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Hmc Capital — HydroMet — Shareholder Meeting (October 2010)

19 slides from Hmc Capital's shareholder meeting presentation, Oct 18, 2010

  1. Slide 1: HydroMet AGM October 18th 2010

    HydroMet AGM October 18th 2010

  2. Slide 2: Managing Director's Update

    HydroMet October 2010 Managing Director’s Update

  3. Slide 3: Activities

    HydroMet 2010 Activities Hydromet focused on the following activities in the 2010 financial year :  Successfully increased output through the Unanderra battery recycling plant. Significant and better than forecast throughput achieved.  Continued to build a solid customer base for our lead products

  4. Slide 4: Activities cont'd.

    HydroMet 2010 Activities cont’d.  Progressed with plan to build a secondary lead smelter at the Newcastle facility.  Capital quotations received and in line with expectations.  Bank finance secured for $5 Million from principal banker. Withdrawn to fully assess the melting low capital option.  F

  5. Slide 5: Key performance indicators 2010 financial year

    HydroMet 2010 Key performance indicators 2010 financial year. 2010 2009 Change Change Revenue $M $M $M %  Lead products 27.00 9.90 + 17.10 +172%  Polypropylene .90 .50 + .40 + 80%  Selenium 7.03 4.80 + 2.23 + 46%  Tellurium 2.12 1.33 + .79 + 59%  Precious Metals 3.61 9.30 - 5.69 - 61%  Treatme

  6. Slide 6: Used Lead Acid Battery Throughput FY2010

    HydroMet 2010 USED LEAD ACID BATTERY THROUGHPUT FY2010 PROCESSED - TONNES 4,000 3,634 3,571 3,550 3,500 3,103 T 3,000 2,812 O N 2,442 N 2,500 2,203 2,235 E 2,006 S 2,000 1,743 T 1,540 1,572 1,568 1,445 i 1,500 t 1,100 l e 1,000 500 QTY - Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10

  7. Slide 7: Monthly Average LME in US$ and AU$

    HydroMet 2010 MONTHLY AVERAGE LME IN US$ AND AU$ PRICE PER TONNE $3,000 LME MONTHLY AVERAGE $ $2,500 $2,000 $1,500 $1,000 $500 $- Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10 Apr-10 May-10 Jun-10 Jul-10 Aug-10 Sep-10 US$ AU$ Linear (US$) Linear (US$) Linear (AU$)

  8. Slide 8: US Exchange Rate

    HydroMet 2010 U$ EXCHANGE RATE 0.9500 0.9369 0.926284211 0.9202 0.9148 0.912008696 0.9072 0.9028 0.9000 0.8991 0.8863 0.874309091 Exchange Rate 0.8717 0.8611 0.8500 0.851190909 0.8344 0.8000 0.8040 0.7500 0.7000 Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10 Apr-10 May-10 Jun-10 Jul-

  9. Slide 9: Selenium Price History

    HydroMet 2010 SELENIUM PRICE HISTORY METAL BULLETIN $45.00 $40.00 $35.00 U $ $30.00 P $25.00 E R $20.00 L $15.00 B $10.00 $5.00 $- Jun-09 Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10 Apr-10 May-10 Jun-10 LOW HIGH

  10. Slide 10: Unanderra (Wollongong)

    HydroMet 2010 Unanderra (Wollongong) Primary activities : 2010 2009 Change  Used lead acid batteries processed– number 1.75 Mill 0.961 Mill + 0.789 Mill +82%  Used lead acid batteries processed – tonnes 26,246 14,413 +11,833 +82%  Production of plastic for recycling – sold tonnes 1,312 720 + 592

  11. Slide 11: Unanderra (Wollongong) cont'd.

    HydroMet 2010 Unanderra (Wollongong) cont’d. Focus for 2011 :  Stabilize battery throughput at current levels and test plant upper limits.  Maintain ULAB collection network success and collection rate to meet lead output expectations.  Extend product customer portfolio.  Install mini tilting rot

  12. Slide 12: Tomago (Newcastle)

    HydroMet 2010 Tomago (Newcastle) Primary activities : 2010 2009  Selenium feeds processed 160 tonnes 149 tonnes  Tellurium feeds processed 159 tonnes 117 tonnes  Other Feeds processed 60 tonnes 119 tonnes  Selenium produced/sold 103 tonnes 80 tonnes  Tellurium produced/sold 14 tonnes 8 tonnes 

  13. Slide 13: Tomago (Newcastle) cont'd.

    HydroMet 2010 Tomago (Newcastle) cont’d. Focus for 2011:  Increase precious metals purchase/selenium processing through the plant.  Complete precious metals recovery options development work. Objective to produce a higher grade intermediate product – increase value and revenue to Hydromet.  Insta

  14. Slide 14: Secondary Lead Smelter and new development

    HydroMet 2010 Secondary Lead Smelter and new development  Efforts to complete the $12 Million fundraising for construction of the 20,000 tonne smelter for the Newcastle facility proved difficult in 2010 under prevailing market conditions.  With adverse market sentiment, the Board and management re

  15. Slide 15: Timeframe

    HydroMet 2010 Timeframe Work has commenced to :  Define equipment and services requirement.  Determine necessary regulatory requirements – expect to be minimal compared to full smelter.  Complete detailed layout plans and plant allocation.  Confirm capital and operating cost models.  Complete t

  16. Slide 16: Overall benefits in this strategy

    HydroMet 2010 Overall benefits in this strategy :  Bring the lead metal production facility online at lower capital investment.  Minimise risk with significant capex requirement.  Take advantage of existing facilities at Unanderra.  Reduced operating costs of ULAB processing.  Little or no debt

  17. Slide 17: Hydromet Personnel

    HydroMet 2010 Hydromet Personnel  The lead smelter project is supported by :  A number of Hydromet senior industry qualified operations personnel who manage the processing/production and development activities within the group.  Extensive smelting experience within senior personnel pool.  Extern

  18. Slide 18: Unanderra Future Projects Minmet Operation

    HydroMet 2010 Unanderra Future Projects Minmet Operation ULAB CRT Glass (E- pee Waste) Spent Pot Copper Lead Dross Precious A ” Smelt Battery Lining & EAF Dust from Pb Smelter additional Au Residues | & Se feed reatment Copper Lead Dross Leaching Se —Te Processing | Additional | Lead Feed Additional

  19. Slide 19: Revenue streams expectations for F2011

    HydroMet 2010 Revenue streams expectations for F2011 With mature lead product and selenium/precious metals/tellurium customer base and assuming commodity and exchange rate utilized.  Lead product sales 32,000 tonnes A$46 Million  Plastics sale 1,650 tonnes 1.3 Million  Precious metals sales 6 Mil

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