New Risk • Nov 02
New minor risk - Shareholder dilution The company's shareholders have been diluted in the past year. Increase in shares outstanding: 3.2% This is considered a minor risk. Shareholder dilution occurs when there is an increase in the number of shares on issue that is not proportionally distributed between all shareholders. Often due to the company raising equity capital or some options being converted into stock. All else being equal, if there are more shares outstanding then each existing share will be entitled to a lower proportion of the company's total earnings, thus reducing earnings per share (EPS). While dilution might not always result in lower EPS (like if the company is using the capital to fund an EPS accretive acquisition) in a lot cases it does, along with lower dividends per share and less voting power at shareholder meetings. Currently, the following risks have been identified for the company: Major Risks Less than 1 year of cash runway based on free cash flow trend (-AU$8.5m free cash flow). Revenue is less than US$1m. Minor Risks Share price has been volatile over the past 3 months (14% average weekly change). Shareholders have been diluted in the past year (3.2% increase in shares outstanding). Market cap is less than US$100m (AU$86.5m market cap, or US$55.7m). New Risk • Sep 27
New major risk - Financial position The company has less than a year of cash runway based on its current free cash flow trend. Free cash flow: -AU$8.5m This is considered a major risk. With less than a year's worth of cash, the company will need to raise capital or take on debt unless its cash flows improve. This would dilute existing shareholders or increase balance sheet risk. Currently, the following risks have been identified for the company: Major Risks Less than 1 year of cash runway based on free cash flow trend (-AU$8.5m free cash flow). Revenue is less than US$1m (AU$122k revenue, or US$78k). Minor Risks Share price has been volatile over the past 3 months (14% average weekly change). Market cap is less than US$100m (AU$85.7m market cap, or US$54.6m). New Risk • Jun 08
New minor risk - Share price stability The company's share price has been volatile over the past 3 months. It is more volatile than 75% of Australian stocks, typically moving 12% a week. This is considered a minor risk. Share price volatility indicates the stock is highly sensitive to market conditions or economic conditions rather than being sensitive to its own business performance, which may also be inconsistent. It also increases the risk of potential losses in the short term as the stock tends to have larger drops in price more frequently than other stocks. Currently, the following risks have been identified for the company: Major Risk Revenue is less than US$1m. Minor Risks Share price has been volatile over the past 3 months (12% average weekly change). Market cap is less than US$100m (AU$57.9m market cap, or US$38.7m). Board Change • Mar 01
Insufficient new directors No new directors have joined the board in the last 3 years. The company's board is composed of: No new directors. 6 experienced directors. 1 highly experienced director. Chairman Jiandong He was the last director to join the board, commencing their role in 2020. The company’s insufficient board refreshment is considered a risk according to the Simply Wall St Risk Model. Announcement • Jan 31
A-Cap Energy Limited Announces Wilconi Metallurgical Testwork Results Acap Energy Limited updated the market on results of recent metallurgical testwork conducted on ores from the company's Wilconi Nickel - Cobalt Project, in Western Australia. Samples of drill cores representative of differentore types (limonitic, saprolitic and saprock) were selected and provided to Simulus Laboratories (Perth) for testing. The samples were tested for their amenability to nickel and cobalt leaching using five different processing methods, including: Atmospheric Leach, High Pressure Acid Leach, Reductive Leach, Acid Bake and Water Leach and Salt Roast and Water Leach. Results show high metal recoveries for limonitic and saprolitic ores, withaverages between 73.6 - 93.1% Ni and 71.1 - 93.2% Co from HPAL, atmospheric leach and acid bake methods. Metal recoveries for Reductive Leach and Salt Leach tests on the same samples were lower Tests conducted on saprock ore showed good metal recoveries using the atmospheric leach method of 79% Ni and 72.8% Co but were much lower for other methods tested. HPAL returned the highest metal recoveries out of all the methods used, with >93% Ni and >91% Co leached from both the limonitic and saprolitic ores. The atmospheric leach and acid bake methods had similar high recoveries for the limonitic and saprolitic ore types however the acid bake method required much lower acid consumption. More metallurgical testwork is planned using samples from recently drilled diamond cores to continue to refine the preferred processing methods and fine tune the recoveries for thedifferent ore types. Announcement • Jan 19
A-Cap Energy Limited Announces Drilling Commences at Letlhakane Uranium Project A-Cap Energy Limited has started a 1,500m (PQ) diamond drill core program over 25 holes at its Letlhakane Project in Botswana, host to one of the world's top 10 undeveloped uranium resources. The program is expected to take up to six to eight weeks and will collect approximately 2 tonneof mineralised material for beneficiation, leaching, and metallurgical testwork already underway. In conjunction with a ramp up of activities on the ground at Letlhakane being led by new country manager, Mr. Peter Sheehan, metallurgical studies comprising mineralogy and ore characterisation will supplement the beneficiation program. To increase Letlhakane's profitability, A-Cap has engaged technical partners with world-leading expertise in uranium ore sorting and processing that specialise in increasing the ore feed grade to the mill as well as removing acid consuming gangue. Work has begun on preliminary beneficiation testwork based on historic composite ore samples recovered from storage at Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, (ANSTO) which was excess to previous column leach tests conducted in 2014. 90kg of composite ore material from Gorgon South, Kraken and Serule West was supplied to mineral processing leaders Nagrom in Perth for sample preparation before being sent to magnetic separation company Steinert for sorting/beneficiation testwork utilising radiometric, XRT, and hyperspectral sensors as well as beneficiation techniques by gravity separation using spiral and dense media separation. Steinert have been highly successful upgrading uranium ore with sorting programs for other clients in recent years2, using radiometric information to pre-classify the ore into product and waste for their program development. Once they have a "pre-classified" ore and waste fraction, they process these fractions through a sorter with multiple sensors and record all the information from the sensors available on this sorter (colour, laser, induction and XRT). Subsequently they use proprietary software to detect variations in sensor data between the ore and waste fractions either in: density, colour or any of the other sensors in combination. There are over 200 parameters recorded and they use multiple sensor combinations to find the best potential sorting algorithm to sort the specific ore. These results will be used to optimise design of the sorting/beneficiation testwork for the PQ core samples. Acid consumption is a major operating cost in the proposed process route set out inLetlhakane's 2016 Feasibility Study. Metallurgical consultants MinAssist found that the ANSTO samples from previous Acid Soluble Uranium (ASU) properties test work were ideal for mineralogical classification by Quantitative XRD analysis to provide the following insights: Identify the acid consuming minerals in ASU head samples; Determine the mineral dissolution rate of each acid consuming mineral by analysis of head and residue samples, to provide estimates of acid consumption by mineral (this extends on total acid consumption value from ASU test); and Infer mineralogy and acid consumption for the entire body using machine learning by linking geochemistry, lithologies, and location to mineralogy characterisation. This information can then be used to better inform the geological block model with acid consumption parameters and in generating orebody geometallurgical domains, which can be used to optimise the resource to minimise acid consumption and drive down costs. 48 samples were sent to Bureau Veritas (ADE). 