Falco Resources (FPC-V) Announces Bought Deal Offering of $25M and Concurrent Private Placement for Up to an Additional $25M
Nov 1st 2016 - NR
Falco Resources is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement with Haywood Securities Inc., as lead underwriter on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters (collectively, the "Underwriters"), under which the Underwriters have agreed to purchase, on a bought deal basis, 14,019,000 units ("Units") of the Company and 7,812,500 flow-through shares ("Flow-Through Shares") at a price of $1.07 per Unit and $1.28 per Flow-Through Share, for aggregate gross proceeds of $25,000,330 (the "Offering"). The Underwriters have been granted the option (the "Over-Allotment Option") to purchase up to an additional 2,102,850 Units and 1,171,875 Flow-Through Shares, in any combination of Units and Flow-Through Shares, exercisable in whole or in part, at any time up to 30 days following the closing of the Offering.
Each Unit will consist of one common share in the capital of the Company (a "Common Share") and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole common share purchase warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant shall be exercisable to acquire one additional common share (a "Warrant Share") of the Company for a period of 18 months from the closing date of the Offering at an exercise price of $1.45 per Warrant Share.
The expiry date of the Warrants may be accelerated by the Company at any time following the six-month anniversary of the closing of the Offering and prior to the expiry date of the Warrants if the volume-weighted average trading price of the Company's common shares is greater than $1.75 for any 20 consecutive trading days, at which time the Company may accelerate the expiry date by issuing a press release announcing the reduced warrant term whereupon the Warrants will expire on the 20th calendar day after the date of such press release.
The net proceeds of the Offering will be used by the Company to advance the dewatering program related to the development of the Horne 5 Deposit and for general working capital.
Closing of the Offering is anticipated to occur on or about November 22, 2016 and is subject to receipt of applicable regulatory approvals including approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
The Units and Flow-Through Shares will be offered by way of short form prospectus in all of the provinces of Canada and may also be offered in the United States to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A, and to certain accredited investors pursuant to an exemption under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.
In addition, the Company is arranging a concurrent private placement of Units with strategic investors for additional aggregate gross proceeds of up to $25 million (the "Private Placement").
Closing of the Private Placement is subject to receipt of applicable regulatory approvals including approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Securities issued under the Private Placement will be subject to a four month hold period which will expire four months plus a day from the date of closing of the Private Placement.
About Falco
Falco Resources Ltd. is one of the largest mineral claim holders in the Province of Québec, with extensive land holdings in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. Falco owns 74,000 hectares of land in the Rouyn-Noranda mining camp, which represents 70% of the entire camp and includes 13 former gold and base metal mine sites. Falco's principal property is the Horne Mine, which was operated by Noranda from 1927 to 1976 and produced 11.6 million ounces of gold and 2.5 billion pounds of copper. A updated 43-101 mineral resource estimate for the Horne 5 deposit delineated an Indicated Resource of 5,361,000 gold equivalent ounces ("oz AuEq"), including 3,418,232 oz Au hosted in 58.3 million tonnes averaging 2.86 g/t AuEq (1.82 g/t Au; 15.60 g/t Ag; 0.20% Cu; 1.00% Zn) and an Inferred Resource of 1,254,000 oz AuEq, including 854,534 oz Au hosted in 12.7 million tonnes averaging 3.08 g/t AuEq (2.10 g/t Au; 26.26 g/t Ag; 0.22% Cu; 0.57% Zn.) -- see January 25th, 2016 press release for details. Osisko Gold Royalties is the largest shareholder of the Company and currently owns 16.2% of the outstanding shares of the Company.
Falco Resources Ltd.
Vincent Metcalfe
Chief Financial Officer
514-905-3162
info@falcores.com
Renmark Financial Communications Inc.
Bettina Filippone
514-939-3989
bfilippone@renmarkfinancial.com |
