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Hot Chili Raises A$40m to Fast-Track Costa Fuego Copper-Gold Growth

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  • Hot Chili raised A$40 million via an oversubscribed share placement to global investors.
  • Proceeds will accelerate Costa Fuego’s expansion and permitting, bolstering its copper supply role.
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Hot Chili Raises A$40m to Fast-Track Costa Fuego Copper-Gold Growth

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Hot Chili Limited ( (AU:HCH) ) has issued an announcement.

Hot Chili Limited has raised approximately A$40 million through an oversubscribed private placement of 24,242,425 new shares to institutional, professional and other investors at A$1.65 per share, with strong participation from its three largest shareholders and backing from Australian, North American and overseas institutions. The funds will be used to advance the Costa Fuego copper-gold project in coastal Chile, including integrating the La Verde discovery to enhance project scale and economics and progressing toward near-term production by submitting an environmental impact assessment, reinforcing Costa Fuego’s status as a key emerging source of new copper supply this decade.

The placement was structured under Australian sophisticated investor exemptions and Canada’s listed issuer financing exemption, with Veritas Securities, ATB Cormark, Desjardins and BMO Capital Markets acting as agents and receiving cash commissions and broker options exercisable over 30 months. New shares were issued within Hot Chili’s existing ASX placement capacities and are free of Canadian hold periods, with the transaction still subject to final acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange, underscoring the company’s increasing access to global capital markets for its Chilean growth plans.

The most recent analyst rating on (AU:HCH) stock is a Hold with a A$2.00 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on Hot Chili Limited stock, see the AU:HCH Stock Forecast page.

More about Hot Chili Limited

Hot Chili Limited is an Australia-based mineral exploration and development company focused on large-scale copper and gold projects in coastal Chile. Its flagship Costa Fuego project is positioned as one of the few globally significant copper assets not controlled by a major mining group, targeting future supply to meet rising global copper demand.

Average Trading Volume: 628,295

Technical Sentiment Signal: Buy

Current Market Cap: A$322.3M

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