Horizonte Minerals Plc announced that it has signed binding loan documentation, including a comprehensive intercreditor agreement and loan agreements with two export credit agencies ("ECA") in relation to its previously announced senior secured project finance debt facility of $346.2 million (Senior Debt Facility) (29 December 2021). The Senior Debt Facility has been executed between Araguaia Niquel Metais LTDA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Horizonte and a syndicate of international financial institutions (being BNP Paribas, BNP Paribas Fortis, ING Capital LLC, ING Bank N.V., Natixis, New York Branch, Société Générale and SEK, Swedish Export Credit Corporation) (together the "Senior Lenders") and two export credit agencies (being EKF, Denmark's Export Credit Agency and Finnvera plc, Finland's Export Credit Agency). The Senior Debt Facility will include the following: Commercial senior facility of US$200,000,000 provided by the Senior Lenders; ECA facility of $74,562,000 guaranteed by EKF; ECA facility of $71,638,000 guaranteed by Finnvera; First drawdown under the Senior Debt Facility is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2022 following satisfaction of certain conditions precedent customary for transactions of this nature.