Financial instruments | Note 30. Financial instruments 30.1 Financial risk management The Group’s activities are subject to several financial risks: market risk (including the exchange rate risk, the interest rate risk and price risk), credit risk and liquidity risk. The following matters have been considered by Management in determining the appropriateness of the going concern basis of preparation of the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements. a) Credit risk Credit risk is the risk of financial loss to the Group if the counterparty to a financial instrument fails to meet its contractual obligations. Financial instruments held by the Group that are potentially subject to concentration of credit risk are primarily cash and receivables. Management believes that the credit risk concentrating with respect to cash and amounts receivable is remote. The following table sets forth details of the age of trade receivables and other receivables: As at June 30, June 30, To due become Up to 3 months $ 471,500 $ 450,728 The Group sells its products to a diverse base of customers. Customers include multi -national The Group’s management determines concentrations of credit risk by periodically monitoring the credit worthiness rating of existing customers and through a monthly review of the trade receivables’ aging analysis. In monitoring the customers’ credit risk, customers are grouped according to their credit characteristics. The Group’s policy is to manage credit exposure to counterparties through a process of credit rating. The Group performs credit evaluations of existing and new customers, and every new customer is examined thoroughly regarding the quality of its credit before offering the customer transaction terms. The examination made by the Group includes outside credit rating information, if available. Additionally, and even if there is no independent outside rating, the Group assesses the credit quality of the customer taking into account its financial position, past experience, bank references and other factors. A credit limit is prescribed for each customer. These limits are examined periodically. Customers that do not meet the Group’s criteria for credit quality may do business with the Group on a prepayment basis. b) Liquidity risk Liquidity risk is the risk that the Group will encounter difficulty in meeting the obligations affiliated with its financial liabilities that are settled by delivering cash or another financial asset. The Group’s approach to managing liquidity is to ensure, as far as possible, that it will always have sufficient liquidity to meet its liabilities when due, under both normal and stressed conditions, without incurring unacceptable losses or risking damage to the Group’ s reputation. Given the Group’s financial position as of June 30, 2024, total current financial assets $ 6,871,967 as compared to total financial liabilities of $ 26,921,679 management expects that the Group will be able to provide the capital needed to keep the Group liquid and able to fulfill its short -term The Company continuously monitors and reviews its actual and forecasted cash flows and manages liquidity risk by maintaining adequate cash and cash equivalents, by utilizing term loans and by monitoring developments in the capital markets. The table below analyzes the Company’s financial liabilities into relevant maturity groupings based on the remaining period at the balance sheet to the contractual maturity date. Maturity date Without any Total Within 1 year Between 1 Between 2 More than June 30, 2024 Trade Payables 3,414,686 — 10,115,600 — — 13,530,286 Other liabilities 1,471,033 181,768 — — — 1,652,801 Financial debts 2,351,893 402,781 15,109,288 — — 17,863,962 Subtotal $ 7,237,612 $ 584,549 $ 25,224,888 $ — $ — $ 33,047,049 Warrant 555,500 — — — — 555,500 Subtotal 555,500 — — — — 555,500 Total $ 7,793,112 $ 584,549 $ 25,224,888 $ — — 33,602,549 June 30, 2023 Trade Payables 7,479,614 — — — — 7,479,614 Other liabilities 1,776,438 180,197 — — 1,956,635 Financial debts 2,578,100 72,831 108,638 — — 2,759,569 Subtotal $ 11,834,152 $ 253,028 $ 108,638 $ — $ — $ 12,195,818 Warrant 887,689 — — — — 887,689 Subtotal 887,689 $ — $ — $ — $ — $ 887,689 Total $ 12,721,841 $ 253,028 $ 108,638 $ — $ — $ 13,083,507 c) Market risk Market risk is the risk that changes in market prices -e Commodity risk In the normal course of its business, the Company is exposed to risk resulting from fluctuations in the market prices of commodities. The Company does