Announcing the equity capital raising to the share market today, OM Holdings said the entitlement offer would consist of a three for 10 non-renounceable offer of new ordinary shares in OM to eligible shareholders at 40c per new share.

The entitlement offer represents a 9.1% discount to the company’s last traded share price and a 7.8% discount to the eight-day volume weighted average price.

OM said the offer had already garnered support by a number of its major shareholders.

The company plans to use the funds to finance development activities at its Sarawak project and to pay the costs of the entitlement offer.

The Sarawak project is being developed by OM Materials, a joint venture company owned by OM (80%) and Cahya Mata Sarawak (20%).

The project is expected to produce about 575,000 tonnes per annum of ferroalloys for the Asian and global steel markets from the first half of 2014, with full ramp up flagged for mid-2015.

The project will be 70% debt financed by a consortium of international and regional banks, with initial indicative funding participation amounts received from six major banks to date.

OM said a $US428 million ($A408 million) debt syndication process was underway, with completion expected for the second half of the 2012 calendar year.

The manganese miner produced 190,071t grading 36.27% manganese from 353,060t of ore mined from its Bootu Creek mine in the Northern Territory during the June quarter and generated a net profit of $A2.7 million for the first six months of 2012.

At the end of June, OM’s cash kitty totalled $67.7 million.

Shares in OM were unchanged at 44c.