TDG Gold Announces Acquisition of Anyox Copper and C$25 Million Bought Deal Private Placement
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June 17, 2025 07:01 ET | Source: TDG Gold Corp.
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WHITE ROCK, British Columbia, June 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TDG Gold Corp (TSXV: TDG, OTCQX:TDGGF) (the “Company” or “TDG”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an amalgamation agreement with Anyox Copper Ltd. (“Anyox”) which holds the former producing Anyox Copper project, located on the northwest coast of British Columbia, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of TDG (“Subco”), dated June 16, 2025 (the “Amalgamation Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company proposes to acquire all of the issued and outstanding securities of Anyox by way of a three-cornered amalgamation (the “Acquisition”) under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia). In connection with the Acquisition, the Company is also pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with BMO Capital Markets (“BMO”), acting as lead manager and sole bookrunner, under which BMO, together with Clarus Securities (“Clarus”), acting as co-lead underwriter, and on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters (collectively, the “Underwriters”), has agreed to purchase, on a bought deal private placement basis, securities of the Company for aggregate gross proceeds of C$25 million (the “Concurrent Financing”, and together with the Acquisition, the “Transaction”).
Transaction Highlights (an online presentation is available here: link)
The combination of the privately held Anyox Copper project and TDG’s strategic tenure position in the evolving Toodoggone District provides shareholders exposure to precious metals and critical mineral targets in two established, past-producing mining districts within the ‘Golden Horseshoe’ of British Columbia (Figure 1). Assuming successful completion of the Transaction, TDG will have the ability to perform nearly year-round exploration activity, supported by a strong treasury, with cash greater than C$40 million, and a blue-chip shareholder registry that includes industry recognized institutional shareholders.
The arrangement also contemplates the appointment of Mr. Paul Geddes P.Geo as TDG’s Vice President Corporate Development. Mr. Geddes is currently the CEO of Anyox and Senior Vice President of Exploration & Resource Development for Skeena Gold + Silver (“Skeena”), a strategic investor in TDG.
Fletcher Morgan, TDG’s CEO, commented: “Our proposed acquisition of Anyox Copper marks an important milestone as TDG continues to evolve as a copper-gold exploration company and positions us as a leading tenure holder in the previously prolific Anyox mining district. We also welcome Paul Geddes to the TDG team. Paul’s expanded role for TDG will focus on ensuring operational excellence, as well as the continued growth of our platform as a regional consolidator. We are also pleased with the ongoing support from our strategic investor, Skeena, as they intend to invest $4M into TDG in connection with this Transaction.”
Paul Geddes, Anyox’s CEO, commented: “Combining Anyox and TDG provides potential for multiple, impactful discoveries in two mining districts in British Columbia. I look forward to combining the approach and expertise that has helped make Skeena a success with TDG’s technical experience and bringing that combination to both TDG’s Greater Shasta-Newberry project, located adjacent to the Freeport-Amarc AuRORA1 gold-rich copper porphyry discovery, and the Anyox project. Anyox offers rediscovery and new discovery potential, albeit at an earlier stage, though with a clear roadmap for advancement.”
Figure 1 – Map of North British Columbia: Toodoggone and Golden Triangle Districts.
Steven Kramar TDG’s Vice President Exploration, commented: “TDG's immediate priority remains Greater Shasta-Newberry – our exploration camp is now open, and the technical team is enroute to site to begin the 2025 exploration season. On closing, TDG’s expanded treasury would mean that we have the opportunity to resume gold-silver epithermal exploration at Shasta and Mets in parallel with our well-funded copper-gold porphyry exploration. Work at Anyox can take place at different times of the year, giving us an extended exploration season across two prime mining districts.”
TDG Board Changes
Effective June 16, 2025, Mr. Michael Kosowan, a current director and greater than 10% owner of TDG, has assumed the role of Chair of the Board of Directors, succeeding Mr. Stephen Quin. Mr. Quin will continue as a director of the Company and to lead TDG’s Technical Advisory Group. Incoming Chair, Michael Kosowan, commented: “We would like to thank Stephen for successfully guiding TDG through to this period of transformational change. My role is to build on the current momentum and continue to support the growth of the TDG platform to become a leading copper-gold exploration company in Canada.”
Proposed Share Consolidation
The TDG Board also wishes to provide notice to shareholders of its intention to seek shareholder approval at the Company’s next Annual General Meeting to consolidate the Company’s share capital on a five for one basis. This is part of TDG’s strategy to increase its appeal to Canadian, US and overseas investors.
Anyox Copper Project
Anyox represents a unique opportunity to expand TDG’s exploration portfolio. Located in the southern tip of British Columbia’s renowned ‘Golden Triangle’ (Figure 1), Anyox is host to the former underground high-grade Hidden Creek copper mine (1914-1935), and several undeveloped, near surface historical2 occurrences along a 12 kilometre (“km”) corridor that has tidewater access.
