Engages Rose & Company to Provide
Market Advisory and Investor Relations Services
THUNDER BAY, ON, Feb. 12, 2019 /CNW/ - Wolfden Resources
Corporation (WLF.V) ("Wolfden" or the
"Company") is pleased to announce that an independent
technical report entitled "National Instrument 43-101 Technical
Report, Pickett Mountain Project Resource Estimation Report,
Penobscot County, Maine, USA"
with an effective date of January 7,
2019 has been filed on SEDAR. The mineral resource
statement was previously announced by the Company in a news release
dated January 7, 2019 using a 9% zinc
equivalent (ZnEq) cut-off grade as per the table below.
January 7, 2019
Mineral Resource Statement
|
Category
|
Tonnes
|
%
Zn
|
%
Pb
|
%
Cu
|
g/t
Ag
|
g/t
Au
|
Density
|
%
ZnEq
|
Indicated
|
2,050,000
|
9.88
|
3.93
|
1.38
|
101.58
|
0.92
|
3.99
|
19.32
|
Inferred
|
2,030,000
|
10.98
|
4.35
|
1.20
|
111.45
|
0.92
|
4.00
|
20.61
|
The deposit is composed of two principle zones and a newly
discovered footwall zone in drill hole PM-18-031 that intersected
4.1 metres at 38.2% ZnEq, including 16.6% Zinc, 8.4% Lead, 1.9%
Copper, 612.0 g/t Silver and 0.5 g/t Gold that remain open for
potential expansion (see Company news release dated January 15, 2019). The Company is planning its
2019 follow-up drill program and additional technical studies to
continue to expand and upgrade the mineral resources of the
project.
Market Advisory and Investor Relations
The Company is also pleased to announce that it has entered into
an agreement for services (the "Agreement") with Rose &
Company ("Rose & Co."), pursuant to which Rose & Co.
will provide certain market advisory and investor relations
services to the Company. Rose & Co. is a NY-based strategic
advisory and corporate communications firm dedicated to helping
clients successfully navigate the global capital markets. The
founders and senior executives of Rose & Co. have extensive
expertise in branding, marketing and competitive positioning.
The Rose & Company team has decades of capital markets
experience from prominent Wall Street firms, including Dahlman Rose & Company, Barclays, Morgan
Stanley, and Deutsche Bank, Rose & Co. provides its clients
comprehensive services focused on generating positive investor
response. Rose & Co. currently has no interest, directly
or indirectly, in the Company or its securities or any right or
intent to acquire such an interest except for those allowances
under the terms of the Agreement.
The Agreement has an initial term of 12 months, subject to early
termination by the Company for any reason within six months of the
effective date, and, unless terminated by either party, will renew
automatically for successive three-month periods. Rose & Co.
will be paid US$12,500 quarterly and
be granted a one time allotment of 300,000 options to purchase
common shares of the Company at a price of $0.30 per common share for a period of up to 5
years pursuant to the Company's share incentive plan and subject to
the continuation of the Agreement. The options will vest in stages
over an eighteen-month period, with no more than 1/4 of the options
vesting in any three-month period. The Agreement and the grant of
options are subject to the approval of the TSX Venture
Exchange.
About Wolfden
Wolfden is a Canadian exploration and development company
focused on advancing its 100% owned Pickett Mountain
Project in Maine, USA. The
6,800 acre Project is host to a high-grade (Zn, Pb, Cu, Ag)
zinc-rich, volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit that is close to
excellent infrastructure and includes the land and all rights to
minerals and timber without any historic or aboriginal
encumbrances. With a mineral resource of 2.05 Mt at 19.3% ZnEq of
indicated resources and 2.03 Mt at 20.6% ZnEq of inferred
resources, the Company plans to expand resources with further
drilling and complete sufficient exploration, definition drilling
and various technical studies in order to demonstrate the economic
potential for an underground mining scenario on the Project.
For further information on the project, see technical report
entitled "National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report, Pickett
Mountain Project Resource Estimation Report, Penobscot County, Maine, USA" dated
January 7, 2019.
The information in this news release has been reviewed and
approved by Don Hoy, P. Geo., SVP
Exploration and Ron Little P. Eng.,
President and CEO, who are Qualified Persons' under National
Instrument 43-101. The metal prices used to determine
Zinc Equivalent (ZnEq) grades are US$1.20/pound for zinc, US$1.00/pound for lead, US$2.50/pound for copper, US$16.00/troy ounce for silver, and US$1200/troy ounce for gold.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking
Information
This news release contains certain information that may
constitute forward-looking information or forward-looking
statements under applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation
(collectively, "forward-looking information"), including but not
limited to information about future activities at the Pickett
Mountain Project that include: the timing and completion of future
studies including those related to mining scenarios; the timing of
future infill, expansion and exploration drill programs; the
potential to discover other lenses or mineralization on the Project
either locally or regionally based on all information gathered to
date; the potential to significantly expand and upgrade the
resource; the timing and work required to verify the conceptual
exploration target; and the scope of and the anticipated effect of
the 2017 mining legislation in Maine. This forward-looking information
entails various risks and uncertainties that are based on current
expectations and actual results may differ materially from those
contained in such information. These uncertainties and risks
include, but are not limited to, the strength of the global
economy; the price of base metals and minerals generally;
operational, funding and liquidity risks; the degree to which
mineral resource estimates are reflective of actual mineral
resources; the degree to which factors which would make an
underground mineral deposit commercially viable are present; the
risks and hazards associated with mineral exploration and mining
operations; and the ability of Wolfden to fund its substantial
capital requirements and operations. Risks and uncertainties about
the Company's business are more fully discussed in the Company's
disclosure materials filed with the securities regulatory
authorities in Canada available at
www.sedar.com. Readers are urged to read these materials. Wolfden
assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information or
to update the reasons why actual results could differ from such
information unless required by law.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services
Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture
Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of
this release.
SOURCE Wolfden Resources Corporation