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Pathfinder Minerals Gets Meeting Request, CEO & Chairman Under Threat

21st Mar 2018 13:04

LONDON (Alliance News) - Pathfinder Minerals PLC said on Wednesday it has received a request to organise a general meeting to oust two directors and appoint two others.

The meeting, Pathfinder said, would consider a resolution to remove Chief Executive Nick Trew and Non-Executive Chairman Henry Bellingham and to appoint former Director James Normand and James Lumley to the board in their stead.

Pathfinder said in late February it has been informed there is currently no ongoing settlement negotiation for the return of its Mozambique licences, which it alleges were misappropriated by General Jacinto Veloso in 2011.

Pathfinder is "confident" it will get the licences back through following a judicial process, it said at the time.

Pathfinder's subsidiary CMdN was issued mining concession licences 760C and 4623C in September 2004 and July 2011 respectively, each for a period of 25 years. Taken together, these mining concessions cover approximately 32,000 hectares of land on the Indian Ocean coast of Zambezia province of Mozambique, known to contain the heavy minerals ilmenite, rutile, and zircon.

The company has been locked in a legal dispute over the mining concessions, which were appropriated from a subsidiary company in 2011 and given to Pathfinder's former partner Veloso.

In 2012, Pathfinder obtained a declaratory judgment against Veloso and others in the English High Court, which ruled, contrary to claims made by Veloso to justify the transfer of the licences, that Pathfinder had validly acquired its shares in the licence-holding subsidiary, but this has not been recognised in Mozambique.

Pathfinder shares were up 2.5% on Wednesday at 0.77 pence each.


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