Northland Announces First Drawdown of USD 100 Million From the USD 335 Million Bond
LUXEMBURG, LUXEMBURG -- (Marketwired) -- 06/10/13 -- Northland Resources S.A. (OSLO: NAUR)(FRANKFURT: NPK)(OMX: NAURo) (together with its subsidiaries, "Northland", "NRSA" or "the Company") announces that the Company has completed all pre-disbursement conditions in connection with the USD 335 million bond ("New Bond") and received the approval of the Company's board to draw USD 100 million from an escrow account.
The Company announced earlier in a press release dated May 30, 2013, that the New Bond was successfully subscribed. Today, Northland announces that the first drawdown of USD 100 million from an escrow account has been made.
The proceeds from the New Bond will finance capital expenditure ("Capex") investments for Kaunisvaara as well as working capital.
A second drawdown is expected to be completed August 1, 2013.
Karl-Axel Waplan, CEO, Northland Resources S.A.
Northland is a producer of iron ore concentrate, with a portfolio of production, development and exploration mines and projects in northern Sweden and Finland. The first construction phase of the Kaunisvaara project is complete and production ramp-up started in November 2012. The Company produces high-grade, high-quality magnetite iron concentrate in Kaunisvaara, Sweden, where the Company will exploit two magnetite iron ore deposits, Tapuli and Sahavaara. Northland has entered into off-take contracts with three partners for the entire production from the Kaunisvaara project over the next seven to ten years. The Company is also preparing a Definitive Feasibility Study ("DFS") for its Hannukainen Iron Oxide Copper Gold ("IOCG") project in Kolari, northern Finland and for the Pellivuoma deposit, which is located 15 km from the Kaunisvaara processing plant.
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