Prosper Gold Corp. ("
Prosper Gold" or the
"
Company") (TSXV:PGX) is pleased to report it has
(i) commenced its maiden diamond drilling program at the Skinner
North Target and (ii) closed a $725,000 first tranche of a
non-brokered private placement of up to $2,000,000 of hard dollar
units (“
HD Units”) and flow-through units
(“
FT Units”) of the Company (the
“
Financing”).
“We are excited to commence the first ever
drilling at this new target area,” commented Peter Bernier, CEO.
“Trenching at the Skinner North prospect has demonstrated grade and
width at surface. Additional targets in the immediate area with
similar geological and geophysical characteristics will also be
tested.”
Drilling at Skinner North Target
Area
The Skinner Target Area is 4 kilometres
northwest of the Golden Corridor and was identified by prospecting
and 2021-2022 till sampling results. The Company completed
stripping, channel sampling, and ground magnetics at the Skinner
North Target area for which results have been reported (see the
Company's Sep. 7, 2022 news releases for details). The 2,500-metre
proposed diamond drilling program will be testing multiple
exploration targets at the Skinner North prospect.
Channel sampling results at the Skinner North
trench 1 include 9.69 gpt gold over 3.0 metres and 13.13 gpt gold
over 1.8 metres, within a 6- to 12-metre-wide quartz-carbonate vein
bearing shear zone. Gold mineralization comprises finely
disseminated, fracture filling and locally semi-massive pyrite ±
chalcopyrite with associated silica-ankerite alteration.
Mineralization persists in quartz-carbonate veins and within
sheared mafic volcanic wallrock. The shear zone and majority of the
quartz-carbonate veins trend 100° to 110° and dip approximately 70°
to the north.
400 metres southwest of the Skinner North trench
1, grab samples up to 6.84 gpt gold are associated with strongly
sheared and silica-ankerite altered mafic volcanics with
quartz-pyrite ± chalcopyrite veining, similar to the mineralization
that persists at the Skinner North trench 1. Shearing and
quartz-carbonate veining at this target trend between 80° and 105°
and dip 55° to 65° to the north.
Non-brokered Private
Placement
The Company has closed the first tranche (the
“First Tranche”) of the Financing consisting of
(i) 1,300,000 HD Units at a price of $0.20 per HD Unit and (ii)
1,860,000 FT Units at a price of $0.25 per FT Unit, for aggregate
gross proceeds to the Company under the First Tranche of $725,000.
Each HD Unit consists of one common share of the Company (a
“Common Share”) and one common share purchase
warrant (a “HD Warrant”). Each HD
Warrant entitles the holder to acquire one Common Share at a price
of $0.30 for a period of 24 months following the closing date. Each
FT Unit consists of one Common Share that qualifies as a
“flow-through share” for the purposes of the Income Tax Act
(Canada) (a “FT Share”) and one–half of one
non-transferable non-flow through common share purchase warrant
(each whole warrant, a “NFT Warrant” and together
with the HD Warrants, the “Warrants”). Each whole
NFT Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase one Common
Share at an exercise price of $0.30 per Common Share for a period
of 24 months following the closing date.
In the event that the Common Shares trade at a
closing price on the TSX Venture Exchange (the
“TSX-V”) of greater than $0.80 per common share
for a period of 20 consecutive trading days at any time after the
closing date, Prosper Gold may accelerate the expiry date of the
Warrants by giving notice to the holders thereof and in such case
the Warrants will expire on the 30th day after the date on which
such notice is given by Prosper Gold (the “Acceleration
Trigger”).
In connection with the First Tranche and in
accordance with the policies of the TSX-V, finder's fees totaling
approximately $33,000 in cash were paid and approximately 136,750
common share purchase warrants (each, a "Finder
Warrant") were issued. Each Finder Warrant is
non-transferable and exercisable for one Prosper Share for a period
of 24 months following closing at an exercise price equal to $0.30.
The Finder Warrants terms contain the same Acceleration Trigger as
the Warrants.
The Company expects to close a second tranche of
the Financing of up to $1,275,000 on or about November 15th,
2022.
Prosper Gold expects to use the net proceeds
from the Financing to fund exploration activities at the Golden
Sidewalk Project and for working capital and general corporate
purposes.
The Financing involves related parties (as such
term is defined under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection
of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI
61-101”)) and therefore constitutes a related party
transaction under MI 61-101. This transaction is exempt from the
formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of
MI 61-101 pursuant to sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(a) of MI 61-101, as
the fair market value of the securities to be distributed and the
consideration to be received for the securities under the Financing
does not exceed 25% of the Company's market capitalization.
