Confidential

EXECUTION VERSION

Dated 19 June 2024

K92 MINING LIMITED (as the Borrower) and

TRAFIGURA PTE LTD (as the Lender)

US$100,000,000 LOAN AGREEMENT

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Clause Page	Clause Page
1	DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION ....................................................................................... 1
2	THE LOANS .................................................................................................................................14
3	PURPOSE ....................................................................................................................................14
4	CONDITIONS PRECEDENT .......................................................................................................15
5	UTILISATION AND FEES ............................................................................................................16
6	INTEREST ....................................................................................................................................18
7	REPAYMENT ...............................................................................................................................20
8	DEFAULT INTEREST ..................................................................................................................22
9	ILLEGALITY AND PREPAYMENT ...............................................................................................22
10	COSTS AND EXPENSES ............................................................................................................23
11	LENDER PROTECTIONS ............................................................................................................24
12	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES ................................................................................24
13	UNDERTAKINGS .........................................................................................................................31
14	INFORMATION UNDERTAKINGS ..............................................................................................37
15	EVENTS OF DEFAULT................................................................................................................38
16	NOTICES .....................................................................................................................................43
17	MISCELLANEOUS .......................................................................................................................44
18	CHANGES TO PARTIES .............................................................................................................50
19	GOVERNING LAW .......................................................................................................................51
20	DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND JURISDICTION ..........................................................................51
Schedule 1 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT ...............................................................................................52
Schedule 2 FORM OF UTILISATION REQUEST ..................................................................................54
Schedule 3 EXPLORATION LICENSES ................................................................................................56

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THIS LOAN AGREEMENT (this Agreement ) is entered into on _______ 2024 between: 19 June

(1) K92 MINING LIMITED (Company No 1-52231), a company incorporated under the laws of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, with its principal office at Level 6, PwC Haus, Harbour City Precinct, Port Moresby, National Capital District, 121, Papua New Guinea (the Borrower ); and
(2) TRAFIGURA PTE LTD , a company incorporated under the laws of Singapore, with its principal office at 10 Collyer Quay, #29-01/05, Ocean Financial Centre, Singapore 049315 (the Lender ).

BACKGROUND

(A) The Lender and the Borrower are both engaged (amongst other things) in the sale and purchase of gold and copper concentrates. The Lender and the Borrower have entered into the Commercial Contract (as defined below), whereby the Borrower has agreed to sell and deliver Material (as defined below) to the Lender in such quantities and of such quality and for the price and on other terms and conditions set out in the Commercial Contract.
(B) The Lender has agreed to make loans to the Borrower.
(C) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Parties agree that the repayment of the loans by the Borrower to the Lender and all amounts owed from the Borrower to the Lender under this Agreement shall be by way of cash.

IT IS AGREED as follows:

1 DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

1.1 Definitions

In this Agreement:

Accounting Principles means the generally accepted accounting principles and applicable accounting standards in Papua New Guinea

Affiliate means, in relation to any person, a Subsidiary of that person or a Holding Company of that person or any other Subsidiary of that Holding Company

Ancillary Tenement means each of:

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[Redacted: Commercially sensitive lease ]

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Authorisation means an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, notarisation or registration

Availability Period means the period from and including the date of execution of this Agreement, to and including the date falling one day before the Maturity Date

Available Commitment means, at any time and subject to clause 5.7 ( Cancellation of Commitment ), the Commitment minus:

(a) the amount of any outstanding Loans; and
(b) in relation to the proposed Utilisation, the amount of any outstanding Loans that are due to be made on or before the proposed Utilisation Date

Break Costs means the amount (if any) by which:

(a) the interest which the Lender should have received for the period from the date of receipt of all or any part of its participation in a Loan or Unpaid Sum to the last day of the current Repayment Period in respect of that Loan or Unpaid Sum, had the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received been paid on the last day of that Repayment Period;

exceeds:

(b) the amount which the Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received by it on deposit with a leading bank for a period starting on the Business Day following receipt or recovery and ending on the last day of the current Repayment Period

Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday):

(a) on which commercial banks are open for general business in London, Papua New Guinea, the British Virgin Islands, Vancouver and Singapore and in relation to any date for the payment or purchase of US dollars, a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for the transaction of domestic and foreign exchange business in the city of New York, USA; and
(b) (in relation to the fixing of an interest rate) which is a US Government Securities Business Day

Change of Control means, in relation to an Obligor, any person or group of persons acting in concert gaining direct or indirect control of that Obligor, other than as a result of any action undertaken by the Lender

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provided always that if the

to be effective for any reason whatsoever on and after

does not become effective or ceases , Commercial Contract

shall mean the

[Redacted: Commercially sensitive agreement]

means the purchase contract dated with reference number for the purchase by the Lender from the Borrower of the Material on the terms and conditions set out therein, and as further amended from time to time

[Redacted: Commercially sensitive agreement]

means the purchase contract dated on or around the date of this Agreement with reference number and an effective date of for the purchase by the Lender from the Borrower of the Material following , on the terms and conditions set out therein, and as amended from time to time [ Redacted: Commercially sensitive agreement ]

Commitment means US$100,000,000, to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred under this Agreement

Conversion Date has the meaning given to it in clause 17.5(a) ( Judgment Currency )

Coverage Ratio has the meaning given to it in clause 13.14(a) ( Value of Material )

Default means an any event or circumstance specified in clause 15 ( Events of Default ) which would (with the giving of notice, the making of any determination under the Transaction Documents or any combination of any of the foregoing) be an Event of Default

Default Notice has the meaning given to it in clause 15.17 ( Acceleration )

Environment means humans, animals, plants and all other living organisms including the ecological systems of which they form part and the following media:

(a) air (including, without limitation, air within natural or man-made structures, whether above or below ground);
(b) water (including, without limitation, territorial, coastal and inland waters, water under or within land and water in drains and sewers); and
(c) land (including, without limitation, land under water)

Environmental Claim means any claim, proceeding, formal notice or investigation by any person in respect of any Environmental Law

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Environmental Law means any applicable law or regulation established by a Governmental Agency which relates to:

(a) the pollution or protection of the environment;
(b) harm to or the protection of human health; or
(c) any emission or substance capable of causing harm to the Environment

Environmental Permits means any permit and other Authorisation and the filing of any notification, report or assessment required under any Environmental Law for the operation of the business of the Borrower conducted on or from the properties owned or used by the Borrower in connection with the Kora project

Event of Default means any event or circumstance specified as such in clause 15 ( Events of Default )

Exploration Licenses means the exploration licenses of the Borrower now held by the Borrower as more particularly set forth in Schedule 3 ( Exploration Licenses ), or after acquired by the Borrower

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[Redacted: Commercially sensitive license]

Fallback Interest Payment means the aggregate amount of interest that:

(a) is, or is scheduled to become, payable under clauses 6.3(b), (c) or (d) ( Unavailability of Term SOFR ); and
(b) relates to a Loan

Finance Document means this Agreement, each Utilisation Request and any other document designated as a Finance Document by the Lender and the Borrower

Financial Indebtedness means any indebtedness for or in respect of:

(a) monies borrowed and debit balances at banks or other financial institutions;
(b) any amount raised by acceptance under any acceptance of credit or bill discounting facility (or dematerialised equivalent);
(c) the amount of any liability in respect of any finance or capital lease (other than any liability in respect of a finance lease or capital lease which would in accordance with the Accounting

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Principles in force prior to the date of this Agreement have been treated as an operating lease);

(d) receivables sold or discounted (other than any receivables to the extent they are sold on a non-recourse basis);
(e) any counter-indemnity obligation in respect of a guarantee, bond, standby or documentary letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial institution in respect of an underlying liability of a third party which liability would fall within one of the other paragraphs of this definition;
(f) any amount raised by the issue of shares which are redeemable by the holder before the Maturity Date;
(g) any amount of any liability under a loan, an advance or deferred purchase agreement if (i) the primary reason behind entering into the agreement is to raise finance or to finance the acquisition or construction of the asset or service in question or (ii) the agreement is in respect of the supply of assets or services and payment is due more than days after the date of supply; or [ Redacted: Number of days ]
(h) any amount raised under any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase, sale and sale back or sale and leaseback agreement) having the commercial effect of a borrowing

Financial Year means the twelve month period ending on 31 December in each year

Funding Rate means any individual rate notified by the Lender to the Borrower pursuant to clause 6.5(a)(ii) ( Cost of funds )

Governmental Agency means any government or any governmental agency, semigovernmental or judicial entity or authority (including, without limitation, any stock exchange or any self-regulatory organisation established under statute)

Historic Term SOFR means, in relation to any Loan, the most recent Term SOFR for a period equal in length to the Repayment Period of that Loan and which is as of a US Government Securities Business Day which is no more than Days before the Quotation Day [ Redacted: Number of days ]

Holding Company means, in relation to a company or corporation, any other company or corporation in respect of which it is a Subsidiary

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Indebtedness means the outstanding amount of the aggregate Loans, from time to time, plus all interest, default interest, fees and other amounts payable by the Borrower to the Lender under the Transaction Documents

Interpolated Historic Term SOFR means, in relation to any Loan, the rate (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the Term SOFR) which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:

(a) either:
(i) the most recent Term SOFR (as of a day which is not more than Days before the Quotation Day) for the longest
period (for which Term SOFR is available) which is less than the Repayment Period of that Loan; or [ Redacted: Number of days ]
(ii) if no such Term SOFR is available for a period which is less than the Repayment Period of that Loan, the most recent Overnight SOFR for a day which is not more , and not less than Days before
the Quotation Day; and [ Redacted: Number of days ]
(b) the most recent Term SOFR (as of a day which is not more than Days before the Quotation Day) for the shortest period (for which Term
SOFR is available) which exceeds the Repayment Period of that Loan [ Redacted: Number of days ]

Interpolated Term SOFR means, in relation to any Loan, the rate (rounded to the same number of decimal places as Term SOFR) which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:

(a) either:
(i) Term SOFR (as of 5:00 pm (Singapore time)) for the longest period (for which Term SOFR is available) which is less than the Repayment Period of that Loan; or
(ii) if no such Term SOFR is available for a period which is less than the Repayment Period of that Loan, Overnight SOFR for the day that is
- Days before the Quotation Day; and

[ Redacted: Number of days ]

(b) Term SOFR (as 5:00 pm (Singapore time)) for the shortest period (for which Term SOFR is available) which exceeds the Repayment Period of that Loan

Landowner Project Equity Participation Rights means the rights and entitlements of landowners whomsoever and howsoever finally determined to participate as minor equity participants in the Kainantu Project pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding dated 21 [ Redacted: Percentage ]

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August 2003 between the predecessor of the Borrower and Bilimoia Landowners Association Inc as endorsed by the Minister for Mining

Lease means an agreement under which an asset may be used, exploited, operated or managed by a person other than the owner. It includes a lease, licence, charter, hire purchase or hiring arrangement

Loan means a loan (under this Agreement) made or to be made by the Lender to the Borrower or the principal amount outstanding for the time being of that loan, and Loans means collectively, all such loans

Margin means per annum or such other lower rate to be specified by the Lender in its sole and absolute discretion [Redacted: Percentage ]

Market Disruption Rate means the percentage rate per annum which is the Reference Rate

Material shall mean concentrates produced by the Borrower and sold by the Borrower to the Lender under the Commercial Contract, subject to the quantity tolerances set out in the Commercial Contract, conforming (including as to quality) with the terms and conditions of the Commercial Contract, and Materials shall be construed accordingly

Material Adverse Effect means the occurrence of any event which has a material adverse effect on:

(a) the ability of any Obligor to satisfy its payment obligations in full under any of the Transaction Documents;
(b) the business, operations or financial conditions of any Obligor, taken as a whole; or
(c) the validity or enforceability of, or the effectiveness of any Transaction Document

Material Shortfall Event has the meaning given to it in clause 13.14(c) ( Value of Material )

Maturity Date means the date which falls Months after the date of this Agreement

[ Redacted: Number of months ]

Merger means any amalgamation, arrangement, merger or similar transaction pursuant to which any Obligor is acquired by or amalgamated with another person

Mining Act means the Mining Act 1992 of Papua New Guinea

Mining Lease

[Redacted: Commercially sensitive mining interest]

Month means a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month, except that:

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(a) (subject to paragraph (c) below) if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(b) if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and
(c) if a Repayment Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month, that Repayment Period shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar month in which that Repayment Period is to end.

