SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-014134 to Namib Minerals (NAMM)
Namib Minerals
Date: Dec. 20, 2024 · CIK: 0002026514 · Accession: 0000000000-24-014134
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December 20, 2024
Ibrahima Tall
Chief Executive Officer
Namib Minerals
71 Fort Street, PO Box 500
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, KY1-1106
Tulani Sikwila
Chief Financial Officer
Greenstone Corporation
71 Fort Street, PO Box 500
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, KY1-1106
Re:Namib Minerals
Registration Statement on Form F-4
Filed December 6, 2024
File No. 333-283650
Dear Ibrahima Tall and Tulani Sikwila:
We have reviewed your registration statement and have the following comments.
Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing
the requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.
After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information
you provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Form F-4 filed December 6, 2024
Cover Page
We note your revised disclosure contemplates the consummation of a $60,000,000
PIPE Investment of SPAC Class A Common Stock at a price per share of $10.00 by
certain investors and their permitted successors and assigns. Revise your cover page
to briefly describe any material financing transactions that will occur in connection
with the consummation of the de-SPAC transaction and revise your prospectus
summary to include the material terms of such financing transaction. Refer to Item 1.
December 20, 2024
Page 2
1604(a)(2) and (b)(5) of Regulation S-K.
Questions and Answers About the Business Combination and the HCVI Stockholders'
Meeting
Q. What conditions must be satisfied to complete the Business Combination?, page xxvii
2.We note your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 13 that if applications
for corporate rescue proceedings are approved at either the Mazowe Mining Company
or the Redwing Mining Company, then HCVI would not be obligated to consummate
the Business Combination and HCVI would be permitted to terminate the Business
Combination Agreement unless, in each case, HCVI waives such condition. Please
revise your disclosure in this Question and Answer to describe this closing condition.
Sources and Uses of Funds for the Business Combination, page 18
3.We refer you to the tables summarizing sources and uses of funding the business
combination. Please disclose how you determined cash to balance sheet amounts in
each of the redemption scenarios and how you determined the estimated transaction
fees and expenses of $18,460,000.
Summary Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Combined Financial Information,
page 27
4.Please revise the loss for the year and loss per common shares-basic and diluted as of
December 31, 2023, to reconcile with the corresponding pro forma amounts presented
on page 83. Also revise total assets, liabilities, and shareholders’ deficit as of June 30,
2024, to reconcile with corresponding pro forma amounts on page 81.
Risk Factors
Greenstone's purchase of the Mazowe Mine, the Redwing Mine, and the How Mine from
Metallon may be subject to potential claims, page 45
5.We note your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 14. Please revise to
disclose whether the Guarantors plan to pay the Purchase Price prior to the closing of
your business combination.
Nasdaq may delist our securities from trading on its exchange, which could limit investors'
ability to make transactions in our securities, page 64
6.We note your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 18. Please revise to
also address the consequences of a suspension or delisting by Nasdaq of HCVI
securities, including that you may no longer be attractive as a merger partner if you
are no longer listed on an exchange, any potential impact on your ability to complete
an initial business combination and any impact on securities holders due to your
securities no longer being considered “covered securities.”
HCVI does not have a specified maximum redemption threshold, page 65
7.We note your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 42 and reissue the
comment in part. Revise your risk factor disclosure to discuss the impact of HCVI's
securities being deemed a penny stock on your listing on Nasdaq.
December 20, 2024
Page 3
Investors should be aware that the gratuitous waiver of all or part of the deferred
underwriting fee is unusual, page 70
8.We note your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 15 that none of the
Underwriters provided any additional detail regarding why they agreed to waive their
respective underwriting fees. Please revise to discuss in greater detail the
circumstances surrounding the Underwriters' agreement to waive their deferred fees,
including who initiated this waiver agreement and how it was obtained from the
Underwriters.
Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Combined Financial Information
4. Adjustments to Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Combined Financial
Information, page 87
9.We refer you to footnote 4.F and the adjustment for $11,997,000 of transaction costs
expensed as part of the Business Combination. Please tell us how this amount
corresponds with the adjustment for $12,320,000 in estimated non-accrued transaction
expenses disclosed at page xxii, the estimated transaction fees and expenses of
$18,460,000 disclosed at page 19, and the $16,580,000 adjustment in footnote 4.AA.
10.Please tell us the basis for and explain the difference between the fair value of the
Sponsor earnout of $670,695 in adjustment 4.G.3 and the fair value of the Sponsor
earnout of $17,020,000 in adjustment 4.J.
