Euromax Announces Sale of Subsidiary for $3.5m and Update on Ilovitza Pre-Feasibility Study
April 28 2014 - 8:16AM
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Euromax Announces Sale of Subsidiary for $3.5m and Update on
Ilovitza Pre-Feasibility Study
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Apr 28, 2014) -
Euromax Resources Ltd. (TSX-VENTURE:EOX) ("Euromax" or the
"Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed the sale of
its Bulgarian operations through the sale of its subsidiary company
Euromax Services EOOD ("Euromax Services") for consideration of
US$3.5 million. Euromax Services owns 100% of the Trun project and
the Babjak and Zlataritza exploration assets in Bulgaria.
US$0.6m was paid upon signing and the remaining upfront
consideration of US$2.1m is payable in cash before 9 May 2014, with
the balance being retained by the purchaser as indemnification
against any liability arising under the warranties and (assuming
there are no claims under the warranties) will be paid in two
separate instalments: US$0.5m on 31 December 2015 and US$0.3m on 31
December 2018. The Company retains a pro-rata share pledge to
secure payment of the deferred instalments. As part of the
agreement, the Company has also cancelled the 1.5% Net Smelter
Return it held over the Breznik property, as previously reported in
news releases dated 7 May 2012 and 27 September 2013.
The Company has established a new stand-alone exploration
services company in Bulgaria, Euromax Exploration Services EOOD
("EES"), into which a number of key Euromax personnel have been
transferred with Mr. Dimitar Dimitrov taking the role as Managing
Director. EES has already secured its first contract that will
cover its fixed forecast operating expenditures over the next year
and has initiated marketing to secure further contracts. The EES
team has extensive experience in target definition, resource
estimation, interpretation, mapping, database and project
management. As part of this restructuring and with his new role as
Managing Director of EES, Dimitar Dimitrov will be stepping down as
Senior Vice-President of Exploration of Euromax, but will continue
to be fully engaged with the Company's other projects.
The sale of this asset and the establishment of EES follow a
comprehensive strategic review in the light of challenging market
conditions in the junior gold sector and is aimed at ensuring the
most efficient use of the Company's personnel and resources. The
sale proceeds will be used to finalise the Company's Ilovitza
Pre-Feasibility Study, progress development work on its Ilovitza
project in Macedonia, and for general corporate purposes.
Update on Ilovitza Pre-Feasibility Study ("Ilovitza PFS")
The Company, in a press release dated 3 December 2013 and
subsequent Technical Report filed on 17 January 2014, announced an
increased mineral resource estimate for the project. This
significantly larger resource necessitated a complete
re-optimisation of the PFS to ensure that the maximum value of this
resource is exploited. This re-optimisation has necessarily delayed
publication of the PFS by a few months as the Company has adapted
and re-optimised the mine plan, through-put rate and tailings
design and placement for the Ilovitza project. This additional work
will properly reflect the full exploitation of the significantly
increased resource when the complete results of the Ilovitza PFS
are announced in June 2014.
Commenting on the announcement, Steve Sharpe President &
CEO, said: "These have been very trying times for junior
exploration companies and I am very proud of the pragmatism shown
by the management team in implementing an innovative restructuring
that not only sees a significant cash injection, but also allows
our highly respected exploration team to stand on its own two feet
financially. As such it will be perfectly placed to take advantage
of the cyclical upturn in regional exploration interest when it
occurs, as it surely will.
"The cash proceeds from the sale of Euromax Services will
allow us to continue on track with development work at Ilovitza,
which is where we believe the tangible and deliverable value of the
Company lies. In that context, we fully expect the re-optimised PFS
to demonstrate a step-change economic improvement over an already
robust Preliminary Economic Assessment."
About Euromax Resources Ltd.
Euromax is a Canadian exploration and development Company with
gold and base metal assets in Macedonia and Serbia and an
exploration services company in Bulgaria. We are focused on
developing mineral resources in Southeastern Europe, with the
objective of becoming a world-class mining company in the region.
Our strength lies in our corporate and local management and
technical expertise in Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia.
This news release contains forward-looking statements
including but not limited to statements regarding the exploration
services company, Euromax Exploration Services Ltd, an updated
resource estimate, and the completion of a Pre-Feasibility Study
for its Ilovitza project. In making the forward-looking statements
in this release, the Company has applied certain factors and
assumptions that are based on information currently available to
the Company as well as the Company's current beliefs and
assumptions made by the Company, including with respect to mineral
resource estimates, that the key assumptions and parameters on
which such geological interpretations are based are reasonable,
that the Company will be able to obtain the necessary supplies,
equipment, personnel and any financing required to carry out its
planned activities, that the Company's objectives concerning the
Ilovitza project can be achieved and that the Company's activities
will proceed as expected. Although the Company considers these
assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently
available to it, they may prove to be incorrect, and the
forward-looking statements in this release are subject to numerous
risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause future
results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in
such forward-looking statements. Such risk factors may include,
among others, that that mineral resources are not as estimated,
unexpected variations in mineral resources, grade or recovery
rates, actual results of exploration activities will be different
than anticipated, data and assumptions underlying the geological
interpretations may prove to be inaccurate, incomplete or to have
been incorrectly interpreted, that the Company will not be able to
obtain the necessary supplies, equipment, personnel and any
financing required to carry out its planned activities. Readers are
also encouraged to review all Company documents filed with the
securities authorities in Canada, including the Management
Discussion and Analysis in respect of the Company's recent
financial statements under the heading "Operational and Other
Business Risks", which documents describe material factors and
assumptions and risks that apply to the forward looking statements
in this release. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance
on forward-looking statements. The Company does not intend, and
expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to, update or
revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, except as required by
law.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services
Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX
Venture Exchange) has reviewed or accepts responsibility for
the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
For more information, please visit www.euromaxresources.com.
Euromax Resources Ltd.Steve SharpePresident & CEO+44 (0)20
3667 2970ssharpe@euromaxresources.co.ukEuromax Resources Ltd.Tom
PanouliasN. American Representative+1 416 294
5649tpanoulias@euromaxresources.co.ukwww.euromaxresources.com
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