The above rules will only apply to the last Month of any period

Obligors means the Borrower and any other party designated as an Obligor by the Lender and the Borrower and Obligor means any one of them

Official Body means any nation or government, any state, provincial, territorial or other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government including any applicable supranational bodies (such as the European Union or the European Central Bank)

Overnight SOFR means the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) published (before any correction, recalculation or republication by the administrator) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any other person which takes over the publication of that rate)

Party means a party to this Agreement

Progress Certificate means the certification of a professional engaged jointly by the Borrower and the Lender (in each case, acting reasonably) as to the progress of the Stage 3 Expansion in accordance with the thresholds set out in clause 4.2 ( Further conditions precedent )

Quotation Day means in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined,

Days before the first day of that period (unless market practice differs in the relevant syndicated loans market, in which case the Quotation Day will be determined by the Lender in accordance with that market practice (and if quotations would normally be given on more than one day, the Quotation Day will be the last of those days)) [ Redacted: Number of days ]

Quoted Tenor means any period for which Term SOFR is customarily displayed on the relevant page or screen of an information service

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[Redacted: Calculation of rate of interest]

Relevant Market means the market for overnight cash borrowing collateralised by US Government securities

Repayment Date means each Repayment Date (First Utilisation) and each Repayment Date (Other Utilisation)

Repayment Date (First Utilisation) has the meaning given to it in clause 7.1 ( Repayment )

Repayment Date (Other Utilisations) has the meaning given to it in clause 7.1 ( Repayment )

Repayment Instalment means each repayment instalment due under clause 7.1 ( Repayment )

Repayment Period means:

(a) in relation to the first Repayment Period, period commencing on the first Utilisation Date up to and including the first Repayment Date; and
(b) in relation to each subsequent Repayment Period, the period commencing on and from the Repayment Date immediately preceding such Repayment Period, up to and including the next Repayment Date

Sanctioned Country means, at any time, a country or territory which is the subject or target of any country-wide or territory-wide Sanctions broadly restricting or prohibiting dealings with such country, territory or government

Sanctioned Person means, at any time:

(a) any person listed in any list (each such list as amended, supplemented or substituted from time to time) of specially designated nationals or designated persons or entities maintained by any Sanctions Authority;
(b) any person who is 50% or more owned by or controlled by, any person or persons described in paragraph (a) of this definition; or
(c) any person who is otherwise the subject of Sanctions

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Sanctions means economic, financial or trade sanctions or embargoes enacted or imposed by law or regulation or other restrictive measure and administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the US government, (b) the United Nations Security Council, (c) the European Union or any of its member states' governments, (d) (following it ceasing to be a member state of the European Union) the United Kingdom, (e) the Republic of Singapore or (f) the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland acting through the respective governmental agencies of any of the foregoing (including through the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of Treasury, the United States Department of State, the United States Department of Commerce and HM Treasury (each a Sanctions Authority )

Sanctions List means any person who is the subject of Sanctions (including as a result of being owned or controlled directly by such a person) and any of the lists of specifically designated nationals or designated persons or entities (or equivalent) held by:

(a) the US government and administered by OFAC;
(b) the United Nations Security Council;
(c) the European Union;
(d) a member state of the European Union;
(e) the United Kingdom; or
(f) the Republic of Singapore,

each such list and authority as amended, supplemented or substituted from time to time

Security means a mortgage, charge, assignment, pledge, lien or other security interest securing any obligation of any person or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect

Stage 3 Expansion means the Stage 3 Expansion referred to in the Independent Technical Report, Kainantu Gold Mine Integrated Development Plan, Kainantu Project, Papua New Guinea Definitive Feasibility Study

Subsidiary means, in respect of a company or corporation, any other company or corporation which is controlled, directly or indirectly by the first-mentioned company or corporation

Tax and Taxes means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature imposed by a government or governmental agency (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same)

Tenement means:

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(a) the Mining Lease;
(b) the Ancillary Tenements;
(c) any tenement (including any leases or special mining lease) granted or deemed to have been granted to the Borrower under or in respect of the land area that is the subject of the tenement described in paragraph (a) but specifically and expressly excluding the Exploration Licences and undivided interest to be transferred to landowners on their ascertainment pursuant to the Landowner Project Equity Participation Rights;
(d) any renewal or extension of, or tenement granted in substitution for, any of the tenements described in paragraphs (a) to (c); and
(e) where the context permits, includes the certificate of grant or other document of title in relation to the grant of the relevant tenement

Term SOFR means the term SOFR reference rate administered by CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for the relevant period published (before any correction, recalculation or republication by the administrator) by CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (or any other person which takes over the publication of that rate)

Transaction Documents means the Finance Documents and the Commercial Contract

Unpaid Sum means any sum due and payable but unpaid by any party (other than the Lender) under the Finance Documents

Upfront Fee means an upfront fee in an amount equal to of the Loan to which such upfront fee relates, provided always that the aggregate of all Upfront Fees under this Agreement shall not exceed , being of the Commitment [Redacted: Dollar amount and percentage]

US Dollars , US$ or USD means the lawful currency of the United States of America

US Government Securities Business Day means any day other than:

(a) a Saturday or a Sunday; and
(b) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (or any successor organisation) recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in US Government securities

Utilisation means a utilisation of the Loans, and Utilise shall be construed accordingly

Utilisation Date means the date on which a Utilisation is made

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Utilisation Request means a notice substantially in the relevant form set out in Schedule 2 ( Form of Utilisation Request ).

1.2 Interpretation

(a) Unless a contrary indication appears, a reference in this Agreement to:
(i) any Obligor or the Lender or any other person shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees;
(ii) a document in agreed form is a document which is previously agreed in writing between the Borrower and the Lender;
(iii) assets includes present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description and includes uncalled capital, excluding the Exploration Licenses;
(iv) a certified copy means, in relation to a document, a copy of that document bearing the endorsement "certified true copy" and which has been signed and dated by a duly authorised signatory or registered agent of the relevant company and which complies with that endorsement;
(v) any Material shall, as appropriate be construed as a reference to the whole of such Material or any one or more Materials that form part of that Material;
(vi) control in the case of the Borrower or any other person whose shares are not traded on a public stock exchange, means:
- (A) the power (whether by way of ownership of shares, proxy, contract, agency or otherwise) to:
  - (1) cast, or control the casting of, more than 50 per cent of the maximum number of votes that may be cast at a general meeting of the Borrower or such person; or
  - (2) appoint or remove all, or the majority, of the directors or other equivalent officers of the Borrower or such person; or
  - (3) give directions with respect to the operating and financial policies of the Borrower or such person with which the directors or other equivalent officers of the Borrower or such person are obliged to comply; and/or
- (B) the holding of a beneficial interest in more than 50 per cent of the issued share capital of the Borrower or such person,

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and controlled and other similar expressions shall be construed accordingly in relation to the Borrower or any other person;

(vii) control in the case of any person whose shares are traded on a public stock exchange, means:
(A) the power (whether by way of ownership of shares, proxy, contract, agency or otherwise) to:
- (1) cast more than 50 per cent of the maximum number of votes that may be cast at a general meeting of such person;
- (2) appoint or remove all, or the majority, of the directors of such person; and/or
(B) the holding of a beneficial interest in more than 50 per cent of the issued share capital of such person,

and controlled and other similar expressions shall be construed accordingly in relation to such person;

(viii) a Finance Document , the Commercial Contract , a Transaction Document or any other agreement or instrument is a reference to that Finance Document, the Commercial Contract, that Transaction Document or that other agreement or instrument as amended, supplemented, extended, restated, novated and/or replaced in any manner from time to time (however fundamentally and whether or not more onerously, including but not limited to any provision for further loans and an increase in the size of the facility);
(ix) indebtedness includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent;
(x) a person includes any individual, firm, company, corporation, government, state or agency of a state or any association, trust, joint venture, consortium or partnership (whether or not having separate legal personality);
(xi) a regulation includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law) of any governmental, intergovernmental or supranational body, agency, department or of any regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;
(xii) a provision of law is a reference to that provision as amended or re-enacted;

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(xiii) the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and
(xiv) a time of day is a reference to Singapore time , unless expressly provided otherwise.
(b) Clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only and shall not affect the construction of this Agreement.
(c) References to clauses, paragraphs and Schedules are references to clauses, paragraphs and Schedules of this Agreement unless otherwise stated. References to this Agreement include its Schedules.
(d) Any words following the terms including , include , in particular or any similar expression shall be construed as illustrative and shall not limit the sense of the words, description, definition, phrase or term preceding those terms.
(e) Unless a contrary indication appears, a term used in any other Transaction Document or in any notice given under or in connection with any Transaction Document has the same meaning in that Transaction Document or notice as in this Agreement.
(f) A Default (other than an Event of Default) is continuing if it has not been remedied or waived in writing and an Event of Default is continuing if it has not been waived in writing, in each case to the satisfaction of the Lender, acting reasonably.

1.3 Third party rights

(a) Except for the Lender's financing banks (or their security agents) to whom the rights of the Lender under this Agreement may be assigned as provided herein, and unless expressly provided to the contrary in this Agreement, a person who is not a Party has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (the Third Parties Act ) to enforce or enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.
(b) No consent of any person who is not a Party is required to rescind or vary this Agreement at any time.

2 THE LOANS

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lender shall make the Loans to the Borrower in an aggregate amount equal to the Commitment.