11.We refer you to footnote 4.I.2. Please tell us what 15 million Company Earnout
represents and how this relates to the Company Earnout Shares of 30 million
presented in the table at page 16.
12.We refer you to footnote 4.J. Please tell us how you determined the net assets of
HCVI under each of the three redemption scenarios.
13.We refer you to note (1) of footnote 5. Please tell us how you considered the
additional dilution sources that are summarized in the table at page xxiv with the
disclosure in this note stating that the conversion of Pubco Warrants is the only share-
based instrument which may result in dilution after the Closing Date.
The Background of the Business Combination, page 102
We note your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 27 that the the $500
million valuation was derived from a peer comparison analysis, consisting of other
African gold companies at similar stages of development, based on an EV/Resource
(total ounces of gold) multiple of approximately $71 – $72 applied to the estimated
resources of approximately 5.2 million ounces of gold provided by Greenstone
management, and additional credit for Greenstone’s past producing assets with
existing infrastructure and capital spend in the ground, historical production, cash
flows from ongoing production and existing mining permits. Please describe in greater
detail this peer comparison analysis provided by Greenstone management and utilized
by HCVI management to derive the valuation. For example, disclose the names of the
companies selected for this analysis and corresponding EV/Resource multiples. Also
include more detailed disclosure and quantify to the extent possible the additional
credit for Greenstone’s past producing assets with existing infrastructure and capital 14.
December 20, 2024
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spend in the ground, historical production, cash flows from ongoing production and
existing mining permits.
Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences, page 148
15.We note your response to prior comment 39 and reissue the comment. Please disclose
the material tax consequences of the transaction. In this regard, for guidance see
Footnote 42 to Staff Legal Bulletin No. 19.
Business of Greenstone and Information Related to Greenstone, page 212
16.We note your response to comment 47. Considering it is probable that you will have a
direct or indirect economic interest in the DRC exploration permits, please provide
additional mineral property summary disclosure for this non-material property,
including a map, or tell us why you are unable to do so.
17.We note your response to comment 51 and we partially reissue the comment. Please
disclose the metallurgical recovery factor assumption with your Mazowe Mine
mineral resource table and Redwing Mine mineral resource table, as required by Item
1304(d) of Regulation S-K.
18.Please clarify the mineral resource price assumptions for the Mazowe Mine mineral
resource table and the Redwing Mine mineral resource table in your registration
statement. The disclosure on page 221 of your registration statement references an
$1,800 gold price. This price is consistent with the Mazowe Mine gold price of
$1,800 on page 234, however it is inconsistent with the Redwing Mine gold price of
$2,340 on page 239.
Your technical reports filed as exhibits 92.3 & 96.3 indicate that a 30% uplifted price
assumption has been used, equivalent to $2,340 per ounce, for the Mazowe Mine and
the Redwing Mine. Please advise and revise your disclosure as necessary.
In your response please provide us with your cut-off grade calculation for the Mazowe
Mine mineral resource and the Redwing Mine mineral resource.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page 303
19.Please disclose the the natural person(s) who have voting and/or investment control
over the shares held by Walleye Capital LLC, AQR Capital Management, LLC, Polar
Asset Management Partners Inc. and RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC.
Greenstone Corporation Financial Statements
3.3 Property, plant and equipment, page F-108
20.Expand your disclosure to provide the information detailed in your response to prior
comment 59. In this regard, please clarify the amounts of inferred resources included
in your calculation of depreciation, as a percentage of your total Life of Mine estimate
when comparing to your historical conversion rate.
December 20, 2024
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96.2&96.3, page II-1
21.We note your response to comment 73 and we reissue the comment. We are unable to
read the figures that have been included in this section of your technical report
summary. Please revise as necessary.
Additionally please include an overview of all relevant exploration work. We suggest
including a table, or tables, that summarize the type and amount of work performed.
For example this may include the year the exploration work was performed, the type
of exploration work performed, and the quantity of exploration work. Please include
representative plans and cross-sections of results.
General
22.We note your response to our prior comment 16. Please delete, if true, any references
to "marketable securities" held in the Trust Account. In this regard, we note your
cover page disclosure indicating that HCVI holds $35.17 million "based on the fair
value of cash and marketable securities held in the Trust Account as of September 30,
2024."
We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence
of action by the staff.
Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. Please allow adequate
time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the registration
statement.
Please contact Brian McAllister at 202-551-3341 or Shannon Buskirk at 202-551-
3717 if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related
matters. Please contact Anuja Majmudar at 202-551-3844 or Irene Barberena-Meissner at
202-551-6548 with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation
cc:Barbara Jones