First Quantum Minerals Announces Pricing and Upsizing of Senior Notes Offering

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(In United States dollars, except where noted otherwise)

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TORONTO, Aug. 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (“First Quantum” or the “Company”) (TSX: FM) announces that it has successfully completed the pricing of its offering (the “Offering”) of $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of 7.250% senior notes due 2034 (the “Notes”). The original offering amount of the Notes of $750 million has been increased to $1.0 billion. The issue price of the Notes is 100.000%.

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Interest on the Notes will accrue from the issue date at a rate of 7.250% per annum and will be payable semi-annually. Settlement is expected to take place on or about August 20, 2025, subject to customary conditions precedent for similar transactions. The Notes will be senior unsecured obligations of the Company and will be guaranteed by certain of the Company’s subsidiaries.

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The Company intends to apply the gross proceeds from the sale of the Notes, together with cash on balance sheet, to fund the tender offer for its existing 6.875% senior notes due 2027, to refinance a portion of its existing 9.375% senior secured second lien notes due 2029 and to pay related fees, costs and expenses.

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Investor Relations:
Bonita To, Director, Investor Relations
(416) 361-6400
Toll-free: 1 (888) 688-6577
E-Mail: [email protected]

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Media Relations:
James Devas, Manager, Corporate Affairs
+44 207 291 6630
E-Mail: [email protected]

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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER

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The information in this announcement does not constitute a notice of redemption or the solicitation to purchase any securities of the Company, or an offer of securities for sale in the United States or any other jurisdiction. Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States unless they are registered or are exempt from the registration of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”). The Notes will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act, or the securities laws of any state of the U.S. or other jurisdictions and the Notes will not be offered or sold within the U.S. or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. Persons (as defined in Regulation S of the U.S. Securities Act), except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and the applicable laws of other jurisdictions. The Company does not intend to conduct a public offering in the United States or any other jurisdiction. It may be unlawful to distribute this announcement in certain jurisdictions.

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The information in this announcement does not constitute an offer, or a solicitation of an offer, of securities for sale in the United States, Canada, the EEA, the UK, Switzerland, Panama, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, or any other jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale is not permitted.

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In member states of the EEA, this announcement and any offer of the securities referred to herein in any Member State of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of the securities referred to herein. Accordingly, any person making or intending to make an offer in a Member State of Notes which are the subject of the offering contemplated may only do so in circumstances in which no obligation arises for the company or any of the initial purchasers to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Regulation, in each case, in relation to such offer. Neither the company nor the initial purchasers have authorized, nor do they authorize, the making of any offer of Notes in circumstances in which an obligation arises for the company or the initial purchasers to publish a prospectus for such offer. The expression “Prospectus Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2017/1129.