3 PURPOSE

3.1 Purpose

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The Borrower may only apply the Loans towards one or more of the following: (a) payment of any Upfront Fee; and (b) for general corporate purposes, working capital purposes and capex purposes of the Borrower in connection with the Stage 3 Expansion of the Borrower's Kora project.

3.2 Monitoring

The Lender shall be entitled (but not bound) to monitor or verify the application of the Loans and the Borrower shall provide such information, documents or evidence to the Lender as the Lender may reasonably request in its discretion for those purposes.

4 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

4.1 Initial conditions precedent

The Borrower may not deliver a Utilisation Request unless the Lender receives, in form and substance satisfactory to it acting reasonably, all of the documents and other evidence referred to in Schedule 1 ( Conditions Precedent ), which conditions precedent are for the sole benefit of the Lender, and may be waived in writing by the Lender in whole or in part, and with or without conditions, on or before the first Utilisation Date without prejudicing the right of the Lender to require fulfilment of such conditions in whole or in part at any time thereafter. The Lender shall notify the Borrower as soon as practicable upon being so satisfied.

4.2 Further conditions precedent

The Lender shall not be bound to comply with its obligations under this Agreement unless and until the following conditions are satisfied on the date of the relevant Utilisation Request and on the proposed Utilisation Date:

(a) the representations and warranties set out in clause 12.1 ( Borrower's Representations and Warranties ) are true in all material respects;
(b) no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Utilisation; and
(c) with respect to each Utilisation other than the first Utilisation only, the Lender receives, in form and substance satisfactory to it acting reasonably:
(i) with respect to the second Utilisation under this Agreement, (A) a duly executed Progress Certificate certifying the completion of 25% of the Stage 3 Expansion and (B) a copy of any other Authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Lender considers to be necessary or desirable (if it has notified the Borrower accordingly) in connection with the entry into and performance of the transactions contemplated by any Finance Document or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document;

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(ii) with respect to the third Utilisation under this Agreement, (A) a duly executed Progress Certificate certifying the completion of 50% of the Stage 3 Expansion and (B) a copy of any other Authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Lender considers to be necessary or desirable (if it has notified the Borrower accordingly) in connection with the entry into and performance of the transactions contemplated by any Finance Document or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document;
(iii) with respect to the fourth Utilisation under this Agreement, (A) a duly executed Progress Certificate certifying the completion of 75% of the Stage 3 Expansion and (B) a copy of any other Authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Lender considers to be necessary or desirable (if it has notified the Borrower accordingly) in connection with the entry into and performance of the transactions contemplated by any Finance Document or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document; and
(iv) with respect to the fifth Utilisation under this Agreement, (A) a duly executed Progress Certificate certifying the completion of 100% of the Stage 3 Expansion and (B) a copy of any other Authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Lender considers to be necessary or desirable (if it has notified the Borrower accordingly) in connection with the entry into and performance of the transactions contemplated by any Finance Document or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document.

5 UTILISATION AND FEES

5.1 Delivery of a Utilisation Request

The Borrower may request the advance of a Loan by delivery to the Lender of a duly completed Utilisation Request not later than 9:00 am on the Business Day before the proposed Utilisation Date.

5.2 Completion of a Utilisation Request

Each Utilisation Request is irrevocable and will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the Availability Period.

5.3 Currency and amount
(a) The currency specified in a Utilisation Request shall be US Dollars.
(b) The amount specified in a Utilisation Request must be an amount which is equal to . [ Redacted: Dollar amount ]

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5.4 Availability of Loans

If the conditions set out in clauses 4 ( Conditions precedent ) and 5.1 ( Delivery of a Utilisation Request ) to 5.3 ( Currency and amount ) have been met, the Lender shall make each Loan available by the Utilisation Date for that Loan.

5.5 Upfront Fee

On each Utilisation Date, the Borrower shall pay to the Lender an Upfront Fee from the proceeds of the Loan to which such Utilisation Date relates (by way of deduction from that Loan, such that the amount of that Loan paid by the Lender to the Borrower on the relevant Utilisation Date shall be the net amount equal to the amount set out in the Utilisation Request to which such Utilisation Date relates less the amount of the relevant Upfront Fee). Each Upfront Fee is payable independently and irrespective of any other payment or repayment obligations the Borrower may have under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and shall not in any event be applied to or reduce the outstanding amount of the Loans, any Repayment Instalment, or any other sums due to the Lender under the Transaction Documents.

5.6 Commitment fee

(a) The Borrower shall pay to the Lender a fee computed and accruing on a daily basis, at the rate of per annum of , at 5 pm (in Singapore) on each day of the Availability Period (or, if any such day shall not be a Business Day, at 5 pm (in Singapore) on the immediately preceding Business Day) until the date falling immediately prior to the first Utilisation Date. [ Redacted: Dollar amount and percentage ]
(b) The accrued commitment fee is payable:
(i) on the last day of each successive period of Months which ends during the Availability Period; [ Redacted: Number of months ]
(ii) on the last day of the Availability Period; and
(iii) if the Commitment is reduced to zero before the last day of the Availability Period, on the day on which such reduction to zero becomes effective.
(c) Notwithstanding clause 5.6(a) above, no commitment fee under this clause 5.6 shall be payable until the
- [ Redacted: Conditions precedent ]

5.7 Cancellation of Commitment

The Commitment which, at that time, is unutilised shall be immediately cancelled at 5 pm on the last day of the Availability Period.

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6 INTEREST

6.1 Calculation of interest

(a) The rate of interest on each Loan for each Repayment Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the applicable:

(i) [ Redacted: Rate of interest ]

(ii) [ Redacted: Rate of interest ]

(b) Such interest shall be due and payable on each Repayment Date and shall be paid by the Borrower to the Lender in accordance with clause 7.1 ( Repayment ), clause 7.2 ( Schedule of repayment ) and/or clause 15.17 ( Acceleration ).
(c) Such interest will accrue from day to day on such outstanding amount and is calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed based on a year of 365 days.

6.2 Notification of rates of interest

(a) The Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower of the determination of a rate of interest under this Agreement.
(b) In respect of any Fallback Interest Payment, the Lender shall promptly upon a Fallback Interest Payment being determinable notify the Borrower of that Fallback Interest Payment.
(c) The Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower of each Funding Rate relating to a Loan.
(d) This clause 6.2 shall not require the Lender to make any notification to any Party on a day which is not a Business Day.

6.3 Unavailability of Term SOFR

(a) Interpolated Term SOFR : If Term SOFR is not available for the Repayment Period of the relevant Loan, the Reference Rate for such Repayment Period shall be Interpolated Term SOFR for a period equal in length to the Repayment Period of that Loan.
(b) Historic Term SOFR : If clause 6.3(a) above applies but Interpolated Term SOFR is not available for the Repayment Period of the relevant Loan, the Reference Rate for such Repayment Period shall be Historic Term SOFR for a period equal in length to the Repayment Period of that Loan.
(c) Interpolated Historic Term SOFR : If clause 6.3(b) above applies but Historic Term SOFR is not available for the Repayment Period of the relevant Loan, the Reference Rate for such

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Repayment Period shall be Interpolated Historic Term SOFR for a period equal in length to the Repayment Period of that Loan.

(d) Cost of funds : If clause 6.3(c) above applies but the Interpolated Historic Term SOFR is not available for the Repayment Period of the relevant Loan, there shall be no Reference Rate for that Loan and clause 6.5 ( Cost of funds ) shall apply to that Loan for that Repayment Period.
6.4 Market disruption

If before 5 p.m. in Singapore on the Business Day immediately following the Quotation Day for the relevant Repayment Period the Borrower receives a notification from the Lender that the cost to it of funding its participation in that Loan from whatever source it may reasonably select would be in excess of the Market Disruption Rate then clause 6.5 ( Cost of funds ) shall apply to that Loan for the relevant Repayment Period.

6.5 Cost of funds
(a) If this clause 6.5 applies, the rate of interest on the relevant Loan for the relevant Repayment Period shall be the percentage rate per annum which is the sum of:
- (i) the Margin; and
- (ii) the rate notified to the Borrower by the Lender as soon as practicable and in any event within Days of the first day of that Repayment Period (or, if earlier, on the date falling Days before the date on which interest is due to be paid in respect of that Repayment Period), to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to the Lender of funding that Loan from whatever source it may reasonably select. [ Redacted: Number of days ]
(b) If this clause 6.5 applies and the Lender or the Borrower so requires, the Lender and the Borrower shall enter into negotiations (for a period of not more than days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest. [ Redacted: Number of days ]
(c) Any alternative basis agreed pursuant to paragraph (b) above shall, with the prior consent of the Lender and the Borrower, be binding on all Parties.
(d) If this clause 6.5 applies pursuant to clause 6.4 ( Market disruption ) and:
- (i) the Lender's Funding Rate is less than the Market Disruption Rate; or
- (ii) the Lender does not notify a rate by the time specified in clause 6.5(a)(ii) above,

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the cost to the Lender of funding that Loan for that Interest Period shall be deemed, for the purposes of clause 6.5(a) above, to be the Market Disruption Rate.

6.6 Notification to Borrower

If clause 6.5 ( Cost of funds ) applies the Lender shall, as soon as is practicable, notify the Borrower.

6.7 Break Costs

The Borrower shall, within Days of demand by the Lender, pay to the Lender its Break Costs attributable to all or any part of a Loan or Unpaid Sum being paid by the Borrower on a day other than the last day of a Repayment Period for that Loan or Unpaid Sum. [ Redacted: Number of days ]

7 REPAYMENT

7.1 Repayment

(a) The Borrower shall repay the Loan in connection with the first Utilisation in instalments by repaying on each Repayment Date (First Utilisation) an amount which reduces the outstanding amount of such Loan by an amount equal to ' X ’, calculated as follows and rounded to two decimal places (rounding up where the third decimal place is equal to or greater than five):

[Redacted: Dollar amount ]

where:

Y = the aggregate number of Repayment Dates (First Utilisation) in the period commencing (A) the date falling Months after the first Utilisation Date of the initial Utilisation and ending on (B) the Maturity Date; and [ Redacted: Number of months ]

Repayment Date (First Utilisation) = the last day of each successive period of Months commencing on and from the date falling Months after the first Utilisation Date of the initial Utilisation and if the last Repayment Date (First Utilisation) falls after the Maturity Date, the last Repayment Date (First Utilisation) shall be the Maturity Date. [ Redacted: Number of months ]

(b) The Borrower shall repay each Loan in connection with each Utilisation (other than the initial Utilisation) in instalments by repaying on each Repayment Date (Other Utilisations) an amount which reduces the outstanding amount of such Loan by an amount equal to ' A ’, calculated as follows and rounded to two decimal places (rounding up where the third decimal place is equal to or greater than five):

[Redacted: Dollar amount]

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where:

B = the aggregate number of Repayment Dates (Other Utilisations) in the period commencing (A) the date falling after the Utilisation Date in connection with the Loan to which such Utilisation relates and ending on (B) the Maturity Date; and

Repayment Date (Other Utilisations) = the last day of each successive period of Months commencing on and from the Utilisation Date in connection with the Loan to which such Utilisation relates and if the last Repayment Date (Other Utilisations) falls after the Maturity Date, the last Repayment Date (Other Utilisations) shall be the Maturity Date. [ Redacted: Number of months ]

7.2 Schedule of repayment
(a) The Parties may from time to time mutually agree in writing to a revised repayment schedule as set out in clause 7.1 ( Repayment ), and thereupon the references to the Repayment Dates and Repayment Instalments shall be deemed to refer to the Repayment Dates and Repayment Instalments in such revised repayment schedule.
(b) The Borrower is entitled to voluntarily prepay the Indebtedness (in part or in full) in cash without penalty at any time, and from time to time, upon Days' notice to the Lender. To the extent the Borrower makes a voluntary repayment of less than the full amount of Indebtedness, the repayment will be applied against the next Repayment Instalment on the relevant Repayment Date and, insofar as the amount repaid exceeds such Repayment Instalment, such excess shall be applied against the immediately following Repayment Instalment(s). [ Redacted: Number of days ]

7.3 Maturity Date

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement, if the Indebtedness remains outstanding on the Maturity Date, the Borrower shall pay to the Lender in cash all such amounts on the Maturity Date (or, if not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day).

