9th Dec 2022 15:58
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9 December 2022
Rockfire Resources plc
("Rockfire" or the "Company")Notice of General Meeting
Rockfire Resources plc (LON: ROCK), the base metal and critical mineral exploration company, announces that a General Meeting ("GM") will be held electronically at 09.00 a.m. on Tuesday, 10 January 2023.
In accord with article 21.4.2 of the Articles of Association, this General Meeting will be an electronic meeting held on the Zoom platform, enabling participation only by electronic means. To attend by electronic means, shareholders must register their proposal to attend at [email protected]. Once registered the Company will provide the Zoom platform link to access the meeting.
The purpose of the GM is to address the following resolutions, of which Resolution 1 will be proposed as an ordinary resolution and Resolution 2 will be proposed as a special resolution:
Ordinary Resolution
1. THAT, in substitution for all existing and unexercised authorities, the Directors be and they are hereby generally and unconditionally authorised for the purpose of Section 551 of the Companies Act 2006 ('the Act') to exercise all or any of the powers of the Company to allot and to grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares in the Company ("Rights") up to a maximum nominal amount of £400,000 provided that this authority shall, unless previously revoked or varied by the Company in general meeting, expire on the earlier of the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or 30 June 2023, unless renewed or extended prior to such time, except that the Directors may before the expiry of such period make an offer or agreement which would or might require Rights to be allotted or granted after the expiry of such period and the Directors may allot and grant Rights in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the authority conferred hereby had not expired.
Special Resolution
THAT, in substitution for all existing and unexercised authorities and subject to the passing of Resolution 1, the Directors be and they are hereby empowered pursuant to Section 570 of the Companies Act 2006 ('the Act') to allot equity securities (as defined in Section 560 of the Act) pursuant to the authority conferred upon them by Resolution 1 as if Section 561(1) of the Act did not apply to any such allotment provided that the power conferred by this Resolution, unless previously revoked or varied by special resolution of the Company in general meeting, shall be limited:
(a) to the allotment of equity securities in connection with a rights issue or other pre-emptive issue in favour of ordinary shareholders where the equity securities respectively attributable to the interest of all such shareholders are proportionate (as nearly as may be) to the respective numbers of the ordinary shares held by them subject only to such exclusions or other arrangements as the Directors may consider appropriate to deal with fractional entitlements or legal and practical difficulties under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body in, any territory; and
(b) to the allotment (otherwise than pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) above) of equity securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £400,000 in respect of any other issues for cash consideration;
and shall expire on the earlier conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company or 30 June 2023 save that the Company may before such expiry make an offer or agreement which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after such expiry and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of such offer or agreement as if the power conferred hereby had not expired.
Recommendation
The Board believes that the resolutions contained in the Notice of GM are in the best interests of the Company and shareholders as a whole and recommends you to vote in favour of them, as your Directors intend to do in respect of their beneficial shareholdings.
The Notice of GM and Form of Proxy will be posted to Shareholders on Monday, 12 December 2022 and copies will also be made available on the Company's website at www.rockfireresources.com.
Rockfire Resources plc: | |
David Price, Chief Executive Officer | |
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser & Broker): | Tel: +44 (0) 20 3328 5656 |
John Depasquale / George Payne (Corporate Finance) | |
Matt Butlin / Kelly Gardner (Sales and Corporate Broking) |
Notes to Editors
Rockfire Resources plc (LON: ROCK) is a base metal and critical mineral exploration company, with a portfolio of 100%-owned gold/copper/silver projects in Queensland Australia and a high-grade zinc/lead/silver/germanium deposit in Greece.
§ The Molaoi deposit in Greece has a JORC resource of 210,000 tonnes of zinc, 39,000 tonnes of lead and 3.5 million ounces of silver.
§ The Plateau deposit in Queensland has a JORC resource of 130,000 ounces of gold and 800,000 ounces of silver.
§ The Copperhead deposit in Queensland has a JORC resource of 80,000 tonnes of copper, 9,400 tonnes of molybdenum and 1.1 million ounces of silver.
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