Given the scale of the district, the widespread distribution of surficial occurrences and the historical production, coupled with a paucity of recent exploration, Anyox represents an accessible district with both rediscovery and new discovery potential.
Anyox History
The Anyox Project hosts the Hidden Creek past producing mine that represents a subset of base and precious metal endowed volcanogenic massive sulphide (“VMS”) deposits known as the ‘Besshi Typea,b. The historical underground mine has a rich mining history: from its discovery in 1901, its subsequent development and operation, until it was decommissioned in 1935 due to the economic fallout of the Great Depression. Operations ceased due to prevailing metal prices rather than a lack of additional mineralization. Historical records2 indicate that, over its 21-year mine life (1914-1935), the mine produced ~750 million pounds (“Mlbs”) of copper to a maximum depth of ~300 metres and operators never deliberately recovered the associated potential precious and base metal by-products (zinc, lead, gold, silver, cobalt).
Terms of the Amalgamation Agreement
Under the terms of the Amalgamation Agreement, Anyox will amalgamate with Subco, and the Company will acquire all of the outstanding Class A common shares of Anyox (each, an “Anyox Share”) in exchange for common shares in the capital of the Company (the “Consideration Shares”) on a share exchange ratio that will result in upon completion of the Transaction, Anyox shareholders holding 20% of the outstanding common shares of the Company (the “TDG Shares”). The deemed price of each Consideration Share is $0.60.
The Amalgamation Agreement provides that the Acquisition is subject to several conditions including, among other things completion of the Concurrent Financing, a vote of the shareholders of Anyox, and receipt of all regulatory approvals, including TSX Venture Exchange (“Exchange”) approval.
Concurrent Financing
The Concurrent Financing will consist of the issuance of a combination of:
- 15,000,000 non-flow-through common shares of the Company (“NFT Shares”) at price of $0.60 per NFT Share;
- 11,700,000 non-critical minerals charity flow-through common shares of the Company (“Non-Critical CFT Shares”) at a price of $0.84 per Non-Critical CFT Share; and
- 6,700,000 critical minerals charity flow-through common shares of the Company (“Critical CFT Shares”, together with the NFT Shares and the Non-Critical CFT Shares, the “Financing Securities”) at a price of $0.93 per Critical CFT Shares.
Skeena intends to subscribe to 6,666,667 common shares of TDG at $0.60 for gross proceeds of $4,000,000, which will increase pro-forma ownership to 29,666,667 common shares, or 11 % of the Company.
The Financing Securities will be offered by way of private placement exemptions in all the provinces of Canada (except Quebec), the United States and other offshore jurisdictions as may be agreed between the Company and the Underwriters.
The Company has granted the Underwriters an option, exercisable at the applicable offering price up to 48 hours prior to the closing of the Concurrent Financing, to purchase additional Financing Securities representing up to 15% of the Financing Securities issued in connection with the Concurrent Financing. In consideration for the services rendered by the Underwriters in connection with the Concurrent Financing, the Company has agreed to pay to the Underwriters on closing a cash commission equal to 6% of the gross proceeds from the Concurrent Financing.
The Company plans to use the proceeds of the Concurrent Financing as follows:
- an amount equal to the gross proceeds from the sale of the Non-Critical CFT Shares will be used by the Company to incur eligible “Canadian exploration expenses” that qualify as “flow-through mining expenditures” as such terms are defined under the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “Tax Act”) related to the Company’s mineral properties in British Columbia;
- an amount equal to the gross proceeds from the sale of the Critical CFT Shares will be used by the Company to incur “Canadian critical minerals exploration expenses” that qualify as “critical mineral flow-through mining expenditures” as such terms are defined under the Tax Act related to the Company’s mineral properties in British Columbia; and
- the net proceeds from the sale of the NFT Shares will be used by the Company for: (i) continued exploration on TDG’s mineral properties in British Columbia, with a principal focus on the Greater Shasta-Newberry project and Baker Complex, (ii) exploration of the Anyox Property, (iii) costs of completing the Acquisition, and (iv) general working capital.
- The current intended exploration expenditure allocation among the projects from the Concurrent Financing will be:
- ~C$8 million in 2025 on Greater Shasta-Newberry and the ~12 km structural corridor surrounding to include geophysics, geochemistry and detailed geological mapping plus diamond drilling initially at the AuWEST target on the boundary with AuRORA1; with follow-up activities also planned at TDG’s epithermal gold-silver projects.
- ~C$5 million on the Anyox project before the end of 2025 including geophysics to help define initial drill targets for drill testing; and leading to a proposed second phase of drilling for an additional ~C$5 million in 2026.
