FY2021
Listing and portfolio acquisition
The first report covers incorporation through June. Swanson/Kum-Kum, Karibib and Bitterwasser interests were acquired on 17 June.
ASX: AM7 · Five-year financial review
(ASX: AM7) Arcadia Minerals Financial Review - FY2021~25
Arcadia’s five-year record ends with substantial accounting assets but very little cash. Lower FY2025 expenditure narrowed the loss, while the Swanson funding agreement was terminated and Bitterwasser brine results lost management’s confidence. Development expectations must be read separately from completed financing and actual production.
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 cash
A$1,990
Actual June balance, not millions.
FY2025 working-capital deficit
A$0.626m
Auditor-highlighted liquidity condition.
FY2025 group loss
A$0.888m
Includes non-controlling interests.
FY2025 total equity
A$11.503m
Accounting equity, not available cash.
Five years in context
The Guernsey-incorporated parent assembled Namibian exploration interests near the end of FY2021. The incorporation-period results therefore contain much less operating history than the following full years.
Swanson’s feasibility work and proposed construction funding were milestones, not evidence of actual cash-generating production. The latest extraction records termination of the funding agreement while Arcadia retained its 80% interest.
Events behind the numbers
FY2022
Drilling and resource definition
Swanson drilling supported an updated resource; Bitterwasser clay exploration and the initial option acquisition progressed.
FY2023
Feasibility and conditional construction funding
Swanson’s DFS was completed and Hebei’s subscription arrangement was announced. The proposed interest depended on successful plant construction and commissioning.
FY2024
Construction work and Bitterwasser acquisition
Swanson access and design work progressed. BME acquired the remaining Bitterwasser Lithium Exploration shares, changing the consolidation perimeter.
FY2025
Funding agreement terminated
Hebei’s arrangement ended in January. Conflicting brine laboratory results led management to shift focus away from Bitterwasser, while liquidity became severely constrained.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 01
Cash fell despite a lower annual spending rate
FY2025 financing consisted of a small share subscription and related-party advances. The restricted-deposit release also supported cash, but year-end liquidity remained minimal. These receipts do not establish a self-funding operation.
Closing cash
A$ million
Closing cash
AI-generated presentation · values from Reported cash flows and year-end cash; no missing values plotted as zero.
Operating cash use and financing
A$ million
Operating cash flowFinancing cash flow
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Reported cash flows and year-end cash
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating cash flow | (0.353) | (3.170) | (2.525) | (1.726) | (0.415) |
| Investing cash flow | 0.085 | (0.154) | (0.035) | (0.174) | 0.074 |
| Financing cash flow | 6.433 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.879 | 0.084 |
| Closing cash | 6.165 | 2.840 | 0.280 | 0.259 | 0.002 |
FY2021 covers 7 October 2020 to 30 June 2021, not twelve months; subsidiaries were acquired on 17 June 2021. Later years end on 30 June.
FY2025 cash is A$1,990, displayed rounded in A$ million. Restricted-deposit releases are investing receipts, not mineral revenue.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 02
Asset-backed equity and spendable cash tell different stories
Current liabilities exceeded current assets in FY2025 despite positive total equity. The auditor’s going-concern uncertainty is therefore central to the financial reading, not cancelled out by the exploration asset base.
Working capital turns negative
A$ million
Working capital / (deficit)
AI-generated presentation · values from Accounting equity remained positive while liquidity tightened; no missing values plotted as zero.
Accounting equity remained positive while liquidity tightened
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 16.437 | 13.859 | 12.332 | 12.531 | 12.179 |
| Total group equity, including non-controlling interests | 15.803 | 13.752 | 12.147 | 12.371 | 11.503 |
| Current liabilities | 0.634 | 0.107 | 0.185 | 0.160 | 0.676 |
| Working capital / (deficit) | 5.572 | 2.809 | 0.183 | 0.238 | (0.626) |
Consolidated equity is not the larger equity attributable only to owners: non-controlling interests are negative.
