Revival Gold Vends Phosphate Property to Xplore Resources
June 07 2022 - 7:30AM
Revival Gold
Inc. (TSXV: RVG,
OTCQX: RVLGF) (“Revival Gold” or
the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has reached an
agreement to vend its 51% non-core holding in the Diamond Mountain
phosphate project (“Diamond Mountain”) to Xplore Resources Ltd.
(TSXV: XPLR) (“Xplore”). Diamond Mountain is an advanced stage
exploration project consisting of approximately 550 hectares of
State claims located in Uintah County, Utah, USA.
Revival Gold will receive the following as
consideration for its interest in Diamond Mountain:
- C$250,000 cash
payment on closing (“Closing”);
- C$250,000 cash
payment on the first anniversary of Closing; and,
- 19.9% of the
issued and outstanding common shares of Xplore, following a
consolidation and financing completed by Xplore.
“Revival Gold has arranged to vend its non-core
holding in Diamond Mountain to a growing new industrial minerals
business in a transaction that will provide immediate cash proceeds
and ongoing indirect participation in the asset. Upon closing,
proceeds will be directed towards the Company’s core focus in gold
and advancing the Beartrack-Arnett gold project located in Idaho,
USA,” said President and CEO Hugh Agro.
Xplore is a growing new industrial minerals
focused business, led by experienced management and backed by
seasoned mining investors. Xplore intends to reinitiate exploration
and development on the Diamond Mountain property. The property is
located immediately next to the J.R. Simplot Vernal Phosphate Mine,
an important domestic United State’s producer of phosrock which is
utilized in the manufacturing of fertilizer.
Revival Gold acquired its 51% interest in
Diamond Mountain for exploration expenditures totaling
approximately C$1.2 million through a joint venture earn-in
agreement with Utah Minerals LLC in December 2014.
The purchase of Diamond Mountain is subject to
Xplore’s completion of a minimum C$5 million financing, customary
closing conditions and receipt of all necessary regulatory
approvals, including TSX Venture Exchange approval. Closing is
expected by the end of June 2022.
About Revival Gold Inc.
Revival Gold Inc. is a growth-focused gold
exploration and development company. The Company is advancing the
Beartrack-Arnett Gold Project located in Idaho, USA.
Beartrack-Arnett is the largest past-producing
gold mine in Idaho. Engineering work has been initiated on a
Preliminary Feasibility Study (“PFS”) for the potential restart of
heap leach operations. Meanwhile, exploration continues, focused on
expanding the 2022 Indicated Mineral Resource of 65.0 million
tonnes at 1.01 g/t gold containing 2.11 million ounces of
gold and Inferred Mineral Resource of 46.2 million tonnes at
1.31 g/t gold containing 1.94 million ounces of gold (see
Revival Gold press release dated May 16th, 2022, for further
details). The mineralized trend at Beartrack extends for over five
kilometers and is open on strike and at depth. Mineralization at
Arnett is open in all directions.
Revival Gold has approximately 86.9 million
shares outstanding and a cash balance of C$9.1 million as of March
31, 2022. All figures in this press release are in metric units and
in $US unless stated otherwise. Additional disclosure including the
Company’s financial statements, technical reports, news releases
and other information can be obtained
at www.revival-gold.com or on SEDAR
at www.sedar.com.
For further information, please contact:
Hugh Agro, President & CEO or Melisa Armand,
Investor RelationsTelephone: (416) 366-4100 or Email:
info@revival-gold.com
Cautionary Statement
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 news release.
This News Release includes certain
"forward-looking statements" which are not comprised of historical
facts. Forward-looking statements include estimates and statements
that describe the Company’s future plans, objectives or goals,
including words to the effect that the Company or management
expects a stated condition or result to occur. Forward-looking
statements may be identified by such terms as “believes”,
“anticipates”, “expects”, “estimates”, “may”, “could”, “would”,
“will”, or “plan”. Since forward-looking statements are based on
assumptions and address future events and conditions, by their very
nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Although
these statements are based on information currently available to
the Company, the Company provides no assurance that actual results
will meet management’s expectations. Risks, uncertainties, and
other factors involved with forward-looking information could cause
actual events, results, performance, prospects, and opportunities
to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking information. Forward looking information in this
news release includes, but is not limited to, the Company’s
objectives, goals or future plans, statements, exploration results,
potential mineralization, the estimation of mineral resources,
exploration and mine development plans, timing of the commencement
of operations and estimates of market conditions. Factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from such
forward-looking information include, but are not limited to failure
to identify mineral resources, failure to convert estimated mineral
resources to reserves, the inability to complete a feasibility
study which recommends a production decision, the preliminary
nature of metallurgical test results, delays in obtaining or
failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other
project approvals, political risks, uncertainties relating to the
availability and costs of financing needed in the future, changes
in equity markets, inflation, changes in exchange rates,
fluctuations in commodity prices, delays in the development of
projects, capital, operating and reclamation costs varying
significantly from estimates and the other risks involved in the
mineral exploration and development industry, an inability to
predict and counteract the effects of COVID-19 on the business of
the Company, including but not limited to the effects of COVID-19
on the price of commodities, capital market conditions, restriction
on labour and international travel and supply chains, and those
risks set out in the Company’s public documents filed on SEDAR.
Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used
in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release
are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such
information, which only applies as of the date of this news
release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur
in the disclosed time frames or at all. The Company disclaims any
intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
information, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise, other than as required by law.
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