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The Metals Company Provides Q4 2021 and FY 2021 Corporate Update and Details Key Strategic Announcements Bringing TMC Closer to Unlocking the World’s Largest Estimated Source of Battery Metals
NEW YORK, March 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TMC the metals company Inc. (Nasdaq: TMC) (“TMC” or “the Company”), an explorer of lower-impact battery metals
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[{"type":"text","content":"NEW YORK, March 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TMC the metals company Inc. (Nasdaq: TMC) (“TMC” or “the Company”), an explorer of lower-impact battery metals from seafloor polymetallic nodules, today provided financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2021, and announced a corporate update. Q4 2021 and FY 2021 Financial Highlights Total cash of approximately $84.9 million, at December 31, 2021.Existing cash balance expected to be sufficient to fund TMC’s operations into the third quarter of 2023 when the Company’s subsidiary Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. (NORI) intends to submit its application to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for an exploitation contract for its NORI-D area.Net loss of $19.8 million and loss per share of $0.09 for the quarter ended December 31, 2021, mainly due to $9.9 million of offshore campaign costs, non-cash share-based compensation of $5.1 million and higher general and administrative costs as a result of becoming a public company, partially offset by gains on fair value changes of warrants liability of $8.5 million.Net loss of $141.3 million and loss per share of $0.69 for the year ended December 31, 2021, mainly due to non-cash share-based compensation of $60.3 million, $39.0 million of offshore campaign costs, $14.3 million for the pilot mining test system and higher general and administrative costs as a result of becoming a public company, partially offset by gains on fair value changes of warrants liability of $9.4 million. Gerard Barron, TMC Chairman and CEO, commented: “Following the events of the last month, the world is now acutely aware of the fragility of the nickel market that is dominated by Russian and Chinese-funded supply. Russia currently represents 20% of Class 1 nickel supply and China controls most of future nickel production growth through investments in Indonesian rainforest nickel.” “TMC offers an alternative: polymetallic nodules. Our NORI-D project alone is ranked as the world’s largest undeveloped nickel project and we expect nickel to represent roughly half of our expected future revenues at current metal prices. Our strategy has always been to develop this resource through partnerships, both because it allows us to move faster and because it allows us to get into production in a capital-light manner. In this context, we are pleased to provi...