A positive asset-backed equity balance does not remove a cash-funding requirement. The FY2025 auditor highlighted material going-concern uncertainty.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
Exploration carrying value before the latest packet gap
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capitalised exploration and evaluation assets | 10.217 | 10.783 | 11.796 | 12.121 |
FY2024 additions relate to the remaining 75% acquisition of Bitterwasser Lithium Exploration by BME. This is not an organic drilling-spend series.
The FY2025 packet supports total assets and equity but not a complete exploration carrying-value line; it is not guessed from the total.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 03
The lower loss came with lower exploration activity
Exploration expense fell and unused Hebei funds were released into other income. The contractual release is an accounting effect of the terminated arrangement, not an additional new cash receipt to add to the cash-flow statement.
Group loss and exploration expense
A$ million
Consolidated loss after taxExploration expense
AI-generated presentation · values from Lower expenses reduced the loss; they did not produce operating cash; no missing values plotted as zero.
Lower expenses reduced the loss; they did not produce operating cash
A$ million
| Metric | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consolidated loss after tax | (0.594) | (2.618) | (2.728) | (1.654) | (0.888) |
| Loss attributable to owners | (0.594) | (2.084) | (2.142) | (1.254) | (0.734) |
| Exploration expense | 0.000 | (1.406) | (1.481) | (0.638) | (0.174) |
| Other income | 0.000 | 0.014 | 0.045 | 0.002 | 0.076 |
FY2021 is a short incorporation period with late subsidiary acquisitions; no annualised growth rate is inferred.
FY2025 other income mainly reflects release of A$75,687 unused Hebei funds after termination, rather than mineral-product sales.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
FINANCIAL REVIEW / 04
Year-end cash support was small and partly non-recurring
The subsequent A$150,000 loan draw belongs after June 2025. It may support later working capital, but cannot be inserted into the annual cash balance or treated as completed mine-construction funding.
FY2025 cash support and exploration expenditure
A$ million
| Metric | FY2025 |
|---|---|
| Exploration cash paid within operating activities | (0.261) |
| Restricted cash deposits released | 0.074 |
| Cash share subscriptions | 0.020 |
| Related-party advances | 0.064 |
| Total financing cash | 0.084 |
A$150,000 unsecured loan-facility utilisation described after year-end is not backdated into these cash flows.
The cash exploration payment is not identical to the accounting exploration expense. The report preserves both, without constructing an unsupported accrual bridge.
Source: Annual-report extractions; report editions are listed once in the consolidated source registry.
Reading the figures
- Only the frozen annual extraction packet was used. No raw reports, financial web research, fresh DB lookup or MiniMax drafting. This is published and primary-author reviewed only.
- FY2021 is a shorter period and reflects subsidiary acquisition on 17 June; the series is not uniformly twelve months of the same operating perimeter.
- Forecast Swanson start dates and the terminated Hebei funding expectation are not reported production or secured current financing. BME owns BLE, but BME itself is only 50%-owned by Arcadia; no 100% Arcadia ownership is inferred.
- Bitterwasser historical resource estimates are not FY2025 additions: the latest report says no resource updates. Brine sample reliability concerns are preserved; no disputed grade is charted.
- FY2025 detailed exploration asset carrying value is absent from the packet. That is an extraction limit, not an assertion that the issuer omitted it.
Annual-report source registry
- Arcadia Minerals - Annual Report to shareholdersFrozen annual extraction; group and parent/NCI boundaries retained.
- Arcadia Minerals - Annual Report to shareholdersFrozen annual extraction; group and parent/NCI boundaries retained.
- Arcadia Minerals - Annual ReportFrozen annual extraction; group and parent/NCI boundaries retained.
- Arcadia Minerals - Annual ReportFrozen annual extraction; group and parent/NCI boundaries retained.
- Arcadia Minerals - Annual Report to shareholdersFrozen annual extraction; group and parent/NCI boundaries retained.
Prepared solely from the existing year-by-year extraction datasets. No raw annual-report body, PDF, new database lookup or financial web research was used. Review is against those stored extractions, not a new independent original-document audit.
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