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Critical Metals could become the go-to company for more exotic metals

Published 31/10/2022, 08:41
Updated 31/10/2022, 09:12
© Reuters.  Critical Metals could become the go-to company for more exotic metals

© Reuters. Critical Metals could become the go-to company for more exotic metals

  • Focus on rarer metals like cobalt, titanium, niobium and tantalum
  • Dealflow likely to be rapid
  • Initial focus on Africa, widening to North America in due course

What Critical Metals does

Critical Metals PLC (LON:CRTM) plans to build up a portfolio of assets focused on more exotic metals, rather than the usual suite of base or precious metals that you find inside any standard diversified miner.

But whereas in most cases companies that are interested in the more exotic metals tend to stick with just the one and make a speciality out of it, the idea that Critical Metals will build a portfolio across several different commodities is likely to make it stand out from the crowd.

The thinking is straightforward enough. With new trade barriers going up all the time and with the coronavirus highlighting the fragility of crucial supply lines, the Western World is now asking itself where exactly it gets its supplies of cobalt, niobium, titanium, tantalum, tin, niobium and copper from?

The answer, in many cases, is from jurisdictions that are less than salubrious and which in many

Critical Metals will secure supplies of crucial commodities in secure jurisdictions.

As it stands the company doesn’t have any assets at all – it listed on London in September 2020 as a shell, with cash in the bank and a plan, as is allowed under the listing rules. Listing rules also state that for a vehicle set up like this a deal has to be done within a certain amount of time.

But the company’s had several potential transactions on the boil for some time, all waiting for the listed vehicle to make its entrance stage right and to provide them with a home. Initially, most of the assets that will come into the company are likely to be situated in Africa, but in due course the company will likely add a suite of North American assets to its portfolio too.

What the boss says: Russell Fryer

“We have experienced further strong support from shareholders in recent weeks, with the exercise of warrants post period end which have strengthened our cash position by some £935,000, demonstrating the confidence shareholders have in the company's strategy.

“I am excited about what the second half of the financial year will hold and am confident that it will be a period of significant progress for the company,” he added.

It is looking to buy operators or companies close to production in Africa and is focused on commodities that have been identified by several governments as 'critical minerals'.

Opportunities are targeted in antimony, beryllium, cobalt, copper, fluorspar, gold, rare earth elements, tin, tungsten and vanadium.

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