The Consideration Shares and Financing Securities issued in connection with the Concurrent Financing will be subject to a four-month and one day hold period from the date of issuance thereof. The Acquisition and the Concurrent Financing are expected to close concurrently, and are cross-conditional upon one-another. The Transaction remains subject to certain conditions including, but not limited to, the receipt of all necessary regulatory and other approvals including the approval of the Exchange.
Caution to US Investors
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 TDG Gold Corp.
TDG is a major mineral tenure holder in the Toodoggone District of north-central British Columbia, Canada, with 100% ownership of ~50,000 hectares of brownfield and greenfield exploration ground.
In 2023, TDG defined the 5.5 sq.km Greater Shasta-Newberry exploration target area (news release Jan 25, 2023) which is located directly adjacent to the gold-rich copper porphyry AuRORA1 discovery announced by Freeport McMoran Inc. and Amarc Resources Ltd. (news release Jan 17, 2025).
In 2024, TDG identified new copper-gold target areas over an expanded footprint covering ~53 sq.km known as the ‘Baker Complex’ (news release Feb 28, 2024), including the North Quartz (news release Apr 02, 2024) and Trident (news release Mar 07, 2024) targets. In January 2025, TDG identified an additional porphyry copper +/- molybdenum target at Erebus located within TDG’s Bot project (news release Jan 17, 2025). In February 2025, TDG completed the Sofia acquisition, which includes porphyry copper +/- molybdenum +/- gold targets (ARIS Report 41231).
TDG’s other projects within the property package include the former producing, gold-silver Shasta and gold-silver-copper Baker mines, which produced intermittently between 1981-2012, and the historical high-grade gold Mets developed prospect, all of which are road accessible, and combined have over 65,000 m of historical drilling. These projects have been advanced through compilation of historical data, new geological mapping, geochemical and geophysical surveys and, at Shasta, 13,250 m of modern HQ drill testing of the known mineralization occurrences and their potential extensions. In 2025, TDG published an updated Mineral Resource Estimate4 for Shasta (news release Jan 08, 2025), which remains open at depth and along strike.
Qualified Person
The technical content of this news release regarding TDG’s properties has been reviewed and approved Steven Kramar, MSc., P.Geo., Vice President, Exploration for TDG Gold Corp., a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
The technical content of this news release regarding Anyox’s properties has also been reviewed and approved by Paul Geddes, BSc., P.Geo, Chief Executive Officer of Anyox Copper Ltd., a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Notes
1Adjacent Properties: The Company has no interest in, or rights to, any of the adjacent properties mentioned, and exploration results on adjacent properties are not necessarily indicative of mineralization on the Company’s properties. Any references to exploration results on adjacent properties are provided for information only and do not imply any certainty of achieving similar results on the Company’s properties.
2Historical Data: This news release includes historical information that has been reviewed by TDG’s and/or Anyox’s qualified person (QP). TDG’s and/or Anyox’s review of the historical records and information reasonably substantiate the validity of the information presented in this presentation. TDG encourages readers to exercise appropriate caution when evaluating these data and/or results.
3Third-Party Mineral Projects: These deposits are cited solely for geological context. The Company cautions that these properties are not adjacent to, nor does the Company have any interest in or control over them. Although certain geological features may be similar, there is no assurance that mineralization comparable to these deposits will be discovered on the Company’s property. The potential quantity and grade, if any, on the Company’s property are conceptual in nature and there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource. It is uncertain whether further exploration will result in the delineation of a mineral resource. Information regarding the aforementioned deposits is taken from publicly available sources and technical reports believed to be reliable, but has not been independently verified by the Company(s).
4Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE): All scientific and technical information relating to the TDG’s Shasta Project pertaining to the Shasta Mineral Resource Estimate (“Shasta MRE”) contained in this news release is derived from the Technical Report dated February 21, 2025 (with an effective date of December 29, 2024) titled “2025 Updated Resource Estimate For The Shasta Deposit” (the “2025 Technical Report”) prepared by Sue Bird, MSc., P.Eng. of Moose Mountain Technical Services. The information contained herein in respect of the Shasta MRE is subject to all of the assumptions, qualifications and procedures set out in the 2025 Technical Report and reference should be made to the full text of the 2025 Technical Report, a copy of which has been filed with the securities regulators in each of the provinces of Canada (except Québec) and is available on www.sedar.com.
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bFranklin, J.M., Gibson, H.L., Galley, A.G., and Jonasson, I.R. (2005). Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits. In: Hedenquist, J.W., Thompson, J.F.H., Goldfarb, R.J., Richards, J.P. (Eds.), Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, pp. 523–560.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Fletcher Morgan
Chief Executive Officer
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TDG Gold Corp.,
Telephone: +1.604.536.2711
Email: info@tdggold.com
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