Endeavour and Teranga to create new senior gold producer
GEORGE TOWN & TORONTO – Endeavour Mining Corporation and Teranga Gold Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement where Endeavour will acquire all Teranga shares.
Existing Endeavour and Teranga shareholders will own approximately 66% and 34%, respectively, of the combined company on a fully diluted in-the-money basis.
“By combining our complementary assets, we will enhance our strategic position on West Africa’s highly prospective Birimian Greenstone Belt and we will have the ability to deliver material synergies. The combined entity will become a new senior gold producer and enjoy an improved capital markets profile, underpinned by a healthy balance sheet and strong cash flow capabilities to support a sustainable dividend,” Sébastien de Montessus, President and CEO of Endeavour, said.
“It will be strongly accretive from 2023 when Sabodala-Massawa is ramped up into a top asset in the region while immediately adding geographic diversification into mining-friendly Senegal. The Wahgnion mine provides immediate cash flow and the rapidly advancing Golden Hill and Afema projects offer further growth optionality.”
Teranga is a low cost, mid tier gold producer in West Africa with two producing gold mines and an attractive growth pipeline in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire. Teranga is expected to produce 533,000 ounces of gold per year at average all-in-sustaining costs of $785 per ounce over the next five years.
Endeavour is a leading West African gold producer with six mines across Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire with a production profile of over 1 million ounces at below $900 per ounce.
The Combination creates a new top ten senior gold producer with average annual production of more than1.5Moz per year with industry-low production costs, as shown in Figures 1 and 2 below. The combined entity will be diversified across six core operating mines in three countries, and strategically positioned as the largest gold producer in each of Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso.
It will also have an industry-leading development pipeline of six greenfield projects (Fetekro, Golden Hill, Afema, Kalana, Bantou and Nabanga) and the largest exploration portfolio across the underexplored West African Birimian Greenstone Belt.