7.4 Payment to Lender

Payments to the Lender on account of the Indebtedness shall be made on the due date for value in readily available funds in US dollars to the account as from time to time may be notified by the Lender to the Borrower in writing.

7.5 No set-off by Borrower

Other than as set out in this Agreement, all payments to be made by the Borrower under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party shall be calculated and be made without (and free and clear of any) deduction, withholding, set-off or counterclaim.

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7.6 Business Days

Unless expressly provided to the contrary, any payment which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made on the next Business Day in the same calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).

7.7 Reborrowing and Cancellation of Commitment
(a) The Borrower may not re-borrow any part of the Indebtedness which is repaid or prepaid by the Borrower hereunder.
(b) If the Commitment is reduced in accordance with this Agreement, the amount of such reduction may not be subsequently reinstated.
(c) If all or part of any Loan is repaid or prepaid and is not available for redrawing, an amount of the Commitment (equal to the amount of the relevant Loan which is repaid or prepaid) will be deemed to be cancelled on the date of repayment or prepayment.

8 DEFAULT INTEREST

If the Borrower fails to pay (or, for the avoidance of doubt, ensure that a Repayment Instalment is made in respect of) any amount payable by it under this Agreement on its due date or on the relevant Repayment Date (other than with respect to a Deferred Payment Amount) and such default is not cured within of its due date, default interest shall accrue on the overdue amount from the due date or the relevant Repayment Date up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at the rate of above the interest rate provided for in clause 6 ( Interest ). Any default interest shall be immediately due and payable by the Borrower on demand by the Lender to the extent not paid in accordance with clause 15.17 ( Acceleration ). [ Redacted: Number of days and percentage ]

9 ILLEGALITY AND PREPAYMENT

9.1 Illegality

(a) If, at any time, it is or will become unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for the Lender to perform any of its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document (whether such obligation becomes unlawful generally or it is unlawful to perform such obligation in the manner contemplated in the relevant Transaction Document) or to fund, issue or maintain any Loan:
(i) the Commitment of the Lender will be immediately cancelled; and

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(ii) the Borrower shall immediately repay the outstanding balance of the aggregate Loans in cash, together with any interest, default interest and any other sums due under this Agreement.
(b) The termination of the Transaction Documents (or any of them) shall be without prejudice to any of the obligations or liabilities incurred by and rights and remedies (including delivery and payment obligations) accruing to the Parties which may be in existence or may have arisen prior to such termination and nothing in this Agreement shall prejudice the right of any party to recover any amount outstanding at such termination.

9.2 Mandatory prepayment – Sanctions and others

If there is a breach of clause 12.1(n) ( Anti-corruption law and Sanctions ) and/or clause 12.1(o) ( Anti-Bribery and Corruption and AML ) of this Agreement, the Lender may, by not less than notice to the Borrower:

[ Redacted: Number of days ]

(a) cancel the Commitment, whereupon the Commitment of the Lender will be immediately cancelled; and
(b) declare all Loans, together with accrued interest, default interest and all other amounts accrued under the Transactions Documents, to be due and payable, whereupon all such outstanding amounts will become due and payable on the date specified by the Lender.

9.3 Prepayment in accordance with Agreement

The Borrower shall not repay or prepay all or any part of the Loans or cancel all or any part of the Commitment except at the times and in the manner expressly provided for in this Agreement including under clause 7.2(b) ( Schedule of repayment ) or with the consent of the Lender.

10 COSTS AND EXPENSES

(a) Subject to the pre-approval of the Borrower, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, the Borrower shall pay to the Lender on demand, all reasonable out of pocket expenses and costs of the Lender (including but not limited to legal fees to the maximum aggregate amount of of counsel to the Lender) in connection with:
(i) the negotiation, preparation, amendment, printing, execution and registration of the Transaction Documents; and
(ii) collating, monitoring and otherwise attending to the conditions precedent to drawdown of any Loan.

[ Redacted: Maximum dollar amount of expenses ]

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(b) Subject to the pre-approval of the Borrower, which shall not be unreasonably withheld, the Borrower shall pay to the Lender on demand, all reasonable out of pocket expenses and costs of the Lender (including but not limited to legal fees of counsel to the Lender) in connection with:
(i) the enforcement or preservation or the attempted enforcement or preservation of any of the rights and powers of the Lender under the Transaction Documents; and
(ii) any actual or proposed amendment of or supplement to any Transaction Document, or with any request to the Lender to grant any consent or waiver in respect of any provision of any Transaction Document, whether or not it is given.

11 LENDER PROTECTIONS

11.1 Tax gross-up
(a) In this clause, Tax Deduction means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a Finance Document.
(b) All payments by the Borrower under the Finance Documents must be made without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law.
(c) If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by the Borrower, then the Borrower shall be entitled to make such Tax Deduction and the amount of the payment due from the Borrower shall be increased to an amount which (after making any such Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no such Tax Deduction had been required.
11.2 Limitations of Liability

Without prejudice to the Borrower’s obligations to pay any principal, interest, fees or other amount payable under this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be liable to the Lender for any of the following types of costs, losses or liabilities under the Transaction Documents: special, indirect, inconsequential, pure economic losses, loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of contracts, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business, loss of use and loss of good will.

12 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

12.1 Borrower’s Representations and Warranties – General

The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lender that each of the statements set out in this clause 12.1 are true, correct in all material respects and not misleading at all times when the

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representations and warranties are made or deemed to have been made in accordance with clause 12.3 ( Times when representations made ).

(a) Status

The Borrower is a limited liability company, duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of Papua New Guinea with legal person status under the laws of Papua New Guinea, and the Borrower is capable of suing and being sued in its own name and has the full power, authority and capacity to enter into and perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents applicable to it.

(b) Binding obligations

The obligations of the Borrower under the Transaction Documents applicable to it are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations, subject to laws generally affecting creditors’ rights and equitable principles.

The entry into and performance by the Borrower of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Transaction Documents do not and will not conflict with:

(i) any law or regulation applicable to the Borrower;
(ii) the Borrower’s constitutional documents; or
(iii) any agreement or instrument binding upon the Borrower where such breach would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(d) Power and authority

(i) The Borrower has the corporate power to enter into, perform and deliver, and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorise its entry into, performance and delivery of, the Transaction Documents applicable to it, and the transactions contemplated by those documents.
(ii) No limit on any of the Borrower’s corporate powers (including borrowing powers) will be exceeded as a result of the advancing or giving of indemnities contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
(e) Validity and admissibility in evidence
(i) All Authorisations required:

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(A) to enable the Borrower lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights and comply with its obligations under the Transaction Documents; and
(B) to make the Transaction Documents admissible in evidence in any relevant jurisdictions,

have been obtained or effected or will be obtained or effected prior to its entry into such documents and are or will then be in full force and effect.

(ii) All Authorisations necessary for the conduct of the Borrower’s business have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect, where failure to obtain that Authorisation would or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(f) Insolvency

No:

(i) corporate action, legal proceeding or other procedure or step described in clause 15.6 ( Insolvency proceedings ); or
(ii) creditors’ process described in clause 15.7 ( Creditors’ process ),

has been taken by or in respect of the Borrower or, to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge, threatened in relation to the Borrower and none of the circumstances described in clause 15.5 ( Insolvency ) applies to the Borrower.

(g) No Default
(i) No Default is continuing nor, to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge, is reasonably likely to result from the making of the Utilisation or the entry into, the performance of, or any transaction contemplated by, any Transaction Document.
(ii) No other event or circumstance is outstanding which constitutes a default by the Borrower under any other agreement or instrument which is binding on the Borrower (or to which the Borrower’s assets are subject) to an extent or in a manner which has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(h) No proceedings pending or threatened

No litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings or investigations of, or before, any court, arbitral body or agency which have or, if adversely determined, are reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect have been started or, to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge, threatened against the Borrower.

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(i) Environmental laws
(i) The Borrower is in compliance with clause 13.4 ( Environmental compliance ) in all material respects and to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge, no circumstances have occurred which would prevent such compliance in a manner or to an extent which has or would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) No Environmental Claim which has or would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect has been commenced or, to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge, threatened against the Borrower.
(iii) All consents, licences and approvals required under the Environmental Laws have been obtained and are currently in force, where failure to obtain such consent, licence or approval has or would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(j) Taxation

(i) The Borrower is not overdue in the filing of any Tax returns and the Borrower is not overdue in the payment of any amount in respect of Tax, which, in either case, has or would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(ii) To the Borrower’s knowledge, no claims or investigations, which have or would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, are being made or conducted against it with respect to Taxes of the Borrower.
(iii) The Borrower is resident for Tax purposes only in Papua New Guinea.
(k) No breach of laws

The Borrower has complied in all material respects with applicable law and regulation where failure to so comply would or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(l) Good title to assets
(i) The Borrower has good, valid and marketable title to, or valid leases or licences of, and all required Authorisations to use, its respective assets necessary to carry on its business as presently conducted.
(ii) The Borrower has the right to sell the Material to the Lender under the Commercial Contract and full title to the Material will pass to the Lender in accordance with the Commercial Contract free from any Security, unless permitted under clause 13.11(c)(i) or 13.11(c)(iii) ( Negative pledge ).

