Inca Minerals Limited

Inca to acquire Stunalara Metals Limited with high-quality gold/antimony exploration projects in North Queensland

Inca Minerals Limited (ASX: ICG) (Inca or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a binding Bid Implementation Agreement to acquire Stunalara Metals Limited (Stunalara) via an off market takeover bid (Bid). If successfully completed, Stunalara shareholders will be issued a total of ~ 300,000,000 fully paid Inca shares (being ~ 22.6% of Inca post Bid assuming no other shares are issued).


Stunalara Highlights

  • Stunalara is a public unlisted Australian exploration company with projects in Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia.
  • Stunalara’s key asset is the high-grade gold & gold-antimony Hurricane exploration project in North Queensland (NQ) that has multiple undrilled high-grade gold & gold-antimony prospects developed from rock chip and grab sampling.
    • Gold Prospects
      • Cyclone – up to 4.9 g/t (Au)
      • Cyclone North – up to 7.4 g/t (Au)
      • Monsoon – up to 4.0 g/t (Au)
      • Hurricane North – up to 45.7 (Au)g/t
      • Hurricane South – up to 41.5 g/t (Au)
      • Tornado – up to 17.6 g/t (Au)
      • Typhoon – up to 71.6 g/t (Au)
    • Gold-Antimony Prospects
      • Bouncer South – Antimony (Sb) up to 20.8% & up to 7.9 g/t Au
      • Holmes – Sb up to 29.0% & up to 21.7 g/t Au
      • Holmes South – Sb up to 43.2% & up to 5.2 g/t Au
      • Pederson West – Sb up to 5.3% & up to 2.2 g/t Au

Transaction Highlights

  • At a deemed Inca share price of $0.006, the Bid consideration of 300,000,000 Inca shares implies a value of $1.8 million for Stunalara (fully diluted).
  • Stunalara shareholders will be offered 6.448981 Inca shares for every 1 Stunalara share held, valuing each Stunalara share at ~4.5 cents each (Offer)1.
  • The Offer will be subject to standard conditions including, that, at or before the end of the Offer period, Inca has a relevant interest in at least 90% of all Stunalara shares on issue (on a fully-diluted basis).
  • Stunalara has engaged an Independent Expert to advise Stunalara shareholders on the fairness and reasonableness of the Offer as Inca director, Mr Andrew Haythorpe, is also a Stunalara director and holds a ~18.6% Stunalara shareholding. Stunalara has also established an independent board committee.
  • ASX has confirmed that Listing Rules 11.1.2 and 11.1.3 do not apply to the transaction.
  • Subject to there being no superior proposal and the Independent Expert concluding and continuing to conclude that the Offer is either fair and reasonable, or not fair but reasonable:
    • Inca has been informed by Andrew Haythorpe that he intends to accept the Offer twenty-one days after the Offer becomes open for acceptance with respect to all Stunalara shares owned or controlled by him; and
    • Inca has been informed the Stunalara Board will unanimously recommend that all Stunalara shareholders accept the Offer.
  • Under the Bid Implementation Agreement, a mutual reimbursement fee of $100,000 may be payable in certain circumstances by either Inca or Stunalara.
  • Further details about the Offer, conditions to the Offer and proposed timetable are set out in the Bid Implementation Agreement which is attached as an annexure to this announcement.

Inca’s CEO, Trevor Benson commented:

“Having carefully considered a number of acquisition proposals since I was appointed as CEO last year, it became abundantly clear that Stunalara was a standout opportunity. Its high-grade gold & gold-antimony Hurricane Project in NQ presents a unique opportunity to explore a project with multiple strongly mineralised veins which have historical workings but have never been drilled.”

“In addition, the under explored Mt Reid project in Western Tasmania is located in an area where multiple significant precious and base metal deposits have been discovered, developed and mined over the last 100 years.”


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