The leaders in tungsten.
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The leaders in tungsten.
The leaders in tungsten. ABOUT ALMONTY INDUSTRIES Almonty is focused on acquiring distressed and underperforming operations and assets in Tungsten markets that can benefit from its in-house operating experience and expertise. CAPITAL STRUCTURE As of August 06, 2013 Almonty is known as a very hands-on, turnaround investoroperator that is most effective in situations regarded as too complex or difficult for the average, pure "financial investor”. Trading symbol TSX-V : AII Shares issued & outstanding 37,044,389 Fully diluted 42,852,183 Almonty has been successful in implementing very quick and very profitable turnarounds. The company has completed its second turnaround and purchased its next project. Year high/low LOS SANTOS Almonty has just completed (June 2013) its second optimization, at its Los Santos mine in northern Spain. Almonty acquired the project in September 2011and has been focused on utilizing its expertise in order to optimize operations, reduce costs and improve the tungsten recovery rate. To date Almonty has been successful in improving the tungsten recovery rate to approximately 65%, representing an improvement of over 40% since the closing of the acquisition, reducing cash operating costs by 25% and increasing cash flow. PANASQUEIRA Prior to acquiring Los Santos, in 2005, Almonty identified and acquired poorly managed tungsten mining and processing operations located in Panasqueira, Portugal, through its control position in publicly traded, Toronto Venture Exchange company, Primary Metals Inc. (ticker-PMI). Almonty refurbished operations, increased mine life and sold PMI in 2008 to the Japanese metals conglomerate Sojitz for a price of roughly 20x earnings, representing a thirty fold return on investment in 3 years. VALTREIXAL Immediately following the optimization at Los Santos, Almonty purchased its next tungsten project, Valtreixal, located in northwestern Spain. The company plans on applying its tungsten expertise in making Valtreixal another Almonty success story. Almonty is actively pursuing other growth opportunities via acquisitions where it can apply its tungsten expertise in order to create additional value for all stakeholders. Almonty is focused on past producing mines, operations that are on care and maintenance, tailings stockpiles and other situations where near-term production and positive cash flow can be achieved. Po rtu ga l VALTREIXAL France LOS SANTOS PANASQUEIRA Spain C$1.11 - C$0.70 Management holdings 37.0% Heemskirk Consolidated Limited 15.0% INVESTOR RELATIONS CONTACT Dennis Logan, CA | Director and CFO [email protected] Tel: +1 647.438.9766 MANAGEMENT Lewis Black | Director, President and CEO Mr. Black is currently a Partner of Almonty Partners LLC and has over 10 years of experience in the tungsten mining industry. Mr. Black will have overall management responsibility. Dennis Logan, CA | Director and CFO Audit Committee Member Prior to joining Almonty as Director & CFO, Mr. Logan was a Managing Director, Investment Banking at Desjardins Securities Inc. and has over 15 years of capital markets experience. Daniel D'Amato | Director Corporate Governance and Compensation Board Committee Member Mr. D'Amato has over 20 years of experience in the finance industry specializing in portfolio management and private equity. Bruce C. Ratner | Director Corporate Governance and Compensation Board Committee Member | Audit Committee Member Mr. Ratner is currently the Chairman and CEO of Forest City Ratner Companies, a New York-based real estate development company he started in 1985. He is also currently a director of Forest City Enterprises, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange listed national real estate company, a position he has held since 2007. Mark Trachuk | Director Corporate Governance and Compensation Board Committee Member | Audit Committee Member Mr. Trachuk is a lawyer and is a Partner in the Business Law Group at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto. He practices in the area of corporate and securities law with an emphasis on mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances. TSX-V: AI I TUNGSTEN It is the heaviest engineering material with a density of 19.25 g/cm3. It has the highest melting point of all metals at 3410∞C with a boiling point of 5700∞C. It has the lowest vapour pressure of all metals. It has the highest modulus of elasticity of the metals (E = 400GPa). It is the strongest of all metals—3 x harder than chrome and titanium. It has excellent high temperature strength characteristics. It has the highest tensile strength at temperatures above 1650∞C. It has a low thermal expansion co-efficient (4.4x10-6 m/m/∞C) similar to that of borosilicate glass, and therefore makes it useful for glass to metal seals. It is environmentally-friendly, unlike other heavy metals like lead. Due to the unique properties of tungsten, tungsten alloys and some tungsten compounds, tungsten cannot be substituted in many important applications relevant to modern technology. Tungsten is an additive in the production of specialist steel; filament wire for lighting (2%); and specialty uses for mobile phone handsets, military, ballistics and more. Today, manufacturing cemented carbides is the main use of tungsten. Cemented carbides, or hard metals, are materials made by “cementing” very hard tungsten monocarbide (WC) grains in a binder matrix of tough cobalt metal by liquid phase sintering. This results in hardness close to that of diamonds. It does not oxidize in air and needs no protection from oxidation at elevated temperatures. It has excellent corrosion resistance and is not attacked by nitric, hydrofluoric, or sulphuric acid solutions. For additional information on TUNGSTEN MARKET Tungsten and Tungsten Concentrate: The World Supply of tungsten concentrate is dominated by China. In order to meet increasing domestic demand, China has become a net importer of tungsten concentrate due to increased government regulations and restrictions on exports by China. www.itia.info International Tungsten Industry Association Tungsten Metal Prices: Global demand for tungsten concentrate has recovered from the lows seen during the economic crisis of 2008-2009; supplies have tightened as demand has increased resulting in PMS 1797 a sustained price increase to record levels. www.metal-pages.com Metal Pages Black Forecasted demand growth 3-7% per annum, according to PMSis 877C the British Geological Survey, and is expected to outstrip available supply, placing continued upward pressure on prices in the short-term. FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION Certain statements contained in or incorporated by reference into this document constitute forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the current views of Almonty Industries Inc. with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Many factors could cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Almonty Industries Inc. that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements to vary from those described herein should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize. Almonty Industries Inc. does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements. 100 King St. W., Suite 5700 The Leaders in Tungsten www.almonty.com Toronto, ON M5X 1C7