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(m) Insurance

To the best of the Borrower’s knowledge, there is no:

(i) outstanding insured loss or liability incurred by the Borrower which is not expected to be covered to the full extent of that loss or liability which has or would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; and
(ii) non-disclosure, misrepresentation or breach of any term of any insurance contract to which the Borrower is party which would entitle any insurer to repudiate, rescind or cancel such insurance contract or to treat such insurance contract as avoided in whole or in part or otherwise decline any valid claim under it by or on behalf the Borrower, which has or would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(n) Anti-corruption laws and Sanctions
(i) The Borrower and its Affiliates has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure, in relation to its business activities, compliance by the Borrower, each of its Affiliates, each of its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers and employees with such Sanctions as are applicable to it in respect of each such business activity.
(ii) None of the Borrower, any of its Affiliates, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their directors or officers, or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any of their respective employees is (A) a Sanctioned Person under paragraph (a) of the definition of that term or (B) 50% or more owned or controlled by, any person described in paragraph (b) of the definition of that term.
(iii) The Borrower and its Affiliates shall comply in all respects in relation to their respective business activities with Sanctions that are applicable to it in respect of each such business activity.
(iv) The Borrower shall not knowingly (having made reasonable enquiries) use (and shall ensure that none of its Affiliates and Subsidiaries shall use) any Loan for the purpose of financing or making funds available to any person or entity which is (A) a Sanctioned Person; or (B) located in a Sanctioned Country; if and to the extent such financing or provision of funds would be prohibited by Sanctions applicable to it or to the proceeds of any Loan (except where the transaction or other business has been authorized by a valid license issued by the appropriate Official Body(ies) under applicable Sanctions) or would otherwise, to the knowledge of the Borrower, cause the Lender in relation to the provision of funds, to be in breach of Sanctions applicable to the Lender.

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(v) The Borrower shall not knowingly (having made reasonable inquiries) (and shall ensure that none of its Affiliates will) use any funds identified as derived directly from any activity or dealing with any person or entity which is (A) a Sanctioned Person; or (B) located in a Sanctioned Country; if and to the extent such activity or dealing with that Sanctioned Person or in such Sanctioned Country would be prohibited by Sanctions applicable to it or to the funds used (except where the transaction or other business has been authorized by a valid license issued by the appropriate Official Body(ies) under all such applicable Sanctions) or would otherwise, to the knowledge of the Borrower, cause the Lender to be in breach of Sanctions applicable to the Lender, for the purpose of discharging amounts owing to the Lender under this Agreement.
(o) Anti-Bribery and Corruption and AML
(i) The Borrower and each of its Affiliates has implemented and maintains adequate internal procedures designed to ensure that neither it, nor its directors, officers, or employees shall authorize the receiving, giving or offering of any financial or other advantage with the intention of inducing or rewarding an individual or entity to improperly perform an activity undertaken in the course of an individual’s employment or connected to an entity’s business activities ( Anti-Corruption Controls ).
(ii) In connection with the performance of this Agreement, the Borrower and each of its Affiliates has not paid, received or authorized, and it will not pay, receive or authorize, any financial or other advantage or the offering thereof, to or for the benefit of any public official, civil servant, political party, political party official, candidate for office, or any other public or private individual or entity (including to the Lender, its Affiliates, officers, directors and employees), where such payment, receipt or authorization would violate the Anti-Corruption Controls.
(iii) The Borrower, each of its Affiliates and each of its Subsidiaries has instituted and maintains reasonable and relevant policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve in relation to its business activities, compliance with all anti-moneylaundering laws and regulations (including, without limitation, the Criminal Code (Canada), the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada) and/or other similar laws and regulations in any relevant jurisdictions) which are applicable to it in respect of each such business activity.

(p) Full disclosure

All factual information provided by or on behalf of the Borrower in connection with the Transaction Documents was true and accurate in all material respects as at the date it was

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provided or as at the date (if any) at which it is stated and no information has been given or withheld that results in the information received being untrue or misleading in any material respect.

(q) No Security over Tenements
(i) No Security exists over all or any of the Tenements, unless permitted under clause 13.11(c)(i) or 13.11(c)(iii) ( Negative pledge ).
(ii) For the avoidance of doubt, this clause 12.1(q) does not apply to the Landowner Project Equity Participation Rights.

12.2 Lender’s Representations and Warranties – General

The Lender represents and warrants to the Borrower that each of the statements set out in this clause 12.2 are true, correct in all material respects and not misleading at all times when the representations and warranties are made or deemed to have been made in accordance with clause 12.3 ( Times when representations made ).

(a) Status

The Lender is a company, duly incorporated and validly existing under the laws of Singapore and has full power, authority and capacity to enter into and perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents.

(b) Binding obligations

The obligations of the Lender under the Transaction Documents are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations, subject to laws generally affecting creditors’ rights and equitable principles.

The entry into and performance by the Lender of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Transaction Documents do not and will not conflict with:

(i) any law or regulation applicable to the Lender;
(ii) the Lender’s constitutional documents; or
(iii) any agreement or instrument binding upon the Lender where such breach would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Lender’s ability to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents.
(d) Power and authority

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The Lender has the corporate power to enter into, perform and deliver, and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorise its entry into, performance and delivery of, the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated by those documents.

(e) Validity and admissibility in evidence

All Authorisations required:

(i) to enable the Lender lawfully to enter into, exercise its rights and comply with its obligations under the Transaction Documents; and
(ii) to make the Transaction Documents admissible in evidence in any relevant jurisdictions,

have been obtained or effected or will be obtained or effected prior to its entry into such documents and are or will then be in full force and effect.

12.3 Times when representations made
(a) All the representations and warranties in this clause 12 ( Representations and Warranties ) are made by the Borrower or the Lender, as applicable, on the date of this Agreement and repeated on the date of each Utilisation Request, each Utilisation Date and each Repayment Date.
(b) Each representation or warranty deemed to be made after the date of this Agreement shall, unless otherwise indicated, be deemed to be made by reference to the facts and circumstances existing at the date the representation or warranty is deemed to be made.

13 UNDERTAKINGS

13.1 Duration of undertakings

The undertakings in this clause 13 remain in force from the date of this Agreement for so long as any amount is outstanding from the Borrower under the Finance Documents.

13.2 Authorisations

The Borrower shall promptly obtain, comply with and do all that is necessary to maintain in full force and effect and supply to the Lender, upon request, certified copies of any Authorisation required under any law or regulation to:

(a) enable it to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents;

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(b) ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in evidence of the Transaction Documents; and
(c) carry on its business.

13.3 Compliance

(a) The Borrower shall comply in all material respects with all laws and regulations to which it may be subject, if failure so to comply has or would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) The Borrower shall comply in all material respects with each and any provision of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party.

13.4 Environmental compliance

The Borrower shall:

(a) comply with all Environmental Laws;
(b) obtain, maintain and ensure compliance with all requisite Environmental Permits (including the Export License); and
(c) implement procedures to monitor compliance with and to prevent liability under any Environmental Law,

in each case if failure so to do so has or would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

13.5 Environmental Claims

The Borrower shall, promptly upon becoming aware of the same, inform the Lender in writing of:

(a) any Environmental Claim against it which is current, pending or threatened and which has or, if substantiated, would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect; and
(b) any facts or circumstances which are reasonably likely to result in any Environmental Claim which has or, if substantiated, would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect being commenced or threatened against it.
13.6 Anti-corruption law and Sanctions
(a) The Borrower shall not knowingly use, directly or indirectly, the proceeds of any Loan for any purpose that would breach the United Kingdom Bribery Act 2010, the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and

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Terrorist Financing Act (Canada) and/or the United Nations Act (Canada) or other similar legislation in other relevant jurisdictions.

(b) The Borrower shall:
(i) conduct its businesses in compliance with applicable anti-corruption laws and antimoney-laundering laws (including, without limitation, the Criminal Code (Canada), the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada), the United Nations Act (Canada) and/or other similar laws in other relevant jurisdictions); and
(ii) maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with these laws.
(c) The Borrower shall:
(i) comply in all respects with Sanctions that are applicable to it;
(ii) not knowingly use (and shall ensure that none of its Affiliates shall use) the proceeds of any Loan for the purpose of financing or making funds available to any person or entity which is listed on a Sanctions List or located in a Sanctioned Country, if and to the extent such financing or provision of funds would be prohibited by applicable Sanctions or would otherwise, to the knowledge of the Borrower, cause the Lender to be in breach of Sanctions applicable to the Lender; and
(iii) not knowingly use any funds identified as derived directly from any activity or dealing with any person or entity which is listed on a Sanctions List for the purpose of discharging amounts owing to the Lender under the Transaction Documents to the extent such provision of funds would cause the Lender to be in breach of Sanctions applicable to the Lender.

13.7 Taxation

The Borrower shall pay and discharge all Taxes imposed upon it or its assets within the time periods allowed without incurring penalties unless and only to the extent that:

(a) such payment is being contested in good faith;
(b) adequate reserves are being maintained for those Taxes and the costs required to contest them;
(c) such payment can be lawfully withheld; and
(d) the withholding of such payment does not or will not have a Material Adverse Effect.

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13.8 Pari passu ranking

The Borrower shall ensure that at all times any claims of the Lender against it under the Transaction Documents will rank at least pari passu with the claims of all its other unsecured and unsubordinated creditors except those creditors whose claims are mandatorily preferred by laws of general application to companies.

13.9 No change of business

The Borrower shall ensure that no change is made to the general nature of its business from that carried on by it at the date of this Agreement.

13.10 No Merger

(a) Subject to clause 13.10(b), the Borrower shall not enter into any Merger.
(b) Clause 13.10(a) shall not apply to any Merger if such Merger is not reasonably likely to materially prejudice the rights of the Lender under any Transaction Document.

13.11 Negative pledge

(a) Subject to clause 13.11(c), the Borrower shall not create, or permit to exist, any Security over, or affecting, any of its assets, including but not limited to the Transaction Documents or Material being produced, stored, or delivered on account of the Commercial Contract (or any part thereof).
(b) Subject to clause 13.11(c), the Borrower shall not:
(i) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its assets on terms whereby they are or may be leased to or re-acquired by the Borrower or any of its Affiliates;
(ii) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its receivables on recourse terms (except for the discounting of bills or notes in the ordinary course of business);
(iii) enter into or permit to subsist any title retention arrangement;
(iv) other than in connection with payments made by the Borrower to certain holders of royalties, enter into or permit to subsist any arrangement under which money or the benefit of a bank or other account may be applied, set-off or made subject to a combination of accounts; or
(v) enter into or permit to subsist any other preferential arrangement having a similar effect,

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in circumstances where the arrangement or transaction is entered into primarily as a method of raising Financial Indebtedness or of financing the acquisition of an asset (each, a Quasi-Security ).

