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("Adastra" or "the Company") today announced that the World Bank Group's
Board of Executive Directors has approved a proposed investment by its private
sector arm, the International Financial Corporation (IFC), into Kingamyambo
Musonoi Tailings Sarl, (KMT).com

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"We see this decision by the World Bank Group as both a powerful
endorsement of the Project's robust economics and as another key component
of the Project's financial structure," said Tim Read, President and CEO of
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social, environmental and macro-economic benefits that the Kolwezi Project
will bring to the region."
The IFC, as is also the case with the IDC, will acquire its shareholding
in KMT at a price based on the allowable expenditures on the Project up to
the date of exercising its option, and will pre-fund its proportion (based
on ownership of Class C shares) of the estimated costs of progressing the
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