RBW Rainbow Rare Earths Limited

TIDMRBW

RNS Number : 8499B

Rainbow Rare Earths Limited

06 June 2023

6 June 2023

Rainbow Rare Earths Limited

("Rainbow" or "the Company")

LSE: RBW

Grant of Share Options

Rainbow Rare Earths announces that pursuant to its Long Term Incentive Plan ("LTIP") approved in January 2021 its Board of Directors, on the recommendation of the Remuneration Committee, has approved the grant of 1.4 million nil priced share options to employees, including 400,000 options issued to Dave Dodd who is a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility of the Company.

The options will vest in equal tranches over three years : one third after 12 months, one third after 24 months and one third after 36 months ; there are no other vesting conditions.

In aggregate the share options granted above represent 0.23% of the existing issued share capital of the Company. Following this award the Company has 19,799,400 share options in issue under the existing share option schemes, representing 3.3% of the existing issued share capital of the Company, including 8,258,000 nil priced options issued under the LTIP and 11,541,400 options with a weighted average exercise price of 13.33 pence per share under the unapproved share option plan.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

 
      Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person 
  1    closely associated 
 a)   Name                          Dave Dodd 
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      Reason for the notification 
  2 
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 a)   Position/status               PDMR 
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 b)   Initial notification/         Initial Notification 
       Amendment 
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      Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
  3    auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
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 a)   Name                          Rainbow Rare Earths Limited 
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 b)   LEI                           213800HONYSAXTG6KS11 
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      Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for 
  4    (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; 
       (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions 
       have been conducted 
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 a)   Description of the            Ordinary shares of no par value 
       financial instrument, 
       type of instrument 
                                     GG00BD59ZW98 
       Identification code 
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 b)   Nature of the transaction     Award of option to purchase ordinary 
                                     shares of the Company. Following the 
                                     transaction, Mr. Dodd holds 1,650,000 
                                     options to purchase ordinary shares. 
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 c)   Price(s) and volume(s)         Price(s)    Volume(s) 
                                      Nil         400,000 
                                                 ---------- 
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 d)   Aggregated information 
 
       Aggregated volume              400,000 
 
        *    Price                    Nil 
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 e)   Date of the transaction       6 June 2023 
                                     Note: the Company is not considered 
                                     in a close period at the time of this 
                                     transaction. 
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 f)   Place of the transaction      Outside a trading venue 
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For further information, please contact:

   Rainbow Rare Earths Ltd               Company             George Bennett 
   Pete Gardner                                    +27 82 652 8526 
                                                                                                   Cathy Malins (IR)                              +44 7876 796 629 

cathym@rainbowrareearths.com

   Berenberg                                          Broker                  Matthew Armitt 
                                                                                               Jennifer Lee                                        +44 20 3207 7800 
   Tavistock Communications         PR/IR                      Charles Vivian 
   Tara Vivian-Neal                                +44 (0) 20 7920 3150 

rainbowrareearths@tavistock.co.uk

Notes to Editors:

Rainbow Rare Earths aims to be a forerunner in the establishment of an independent and ethical supply chain of the rare earth elements that are driving the green energy transition. It is doing this successfully via the identification and development of secondary rare earth deposits that can be brought into production quicker and at a lower cost than traditional hard rock mining projects, with a focus on the magnet rare earth elements neodymium and praseodymium ("NdPr"), dysprosium and terbium.

The Phalaborwa Rare Earths Project, located in South Africa, comprises a total Mineral Resource Estimate of 30.4 Mt at 0.44% TREO contained within unconsolidated gypsum stacks derived from historic phosphate hard rock mining. High value NdPr oxide represents 29.0% of the total contained rare earth oxides, with economic Dysprosium and Terbium oxide credits enhancing the overall value of the rare earth basket in the stacks. Rainbow will use a proprietary separation technique developed by its partner K-Technologies, Inc. for the plant at Phalaborwa, which simplifies the process of producing separated rare earth oxides (versus traditional solvent extraction), leading to cost benefits, as well as being more environmentally friendly.

The Phalaborwa Preliminary Economic Assessment has confirmed strong base line economics for the project, which has a base case NPV(10) of US$627 million [1] , an average EBITDA operating margin of 75% and a payback period of < two years. Pilot plant operations will commence in 2023, with the project expected to reach commercial production in 2026, just five years after work began on the project by Rainbow.

[1] Net present value using a 10% forward discount rate

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