(c) Clauses 13.11(a) and 13.11(b) above do not apply to any Security or as the case may be, Quasi-Security listed below:
- (i) any Security or Quasi-Security disclosed to the Lender in writing as of the date of this Agreement;
- (ii) any lien arising by operation of law and in the ordinary course of trading provided that the debt which is secured thereby is paid when due or contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and properly provisioned;
- (iii) any Security or Quasi-Security created pursuant to any Finance Document;
- (iv) any Security or Quasi-Security arising under any retention of title, hire purchase or conditional sale arrangement or arrangements having similar effect in respect of goods supplied to the Borrower in the ordinary course of trading and on the supplier’s standard or usual terms and not arising as a result of any default or omission by the Borrower;
- (v) the obligations of the Borrower in respect of the Landowner Project Equity Participation Rights; or
- (vi) any Security or as the case may be, Quasi-Security created over the Exploration Licenses.
(d) Without prejudice to the Borrower’s obligation to deliver Material under the Commercial Contract, the Borrower:
- (i) shall not enter into any other supply or export contracts of concentrates; and
- (ii) may enter into any other supply or export contracts (which do not relate to the supply or export of concentrates and do not fall within clause 13.11(d)(i)) provided that such contracts are on an arm’s length basis.
13.12 Disposal
(a) Subject to clause 13.12(b), the Borrower shall not enter into a single transaction or a series of transactions (whether related or not) and whether voluntary or involuntary to sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any asset.
(b) Clause 13.12(a) shall not apply to any sale, lease, transfer or other disposal of:

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(i) Exploration Licenses;
(ii) assets which are not related to the Transaction Documents;
(iii) assets in the ordinary course of business;
(iv) assets as permitted under the Transaction Documents;
(v) assets for cash where the value and net consideration receivable (when aggregated with the higher of the market value and net consideration receivable for any other sale, lease, licence, transfer or other disposal not allowed under the preceding paragraphs) does not exceed in any Financial Year of the Borrower; and [Redacted: Dollar amount]
(vi) the obligations of the Borrower pursuant to the Landowner Project Equity Participation Rights.
(c) The parties agree that for the purposes of determining the value of any particular asset, a determination by the Borrower, acting reasonably, shall be binding upon the parties.

13.13 Insurances

The Borrower shall take out, maintain, comply with the terms thereof and not invalidate, insurances (with reputable independent insurance companies or underwriters) on and in relation to its respective business and assets against those risks and to the extent as is usual for companies carrying on the same or substantially similar business.

13.14 Value of Material

(a) The Borrower undertakes that at all times, from the date of this Agreement through and including the Maturity Date or earlier repayment of the Indebtedness, the aggregate value of the Material to be delivered (but not yet delivered) under the and the shall be equal to or greater than 150 per

cent of the aggregate of the outstanding balance of the Loans ( Coverage Ratio ).

[ Redacted: Commercially sensitive agreements]

(b) For the purposes of this clause, the value of the Material remaining to be delivered under the and the ) shall be the product of (A) the quantity of the Material to be delivered under the and the ) but not yet delivered and (B) the price of the Material, such price to be determined in accordance with clause 10 ( Price ) of the or (as the case may be) clause 10 ( Price ) ), priced on the assumptions that: (i) the Month of scheduled shipment for all Material remaining to be delivered under the applicable Commercial Contract is the

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Month in which the value of the Material is assessed; and (ii) the quotational period for pricing the Material (and each metal in such Material) is the Month of scheduled shipment, or if the relevant pricing information as required under the applicable Commercial Contract is not available at such time, the most recently available pricing information. [Redacted: Commercially sensitive agreement ]

and the ), falls below the Coverage Ratio set out in clause 13.14(a) (a Material Shortfall Event ), the Lender shall notify the Borrower and the Lender shall have the option to require the Borrower to immediately repay to the Lender that portion of the Loans required so that after such payment (taking into account the value of the Material remaining to be delivered under the applicable Commercial Contract) the Coverage Ratio is satisfied ( Mandatory Prepayment Amount ). The Borrower must pay the Mandatory Prepayment Amount to the Lender within Days of such notice. [ Redacted: Commercially sensitive agreement and number of days]

(d) The liability of the Borrower to comply with its obligations under clause 13.14(a) shall apply at all times.

13.15 Further assurance

The Borrower shall at its own expense promptly do all such acts or execute all such documents as the Lender may reasonably specify (and in such form as the Lender may reasonably require) to give effect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby.

14 INFORMATION UNDERTAKINGS

14.1 Duration of undertakings

The undertakings in this clause 14 remain in force from the date of this Agreement for so long as any amount is outstanding by the Borrower under the Finance Documents.

14.2 Information: miscellaneous

The Borrower shall supply to the Lender:

(a) promptly upon becoming aware of them, the details of any litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings which are current, threatened or pending against the Borrower and which might, if adversely determined, result in a cost to it of more than (or its equivalent in any other currency) or might have a Material Adverse Effect;
[ Redacted: Dollar amount ]
(b) promptly upon becoming aware of them, the details of any events which might have a Material Adverse Effect; and

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(c) promptly, such information as the Lender may reasonably require regarding the compliance by the Borrower with the terms of any Transaction Document.

14.3 Notification of default

The Borrower shall notify the Lender of any Default (and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it) promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence.

14.4 Other reporting and access for Lender’s technical team

The Borrower shall: (i) keep true and accurate reports relating to the Transaction Documents and the business and financial conditions of the Borrower; and (ii) permit the Lender and the Lender’s technical team, including but not limited to accountants or other professional advisers and contractors of the Lender, access to such reports referred to in (i) above during reasonable hours following reasonable notice, provided that the Lender must comply with all reasonable direction and requirements of the Borrower with respect to occupational, health and safety at the site.

14.5 Public announcement

The Borrower shall ensure that no public announcement of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents may be made by the Borrower and/or any of its Affiliates without the prior written consent of the Lender, except as required by law or the rules and policies of any stock exchange.

15 EVENTS OF DEFAULT

15.1 General

Each of the events or circumstances set out in this clause 15 is an Event of Default (save for clause 15.17 ( Acceleration )).

15.2 Non-payment

(a) Subject to clause 15.18 ( Remedy ), the Borrower does not pay on the due date any amount payable pursuant to this Agreement at the place at and in the currency in which it is expressed to be payable unless payment is made of its original due date. [ Redacted: Number of days]
(b) Subject to clause 15.18 ( Remedy ),
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[ Redacted: Non-payment terms ]

15.3 Undertakings

An Obligor does not materially comply with any provision(s) of clause 13 ( Undertakings ) or any other provisions of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party unless the same is capable of remedy and is remedied within , or such longer period of time the parties may agree to, from the earlier of (a) the Lender giving notice to the Borrower and (b) the relevant Obligor becoming aware of the failure to comply. [ Redacted: Number of days ]

15.4 Misrepresentation

Any representation or statement made by an Obligor in the Transaction Documents or any other document delivered by or on behalf of an Obligor under or in connection with the Transaction Do cuments is or proves to have been materially incorrect or misleading in any material respect whe n made or deemed to be made, unless the circumstances giving rise to misrepresentation are ca pable of remedy and are remedied within , or such longer period of time the part

ies may agree to, from the earlier of (a) the Lender giving notice to the Borrower and (b) the relev ant Obligor becoming aware of the misrepresentation, or such longer period of time as the Lende r shall agree. [ Redacted: Number of days ]

15.5 Insolvency

(a) Subject to clause 15.18 ( Remedy ), any Obligor is unable or admits inability to pay its debts as they fall due or is deemed to or declared to be unable to pay its debts under applicable law, suspends or threatens to suspend making payments on any of its debts or, by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, commences negotiations with one or more of its creditors with a view to rescheduling any of its indebtedness.
(b) Subject to clause 15.18 ( Remedy ), the value of the assets of any Obligor is less than its liabilities (taking into account contingent and prospective liabilities) on a consolidated basis.
(c) A moratorium is declared in respect of any indebtedness of any Obligor. If a moratorium occurs, the ending of the moratorium will remedy any Event of Default caused by that moratorium with effect from the ending of that moratorium, provided that the rights of the Lender under the Transaction Documents are not and do not continue to be prejudiced in any material respect by the ending of such moratorium.

15.6 Insolvency proceedings

(a) Any corporate action, legal proceedings or other procedure or step is taken in relation to:

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(i) other than payments contested in good faith by an Obligor, the suspension of payments, a moratorium of any indebtedness, winding-up, dissolution, administration, provisional suspension, institution of any proceedings relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganisation (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise) of any Obligor;
(ii) the making of any filing to effect a reorganization relating to insolvency under any applicable corporate statute;
(iii) a composition, compromise, assignment or arrangement with any creditor of any Obligor;
(iv) the appointment of a liquidator, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, compulsory manager, provisional supervisor, trustee in bankruptcy or other similar officer in respect of any Obligor or any of its assets; or
(v) enforcement of any Security over any assets of an Obligor,

or any analogous procedure or step is taken in any jurisdiction.

(b) Clause 15.6(a) above shall not apply to winding-up petition which is dismissed within of commencement. [ Redacted: Number of days ]

15.7 Creditors’ process

Any expropriation, attachment, sequestration, distress or execution or any analogous process in any jurisdiction affects any asset or assets of any Obligor and is not discharged within . [ Redacted: Number of days ]

15.8 Unlawfulness, Sanctions and invalidity
(a) It is or becomes unlawful for an Obligor to perform, or an Obligor is prohibited by any Governmental Agency from performing, any of its obligations under the Transaction Documents applicable to it.
(b) Any obligation of an Obligor under the Transaction Documents is not or ceases to be legal, valid, binding or enforceable.
(c) Any Transaction Document ceases to be in full force and effect. For avoidance of doubt, the revocation or rescinding of any approvals from any Governmental Agency required for any Transaction Document to be operative or effective shall constitute an Event of Default under this clause 15.8(c).
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Subject to clause 15.18 ( Remedy ),

imposes

any foreign exchange controls which result in a Party being restricted, prevented or prohibited from making payments that are due and payable under any Transaction Document. [Redacted: State ]

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[ Redacted: Provision relating to exports ]

15.11 Expropriation

The authority or ability of any Obligor to conduct its business is limited or materially curtailed by any seizure, expropriation, nationalisation, intervention, restriction or other action by or on behalf of any Governmental Agency or other person.

15.12 Transaction Documents

(a) An Obligor rescinds or purports to rescind or repudiates or purports to repudiate any Transaction Document.
(b) Except in accordance with clause 15.17 ( Acceleration ), any Transaction Document is terminated for any reason whatsoever prior to the Maturity Date or earlier repayment of the Indebtedness.

15.13 Material adverse change

Subject to clause 15.18 ( Remedy ), any event or circumstance occurs which has a Material Adverse Effect, provided however that an event resulting from any changes

shall

not in and of itself be deemed to result in a Material Adverse Effect under this clause 15.13.

[ Redacted: Exception to material adverse change ]

15.14 Change or cessation of business

Any Obligor changes, or suspends, ceases or threatens to cease to carry on all or a substantial part of the business carried on by it at the date of this Agreement.

15.15 Change of Control

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Subject to clause 15.18 ( Remedy ), a Change of Control occurs in relation to any Obligor other than a Change of Control resulting from:

(a) a transaction permitted by clause 13.10(b) ( No Merger ); and
(b) a Merger involving an Obligor if such Merger is not reasonably likely to materially prejudice the rights of the Lender under any Transaction Document.

