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Interest Bearing Liabilities
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Interest Bearing Liabilities [Abstract]  
Interest Bearing Liabilities

14.Interest Bearing Liabilities

The Company had a Multicurrency Revolving Syndicated Facility Agreement, or SFA, dated September 15, 2018, comprising of Facility A ($350 million loan facility) and Facility B (A$370 million bank guarantee facility).

On September 11, 2019, the Company executed an amendment to the SFA, with the key amendments as follows:

Facility C – an additional multicurrency loan facility with a limit of $200 million. All other terms match those of Facility A.

Facility B – amended to a multicurrency bank guarantee facility without altering its limit of A$370 million.

Termination date – the termination date of the SFA was extended by 12 months to February 15, 2023.

On December 23, 2019, the bank guarantee facility, Facility B limit was reduced to A$130 million largely due to a change in the Queensland State Government’s method of managing the risk of mining companies failing to meet their environmental performance, rehabilitation and mine closure obligations. In April 2019 the Queensland State government enacted the Mineral and Energy Resources (Financial Provisioning) Act 2018 (QLD) which requires us to pay an annual levy to the Queensland State Government in lieu of providing bank guarantees.

The SFA is a revolving credit facility under which the Company may borrow funds from Facility A and/or Facility C for a period of one, two, three or six months, each referred to as a Term. The interest rate is set at the commencement of each Term. At the end of each Term, the Company may elect to repay the loan or extend any loan amount outstanding for a further period of one, two, three or six months. The Term of the loan cannot extend beyond the Termination Date of the SFA.

During the year ended December 31, 2019 the Company borrowed a total amount of $464.0 million under the SFA to partially fund distributions to shareholders in the period of $696.0 million, and for other working capital purposes.

The total interest bearing liabilities outstanding under the SFA as at December 31, 2019, was $330.0 million. There were no amounts outstanding under the SFA as at December 31, 2018.

The Company’s lending arrangements contain, among other terms, events of default and various affirmative, negative, and reporting covenants and cross-default provisions that are typical for a facility of this nature. Should the Company be unable to comply with any future debt-related covenant (and where the non-compliance is not remedied within the permitted timeframe), the Company will be required to seek a waiver of such covenant to avoid an event of default.