Increased gold production and keeping a cash buffer are two primary goals of Lachlan Star’s private placement to raise C$12.93 million as it transitions towards becoming a dividend play.
Lachlan Star (ASX: LSA) is focused on the wholly owned gold producing CMD Mine in Chile. The company also has operations in Australia, including the Bushranger copper and gold project in New South Wales and Princhester magnetite deposit in Queensland.
04/04/2013
Increased gold production and keeping a cash buffer are two primary goals of Lachlan Star’s private placement to raise C$12.93 million as it transitions towards becoming a dividend play.
04/04/2013
Canadian broker Industrial Alliance Securities has opined that Lachlan Star has "New Opportunities at CMD Mine" in initiating coverage and placing a Speculative Buy on the stock with a 12 Month Target of $1.85. Current share price is $0.45.
12/12/2012
Lachlan Star is positioning itself for increased efficiencies at the gold producing CMD gold mine in Chile, after receiving the first vehicles in the 100t Komatsu fleet. The new fleet will deliver increased control following a reduction in reliance from contractors.
07/11/2012
North American broker Stonecap Securities has placed an 'Outperform' of Lachlan Star, with the target price of C$2.35 equating to A$2.27 - or close to 60% higher than the last traded price of $1.45.
17/09/2012
Today's upgrade in gold resources is another step towards Lachlan Star increasing unhedged gold production from the current 50,000ozpa run rate to 75,000ozpa by the end of the June quarter 2013. With new equipment arriving to reduce costs, the company is set for an increase in earnings.
23/04/13
Lachlan Star shareholder Sentry Investments increases stake to 19.81%16/04/13
Lachlan Star on track to meet April gold production guidance in Chile16/04/13
Lachlan Star closes first tranche of C$12.93M placement22/03/13
Lachlan Star gains substantial shareholder14/02/13
Lachlan Star enters into a C$10 million debt facility with Sprott ResourceNo documents available.
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COMPANIA MINERA DAYTON (CMD)
In December 2010 Lachlan Star acquired 100% ownership of the operating Compañía Minera Dayton (CMD) heap leach gold mine in Chile. CMD is an established mine with a long history in a highly prospective location with excellent exploration potential.
BUSHRANGER (EL 5574)
Lachlan Star owns 100% interest in the Bushranger Project. The Project lies within the highly prospective Ordovician Volcanics of the Lachlan Fold Belt in the Rockley-Gulgong magmatic arc. The project area hosts a variety of magmatic intrusive centres with shoshonitic monzonites and monzodiorites intruding their surrounding volcaniclastics and volcanic packages. These Ordovician volcanics host the North Parkes, Lake Cowal, Cadia and Ridgeway porphyry copper and gold deposits, and this style of deposit is the exploration target at Bushranger.
PRINCHESTER
Lachlan Star owns three mining leases at Princhester, approximately 80km North West of Rockhampton, QLD. The leases are ML5831, ML5832 and ML5847 and cover several magnesite deposits. The Company plans to investigate the economic potential of these leases.
Declan Franzmann - Executive Director
Mr Franzmann is a mining engineer with more than 17 years experience in operational mine management and engineering roles in Australia. His previous experience includes general and mining management roles at a number of gold, copper and base metal underground and open pit mines in Australia. Mr Franzmann operates Crosscut Consulting, a consulting company providing mine engineering and geology services.
Mick McMullen - Executive Chairman
Mr McMullen is a geologist with over 16 years experience in the minerals industry. He has extensive knowledge of the requirements for mine financing and development. He was a founding shareholder and Executive Technical Director of Tritton Resources Limited, a company that developed an underground and open pit copper mine in New South Wales prior to being acquired by Straits Resources Limited. Mr McMullen has extensive contacts within the mining finance world and for two years was the Manager of Audits for RSG Global, a significant minerals consulting business. During that time he has been responsible for the due diligence of numerous assets for financing institutions and as part of M+A activities. Mr McMullen was until recently the Managing Director of Northern Iron Limited, an ASX listed company that redeveloped an iron ore mine in Norway. He has a detailed knowledge of the debt and equity capital markets having raised in excess of $400 million in debt and equity over the past 7 years.
Peter Babin - Non-executive Director
Denver based lawyer with 30 years experience as a lawyer, including 9 years as General Counsel and later President of Royal Gold, a TSX and NASDAQ listed gold royalty company capitalised at $2.7 billion. Since 2004 he has managed his private interests which include the CMD operation and oil and gas ventures in the US.
Toronto based accountant with over 15 years experience in the financial management of gold mining companies in Australia, Russia and Latin America. Currently ExecutiveVP and CFO for Aurico, a TSX listed gold producing company with operations in Mexico with a market capitalisationof C$3 billion.
Robert Anderson - Company Secretary
Mr Anderson is a Chartered Accountant and has 20 years experience as an accountant and was previously CFO/Company Secretary for a number of ASX listed resource companies, responsible for the day to day finances of the companies. He has extensive knowledge of the requirements of the ASX and the Corporations Act.

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