Ferro-alloy Resources Ltd.LSE: FAR

Grant of Share Options

· Issued by Ferro-alloy Resources Ltd.

2 May 2025

Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited

("Ferro-Alloy" or the "Group" or the "Company")

Grant of Share Options

Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited (LSE:FAR), the vanadium producer and developer of the large Balasausqandiq vanadium deposit in Southern Kazakhstan, today announces that it has granted options over 500,000 ordinary shares in the Company ("Options") under the Company's share option scheme to both William Callewaert, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, and Andrey Andreyevich Kuznetsov, Deputy Director General of the Company's operating subsidiary, TOO Firma Balausa, and part of the Group's senior management team.

The Options are exercisable on the third anniversary from the date of grant ("Exercise Date") and are exercisable for a period of two years commencing on the Exercise Date. The Options have an exercise price of 6.65 pence being the closing mid-market price of the Company's ordinary shares as quoted on the main market of the London Stock Exchange on the last business day before the date of grant (1 May 2025).

Name

Options Granted

Exercise Price

Exercise Date

Total options held post grant

William Callewaert

500,000

6.65p

2 May 2028

1,000,000

Andrey Andreyevich Kuznetsov

500,000

6.65p

2 May 2028

1,000,000

ENDS

For further information, visit www.ferro-alloy.com or contact:

Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited

Nick Bridgen (CEO) / William Callewaert (CFO)

info@ferro-alloy.com

Shore Capital 

(Joint Corporate Broker)

Panmure Liberum Limited

(Joint Corporate Broker)

BlytheRay (Financial PR)

Toby Gibbs / Lucy Bowden

Scott Mathieson / John More

Tim Blythe / Megan Ray / Will Jones

+44 207 408 4090

+44 20 3100 2000

+44 20 7138 3204

The notification below is made in accordance with the requirements of article 19 of MAR and provides further details, including as to awards granted to persons discharging managerial responsibility, which has been updated accordingly.

1.            

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a.            

Name

William Callewaert

2.            

Reason for the notification

a.            

Position/status

Chief Financial Officer

b.            

Initial notification/Amendment

Initial notification

3.            

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a.            

Name

Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited

b.            

LEI

2138003T5CF6U9W7Z780

4.            

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a.            

Description of the Financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code

Ordinary Shares NPV

GG00BGDYDZ69

b.            

Nature of the transaction

Grant of Share Options

c.            

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price

Volume

6.65p

500,000

d.            

Aggregated information

-     Aggregated volume

-     Price

500,000

6.65 pence

e.            

Date of the transactions

2 May 2025

f.            

Place of the transactions

Outside a trading venue

The notification below is made in accordance with the requirements of article 19 of MAR and provides further details, including as to awards granted to persons discharging managerial responsibility, which has been updated accordingly.

1.            

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated

a.            

Name

Andrey Andreyevich Kuznetsov

2.            

Reason for the notification

a.            

Position/status

Senior management team

b.            

Initial notification/Amendment

Initial notification

3.            

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

a.            

Name

Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited

b.            

LEI

2138003T5CF6U9W7Z780

4.            

Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted

a.            

Description of the Financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code

Ordinary Shares NPV

GG00BGDYDZ69

b.            

Nature of the transaction

Grant of Share Options

c.            

Price(s) and volume(s)

Price

Volume

6.65p

500,000

d.            

Aggregated information

-     Aggregated volume

-     Price

500,000

6.65 pence

e.            

Date of the transactions

2 May 2025

f.            

Place of the transactions

Outside a trading venue

Notes to Editors

About Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited:

The Company's operations are all located at the Balasausqandiq deposit in Kyzylordinskoye Oblast in the South of Kazakhstan.

Balasausqandiq is a very large deposit, with vanadium as the principal product together with the carbon black substitute ("CBS") and several by-products. Owing to the nature of the ore, the capital and operating costs are very much lower than for other vanadium projects.    

The most recent mineral resource estimate for ore-body one (of seven) provided an Indicated Mineral Resource of 32.9 million tonnes at a mean grade of 0.62% vanadium pentoxide ("V2O5") equating to 203,364 contained tonnes of V2O5. In the system of reserve estimation used in Kazakhstan the reserves are estimated to be over 70m tonnes in ore-bodies 1 to 5 but this does not include the full depth of ore-bodies 2 to 5 or the remaining ore-bodies which remain substantially unexplored. 

The grade of carbon in the deposit is over 8%.  The carbon flows through to the tailings from where it is concentrated in a simple low-cost operation into a 40% carbon product, the CBS, that can be used in place of carbon black as a reinforcing filler in the making of rubber.

The Project will be developed in two phases, Phase 1 and Phase 2, with Phase 1 treating 1.65 million tonnes per year.

There is an existing concentrate processing operation at the site of the Balasausqandiq deposit. The production facilities were originally created from a 15,000 tonnes per year pilot plant which was then expanded and adapted to recover vanadium, molybdenum and nickel from purchased concentrates.  Alongside this operation there is a well-equipped laboratory and highly skilled technical team who have already developed the technology that is being built into the feasibility study and is further developing and optimising processes needed for future vanadium and carbon operations. The plant will operate only when profitable concentrates are available and, when not operating as a production facility, will operate on an expanded basis as an R&D centre.