West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. Closes $15,080,000 Upsized Brokered Private Placement of Units
29 November 2023 - 12:37AM
West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (“
West Red
Lake” or the “
Company”)
(TSXV:
WRLG) is pleased to announce that, further to its news
releases dated November 6, 2023 and November 7, 2023, the Company
has closed its brokered private placement offering (the
“
Offering”) of 29,000,000 units of the Company
(each, a “
Unit”) at a price of $0.52 per Unit (the
“
Offering Price”) for gross proceeds of
$15,080,000, which includes the exercise in full of the Agents’
option.
The Offering was conducted pursuant to the terms
and conditions of an agency agreement entered into by the Company,
Canaccord Genuity Corp. ("Canaccord") and Eight
Capital (together with Canaccord, the
“Agents”).
Each Unit is comprised of one common share of
the Company (each, a "Common Share") and one
common share purchase warrant of the Company (each, a
"Warrant"). Each Warrant entitles the holder
thereof to acquire one Common Share at a price of $0.68, subject to
adjustment in certain events, until November 28, 2026.
The net proceeds received from the Offering will
be used to advance the Company’s mineral properties in Ontario, as
well as for working capital and general corporate purposes.
Certain insiders of the Company acquired Units
pursuant to the Offering and as such a portion of the Offering is
considered a related party transaction with the meaning of TSX
Venture Exchange (“TSXV”) Policy 5.9 and
Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection of Minority Security
Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”).The
Company is relying upon the exemption from the formal valuation and
minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 as neither
the fair market value of the shares subscribed for, nor the
consideration paid for the shares, exceeds 25 per cent of the
Company's market capitalization. The Company did not file a
material change report more than 21 days before the expected
closing of the Offering because the details of the participation
therein by related parties of the Company were not settled until
shortly prior to closing of the Offering and the parties wished to
close on an expedited basis for business reasons.
As consideration for services provided by the
Agents in connection with the Offering, the Company: (i) paid a
cash commission in the amount of $675,376; and (ii) issued an
aggregate of 1,298,800 non-transferrable broker warrants (the
"Broker Warrants"). Each Broker Warrant is
exercisable to acquire one common share at the Offering Price until
November 28, 2025. The Company also paid a cash finders fee in the
amount of approximately $12,542 to RedPlug Inc.
All securities issued in connection with the
Offering are subject to a four month and one day statutory hold
period after the date of issuance, expiring on March 29, 2024. The
Offering remains subject to the final approval of the TSXV.
This press release does not constitute an offer
to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Units, Common
Shares or Warrants in the United States. The Units, Common Shares
or Warrants have not been and will not be registered under the U.S.
Securities Act, or any state securities laws and may not be offered
or sold within the United States except pursuant to an available
exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities
Act and applicable state securities laws.
ABOUT WEST RED LAKE GOLD MINES
LTD.
West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. is a mineral
exploration company that is publicly traded and focused on
advancing and developing its flagship Madsen Gold Mine and the
associated 47 km2 highly prospective land package in the Red Lake
district of Ontario. The highly productive Red Lake Gold District
of Northwest Ontario, Canada has yielded over 30 million ounces of
gold from high-grade zones and hosts some of the world's richest
gold deposits. WRLG also holds the wholly owned Rowan Property in
Red Lake, with an expansive property position covering 31 km2
including three past producing gold mines - Rowan, Mount Jamie, and
Red Summit.
ON BEHALF OF WEST RED LAKE GOLD MINES
LTD.
“Shane Williams”
Shane Williams
President & Chief Executive Officer
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Amandip Singh, VP Corporate DevelopmentTel:
416-203-9181 Email: asingh@wrlgold.comor visit the Company’s
website at https://www.westredlakegold.com
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. The TSX Venture Exchange
has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news
release.
Certain information included in this press
release constitutes forward-looking information under applicable
securities legislation. Forward-looking information typically
contains statements with words such as "anticipate", "believe",
"expect", "plan", "intend", "estimate", "propose", "project",
"scheduled", "will" or similar words suggesting future outcomes or
statements regarding an outlook. The forward-looking statements
contained in this press release are based on certain key
expectations and assumptions made by the Company. Although the
Company believes that the expectations and assumptions on which the
forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, undue reliance
should not be placed on the forward-looking statements because the
Company can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct.
Since forward-looking statements address future events and
conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and
uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those
currently anticipated due to a number of factors and risks. These
and other risks are set out in more detail in the Company's
Management’s Discussion and Analysis for the year ended November
30, 2022.
The forward-looking information contained in
this press release is made as of the date hereof and the Company
undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any
forward-looking information, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, unless required by
applicable securities laws. The forward-looking information
contained in this press release is expressly qualified by this
cautionary statement.
All dollar figures included herein are presented
in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise noted.
For more information on the Company, investors
should review the Company’s continuous disclosure filings that are
available at www.sedarplus.ca.
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