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NYSE: VZLA TSX-V:
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VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 9, 2023
/CNW/ - Vizsla Silver Corp. (TSXV: VZLA) (NYSE: VZLA) (FSE:
0G3) ("Vizsla Silver" or the "Company") is pleased to
announce that it has completed its previously announced private
placement (the "Offering"), led by PI Financial Corp. on
behalf of a syndicate of agents that included Canaccord Genuity
Corp., Raymond James Ltd., Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc., Roth Canada
Inc. and Alliance Global Partners (collectively, the
"Agents").
Pursuant to the Offering, the Company issued 27,286,050 common
shares (the "Shares" or the "Common Shares") at a
price of $1.65 (the "Issue
Price"), for gross proceeds of $45,021,982.50. The Company paid a cash
commission equal to 6% of the gross proceeds of the Offering and
issued 1,637,163 compensation options (the "Compensation
Options") to the Agents. Each Compensation Option is
exercisable to acquire one Common Share at the Issue Price until
February 9, 2025.
The net proceeds from the Offering will be used to advance the
exploration, drilling and development of the Company's Panuco
Project, as well as for working capital and general corporate
purposes.
All securities issued under the Offering will be subject to a
statutory hold period in Canada
expiring four months and one day from the date of issuance.
Completion of the Offering is subject to the final approval of
the TSX Venture Exchange.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a
solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities in
the United States. The securities
have not been and will not be registered under the United States
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities
Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or
sold within the United States or
to U.S. Persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and
applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such
registration is available.
About the Panuco Project
The newly consolidated Panuco
silver-gold project is an emerging high-grade discovery located in
southern Sinaloa, Mexico, near the
city of Mazatlán. The 6,761-hectare, past producing district
benefits from over 86 kilometres of total vein extent, 35
kilometres of underground mines, roads, power, and permits.
The district contains intermediate to low sulfidation epithermal
silver and gold deposits related to siliceous volcanism and crustal
extension in the Oligocene and Miocene. Host rocks are mainly
continental volcanic rocks correlated to the Tarahumara
Formation.
About Vizsla Silver
Vizsla Silver is a Canadian mineral exploration and development
company headquartered in Vancouver,
BC, focused on advancing its flagship, 100%-owned
Panuco silver-gold project located
in Sinaloa, Mexico. To date,
Vizsla Silver has completed over 250,000 metres of drilling at
Panuco leading to the discovery of
several new high-grade veins. For 2023, Vizsla Silver has budgeted
90,000 metres of resource/discovery-based drilling, designed to
upgrade, and expand the mineral resource as well as test other high
priority targets across the district.
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.
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD
LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release includes certain "Forward–Looking Statements"
within the meaning of the United States Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward–looking information"
under applicable Canadian securities laws. When used in this news
release, the words "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect",
"target", "plan", "forecast", "may", "would", "could", "schedule"
and similar words or expressions, identify forward–looking
statements or information. These forward–looking statements or
information relate to, among other things: the intended use of the
net proceeds of the Offering, receipt of final TSX-V approval; and
future drilling and exploration activities at the Panuco Project to
expand the mineral resource.
Forward–looking statements and forward–looking information
relating to any future mineral production, liquidity, enhanced
value and capital markets profile of Vizsla Silver, future growth
potential for Vizsla Silver and its business, and future
exploration plans are based on management's reasonable assumptions,
estimates, expectations, analyses and opinions, which are based on
management's experience and perception of trends, current
conditions and expected developments, and other factors that
management believes are relevant and reasonable in the
circumstances, but which may prove to be incorrect. Assumptions
have been made regarding, among other things, the price of silver,
gold and other metals; costs of exploration and development; the
estimated costs of development of exploration projects; Vizsla
Silver's ability to operate in a safe and effective manner and its
ability to obtain financing on reasonable terms.
These statements reflect Vizsla Silver's current views with
respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of
other assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable
by management, are inherently subject to significant business,
economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and
contingencies. Many factors, both known and unknown, could cause
actual results, performance or achievements to be materially
different from the results, performance or achievements that are or
may be expressed or implied by such forward–looking statements or
forward-looking information and Vizsla Silver has made assumptions
and estimates based on or related to many of these factors. Such
factors include, without limitation: the Company's dependence on
one mineral project; precious metals price volatility; risks
associated with the conduct of the Company's mining activities in
Mexico; regulatory, consent or
permitting delays; risks relating to reliance on the Company's
management team and outside contractors; risks regarding mineral
resources and reserves; the Company's inability to obtain insurance
to cover all risks, on a commercially reasonable basis or at all;
currency fluctuations; risks regarding the failure to generate
sufficient cash flow from operations; risks relating to project
financing and equity issuances; risks and unknowns inherent in all
mining projects, including the inaccuracy of reserves and
resources, metallurgical recoveries and capital and operating costs
of such projects; contests over title to properties, particularly
title to undeveloped properties; laws and regulations governing the
environment, health and safety; the ability of the communities in
which the Company operates to manage and cope with the implications
of COVID-19; the economic and financial implications of COVID-19 to
the Company; operating or technical difficulties in connection with
mining or development activities; employee relations, labour unrest
or unavailability; the Company's interactions with surrounding
communities and artisanal miners; the Company's ability to
successfully integrate acquired assets; the speculative nature of
exploration and development, including the risks of diminishing
quantities or grades of reserves; stock market volatility;
conflicts of interest among certain directors and officers; lack of
liquidity for shareholders of the Company; litigation risk; and the
factors identified under the caption "Risk Factors" in Vizsla
Silver's management discussion and analysis. Readers are cautioned
against attributing undue certainty to forward–looking statements
or forward-looking information. Although Vizsla Silver has
attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause
results not to be anticipated, estimated or intended. Vizsla Silver
does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update
these forward–looking statements or forward-looking information to
reflect changes in assumptions or changes in circumstances or any
other events affecting such statements or information, other than
as required by applicable law.
SOURCE Vizsla Silver Corp.