10 April 2024
GOLDSTONE RESOURCES
LIMITED
("Goldstone" or the
"Company")
Director and Senior
Management Fee Conversions and
Issue of Adviser Fee
Shares
Further to the Company's
announcement released earlier today in respect of the Subscription
and Amendment Agreement, the Company announces the proposed
conversion by certain directors and a senior manager of the Company
of, in aggregate, US$176,125 (approximately £140,900) of
outstanding fees into new Ordinary Shares (the "Fee Conversions") at the Subscription Price
and an issue of new Ordinary Shares to an adviser to the Company in
lieu of outstanding fees on the same terms as the Subscription (the
"Adviser Fee Conversion"). Both the Fee Conversions
and Adviser Fee Conversion are conditional on approval by
shareholders of the Resolutions to be proposed at the AGM.
Director and Senior Management Fee
Conversions
In order to preserve cash within the
Company for working capital purposes, certain of the company
Directors and a senior manager have agreed to convert, in
aggregate, US$176,125 (approximately £140,900), being 50% of their
outstanding fees accrued and unpaid for the period from 1 July 2022
to 31 December 2023, into 14,090,000 new Ordinary Shares at the
Subscription Price (the "Fee
Conversion Shares").
Director
|
Existing holding of Ordinary
Shares
|
No. of Director Fee
Conversion Shares
|
Resulting holding of Ordinary
Shares
|
Resulting percentage of
Enlarged Share Capital
|
Emma Priestley
|
5,196,658
|
6,250,000
|
11,446,658
|
1.42
|
Angela List*
|
59,920,660
|
1,760,000
|
61,680,660
|
7.67
|
Richard Wilkins
|
320,660
|
1,760,000
|
2,080,660
|
0.26
|
*
Angela List's interest includes that of Nguvu Holdings Limited, a
company of which she is a director and major shareholder, which is
currently holds an interest in 59,600,000 Ordinary Shares,
representing approximately 11.96% of the Company's current issued
share capital.
In addition, and within the Fee
Conversions, the Company has issued 4,320,000 new Ordinary Shares
to a senior manager of the Company.
Adviser Fee Shares
In addition, the Company has agreed
to issue 7,500,000 new Ordinary Shares and 7,500,000 warrants over
new Ordinary Shares (on the same terms as the Warrants issued
pursuant to the Subscription) to an adviser to the Company in lieu
of outstanding fees (the "Adviser Fee Shares").
Related Party Transaction
The issue of the Fee Conversion
Shares to certain directors of the Company is a related party
transaction under AIM Rule 13 of the AIM Rules for Companies. Orrie
Fenn, an independent director in respect of the Director Fee
Conversions, considers, having consulted with the Company's
Nominated Adviser, Strand Hanson Limited, that the terms of the Fee
Conversions in respect of the Directors listed above are fair and
reasonable insofar as the shareholders of the Company are
concerned.
Admission and Total Voting Rights
Application will be made to the
London Stock Exchange for the Subscription Shares, the Conversion
Shares, the Fee Conversion Shares, and the Adviser Fee Shares
(together, the "Shares") to
be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") at 8.00 a.m. on or around 2
May 2024, subject to the passing of the Resolutions at the AGM. The
Shares will be issued as fully paid and will rank pari passu in all respects with
the existing Ordinary Shares, including the right to receive
dividends and other distributions declared on or after the date on
which they are issued.
Upon Admission, the Company's issued
ordinary share capital will consist of 803,907,013 Ordinary
Shares with one voting right each (the "Enlarged Share Capital"). The Company
does not hold any Ordinary Shares in treasury. Therefore, the total
number of Ordinary Shares and voting rights in the Company
following Admission will be 803,907,013. With effect from
Admission, this figure may be used by shareholders in the Company
as the denominator for the calculations by which they will
determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a
change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under
the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Defined terms used in this announcement shall have the same
meanings as in the Company's announcement entitled "Conditional
Fundraising, Gold Loan Standstill Amendment, and Notice of Annual
General Meeting" dated 10 April 2024 unless otherwise defined
herein.
For
further information, please contact:
GoldStone Resources Limited
|
|
Emma Priestley
|
Tel: +44 (0)1534 487 757
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Strand Hanson Limited
|
|
James Dance / James
Bellman
|
Tel: +44 (0)20 7409 3494
|
S.
P. Angel Corporate Finance LLP
|
|
Ewan Leggat / Charlie
Bouverat
|
Tel: +44 (0)20 3470
0501
|
St
Brides Partners Ltd
Susie Geliher
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7236 1177
|
|
|
The information contained within this announcement is deemed
by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under
the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 as it forms part of
United Kingdom domestic law by virtue of the European Union
(Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended by virtue of the Market Abuse
(Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 ("UK
MAR").
