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Frontier Mining production rises, hit by currency movements

Last updated: 06:56 07 Nov 2014 GMT, First published: 07:56 07 Nov 2014 GMT

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A huge currency hit sent copper miner Frontier Mining (LON:FML) deep into the red in its latst quarter despite more than doubled metal sales.

The Kazakhstan–based miner sold 1,130 tonnes of copper cathode in the nine months to September, compared to 511 tonnes in the first six months of the year.

Mining operations also picked up strongly with 357,000 tonnes of ore stacked at the end of the nine months compared to  166,000 tonnes three months earlier.

Revenues for the nine months were US$7.73 mln (US$7.38mln) with a gross profit of US$949,000 ( US$1.73mln), but after a currency charge of US$16.8mln, net losses rose to US$21.6mln from US$5mln.

Frontier has debts of around US$90mln. In March, it agreed the sale of its Naimanjal licence in Kazakhstan to UTM for US$30mln.

This has yet to complete, though regulatory approval for the sale was granted in July.


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