Arafura Rare Earths Obtains $840 Million Government Funding Boost
Arafura Rare Earths Obtains $840 Million Government Funding Boost
Shares in Arafura Rare Earths (ASX:ARU) surged more than 77% yesterday after it was confirmed the company will receive A$840 million in funding from the Australian government to create a combined mine and refinery for the key renewable minerals.
Arafura Rare Earths（澳大利亞證券交易所股票代碼：ARU）的股價昨日飆升了77％以上，此前該公司確認將獲得澳大利亞政府的8.4億澳元資金，用於爲關鍵可再生礦產建造一座聯合礦山和煉油廠。
Trading in the shares was halted ahead of the announcement with the shares at 14.75 cents. Once the news was formally released to the ASX (it was leaked from political sources in Canberra overnight Wednesday), the shares leapt, touching a day's high of 28 cents before finishing at 26 cents, up 76.87%.
該股在宣佈之前暫停交易，股價爲14.75美分。該消息正式發佈給澳大利亞證券交易所後（週三隔夜從堪培拉的政治消息來源泄露了這一消息），股價一路飆升，觸及當日高點28美分，收於26美分，上漲76.87％。
As impressive as the gain was, it is still less than half the 52-week high of 56 cents in February 2023.
儘管漲幅令人印象深刻，但仍不到2023年2月52周高點56美分的一半。
The deal follows Wednesday's announcement of government involvement in the $550 million funding package for lithium miner Liontown Resources to ensure it reaches first production from its Kathleen Valley spodumene project in Western Australia.
該協議是在週三宣佈政府參與鋰礦商Liontown Resources的5.5億美元一攬子融資計劃之後達成的，以確保其在西澳大利亞州的凱瑟琳谷鋰輝石項目實現首次生產。
Arafura's Nolans neodymium-praseodymium open-cut mine and associated processing project are 135 kilometers north of Alice Springs and have an estimated mine life of around 38 years.
阿拉弗拉的諾蘭釹-praseodymium露天礦和相關加工項目位於愛麗斯泉以北135公里處，估計礦山壽命約爲38年。
The company's biggest shareholder is Hancock Prospecting Ltd., controlled by Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart, with a 9.1% stake. Hancock is also the largest shareholder in Liontown with 19.9%.
該公司的最大股東是漢考克勘探有限公司，由澳大利亞首富吉娜·裏內哈特控制，持有9.1％的股份。漢考克也是萊昂敦的最大股東，佔19.9％。
Nolans has an estimated mineral resource of 56 million tonnes with a grade of 2.6% of total rare earth oxides and 11% phosphate (P2O5). These extend 215 meters below the surface.
據估計，諾蘭斯的礦產資源爲5600萬噸，佔稀土氧化物總量的2.6％，磷酸鹽（P2O5）的11％。它們延伸到地表以下 215 米。
The news also puts means shareholders who took up scrip in the $20 million fund-raising last December are in the money.
該消息還表明，去年12月在2000萬美元籌款中購買股票的股東也有錢。
The company raised $25 million (up from $20 million initially) through the placement of nearly 156 million new shares at 16 cents each.
該公司通過以每股16美分的價格配售近1.56億股新股，籌集了2500萬美元（高於最初的2000萬美元）。
Furthermore, it will issue one free-attaching option for every two new shares subscribed as part of the fully underwritten institutional placement.
此外，作爲全額承銷機構配售的一部分，它將爲每認購兩股新股發行一個自由附加期權。
These new options, around 62.5 million in number, will have an exercise price of 22.5 cents and expire 18 months from the date of issue.
這些新期權的數量約爲6,250萬份，行使價爲22.5美分，自發行之日起18個月後到期。
Arafura is using the proceeds from the placement to keep work at Nolans continuing while the new package was nailed down.
在新一攬子計劃確定期間，阿拉弗拉正在使用安置所得款項來繼續在諾蘭斯工作。
Nolans will join the first project and mine - Lynas, which has the huge Mount Weld deposit near Kalgoorlie and is expanding its processing operations there and in Malaysia. It has received a small amount of aid from Canberra's critical materials funding facility.
諾蘭斯將加入第一個項目和礦山——Lynas，該礦在卡爾古利附近擁有巨大的Mount Weld礦牀，並正在擴大其在那裏和馬來西亞的加工業務。它已經從堪培拉的關鍵材料融資機制獲得了少量援助。
Iluka got a finance package of $1.25 billion to help build its new processing operation at Eneabba in WA where it has mined and stockpiled heavy beach minerals for years.
Iluka獲得了12.5億美元的一攬子融資，用於幫助其在西澳大利亞州埃內巴巴建立新的加工廠，該公司多年來一直在那裏開採和儲存重質海灘礦物。
Iluka's operation will be the first fully integrated rare earths refinery in the country, and it has done a deal to toll treat rare earths from its Browns Range deposits in WA.
Iluka的運營將是該國第一家完全整合的稀土煉油廠，它已經達成了一項協議，對西澳大利亞州布朗斯山脈礦牀中的稀土進行收費處理。
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