voting rights attached to shares
Class/Type of shares Number of direct Number of indirect % of direct voting % of indirect voting
ISIN code(if possible) voting rights (DTR5.1) voting rights rights (DTR5.1) rights (DTR5.2.1)
(DTR5.2.1)
VGG118701058 25250000 0 3.542000 0.000000
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Sub Total 8.A 25250000 3.542000%
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8B1. Financial Instruments according to (DTR5.3.1R.(1) (a))
Type of financial Expiration date Exercise/conversion period Number of voting rights % of voting rights
instrument that may be acquired if
the instrument is
exercised/converted
Sub Total 8.B1
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8B2. Financial Instruments with similar economic effect
according to (DTR5.3.1R.(1) (b))
Type of financial Expiration date Exercise/conversion Physical or cash Number of voting % of voting rights
instrument period settlement rights
Sub Total 8.B2
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9. Information in relation to the person subject to the
notification obligation
1. Person subject to the notification obligation is not
controlled by any natural person or legal entity and does not
control any other undertaking(s) holding directly or indirectly an
interest in the (underlying) issuer.
Ultimate controlling Name of controlled % of voting rights if % of voting rights Total of both if it
person undertaking it equals or is higher through financial equals or is higher
than the notifiable instruments if it than the notifiable
threshold equals or is higher threshold
than the notifiable
threshold
10. In case of proxy voting
Name of the proxy holder
The number and % of voting rights held
The date until which the voting rights will be held
11. Additional Information
The holder of the BMV Shares, Southern Gold Limited, has now
changed its company name to Iondrive Limited.
12. Date of Completion
07-Jan-2024
13. Place Of Completion
Adelaide, South Australia
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes
of article 7 of the market abuse regulation EU 596/2014
("MAR").
**S**
For further information please visit https://bluebirdmv.com or
contact:
Colin Patterson Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd Email: colin@bluebirdmv.com
Nick Emmerson SI Capital Tel: 01483413500
About Bluebird
Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd (BMV.L) is a London listed South
Korea-focused resources company centred on bringing historically
producing gold mines back into production. The Company, led by a
team of proven mine rehabilitation experts, currently has two 100%
owned licensed high grade narrow vein mining projects, the Kochang
Gold and Silver Project ('Kochang') and the Gubong Gold Project
('Gubong'), which each have a defined route to low cost/ low capex
production with a cumulative target of producing 100,000 oz + Au
per annum.
The management team has invested cUS$2 million personally into
the Company and believe, following analysis of historic production
and exploration data, as well as extensive sampling, geological,
geophysical, and engineering studies, there is potential for in
excess of 1.5 million oz of mineable gold in its Korean projects
alone.
Kochang is an epithermal vein deposit with parallel vertical ore
bodies covering 8.3 sq km that reportedly produced 110,000 oz of
gold and 5.9 million oz of silver between 1961 and 1975. Consisting
of a gold and silver mine, there are currently four main veins and
a number of parallel subsidiary veins vein which have been
identified, as well as a newly identified cross-cutting vein.
Historic drilling indicates the veins continue to depth below the
current 150m mine and mapping shows the veins on surface providing
potential above and below the old workings. The veins extend to the
NE providing a strike length of 2.5km with 600m between the two
mines not exploited. There is potential to expand operations to the
southwest/northeast and to depth, as well as exploit the already
mined areas. The total resource potential is between 550,000 and
700,000 tonnes, with a range of grades between 5.2 g/t to 6.6 g/t
gold, and 27.3 g/t to 34.8 g/t silver. Following the granting of a
Mountain Use permit, there is an estimated 6-to-9-month development
time to trial mining.
Gubong, which was historically the second largest gold mine in
South Korea has 9 granted tenements covering c.25 sq km. Gubong is
moderately dipping with 9 veins extending 500m below surface and
known to extend at least a further 250m. However, the production
opportunity for Bluebird prior to looking at deepening the mine is
the 25 levels already developed with all the remnants and unmined
areas left by the original miners. The 25 levels extend over 120km
in total length which indicates the size of the opportunity. The
Korea Resources Corporation ('KORES') estimated 2.34M tonnes at
some 7.3g/t Au garnered from 57 drill holes over 17,715.3 metres.
With additional sampling, mapping, pit modelling and grade
analysis, plus the fact that Gubong is an orogenic deposit, which
typically have a depth of 2km compared to the current depth of
500m, the Board believe it has a geological potential of 1 million
+ oz Au in-situ, plus an estimated additional 300,000 oz Au from
satellite ore bodies.
Additionally, the Company has the highly prospective Batangas
Gold Exploration Project in the Philippines, where it has an
agreement with a Philippine company, whose owners have decades of
experience in mining, to develop the Project. The JV covers the
entire Batangas Project area, which has a current JORC compliant
resource of 440,000 ounces, including a maiden ore reserve of
128,000 ounces (including silver credits). Exploration expenditure
to the tune of c.$20m has already been invested. Work is focused on
completing Exploration and Environmental Work Programmes initially
targeting the high-grade Lobo area, although there is excellent
exploration potential across the licence with high-grade targets
already identified and 14km of identified mineralised structures.
The staged agreement is based on the JV partner achieving defined
development goals and provides Bluebird with a free carry on the
development of Batangas with a view to advancing to
construction.
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