Chairman’s Letter
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Dear Shareholders,
Whilst 2023 was a very difficult year and the company made little progress, we have started 2024 on a bright note. First, we now have two companies interested in JV of the 3 tenements we hold in Peru. One is a Canadian public company and the other a private Swiss company owning 2 Nickel mines and plants. The Board is negotiating with both parties and hopes to have some positive news by the end of the month.
Secondly, I have been approached by some private investors who wish to dip their toes into the Peruvian metals market. Accordingly, the Board has met and agreed to do a Capital raise at 5 cents a share, a 50% discount to the initial 2021 raising.
We will be placing a share application form on the website and we invite all shareholders to participate in the capital raise.
Markets are still difficult as many people are nervous about recession and other global issues. Nevertheless metal prices are strong and our concessions have reported high grades of Copper, Silver and Gold so the company holds fundamentally good assets, if they can be held, explored and exploited. We are diligently working on that but are hamstrung be a lack of capital.
Depending on the success of this fundraising our plans for 2024 are:
If raise is less than $100,000 adopt a holding pattern and use the funds raised to pay holdings costs including, ASIC, accounting and concession fees
If raise is above $200,000 the intention will be to undertake a more comprehensive exploration of our concessions by ground survey, geophysics, shallow drilling and trenching
If the raise is above $750,000 then we shall list the company in 2024 with a prospectus to raise $5.0 Million to develop the Copper-Gold-Silver tenements and to acquire other projects in Peru. In such a circumstance I would base myself in Lima.
So dear shareholders please support Chala metals and talk to your friends and families about assisting.
Yours faithfully
Mark Newton