not engage in transactional hedging of its commodity price risk. Foreign currency exchange risk The Company is exposed to foreign exchange risk as a result of transactions being conducted in currencies other than the functional currency of each of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Company has not entered into transactions that seek to hedge or mitigate its exposure to exchange rate fluctuations. The carrying amounts of the Group’s foreign currency denominated monetary assets and monetary liabilities at the reporting date are as follows: Assets Liabilities Currency 2024 2023 2024 2023 Argentine pesos 156,291 765,690 292,203 50,073 U.S. Dollar 695,307 368,186 1,491,998 2,227,751 Pound sterling 24 22,062 12,647 — Euro — — 167,072 — The following table details sensitivity to a 10% increase and decrease in the functional currency of each of the companies against the relevant foreign currencies. The sensitivity analysis includes only the outstanding monetary items denominated in foreign currency and adjusts its conversion at the end of the period for a 10% change in exchange rates. (+10%) Impact to (-10%) Impact to Assets Liabilities Currency 2024 2023 2024 2023 Argentine pesos 15,629 76,569 (29,220 ) (5,007 ) U.S. Dollar 69,531 36,819 (149,200 ) (222,775 ) Pound sterling 2 2,206 (1,265 ) — Euro — — (16,707 ) — d) Fair value risk Financial assets and liabilities are recognized when an entity of the Group becomes party to the contractual provisions of an instrument. The Company applies a hierarchy to classify valuation methods used to measure financial instruments carried at fair value. Levels 1 to 3 are defined based on the degree to which fair value inputs are observable and have a significant effect on the recorded fair value, as follows: Level 1: Level 2: Level 3: The following represents the carrying value and fair value of the Company’s financial instruments and non -financial Recurring measurements Note As of As of Financial Assets Amortized costs Cash and cash equivalents (i) 3,296,554 2,064,079 Trade and other receivables (i) 11,631,118 10,454,301 Fair value through profit or loss Cash and cash equivalents (ii) 2,093,374 463,594 Short-term investments (ii) — 306,034 Total financial assets $ 17,021,046 $ 13,288,008 Financial Liabilities Amortized costs Trade and other payables (i) 12,662,290 9,340,571 Financial debts (i) 14,259,391 2,645,289 Lease liabilities (i) 421,887 — Fair value through profit or loss Warrant liabilities (ii) 555,500 887,689 Total financial liabilities $ 27,899,068 $ 12,873,549 Net financial (liability)/asset $ (10,878,022 ) $ 414,459 (i) -term -term (ii) -term e) Interest rate risk The Group’s financing costs may be affected by interest rate volatility. Borrowings under the Group’s interest rate management policy may be fixed or floating rate. The Group maintains adequate committed borrowing facilities and holds most of its financial assets primarily in cash or short -term The Group’s interest rate risk arises from long -term Fixed-rate instruments As of As of Current financial liabilities (2,555,683 ) (2,546,243 ) Non-current financial liabilities (11,703,708 ) (99,046 ) Holding all other variables constant, including levels of our external indebtedness, as of June 30, 2024 a 10% increase/(decrease) in interest rates would increase/(decrease) interest payable by 360,457/ (360,457). f) Capital risk management The Company includes as its capital its share capital and accumulated deficit and has no externally imposed capital requirements. The Company’s objectives in managing capital are to safeguard cash as well as maintain financial liquidity and flexibility in order to preserve its ability to meet financial obligations, deploy capital to develop its mining properties and to maintain investor, creditor and market confidence to sustain the future development of the business. The Company manages its capital structure and makes adjustments as needed, in order to have funds available to support its activities. Management reviews its capital management approach on an ongoing basis. The Company’s financial strategy is designed to maintain a capital structure consistent with the objective stated above and to respond to business growth opportunities and changes in economic conditions, In order to maintain or adjust its capital structure, the Company may, from time to time, issue new shares, acquire or dispose of assets or adjust its capital spending to manage its ability to continue as a going concern. (Note 2.5). |