Polyus signs $70 million credit facility from ING

Press Release 29 May 2018

PJSC Polyus

Polyus signs $70 million credit facility from ING

PJSC Polyus (LSE, MOEX - PLZL) ("Polyus", the "Company", and together with the Company subsidiaries, the "Group") attracted a bilateral bank credit facility with ING in a total amount of 70 million US dollars at a fixed interest rate. The non-revolving facility is repayable in a bullet payment in 2023.

Polyus plans to use the proceeds of the facility to finance its ongoing operations.

Mikhail Stiskin, Senior Vice President, Finance and Strategy, commented:

"Polyus maintains its position as a respectable borrower on international markets, despite the worsened debt markets backdrop. The Company's balance sheet and recently optimized debt profile give us sufficient room to utilize the entire spectrum of financing instruments, including credit lines with international banks".

Polyus

Polyus is the largest gold producer in Russia and one of the top ten gold miners globally with the lowest cost position. Based on its 2017 Ore Reserves and Mineral Resources, Polyus group ranks second both by attributable gold reserves and gold resources among the world's largest gold mining companies.

The Polyus group's principal operations are located in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and Magadan regions and the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).

Enquiries

Investor contact

Victor Drozdov, Director Investor Relations

+7 (495) 641 33 77

[email protected] 

Media contact

Victoria Vasilyeva, Director Public Relations

+7 (495) 641 33 77

[email protected] 

Forward looking statement

This announcement may contain "forward-looking statements" concerning Polyus and/or Polyus group. Generally, the words "will", "may", "should", "could", "would", "can", "continue", "opportunity", "believes", "expects", "intends", "anticipates", "estimates" or similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements relating to future capital expenditures and business and management strategies and the expansion and growth of Polyus' and/or Polyus group's operations. Many of these risks and uncertainties relate to factors that are beyond Polyus' and/or Polyus group's ability to control or estimate precisely and therefore undue reliance should not be placed on such statements which speak only as at the date of this announcement. Polyus and/or any Polyus group company assumes no obligation in respect of, and does not intend to update, these forward-looking statements, except as required pursuant to applicable law.