West African-focused explorer Arrow Minerals is launching an ambitious growth strategy with binding agreement to acquire up to 60.5% in the Simandou North iron project in Guinea via the issue of 500M shares, $1M in cash/shares and $2.5M on exploration expenditure.
Arrow says the deal with Singaporean privateer Amalgamated Minerals covers a northern extension of the dual high profile Simandou projects held by Chinese-backed consortium SMB Winning (Blocks 1 & 2) and Winning Consortium Simandou-Rio Tinto (Blocks 3 & 4).
The deal has been reached after completion of due diligence, and coincides with the appointment of highly experienced mining executive Alwyn Vorster to its board.