XRA Exeter Resource Corp. Ordinary Shares (Canada)

FORM 6-K

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Report of Foreign Private Issuer

Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the month of   February 2009

Commission File Number    000-51016

EXETER RESOURCE CORPORATION

Suite 1260, 999 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
V6C 2W2
604.688.9592

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

EXETER RESOURCE CORPORATION (Registrant)

March 2, 2009

By:   /s/ Cecil Bond                                           Cecil Bond         Chief Financial Officer

EXHIBIT INDEX

99.1

Press Release dated February 28, 2009

 

EXHIBIT 99.1

 

 

For Immediate Release: NR 09-06

 

EXETER GRANTS STOCK OPTIONS

 

Vancouver, B.C., February 28, 2009 - Exeter Resource Corporation (NYSE Alternext US:XRA, TSX-V:XRC, Frankfurt:EXB - “Exeter” or the “Company”) reports that it has granted an aggregate of 1,200,000 stock options to directors and officers exercisable at a price of $2.85 (US$2.26) for five years. In addition, the Company has granted 60,000 stock options to Otis and Mandy exercisable at a price of $2.85 for five years.

 

The Company has also amended the exercise price of an aggregate of 1,350,000 stock options ranging in price from $3.64 to $4.37 to $2.85. The options are held by directors and officers of the Company and the amendment is subject to approval by disinterested shareholders and acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange.

 

About Exeter

Exeter Resource Corporation is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on the discovery and development of gold and silver properties in South America. Following the closing of its recent equity financing, the Company has $41 million in its treasury.

 

The Caspiche gold-copper discovery is situated in the Maricunga gold district of Chile, between the Refugio mine (Kinross Gold Corp.) and the giant Cerro Casale gold deposit (Barrick Gold Corp. and Kinross Gold Corp.). The Company expects to release a preliminary National Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”) compliant resources estimate in the second quarter of 2009. Drilling currently underway will be included in an updated NI 43-101 compliant resources estimate expected in September 2009. The initial resource target is large, reflecting results to date and the scale of similar gold and/or gold-copper porphyry systems in the immediate area.

 

Exeter’s priority on its Cerro Moro high grade gold-silver property in Argentina is the Escondida vein where drilling has returned multiple intercepts of 12-18 grams per tonne gold equivalent** over potentially mineable widths. The results from drilling to December 2008 will be used to produce a NI 43-101 compliant resources estimate, expected during the second quarter of 2009. Exeter will continue to develop its conceptual models so that on receipt of a NI 43-101 resources estimate, it can advance the project to the scoping study level.

 

No site work is planned on the Don Sixto gold-silver project in Argentina over the next quarter. The Company will continue to work with provincial authorities and with representatives of other mining companies, to effect amendment to the 2007 legislation that banned the use of cyanide in mining operations in Mendoza Province.

 

 

You are invited to visit the Exeter web site at www.exeterresource.com .

 

EXETER RESOURCE CORPORATION

 

Bryce Roxburgh

President and CEO

 

Safe Harbour Statement – This news release contains “forward-looking information” and “forward-looking statements” (together, the “forward-looking statements”) within the meaning of applicable securities laws and the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform

 

Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release. Users of forward-looking statements are cautioned that actual results may vary from the forward-looking statements contained herein. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the Company’s belief as to the extent and timing of its drilling programs and exploration results, the potential tonnage and grades of deposits, timing and establishment of resources estimates, potential for financing its activities, potential production from its properties and expected cash reserves. In certain cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “plans”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. While the Company has based this forward-looking information on its expectations about future events as at the date that such information was prepared, the information is not a guarantee of the Company’s future performance and is subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward looking information. Such factors and assumptions include, amongst others, the effects of general economic conditions, changing foreign exchange rates and actions by government authorities, uncertainties associated with legal proceedings and negotiations and misjudgments in the course of preparing forward-looking information. In addition, there are also known and unknown risk factors which could cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Known risk factors include, among others, risks associated with project development; the need for additional financing; operational risks associated with mining and mineral processing; fluctuations in metal prices; title matters; uncertainties and risks related to carrying on business in foreign countries; environmental liability claims and insurance; reliance on key personnel; the potential for conflicts of interest among certain officers, directors or promoters of the Company with certain other projects; the absence of dividends; currency fluctuations; competition; dilution; the volatility of the Company’s common share price and volume; and tax consequences to U.S. investors, as well as those factors discussed in the Company’s Annual Information Form for the financial year ended December 31, 2007, dated March 28, 2008 filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators and available at www.sedar.com . Subject to applicable securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements, or the material factors or assumptions used to develop such forward-looking statements, will prove to be accurate. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

 

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