FY2021
Equity supports project advances
Share financing supported advances to Puna. The construction progress percentage reported in March 2022 is a later update, not a December 2021 completion measure.
ASX: AGY · Five-year financial review
(ASX: AGY) Argosy Minerals Financial Review - FY2021~25
Argosy reported a FY2025 profit while cash continued to decline. The difference is explained by a Rincon impairment reversal and equity-accounted joint-venture results, not a matching inflow from lithium sales. A lower spending rate preserved cash, but further project development remained conditional on funding.
Reading the figures: Units are stated above each table or beside the metric. Brackets denote negative amounts. Supported nil is shown as zero; unlike reporting bases remain separately labelled.
FY2025 profit
A$7.310m
Includes a A$10.073m impairment reversal.
Year-end cash
A$4.259m
December 2025 group cash.
FY2025 project advance
A$1.227m
Cash advanced to Puna Mining.
Current Rincon interest
77.5%
90% remains conditional on the earn-in terms.
Five years in context
Rincon is held through Puna Mining. Although Argosy owns 77.5%, equal board representation establishes joint control and the investment is equity accounted. Project-level sales, output and assets therefore cannot be copied into group revenue or consolidated cash flow as though the operation were wholly owned.
The right to reach 90% depends on the Phase 3 investment terms, including the stated US$135m commitment and loan conversion. That dollar amount is not converted into Australian-dollar financing already available, and a future plant capacity is not annual production.
Events behind the numbers
FY2022
Another major financing year
Cash share proceeds and project advances both increased. The 98% development-complete update was dated March 2023 and is not backdated.
FY2023
Battery-quality product; cash drawdown
Rincon produced battery-quality product. The approximately 70-tonne cumulative figure was reported in March 2024, so it is not treated as FY2023 output.
FY2024
Demonstration operations suspended
The company suspended the demonstration facility for market and capital-preservation reasons and recognised a Rincon impairment.
FY2025
Lower advances and an impairment reversal
Project advances fell sharply. Engineering continued and 96.1 tonnes were covered by spot-sales contracts, but these contracts are not presented as group sales receipts.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 01
The cash buffer declined despite a positive profit
Operating and investing cash flows remained negative in FY2025, partly offset by new shares and option exercise. The positive result is predominantly accounting-driven; it did not reverse the direction of annual cash movement.
Cash at each December balance date
A$ million
Closing cash
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Reported cash flow by activity
A$ million
Operating cash flowInvesting cash flowFinancing cash flow
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Profit, cash use and the funding cycle
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit / (loss) attributable to owners | 2.009 | (0.176) | (10.619) | (15.450) | 7.310 |
| Operating cash flow | (2.003) | (2.872) | (1.009) | (1.228) | (0.976) |
| Investing cash flow | (10.023) | (15.805) | (21.617) | (14.183) | (2.772) |
| Financing cash flow | 32.132 | 32.153 | (0.090) | 7.418 | 2.073 |
| Closing cash | 23.093 | 36.611 | 13.852 | 5.960 | 4.259 |
Group cash flows are not the 100% operating cash flows of Puna Mining, which is equity accounted.
Exploration payments moved from operating classification in FY2021-FY2022 to investing in FY2023-FY2025. Compare combined operating and investing cash use when assessing total deployment.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 02
Advances slowed as capital preservation became central
Advances to Puna dominated earlier investing outflows and fell materially in FY2025. A separate exploration/development payment line changed cash-flow classification, so a lower operating outflow alone is not a clean like-for-like saving.
Cash advanced to Puna Mining
A$ million
Advances to Puna Mining S.A.
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Cash committed to the project and other exploration
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advances to Puna Mining S.A. | (10.023) | (15.783) | (17.528) | (12.033) | (1.227) |
| Exploration/development cash payments - classification noted | (0.622) | (1.036) | (4.061) | (2.149) | (1.544) |
| Operating plus investing cash flow | (12.026) | (18.676) | (22.626) | (15.411) | (3.748) |
Advances to the joint venture are not consolidated construction-capex expense or customer sales.
