Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd / EPIC: BMV.L / Market: FTSE / Sector: Mining

10 July 2024

Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd ('Bluebird' or 'the Company')

Notice of AGM

Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd, a gold company primarily focused on bringing historic mines back into production announces that will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 09:00 on 02 August 2024 at 7 Castle Street, St Helier, Jersey JE2 3BD for the following purposes:

Resolution 1 - Receiving and Considering the Accounts

This is an ordinary resolution to receive and consider the financial statements of the Company for the period ended 31 December 2023. The next set of audited financial statements will be for the 12 month period ending on 31 December 2024. These should be placed before the 2025 AGM.

Resolution 2 - Appointment of Auditors

This resolution seeks to re-appoint PKF Littlejohn as auditors of the Company. The authority granted by this Resolution will expire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company.

Resolution 3 - Authorisation of Auditor's Remuneration

This resolution seeks to authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration.

Resolution 4 - Re-appointment of Director

This resolution seeks to re-appoint Mr Colin Patterson as a director of the Company.

Resolution 5 - Re-appointment of Director

This resolution seeks to re-appoint Mr Aidan Bishop as a director of the Company.

Resolution 6 - Change of Name

This special resolution seeks to amend the Company's name to Bluebird Mining Ventures Ltd, which will allow the Company's ticker on the London Stock Exchange to remain as BMV.

Voting and Proxies

A member entitled to attend and vote at the Annual General Meeting is entitled to appoint a proxy or proxies to attend, speak and vote in his/her stead. The proxy need not be a member of the Company.

The instrument appointing such a proxy may be sent to the Company's registrars, Computershare Investor Services (BVI) Ltd at The Pavilions, Bridgwater Road, Bristol BS99 6ZY, United Kingdom as soon as possible and in any event not later than 09:00 on 31 July 2024.

**ENDS**

For further information please visit https://bluebirdmv.com or contact:

Jonathan Morley-Kirk    Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd               Email: jmk@bluebirdmv.com

About Bluebird:

Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd (BMV.L) is a London listed South Korea-focused resources company centred on bringing historically producing gold mines back into production. The Company, led by a team of proven mine rehabilitation experts, currently has two 100% owned licensed high grade narrow vein mining projects, the Kochang Gold and Silver Project ('Kochang') and the Gubong Gold Project ('Gubong'), which each have a defined route to low cost/ low capex production with a cumulative target of producing 100,000 oz + Au per annum. 

The management team has invested cUS$2 million personally into the Company and believe, following analysis of historic production and exploration data, as well as extensive sampling, geological, geophysical, and engineering studies, there is potential for in excess of 1.5 million oz of mineable gold in its Korean projects alone.

Kochang is an epithermal vein deposit with parallel vertical ore bodies covering 8.3 sq km that reportedly produced 110,000 oz of gold and 5.9 million oz of silver between 1961 and 1975.  Consisting of a gold and silver mine, there are currently four main veins and several parallel subsidiary veins vein which have been identified, as well as a newly identified cross-cutting vein. Historic drilling indicates the veins continue to depth below the current 150m mine and mapping shows the veins on surface providing potential above and below the old workings. The veins extend to the NE providing a strike length of 2.5km with 600m between the two mines not exploited.  There is potential to expand operations to the southwest/northeast and to depth, as well as exploit the already mined areas. The total resource potential is between 550,000 and 700,000 tonnes, with a range of grades between 5.2 g/t to 6.6 g/t gold, and 27.3 g/t to 34.8 g/t silver.  Following the granting of a Mountain Use permit, there is an estimated 6-to-9-month development time to trial mining.

Gubong, which was historically the second largest gold mine in South Korea has 9 granted tenements covering c.25 sq km.  Gubong is moderately dipping with 9 veins extending 500m below surface and known to extend at least a further 250m. However, the production opportunity for Bluebird prior to looking at deepening the mine is the 25 levels already developed with all the remnants and unmined areas left by the original miners.  The 25 levels extend over 120km in total length which indicates the size of the opportunity. The Korea Resources Corporation ('KORES') estimated 2.34M tonnes at some 7.3g/t Au garnered from 57 drill holes over 17,715.3 metres.  With additional sampling, mapping, pit modelling and grade analysis, plus the fact that Gubong is an orogenic deposit, which typically have a depth of 2km compared to the current depth of 500m, the Board believe it has a geological potential of 1 million + oz Au in-situ, plus an estimated additional 300,000 oz Au from satellite ore bodies.

Additionally, the Company has the highly prospective Batangas Gold Exploration Project in the Philippines, where it has an agreement with a Philippine company, whose owners have decades of experience in mining, to develop the Project.  The JV covers the entire Batangas Project area, which has a current JORC compliant resource of 440,000 ounces, including a maiden ore reserve of 128,000 ounces (including silver credits). Exploration expenditure to the tune of c.$20m has already been invested.  Work is focused on completing exploration and environmental work programmes initially targeting the high-grade Lobo area, although there is excellent exploration potential across the licence with high-grade targets already identified and 14km of identified mineralised structures.  The staged agreement is based on the JV partner achieving defined development goals and provides Bluebird with a free carry on the development of Batangas with a view to advancing to construction.