AAA's Dallol Project

MARC ROBINSON, Cormark Securities Inc. (08/06/2010)
"Allana's Dallol project is uniquely situated to serve the key export markets of India and China. Given its potential for low-cost production and its geographic positioning, it is a highly strategic asset. As an indication of this, a Chinese investment fund has made a strategic investment in Allana and has signed an MOU to provide 35% of the capital requirements in exchange for favorable pricing on 20% of the projects output and an option to negotiate for further supply. This agreement significantly reduces financing risk—we estimate that Allana would only need to raise $140 MM of equity, significantly lower than the vast majority of greenfield projects.

Given Allana's financing structure, geographic position, strategic benefits and low-cost potential, we believe the Dallol project is one of a very small handful of greenfield MOP projects that will ultimately be developed. Allana is currently involved in a drilling program to define and extend the resource; preliminary results have been positive."

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