About GoldStone Resources Limited
GoldStone Resources Limited (AIM:
GRL) is an AIM quoted mining and development company with projects
in Ghana that range from grassroots exploration to
production.
The Company is focused on developing
the Akrokeri-Homase project in south-western Ghana, which hosts a
JORC Code compliant 602,000oz gold resource at an average grade of
1.77 g/t. The existing resource is confined to a 4km zone of
the Homase Trend, including Homase North, Homase Pit and Homase
South.
The project hosts two former mines,
the Akrokerri Ashanti Mine Ltd, which produced 75,000 oz gold at 24
g/t recovered grade in the early 1900s, and the Homase Pit which
AngloGold Ashanti developed in 2002/03 producing 52,000 oz gold at
2.5 g/t recovered. Production is currently focussed on the
Homase Mine however it is the Company's intention to build a
portfolio of high-quality gold projects in Ghana, with a particular
focus on the highly prospective Ashanti Gold Belt.
PDMR Notification Forms:
The notifications below are made in
accordance with the requirements of UK MAR.
1.
|
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
|
a)
|
Name
|
Emma Priestley
|
2.
|
Reason for the Notification
|
a)
|
Position/status
|
Director of the Company
|
b)
|
Initial
notification/amendment
|
Initial notification
|
3.
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
a)
|
Name
|
Goldstone Resources
Limited
|
b)
|
LEI
|
213800B7ATYRPQUTS551
|
4.
|
Details of the transaction(s):section to be repeated for (i)
each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each
date; and (iv)each place where transactions have been
conducted
|
a)
|
Description of the Financial
instrument, type of instrument
|
Ordinary shares of 1 penny each in
the share capital of the Goldstone Resources Limited
|
Identification code
|
JE00BRJ8YF63
|
b)
|
Nature of the Transaction
|
Receipt of new Ordinary Shares in
lieu of director fees
|
c)
|
Price(s) and volume(s)
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
£0.01
|
6,250,000
|
|
d)
|
Aggregated information
Aggregated volume Price
|
N/A (Single transaction)
|
e)
|
Date of the transaction
|
10 April 2024
|
f)
|
Place of the transaction
|
London Stock Exchange, AIM Market
(XLON)
|
1.
|
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
|
a)
|
Name
|
Richard Wilkins
|
2.
|
Reason for the Notification
|
a)
|
Position/status
|
Director of the Company
|
b)
|
Initial
notification/amendment
|
Initial notification
|
3.
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
a)
|
Name
|
Goldstone Resources
Limited
|
b)
|
LEI
|
213800B7ATYRPQUTS551
|
4.
|
Details of the transaction(s):section to be repeated for (i)
each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each
date; and (iv)each place where transactions have been
conducted
|
a)
|
Description of the Financial
instrument, type of instrument
|
Ordinary shares of 1 penny each in
the share capital of the Goldstone Resources Limited
|
Identification code
|
JE00BRJ8YF63
|
b)
|
Nature of the Transaction
|
Receipt of new Ordinary Shares in
lieu of director fees
|
c)
|
Price(s) and volume(s)
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
£0.01
|
1,760,000
|
|
d)
|
Aggregated information
Aggregated volume Price
|
N/A (Single transaction)
|
e)
|
Date of the transaction
|
10 April 2024
|
f)
|
Place of the transaction
|
London Stock Exchange, AIM Market
(XLON)
|
1.
|
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities
/ person closely associated
|
a)
|
Name
|
Angela List
|
2.
|
Reason for the Notification
|
a)
|
Position/status
|
Director of the Company
|
b)
|
Initial
notification/amendment
|
Initial notification
|
3.
|
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant,
auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
|
a)
|
Name
|
Goldstone Resources
Limited
|
b)
|
LEI
|
213800B7ATYRPQUTS551
|
4.
|
Details of the transaction(s):section to be repeated for (i)
each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each
date; and (iv)each place where transactions have been
conducted
|
a)
|
Description of the Financial
instrument, type of instrument
|
Ordinary shares of 1 penny each in
the share capital of the Goldstone Resources Limited
|
Identification code
|
JE00BRJ8YF63
|
b)
|
Nature of the Transaction
|
Receipt of new Ordinary Shares in
lieu of director fees
|
c)
|
Price(s) and volume(s)
|
Price(s)
|
Volume(s)
|
£0.01
|
1,760,000
|
|
d)
|
Aggregated information
Aggregated volume Price
|
N/A (Single transaction)
|
e)
|
Date of the transaction
|
10 April 2024
|
f)
|
Place of the transaction
|
London Stock Exchange, AIM Market
(XLON)
|