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Cassiar Gold Closes Equity Offering for Gross Proceeds of C$9.9 Million
Calgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - May 4, 2023) - Cassiar Gold Corp. (TSXV: GLDC) (OTCQX: CGLCF) ("Cassiar Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously announced bought deal public offering (the "Underwritten Offering"). Pursuant to the Underwritten Offering, the Company issued a total of 12,760,000 charity flow-through units of the Company (each, a "Charity FT Unit") as part of a charity arrangement, at a price of C$0.75 per Charity FT Unit (the "Offering Price"), on a "bought deal" basis for gross proceeds of C$9,570,000. The Underwritten Offering was completed through a syndicate of underwriters co-led by Cormark Securities Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp. and Red Cloud Securities Inc., and included PI Financial Corp. (collectively, the "Underwriters").
Concurrent with the Offering, the Company completed the first tranche (the "First Tranche") of a non-brokered private placement (the "Non-Brokered Offering", and together with the Underwritten Offering, the "Offering"). Under the First Tranche, the Company issued of 466,667 traditional flow-through units of the Company (each, a "Regular FT Unit", and together with the Charity FT Units, the "Units") at a price of C$0.75 per Regular FT Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of C$350,000.
Each Unit consists of one common share (each, a "FT Share") and one half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"). Both the FT Share and the one half of one Warrant comprising each Unit qualify as a "flow-through share" within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the "Income Tax Act"). Each whole Warrant shall entitle the holder to purchase one non-flow-through common share of the Company (each, a "Warrant Share") at a price of C$0.70 at any time on or before that date which is 24 months after the closing date of the Offering.
As compensation for their services in the Underwritten Offering, the Underwriters received a cash commission of C$573,525. In addition, the Underwriters received 764,700 non-transferable warrants (the "Broker Warrants") exercisable at any time prior to the date that is 24 months from the closing date to acquire 764,700 common shares of the Company (the "Broker Warrant Shares"), at an exercise price equal to C$0.50 per Broker Warrant Share. No finders fees were paid in connection with the First Tranche.
Proceeds from the sale of FT Shares will be used to incur "Canadian exploration expenses" as defined in subsection 66.1(6) of the Income Tax Act and "flow through mining expenditures" as defined in subsection 127(9) of the Income Tax Act. Such proceeds will be renounced to the subscribers with an effective date not later than December 31, 2023, in the aggregate amount of not less than the total amount of gross proceeds raised from the issue of FT Units. The Company intends to use the proceeds raised from the Offering for the exploration of the Company´s Cassiar Gold property in British Columbia, Canada.
The Charitable FT Units were sold by way of a prospectus supplement filed in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Nova Scotia on April 26, 2023 (the "Prospectus Supplement"). The First Tranche of the Non-Brokered Offering was completed by way of a private placement and the Regular FT Units, FT Shares and Warrants issued under the Non-Brokered Offering are subject to a 4 month and one-day hold period from the closing date.
The Offering is subject to the final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. A copy of the Prospectus Supplement is available under the Company´s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
The securities issued pursuant to the Offering have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
About Cassiar Gold Corp.
Cassiar Gold Corp. is a Canadian gold exploration company holding a 100% interest in its flagship Cassiar Gold Property located in British Columbia, Canada. The Cassiar Gold property spans 590 km2 and consists of two main project areas: Cassiar North, which hosts a NI 43-101-compliant inferred resource estimate of 1.4Moz at 1.14 g/t Au (cutoff grade of 0.5 g/t Au) known as the as the Taurus Deposit (see National Instrument 43-101 Technical report on the Cassiar Gold property, April 28, 2022, by S. Zelligan, J. Moors, C. Jolette, posted to SEDAR); and Cassiar South which hosts numerous gold showings, historical workings, and exploration prospects. Historical underground mines in the Cassiar South area have yielded over 315,000 oz of Au at average grades of between 10 and 20 g/t Au (2022, Zelligan, Jolette, Moors1), underscoring the high potential for further discovery and expansion of high-grade orogenic gold veins.
The Company also holds a 100% interest in the Sheep Creek gold camp located near Salmo, BC. The Sheep Creek gold district ranks as the third largest past-producing orogenic gold district in BC with historical gold production of 742,000 ounces gold at an average grade of 14.7 g/t gold from 1900 to 1951. Minimal exploration work has been conducted since the 1950s.
Cassiar Gold Corp. acknowledges, respects, and supports the rights of Traditional First Nations in the lands and communities where we operate.
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