Abacus Mining & Exploration Corporation (“Abacus” or “The
Company”) (TSXV:AME) announces that further to its news release
dated June 4, 2024, it has amended, at the request of the
TSX-Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”), certain terms of the June 4,
2024 agreement (the “June 4, 2024 Agreement”) with Almadex Minerals
Ltd. and its wholly-owned Nevada subsidiary Almadex America Inc.
(“Almadex”), to acquire a 100% ownership interest in the Willow
porphyry copper property located in Yerington, Nevada, (“Willow
Property”) and data associated with the Willow Property (the
“Willow Data”) (the “Amending Agreement”).
Pursuant to the terms of the Amending
Agreement:
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the Company has issued 9,546,922 common shares of Abacus to
Almadex
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the requirement, under the June 4, 2024 Agreement to issue the
Top-Up Shares to Almadex on July 31, 2025, has been removed
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the NSR has been increased from 2.0% from future production of
minerals from the Willow Property under the June 4, 2024 Agreement,
to 2.5%, of which the Company can buy back 0.5% for $500,000 for a
period of 2 years from the Closing date, which consideration may be
paid, at the Company’s election, either in cash or, subject to
prior Exchange approval at the time of election, equivalent shares
in the capital of the Company.
“The revised Agreement has the effect of
immediately fixing the number of shares to be issued to Almadex”
commented Paul G. Anderson, President and CEO of Abacus. “The
Company has now consolidated ownership of a very prospective
porphyry copper property in a very active district, which remains
poorly drill tested.”
Work done to date by Abacus leads the company to
believe that Willow contains a fifth porphyry within the Yerington
camp. Of the known porphyries in the camp, the Ann Mason deposit
lies adjacent and east of Willow and is held by HudBay Minerals. In
2021, Hudbay announced an updated PEA on Ann Mason with a revised
M&I resource of 2.2 billion tonnes at 0.34% Cu. *
Lion Copper and Gold control the Yerington, Bear
and MacArthur porphyries adjacent and to the east of Ann Mason.
Anaconda mined the Yerington porphyry between 1952 until 1978,
producing 1.6 billion pounds of copper. MacArthur (M&I of 159MT
at 0.212% Cu) has seen some past production and is currently
undergoing a Prefeasibility Study. In March of 2022, Lion announced
that Rio Tinto had taken an option on the company’s Yerington
assets, and it announced the results of a new PEA in March of this
year. *
The Company in addition to Willow has a lease on
the Nev-Lorraine claims contiguous to Willow, giving it the right
to explore and to elect to purchase these claims outright over a
ten-year period.
Abacus also holds a 20% ownership interest in
the Ajax copper-gold porphyry project, located near Kamloops,
British Columbia., which is managed by base metal major KGHM Polska
Miedź S.A., who hold the remaining 80%. The Ajax Project contains
significant quantities of copper and gold, within a NI 43-101
Proven and Probable Mineral Reserve of 426 Mt at 0.29% Cu, 0.19 g/t
Au and 0.39 g/t Ag. Contained metal is in the order of 2.7 Bil lbs
Cu, 2.6 Moz Au and 5.3 Moz Ag**.
* Data is from the respective Company
websites.
** Wardrop Engineering Inc. 2012. Ajax
Copper/Gold Project, Kamloops, British Columbia – Feasibility Study
Technical Report. Doc. No. 1054610300-REP-R0004-02. January
2012.
The technical information in this news release
has been reviewed and approved by Paul G. Anderson, M.Sc. P.Geo., a
Qualified Person within the meaning of National Instrument
43-101.
On Behalf of the Board,ABACUS MINING
& EXPLORATION CORPORATION
Paul G. Anderson, P. Geo.President, CEO and
Director(604) 682 - 0301
About AbacusAbacus is a mineral
exploration and mine development company currently focused on
copper and gold in B.C. and Nevada. The Company’s main asset is a
20% ownership interest, together with KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. (80%),
in the proposed copper-gold Ajax Mine located southwest of
Kamloops, B.C., which has undergone a joint provincial and federal
environmental assessment process. On December 14, 2017, a decision
was made by the B.C. Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Strategy and the Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources
to decline to issue an environmental assessment certificate for the
Project. KGHM have recently reopened an office in Kamloops, B.C. to
facilitate First Nation, community and governmental engagement in
order to advance the project towards a potential resubmission of
the environmental application.
Abacus also owns a 100% interest in the Willow
copper-gold property located near Yerington, Nevada, and it
controls the contiguous Nev-Lorraine claims subject to a ten-year
lease agreement.
For the latest reports and information on
Abacus’ projects, please refer to the Company’s website at
www.amemining.com.
Forward-Looking InformationThis
release includes certain statements that are deemed
“forward-looking statements”. All statements in this release, other
than statements of historical facts, that address events or
developments that Abacus expects to occur, are forward-looking
statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not
historical facts and are generally, but not always, identified by
the words “expects”, “plans”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “intends”,
“estimates”, “projects”, “potential” and similar expressions, or
that events or conditions “will”, “would”, “may”, “could” or
“should” occur. Although the Company believes the expectations
expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on
reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of
future performance and actual results may differ materially from
those in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause
the actual results to differ materially from those in
forward-looking statements include changes to commodity prices,
mine and metallurgical recovery, operating and capital costs,
foreign exchange rates, ability to obtain required permits on a
timely basis, exploitation and exploration successes, continued
availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market
or business conditions. Investors are cautioned that any such
statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual
results or developments may differ materially from those projected
in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are
based on the beliefs, estimates and opinions of the Company's
management on the date the statements are made. Except as required
by applicable securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation
to update these forward-looking statements in the event that
management's beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors,
should change.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation
Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the
TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release.
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