15.16 Cross default

(a) Any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor is not paid when due nor within any originally applicable grace period.
(b) Any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor is declared to be or otherwise becomes due and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an event of default (however described).
(c) Any commitment for any Financial Indebtedness of any Obligor is cancelled or suspended by a creditor of that Obligor or as a result of an event of default (however described).
(d) Any creditor of any Obligor becomes entitled to declare any Financial Indebtedness of that Obligor due and payable prior to its specified maturity as a result of an event of default (however described).
(e) No Event of Default will occur under this clause 15.16 if the aggregate amount of Financial Indebtedness or commitment for Financial Indebtedness falling within clauses 15.16(a) to 15.16(d) is less than (or its equivalent in any other currency or currencies). [ Redacted: Dollar amount ]
15.17 Acceleration

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement on and at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default that is not cured in accordance with the terms hereof, the Lender may by notice to the Borrower (a Default Notice ):

(a) declare that all or any part of any Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest, default interest and/or all other amounts accrued or outstanding under this Agreement be immediately due and payable in cash, at which time they shall become immediately due and payable in cash; and/or
(b) exercise all rights under the Finance Documents.

Upon repayment of the Indebtedness in accordance with clauses 15.17(a), this Agreement shall be terminated.

15.18 Remedy

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The event or circumstances set out in clauses 15.2 ( Non-payment ), 15.5(a) and 15.5(b) ( Insolvency ), 15.9 ( Foreign exchange controls ), 15.13 ( Material adverse change ), 15.15 ( Change of Control ) (each, a Relevant Event ) shall not constitute an Event of Default unless and until the following has occurred: upon the occurrence of the Relevant Event, provided that the Borrower has provided a written explanation to the Lender as to the reason why the Relevant Event has occurred, the relevant Obligor shall have from the occurrence of the

Relevant Event to resolve the situation (the Extension Period ). If the relevant Obligor fails to remedy the default under clauses 15.2 ( Non-payment ), 15.5(a) or 15.5(b) ( Insolvency ), 15.9 ( Foreign exchange controls ), 15.13 ( Material adverse change ), 15.15 ( Change of Control ) (as the case may be) by the expiry of the Extension Period, the Lender may, by written notice to the Borrower, either extend the initial Extension Period by a for the relevant Obligor to remedy the default, or determine the Relevant Event as an Event of Default, in which case the Relevant Event shall be deemed an Event of Default. [Redacted: Number of days]

16 NOTICES

16.1 Communications in writing

Any communication to be made under or in connection with the Finance Documents shall be made in writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be made by letter or email.

16.2 Addresses

The address, and email address (and the department or officer, if any, for whose attention the communication is to be made) of each Party for any communication or document to be made or delivered under or in connection with this Agreement is that identified with its name below or any substitute address, or department or officer as one Party may notify to the other by not less than Days’ notice. [Redacted: Number of days]

The Lender:

Trafigura Pte Ltd 10 Collyer Quay

29-00 Ocean Financial Centre

Singapore 049315

Attention: [Redacted: Name] Email: [Redacted: Email]

The Borrower:

K92 Mining Limited Level 6, PwC Haus Harbour City Precinct Port Moresby, National Capital District 121

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Papua New Guinea Attention: [Redacted: Name] Email: [Redacted: Email]

16.3 Delivery

Any communication or document made or delivered by one person to another under or in connection with this Agreement will only be effective:

(a) if by way of letter, when delivered by recognised international courier at the relevant address; or
(b) if by way of email, when actually received in readable form,

and, if a particular department or officer is specified as part of its address details provided under clause 16.2 ( Addresses ), if addressed to that department or officer (or any one or more of those officers, if more than one is specified).

17 MISCELLANEOUS

17.1 Partial invalidity

If, at any time, any provision of this Agreement is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect under any law of any jurisdiction, neither the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions nor the legality, validity or enforceability of such provision under the law of any other jurisdiction will in any way be affected or impaired.

17.2 Remedies and waivers

No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of the Lender or the Borrower, any right or remedy under this Agreement and/or other Transaction Documents, shall operate as a waiver, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy prevent any further or other exercise or the exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in this Agreement are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.

17.3 Counterparts

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by electronic means, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Agreement.

17.4 Reinstatement

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If any discharge, release or arrangement (whether in respect of the obligations of an Obligor or any security for those obligations or otherwise) is made by the Lender in whole or in part on the basis of any payment, security or other disposition which is avoided or must be restored in insolvency, liquidation or otherwise, without limitation, then the liability of the relevant Obligor, will continue or be reinstated as if the discharge, release or arrangement had not occurred.

17.5 Judgment Currency

(a) If, for purposes of obtaining or enforcing a judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert into a particular currency (the Judgment Currency ) an amount due under this Agreement in any other currency (the Original Currency ), then conversion shall be made at the rate of exchange prevailing on the Business Day before the day on which final judgment is given (the Conversion Date ). For purposes of this clause 17.5 “rate of exchange” means the rate at which the party to whom the judgment is granted (the Judgment Creditor ) is able, on the Conversion Date, to purchase the Original Currency with the Judgment Currency in accordance with normal banking procedures in Vancouver, British Columbia.
(b) The obligations of the judgment debtor (the Judgment Debtor ) in respect of any amount due in the Original Currency from it to the Judgment Creditor under this Agreement will, notwithstanding any judgment in the Judgement Currency, be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Judgment Creditor of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Judgment Creditor may, in accordance with normal banking procedures, purchase the Original Currency with such Other Currency. If the amount of the Original Currency so purchased is less than the amount originally due to the Judgment Creditor in the Original Currency, the Judgment Debtor agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding the judgment, to indemnify the Judgment Creditor against any loss arising as a result of such deficiency. The indemnity in favour of the Judgment Creditor constitutes an obligation separate and independent from the other obligations contained in this Agreement, gives rise to a separate and independent cause of action, applies irrespective of any indulgence granted by the Judgment Creditor from time to time and continues in full force and effect notwithstanding any judgment or order for a liquidated sum in respect of an amount due under this Agreement or under any judgment or order.

17.6 Maximum Interest Rate

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, if the amount of any interest, premium, fees or other monies or any rate of interest stipulated for, taken, reserved or extracted under the Finance Documents would exceed the amounts which the Lender is legally entitled to charge and receive under any law to which such compensation is subject, then such amount or rate of interest shall be reduced to such maximum amount as would not contravene such provision; and to the extent that any excess has been charged or received, the Lender shall apply such excess against the Loans and refund any further excess amount.

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17.7 Changes to reference rates
(a) If a Published Rate Replacement Event has occurred in relation to any Published Rate, any amendment or waiver which relates to:
- (i) providing for the use of a Replacement Reference Rate in place of that Published Rate; and
- (ii)
(A) aligning any provision of any Finance Document to the use of that Replacement Reference Rate;
(B) enabling that Replacement Reference Rate to be used for the calculation of interest under this Agreement (including, without limitation, any consequential changes required to enable that Replacement Reference Rate to be used for the purposes of this Agreement);
(C) implementing market conventions applicable to that Replacement Reference Rate;
(D) providing for appropriate fallback (and market disruption) provisions for that Replacement Reference Rate; or
(E) adjusting the pricing to reduce or eliminate, to the extent reasonably practicable, any transfer of economic value from one Party to another as a result of the application of that Replacement Reference Rate (and if any adjustment or method for calculating any adjustment has been formally designated, nominated or recommended by the Relevant Nominating Body, the adjustment shall be determined on the basis of that designation, nomination or recommendation),

may be made with the consent of the Lender and the Borrower.

(b) In this clause 17.7:

Published Rate means:

(a) Overnight SOFR; or
(b) Term SOFR for any Quoted Tenor

Published Rate Replacement Event means, in relation to a Published Rate:

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(a) the methodology, formula or other means of determining that Published Rate has, in the opinion of the Lender and the Borrower, materially changed;
(b)
(i)
(A) the administrator of that Published Rate or its supervisor publicly announces that such administrator is insolvent; or
(B) information is published in any order, decree, notice, petition or filing, however described, of or filed with a court, tribunal, exchange, regulatory authority or similar administrative, regulatory or judicial body which reasonably confirms that the administrator of that Published Rate is insolvent,

provided that, in each case, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide that Published Rate;

(ii) the administrator of that Published Rate publicly announces that it has ceased or will cease to provide that Published Rate permanently or indefinitely and, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide that Published Rate;
(iii) the supervisor of the administrator of that Published Rate publicly announces that such Published Rate has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued; or
(iv) the administrator of that Published Rate or its supervisor announces that that Published Rate may no longer be used; or
(c) the administrator of that Published Rate (or the administrator of an interest rate which is a constituent element of that Published Rate) determines that that Published Rate should be calculated in accordance with its reduced submissions or other contingency or fallback policies or arrangements and the circumstance(s) or event(s) leading to such determination are not (in the opinion of the Lender and the Borrower) temporary;
(d) in the opinion of the Lender and the Borrower, that Published Rate is otherwise no longer appropriate for the purposes of calculating interest under this Agreement

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Relevant Nominating Body means any applicable central bank, regulator or other supervisory authority or a group of them, or any working group or committee sponsored or chaired by, or constituted at the request of, any of them or the Financial Stability Board

Replacement Reference Rate means a reference rate which is:

(e) formally designated, nominated or recommended as the replacement for a Published Rate by:
(i) the administrator of that Published Rate (provided that the market or economic reality that such reference rate measures is the same as that measured by that Published Rate); or
(ii) any Relevant Nominating Body,

and if replacements have, at the relevant time, been formally designated, nominated or recommended under both paragraphs, the “Replacement Reference Rate” will be the replacement under paragraph (ii) above;

(f) in the opinion of the Lender and the Borrower, generally accepted in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets as the appropriate successor to a Published Rate; or
(g) in the opinion of the Lender and the Borrower, an appropriate successor to a Published Rate.

17.8 Disclosure

(a) The Lender agrees to use all Information solely for the purposes of providing services that are the subject of the Transaction Documents and shall treat confidentially all such Information, except that Information may be disclosed:
(i) to it, its Affiliates and its Affiliates’ respective directors, officers, employees, agents, credit insurers and reinsurers, advisors, service providers and representatives (where any person to whom the Information is to be given pursuant to this clause 17.8 is made aware in writing of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no such requirement to so inform if the recipient is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the information or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to the Information);
(ii) to the extent requested, and where such disclosure is required by applicable law, by any Governmental Agency;

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(iii) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process;
(iv) in connection with the exercise of any remedies or enforcement of any rights under any Transaction Document;
(v) to any agency or organization that assigns standard identification numbers to loan facilities such basic information describing the facility under this Agreement as is necessary to assign unique identifiers, if applicable, it being understood that the person to whom disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of the Information and instructed to make available to the public only such Information as the person normally makes available in the course of its business of assigning identification numbers;
(vi) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this clause 17.8, to:
(A) any assignee of, or any prospective assignee of or participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement; or
(B) and any credit insurance or reinsurance provider relating to any Obligor;
(vii) to any person:
(A) for refinancing purposes in relation to this Agreement;
(B) to (or through) whom it assigns or transfers (or may potentially assign or transfer) all or any of its rights and/or obligations under one or more Transaction Documents or which succeeds (or which may potentially succeed) it as Lender and, in each case, to any of that person’s Affiliates, representatives and professional advisers; or
(C) with (or through) whom it enters into (or may potentially enter into), whether directly or indirectly, any sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under which payments are to be made or may be made by reference to, one or more Transaction Documents and/or one or more parties to any Transaction Document (other than the Lender) and to any of that person’s Affiliates, representatives and professional advisers;
(viii) with the consent of the Borrower; or
(ix) to the extent such Information:

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  - (A) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this clause 17.8; or

  - (B) becomes available to the Lender on a non-confidential basis.

