Terra Nostra Completes Private Placement
29 November 2007 - 3:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
LOS ANGELES and ZIBO, China, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Terra Nostra Resources Corporation (OTC:TNRO) (BULLETIN BOARD:
TNRO) a majority owner of two joint venture companies in the copper
and stainless steel industries in China, is pleased to announce
that it has closed on an additional $9,650,000 in connection with
its Senior Secured Convertible Notes private placement. The
principal and earned interest on these Notes may be converted into
the Company's common stock at $3.25 per share. With the completion
of this round of financing, the Company has now raised over $22
million of the total $30 million proposed offering to "accredited
investors". "Proceeds from the offering will be used to meet
required joint venture capital contributions and to provide further
working capital to the Company as we expand our operations to meet
the continued demand from the China economy," stated George Chua,
Terra Nostra's Chief Operating Officer. About Terra Nostra
Resources Corporation Terra Nostra is a leading copper and
stainless steel producer in China through its 51% majority
interests in two joint venture companies in China. Shandong Terra
Nostra Jinpeng Metallurgical Co., Ltd. has an existing and under
construction total production capacity of 170,000 MT of
electrolytic copper and 20,000 MT of low-oxygen copper, together
with value-added copper rod and wire capabilities. Shandong Quanxin
Stainless Steel Co., Ltd. operates a modern stainless steel
production facility with a 230,000 MT capacity casting mill, and a
150,000 MT rolling mill. The two joint venture companies, with
total assets in excess of US$180 million and over 1,000 employees,
are located in the highly industrialized coastal province of
Shandong, midway between Beijing and Shanghai. Terra Nostra has
entered into an agreement to increase its majority ownership in
both joint ventures from 51% to 90%, and this transaction is
expected to be completed no later than December 31, 2007. More
information on Terra Nostra can be found at
http://www.tnr-corp.com/. Investor Contact: Mercantile Ascendency,
Tom Collins, (214) 559 9885 Forward Looking Statements Except for
the historical information contained herein, the matters set forth
in this press release, including statements with respect to
expectations concerning (i) projects underway or under
consideration, including production capacity and completion
schedules; (ii) business and future potential of Terra Nostra
Resources Corporation ("TNRO"); (iii) estimates or implications of
future earnings, profits, EBITDA, and the sensitivity of earnings
to metals prices; (iv) estimates of future metals production, sales
and profitability; (v) estimates of future cash flows, and the
sensitivity of cash flows to the other metals and ore costs as well
as, but not limited to, fluctuations in fuel prices, scrap prices,
and the availability of both, and statements related to these
matters or which use words such as "may," "might," "should,"
"expect," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict,"
"potential" or "continue," and the negative of these terms and
other comparable terminology are all forward-looking statements
within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Further risks,
uncertainties and other factors, which affect the forward- looking
statements included herein, and could cause actual results to
differ materially from future results expressed, projected or
implied by such forward-looking statements include, but are not
limited to, completion of TNRO's capital contributions to the joint
venture companies, working capital financing, metals price
volatility, competition for projects, reserve acquisition costs,
currency fluctuations, international economic uncertainty,
sovereign risk, force majeure, changes in tax law or concession
law, project scheduling delays, labor disputes, increased
production costs and variances in ore grade, scrap grade or
recovery rates from those assumed in production plans, political
and operational risks in the countries in which TNR may operate and
governmental regulation and judicial outcomes, and other risks
detailed from time to time in TNRO's filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly Report on Form
10-QSB for the quarter ended August, 31, 2007. Copies of each
filing may be obtained from TNRO or the SEC. Furthermore, metals
operation, by their very nature, entail inherent cyclical,
sectoral, and commodity risk and could expose an investor to the
entire loss of all capital invested. TNRO does not undertake any
obligation to publicly release any revisions to any forward-looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of
this release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events,
except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
DATASOURCE: Terra Nostra Resources Corporation CONTACT: Investors,
Tom Collins of Mercantile Ascendency, +1-214-559-9885, for Terra
Nostra Resources Corporation Web site: http://www.tnr-corp.com/
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