Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
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Hycroft wiped out essentially all of its debt in one move: it bought back $120.8 million of subordinated notes (held by Mudrick, Whitebox, Highbridge and Aristeia, among others) at a 9% discount for $110.4 million cash, and paid off the last $15.1 million owed under its Sprott credit facility in full -- $125.5 million total, funded by its October stock raise, leaving only Sprott's royalty in place.
Hycroft raised roughly $165 million selling stock at $6.50/share -- more than 4x its price from four months earlier -- earmarking the funds to expand exploration and drilling at the Hycroft mine and to retire its remaining debt at a discount.
As part of its 2025 turnaround, Hycroft agreed to raise $60 million in a private placement of units at $4.28 (stock plus warrants struck at $6.00) -- a much stronger price than its 2022-2023 crisis-era raises, funding continued exploration ahead of the October 2025 debt payoff.
Hycroft raised about $40.7 million selling stock-and-warrant units at $3.50 -- its share price now well clear of the $1.00 delisting threshold that had threatened it a year earlier, a sign of the turnaround underway.
Hycroft's auditor Moss Adams merged into Baker Tilly, which took over as the company's independent accounting firm with no disagreements over prior filings -- Moss Adams' last audit report had flagged going-concern doubt.
Nasdaq moved to actually delist Hycroft's stock after it failed to fix its sub-$1.00 share price through two full compliance periods; the company said it would appeal to a Nasdaq hearings panel to stay listed.
Hycroft got Sprott's consent to pursue a reverse stock split (between 1-for-10 and 1-for-25) to try to fix its Nasdaq minimum-price problem, pending a shareholder vote.
Hycroft bought back $11.1 million of its subordinated notes from Highbridge Capital for $5.6 million cash plus 500,000 shares, and separately made a small voluntary paydown on its Sprott first-lien loan -- a first, modest step toward chipping away at its debt load.
Nasdaq issued Hycroft a fresh notice that its stock still doesn't meet the $1.00 minimum bid price requirement, restarting the compliance clock with a new deadline in April 2023.
Hycroft set up a $500 million at-the-market stock sales program with B. Riley Securities, giving it a standing way to raise equity gradually as it tries to fund its way out of its cash crunch.
Amid its liquidity crisis, Hycroft agreed with lender Sprott to raise new equity by March 31, 2022 -- a lender-mandated capital raise rather than a discretionary one.
Hycroft disclosed it had ceased mining operations altogether and was in talks with its lenders to restructure its debt and capital structure, after Sprott granted further covenant relief -- the clearest sign yet of the company's going-concern crisis.
With cash running low, Hycroft got its lender Sprott to relax minimum-cash covenants through May 2022, in exchange for locking in CEO Diane Garrett and CFO Stanton Rideout as required personnel until the loan is repaid -- a sign of mounting financial strain.
Nasdaq warned Hycroft that its stock has traded below the $1.00 minimum bid price for 30 straight days, giving the company until June 2022 to regain compliance or risk delisting.
Hycroft restated its 2020 financial statements after new SEC guidance required SPAC-style warrants to be booked as liabilities rather than equity -- a paperwork fix tied to the 2020 Mudrick merger structure, not the mine's operations.
Hycroft adjusted the terms of warrants inherited from the pre-merger Hycroft entity and got Nasdaq approval to list the new warrants issued in its October 2020 stock offering, routine housekeeping tied to its recent capital raises.
Hycroft raised roughly $75 million in an upsized public offering of stock-and-warrant units at $9.00 each, its first capital raise as a newly public mining company.
Newly combined Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation switched auditors, dismissing WithumSmith+Brown (the former SPAC's auditor, which had flagged going-concern doubt) in favor of Plante Moran, which had audited Hycroft's mining business before the merger.