(b) For purposes of this clause 17.8, Information means all information received in connection with any Transaction Document from any Obligor or any of their respective Affiliates or any of their respective businesses, other than any such information that was available to the Lender on a non-confidential basis before such receipt. Any person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this clause 17.8 shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if the person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of the Information as the person would accord to its own confidential information.
17.9 Amendments and waivers

Any term of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived only with the consent of the applicable parties thereto in writing and any such amendment or waiver will be binding on all parties thereto.

18 CHANGES TO PARTIES

18.1 Assignments and transfers by Lender

The Lender may assign, encumber or otherwise dispose of or transfer all or any part of its rights and/or obligations under any one or more of the Finance Documents, other than the Commercial Contract, without the consent of the Borrower. If the Lender assigns, encumbers or otherwise disposes of any of its rights under any Transaction Document (each, a Transfer , and the rights subject to any such Transfer, the Transferred Rights ) to a bank or to another institution, trust, fund or other person or entity engaged in the business or established for the purpose of funding or investing in financial and/or commodity assets (each a Transferee ), the Borrower shall, upon request of the Lender or any Transferee, at the Lender’s cost, comply with the instructions of such Transferee in relation to the exercise of the Transferred Rights and shall perform its obligations in connection with the Transferred Rights in favour of such Transferee. The Borrower shall enter into such further documentation and take such other steps as are reasonably requested by the Lender or the Transferee to give effect to any such Transfer, at the Lender’s cost.

18.2 Assignments and transfers by Borrower

Other than as permitted under the Transaction Documents, the Borrower shall not assign any of its rights or transfer any of its rights or obligations under the Transaction Documents without the consent of the Lender.

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18.3 Borrower performance of obligation to deliver Landowner Project Equity Participation Rights

The Lender acknowledges the Borrower’s obligation to transfer an equity participation in the Kainantu Gold Project to landowners comprised in the Landowner Project Equity Participation Rights and agrees that the Borrower may transfer the interest in the Tenements during the term of the Loans. [ Redacted: Percentage of interest ]

19 GOVERNING LAW

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, English law.

20 DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND JURISDICTION

20.1 Dispute resolution and jurisdiction

Each party irrevocably agrees that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims).

20.2 Service of process

Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law the Borrower:

(a) irrevocably appoints Gowling WLG (UK) LLP, 2 Snow Hill, Birmingham England B4 6WR, United Kingdom as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with any Finance Document; and
(b) agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the Borrower of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned.

The Borrower expressly agrees and consents to the provisions of this clause 20.2. This Agreement has been executed and delivered by the Parties on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.

[ Schedules and execution page follow ]

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Schedule 1

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

1 Corporate authorities
(a) A certified copy of the constitutional documents of each Obligor.
(b) A certificate of Good Standing issued by the Registrar of Companies of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea.
(c) A certified copy or copies of a resolution of the general meeting and/or board of directors (and/or any other relevant governing body including a committee or sub-committee of the board of directors) of each Obligor in the agreed form:
- (i) approving the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and resolving that it execute, deliver and perform the Transaction Documents to which it is party; and
- (ii) authorising a specified person or persons to execute the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and to sign and despatch all notices, certificates and other documents (including any Utilisation Request) in connection with the Transaction Documents on its behalf.
(d) A certified specimen of the signature of each person authorised by the resolutions referred to in paragraph 1(c) above in relation to the Transaction Documents and related documents.
(e) A certified copy of the share register of the Borrower.
2 Transaction Documents
(a) The following, in each case duly executed by all parties thereto, in the English language:
- (i) this Agreement;
- (ii) ; and [ Redacted: Commercially sensitive agreement ]
- (iii)
- . [ Redacted: Commercially sensitive agreement ]
3 Other documents and evidence
(a) A certified true copy of a certificate setting out the current composition of the shareholders and the board of directors of the Borrower.

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(b) A certificate of an officer or director of each Obligor as to certain corporate and other matters related to this Agreement.
(c) A process agent appointment letter by the Borrower appointing as agent to accept service of process for the Borrower in England. [ Redacted: Law firm name ]
(d) Evidence that the Lender has carried out and is satisfied it has complied with all necessary "know your customer" or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations as at the date of this Agreement.
(e) All documents and due diligence completed to the satisfaction of the Lender including commercial, technical and legal due diligences, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender in its absolute discretion.
(f) A copy of any other Authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Lender considers to be necessary or desirable (if it has notified the Borrower accordingly) in connection with the entry into and performance of the transactions contemplated by any Finance Document or for the validity and enforceability of any Finance Document.
(g) Approval of the by the Controller pursuant to the Central Banking (Foreign Exchange & Gold) Regulation (PNG) and the conditions attaching to the Borrower’s existing Export Approval (as defined in the ). [Redacted: Commercially sensitive agreement]
4 Legal opinions (a) A legal opinion as to English law from addressed to the Lender, substantially in the form distributed to the Lender prior to signing this Agreement. [ Redacted: Law firm name ]
(b) A legal opinion as to Papua New Guinea law from addressed to the Lender, substantially in the form distributed to the Lender prior to signing this Agreement. [ Redacted: Law firm name ]

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Schedule 2 FORM OF UTILISATION REQUEST

From: K92 MINING LTD.

To: TRAFIGURA PTE LTD

Dated: [⚫]

Dear Sirs

Loan Agreement dated [⚫] (the Agreement )

between K92 Mining Ltd. as Borrower and Trafigura Pte Ltd as Lender

1 We refer to the Agreement. This is a Utilisation Request. Terms defined in the Agreement have the same meaning in this Utilisation Request unless given a different meaning in this Utilisation Request.
2 We wish to utilise the Loan on the following terms:
(a) Proposed Utilisation Date: [⚫]
(b) Amount:

. [ Redacted: Dollar amount ]

3 We confirm that each condition specified in clause 4 ( Conditions precedent ) and Schedule 1 ( Conditions Precedent ) of the Agreement is satisfied (or has been waived in writing by the Lender) on the date of this Utilisation Request, including amongst other things that:
(a) on the proposed Utilisation Date, no Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Utilisation;
(b) the representations and warranties contained in clause 12.1 ( Borrower's Representations and Warranties ) of the Agreement are true in all material respects on the date of this Utilisation Request, and will remain true on the proposed Utilisation Date; and
(c) no event or circumstance has occurred which has or is reasonably likely to materially adversely affect:
- (i) the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under any of the Transaction Documents; or
- (ii) the business, operations or financial conditions of the Borrower taken as a whole.

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4 The proceeds of this Loan should be credited to:

Correspondent Bank name:	[⚫]
Swift code:	[⚫]
For credit to:	[⚫]
BSB:	[⚫]
Account number:	[⚫]
Swift code:	[⚫]
Reference:	[⚫]

5 This Utilisation Request is irrevocable.

Yours faithfully

[⚫]

Authorised Signatory

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Schedule 3

EXPLORATION LICENSES

[ Redacted: Exploration licenses ]

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EXECUTION PAGE

Executed as an agreement

The Borrower

The Borrower
Signed byK92 MINING LIMITED
(signed) [Redacted: Name]	(signed) [Redacted: Name]
Signature of authorized signatory	Signature of authorized signatory
[Redacted: Name]	[Redacted: Name]
Name of authorized signatory (print)	Name of authorized signatory (print)

K92 Mining / Trafigura – US$100m Loan Agreement (K92 PNG) (signature page)

The Lender

Signed by TRAFIGURA PTE LTD by:

(signed) [ Redacted: Name ] Signature of authorised signatory [ Redacted: Name ] Name of authorised signatory (print)

K92 Mining / Trafigura – US$100m Loan Agreement (K92 PNG) (signature page)

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K92 Mining Inc. — Capital/Financing Update 2024

46672_rns_2024-07-03_ec34615d-6796-4820-b3f3-40546e449c17.pdf

Contents

BACKGROUND

IT IS AGREED as follows:

1 DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

Ancillary Tenement means each of:

[Redacted: Commercially sensitive license]

[ Redacted: Number of days ]

[ Redacted: Number of months ]

Mining Lease

[Redacted: Commercially sensitive mining interest]

[Redacted: Calculation of rate of interest]

Repayment Period means:

1.2

Interpretation

1.3 Third party rights

2 THE LOANS

3 PURPOSE

3.2 Monitoring

4 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

4.2 Further conditions precedent

5 UTILISATION AND FEES

5.4 Availability of Loans

5.5 Upfront Fee

5.6 Commitment fee

5.7 Cancellation of Commitment

6 INTEREST

6.1 Calculation of interest

(i) [ Redacted: Rate of interest ]

(ii) [ Redacted: Rate of interest ]

6.2 Notification of rates of interest

6.3 Unavailability of Term SOFR

6.6 Notification to Borrower

6.7 Break Costs

7 REPAYMENT

7.1 Repayment

[Redacted: Dollar amount ]

7.3 Maturity Date

7.4 Payment to Lender

7.5 No set-off by Borrower

8 DEFAULT INTEREST

9 ILLEGALITY AND PREPAYMENT

9.1 Illegality

9.2 Mandatory prepayment – Sanctions and others

[ Redacted: Number of days ]

9.3 Prepayment in accordance with Agreement

10 COSTS AND EXPENSES

[ Redacted: Maximum dollar amount of expenses ]

11 LENDER PROTECTIONS

12 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

(b) Binding obligations

(d) Power and authority

(j) Taxation

(p) Full disclosure

12.2 Lender’s Representations and Warranties – General

13 UNDERTAKINGS

13.2 Authorisations

13.3 Compliance

13.4 Environmental compliance

13.7 Taxation

13.8 Pari passu ranking

13.9 No change of business

13.10 No Merger

13.11 Negative pledge

13.13 Insurances

13.14 Value of Material

13.15 Further assurance

14 INFORMATION UNDERTAKINGS

14.1 Duration of undertakings

14.2 Information: miscellaneous

14.3 Notification of default

14.4 Other reporting and access for Lender’s technical team

14.5 Public announcement

15 EVENTS OF DEFAULT

15.1 General

15.2 Non-payment

[ Redacted: Non-payment terms ]

15.3 Undertakings

K92 Mining Inc. Capital/Financing Update 2024