The combined cash measure is a disclosed arithmetic subtotal, not issuer-defined free cash flow; it includes project advances and other investing items.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 03
Positive working capital is not expansion finance
The company and auditor retained funding-dependent going-concern uncertainty. The remaining net current assets are a liquidity buffer; they do not establish that the additional 10,000tpa plant is financed.
Net current assets
A$ million
Net current assets
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Equity receipts and the cash cost of raising capital
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash from share issues | 34.061 | 32.360 | 0.000 | 7.522 | 2.000 |
| Share-issue cash costs | (1.914) | (0.125) | 0.000 | (0.020) | (0.151) |
FY2025 also includes A$0.300m from exercised options. Net financing cash includes lease payments and related interest, so it is not simply share receipts less costs.
Neither the right to earn 90% nor potential future option exercise is counted as funding already received.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
Net current assets across the five balance dates
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net current assets | 22.971 | 36.679 | 13.849 | 5.525 | 4.107 |
FY2021-FY2024 calculated from disclosed group current assets and liabilities; FY2025 explicitly reported in the going-concern/liquidity disclosure.
Positive net current assets does not mean the proposed additional plant is fully funded. This table does not substitute parent-only or joint-venture-only assets for a missing group balance-sheet observation.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 04
Keep impairment, JV earnings and currency translation apart
The prior-year impairment was partly reversed in FY2025 as valuation assumptions changed. Separately, the equity-accounted JV result turned positive, mainly through foreign exchange. Translation losses in OCI then reduced comprehensive income without changing the statutory-profit line.
Statutory and comprehensive result
A$ million
Attributable statutory profit / (loss)Total comprehensive income
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Why profit and comprehensive income differ
A$ million
| Metric | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Attributable statutory profit / (loss) | (15.450) | 7.310 |
| Rincon impairment reversal / (expense) | (10.780) | 10.073 |
| Equity-accounted share of JV profit / (loss) | (4.989) | 1.067 |
| Other comprehensive income / (loss) | 23.516 | (6.206) |
| Total comprehensive income | 8.066 | 1.104 |
Impairment and JV results are components already included in statutory profit, not amounts to add again. OCI is separate; statutory result + OCI = total comprehensive result.
The FY2025 JV result was mainly driven by foreign-exchange gains, according to the issuer. The positive statutory result is not evidence of equivalent cash remitted from the project.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
Reading the figures
- Only the frozen per-year extracted packet was used; no raw source, new DB query, financial web research or MiniMax drafting. Primary-author review, not independent audit. Published.
- The group equity-accounts Puna Mining. Project sales contracts, project output, 100% JV accounts, ownership percentages and group figures are not treated as interchangeable.
- FY2021-FY2022 exploration cash was operating-classified; FY2023-FY2025 was investing-classified. The total-deployment calculation is explicitly named and is not issuer free cash flow.
- The selected FY2025 group liquidity claim is used rather than substituting parent or JV segment accounts for missing full group balance-sheet lines.
- March 2022, March 2023 and March 2024 project updates are not assigned retrospectively to the previous December year-end. Contracted tonnes and nameplate capacity are not presented as realised yearly output.
- A$ reporting amounts and the US$ Phase 3 investment condition are kept separate; no exchange-rate conversion or reserve valuation is invented.
Annual-report source registry
- Argosy Minerals - Annual Report to shareholdersCalendar-year annual extraction; group, parent and joint-venture scopes remain separate.
- Argosy Minerals - Annual Report to shareholdersCalendar-year annual extraction; group, parent and joint-venture scopes remain separate.
- Argosy Minerals - Annual Report to shareholdersCalendar-year annual extraction; group, parent and joint-venture scopes remain separate.
- Argosy Minerals - Annual Report to shareholdersCalendar-year annual extraction; group, parent and joint-venture scopes remain separate.
- Argosy Minerals - Annual Report to shareholdersCalendar-year annual extraction; group, parent and joint-venture scopes remain separate.
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