Aurelia Metals Limited
Australian ASX-listed mining and exploration company operating underground base metal mines in the Cobar Basin of western New South Wales.
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Overview
Aurelia Metals Limited (ASX: AMI) is an Australian mining and exploration company with a strategic landholding in the Cobar Basin in western New South Wales. The company operates three underground base metal mines across its two operations, Peak and Federation, and is progressing the Great Cobar project, a consented high-grade copper development located at Peak. Aurelia positions itself as a developer and operator of choice for the base metals that will power the future, describing its work as mining the future-facing metals that are the foundation of a low carbon society. The company's asset base is concentrated in the Cobar Basin, a long-established Australian mining district. Its operations produce base metals, and the company reports metal prices in Australian dollars per pound, with gold reported in Australian dollars per ounce. Aurelia has reweighted its business towards base metals through its Cobar Basin assets, and it describes itself as having compelling near-term base metals growth. Aurelia Metals is a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker AMI. It has reported a strong balance sheet with over A$145 million in liquidity and no debt, and in FY26 announced a fully franked final dividend of 1.0 cent per share following strong operational and financial performance. The company has also entered into financing arrangements with tier-one international financial institutions to strengthen its balance sheet and enhance liquidity. On sustainability and safety, Aurelia has reported a 54% reduction in its group TRIFR to 5.94 in FY25, a recordable environmental incident frequency rate of zero, and that 95% of its social investment budget was spent on projects that enhanced community resilience. The company states that sustainability is at the core of everything it does and that it is committed to building and maintaining a trusted, sustainable and beneficial presence in the areas where it operates. Aurelia Metals is governed by a board and management team that the company says is committed to the highest standards of corporate governance, supported by a healthy corporate culture. Its board includes Graeme Hunt as Non-Executive Chair, alongside non-executive directors including Lyn Brazil and Rachel Brown. The company maintains a suite of governance documents covering its board and committee charters, continuous disclosure, anti-bribery and corruption, diversity, equity and inclusion, privacy, securities trading, whistleblower and sustainability policies.
History
Aurelia Metals Limited is an Australian mining and exploration company with a strategic landholding in the Cobar Basin in western New South Wales. The company operates three underground base metal mines across its two operations, Peak and Federation, and is progressing the Great Cobar project, a consented high-grade copper development located at Peak. Aurelia describes itself as mining the future-facing metals that are the foundation of a low carbon society, and as continuing to enrich Australia 165 years after the first gold rush. The company's public history page lists milestones from 2009 through 2026. In 2026, on 1 April, Aurelia advised that it had entered into a commitment letter and final credit-approved term sheet with a syndicate of tier-one international financial institutions for an A$150 million Senior Secured financing package to strengthen its balance sheet and enhance liquidity. On 23 April 2026, the company shared significant results from a recent exploration program at the Federation Mine, the first exploration drilling program completed at Federation. On 2 June 2026, Aurelia confirmed that its wholly owned subsidiary, Peak Gold Mines Pty Ltd, had entered into an earn-in agreement with Legacy Minerals Pty Ltd (a subsidiary of Legacy Minerals Holdings Limited) over its West Cobar Exploration Licences 9511 and 9858, providing a pathway to earn a majority interest in these prospective tenements. The announcement was complemented by the recent grant of Exploration Licences 9898 (Glenwood) and 9899 (Barton) within the Nymagee District, secured through successful open ground applications. On 9 June 2026, the company advised on construction and commissioning matters. In FY25, Aurelia reported a group TRIFR reduced by 54% to 5.94 (FY24: 12.87), a strong balance sheet with over A$145 million in liquidity and no debt, approval of the Great Cobar Project with development commencing to plan on 1 July 2025, and record development at Peak with rates above 1,000 metres a quarter. The company also reported a recordable environmental incident frequency rate of zero (FY24: 0.8), an updated and rolled-out Employee Value Proposition, 95% of its social investment budget spent on projects that enhanced community resilience, and implementation of environmental performance standards during the year. In FY26, on 27 August 2026, Aurelia announced a fully franked final dividend of 1.0 cent per share following the company's strong operational and financial performance in FY26 and strengthened balance sheet. The company describes itself as a company with compelling near-term base metals growth, with assets in the Cobar Basin that reweight its business towards base metals. Aurelia Metals is a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker AMI. Its board and management state that they are committed to the highest standards of corporate governance, supported by a healthy corporate culture, and the company maintains a comprehensive set of governance documents including its board and committee charters, continuous disclosure policy, anti-bribery and corruption standard, diversity, equity and inclusion policy, privacy policy, securities trading policy, shareholder communication standard, sustainability policy and whistleblower standard.
- 2026
1 April: commitment letter and final credit-approved term sheet for A$150 million Senior Secured financing package
- 2026
23 April: significant results from first exploration drilling program at Federation Mine
- 2026
2 June: Peak Gold Mines enters earn-in agreement with Legacy Minerals over West Cobar Exploration Licences
- 2026
27 August: fully franked final dividend of 1.0 cent per share announced for FY26
- 2025
Great Cobar Project approved; development commences to plan on 1 July 2025
- 2025
FY25 group TRIFR reduced by 54% to 5.94; over A$145M liquidity and no debt reported
- 2009
Earliest milestone listed on Aurelia Metals' public history page
Products and positioning
A developer and operator of choice for base metals that will power the future, mining the future-facing metals that are the foundation of a low carbon society.
Copper
Base metal produced from Cobar Basin operations and the focus of the Great Cobar development
Gold
Precious metal produced from the company's operations; prices reported in A$/ounce
Base metals
The company's core product category, mined at Peak and Federation
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