Perseus Mining (ASX, TSX: PRU) has divested its equity stake in Canada’s Montage Gold (TSXV: MAU) for $61.4 million to help finance an investment in a Guinea gold project.
The cash injection is to help strengthen Perseus’ balance sheet following the recent purchase of a A$86-million ($78.5 million) stake in Australia’s Predictive Discovery (ASX: PDI). It owns the Bankan gold project in Guinea .
Perseus considered the 9.6% Montage stake to be non-core, the company said on Wednesday. It sold 33 million common shares at $1.86 apiece, near its current market price.
“We are very pleased to have successfully completed the sale of the Montage shareholding at a price that will largely offset the cost of our recent acquisition of a strategic stake in Predictive’s Bankan gold project in Guinea,” Perseus’s chairman and CEO Jeff Quartermaine said in the release.
BlackRock-backed
Backed by New York-based BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, Predictive is advancing the Bankan project towards development with an environmental and social impact assessment and a prefeasibility study (PFS) completed in April. The PFS outlined an initial gold reserve of over 3 million oz., with average annual production of 269,000 oz. over a 12-year mine life.
Perseus currently operates three gold mines in Africa: Edikan in Ghana, and Sissingué and Yaouré in Côte d’Ivoire. Together, these mines produced 509,977 oz. in the 2024 fiscal year.
Montage holds the advanced-stage Koné project in Côte d’Ivoire. An updated feasibility study this year highlighted a 16-year low-cost gold operation capable of producing 300,000 oz. per year through the first eight years. Its life-of-mine all-in sustaining cost is estimated at US$998 per ounce.
Perseus acquired the Montage stake in 2022 through its acquisition of Orca Gold, whose principal asset was a 70% interest in the Meyas Sands project in Sudan.
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