All securities issued pursuant to the Financing
will be subject to a four month and one day hold period in
accordance with applicable securities laws. The securities
described herein have not been, and will not be, registered under
the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and were not
permitted to be offered or sold within the United States absent
registration or an applicable exemption from the registration
requirements of such Act.
About the Golden Sidewalk
The Golden Sidewalk is a district-scale gold
exploration project covering over 160 square kilometres of
contiguous mineral claims and mining leases (see the Company's Aug.
10, Sept. 8, and Sept. 15, 2020 news releases for details) in the
western Birch-Uchi Greenstone Belt, approximately 60 km east of Red
Lake, Ontario. The vehicle-accessible project straddles 12
kilometres of the Balmer Assemblage – Narrow Lake Assemblage
unconformity, a regional-scale feature that has been the Red Lake
exploration guide, but which has seen limited exploration in the
project area. The “Golden Corridor” lies immediately north of the
unconformity and is characterized as a highly prospective trend of
coincident favourable magnetic and resistivity lineaments supported
by highly anomalous gold-in-till samples covering 7.0 by 0.5
kilometres. An additional highly prospective target area was
defined in 2021, termed the Skinner North Target Area, where 2022
channel sampling results include 9.69 gpt gold over 3.0 metres and
13.13 gpt gold over 1.8 metres and till samples containing up to
1,014 gold grains have not been followed up with drilling.
QA/QC Procedures
The location of channel samples was designed by
the on-site geologist and were cut in cleaned bedrock with gas
powered rock-saws by field personnel. Channel samples were cut to
medial depths of 2.5 to 3” and medial widths of 2”. Sample interval
lengths were between 0.5 and 1.5 metres. Quality assurance and
quality control measures implemented by the Company include the
insertion of certified reference materials in the sample sequence
at a rate of 1 in 20 for both blank material and certified
reference standards. Analytical results for reference standard and
blank samples are scrutinized internally to ensure adequate
analytical precision and accuracy in both sample preparation and
instrumental procedures. A chain of custody is strictly monitored
to ensure sample and analytical integrity and reliability. Channel
samples are sent to AGAT Laboratories in Thunder Bay, Ontario,
where they are analyzed in 50-gram aliquots using Fire-Assay with
ICP-OES finish. Any overlimit analyses (>10 g/t Au) are
re-analyzed with a pulp metallic screen method designed to give the
most accurate representation of gold concentration in each sample.
AGAT Laboratories in Thunder Bay, ON, is an accredited testing
laboratory having been assessed by the Standards Council of Canada
(SCC) and found to conform with the requirements of ISO/IEC
17025:2017.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information in this
news release has been reviewed by Rory Ritchie, P.Geo.,
Vice-President of Exploration for Prosper Gold and a Qualified
Person under National Instrument 43-101.
For a detailed overview of Prosper Gold please
visit www.ProsperGoldCorp.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Per: “Peter Bernier”Peter BernierPresident &
CEO
For further information, please contact:
Peter BernierPresident & CEOProsper Gold
Corp.Cell: (250) 316-6644Email: Pete@ProsperGoldCorp.com
Information set forth in this news release may
involve forward-looking statements under applicable securities
laws. Forward-looking statements are statements that relate to
future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking
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"believe", "plan", "estimate", "expect", and "intend", statements
that an action or event "may", "might", "could", "should", or
"will" be taken or occur, or other similar expressions. All
statements, other than statements of historical fact, included
herein including, without limitation, statements about the use of
proceeds from the Financing, the timing of the close of the second
tranche, the exercise of the Warrants and the planned exploration
of the Golden Sidewalk project, are forward-looking statements. By
their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual
results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be
materially different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Such factors include, among others, the following
risks: the need for additional financing; operational risks
associated with mineral exploration; fluctuations in commodity
prices; title matters; environmental liability claims and
insurance; reliance on key personnel; the potential for conflicts
of interest among certain officers, directors or promoters with
certain other projects; the absence of dividends; competition;
dilution; the volatility of our common share price and volume and
the additional risks identified the management discussion and
analysis section of our interim and most recent annual financial
statement or other reports and filings with the TSX Venture
Exchange and applicable Canadian securities regulations.
Forward-looking statements are made based on management's beliefs,
estimates and opinions on the date that statements are made and the
Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking
statements if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other
circumstances should change, except as required by applicable
securities laws. Investors are cautioned against attributing undue
certainty to forward-looking statements.
Neither the 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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