Exercise of Warrants and Receipt of £28,546 including Director’s Share Purchase – All Warrants Issued with an Exercise Price of 31p in February 2019 are now Exercised raising Gross Proceeds of £1,130,207 over the Last 24 Months
Condor Gold (AIM: CNR; TSX: COG) announces that pursuant to receipt of notices of exercise, the remaining warrants issued by the Company in February 2019 (see below) have now been exercised. Accordingly, the Company is issuing 92,083 New Ordinary Shares with a nominal value of 20p each in the capital of the Company (“Shares”) at a subscription price of 31p per Share. The Company has received gross proceeds of £28,546 (the “Purchase”).
In February 2019 as part of a private placement of Shares, the Company issued warrants to subscribe for 3,645,830 Shares at an exercise price of 31p per share (See RNS of 1 February 2019). The warrants have been exercised in full, raising in total £1,130,207 for the Company, including the Purchase as set out above above. The warrants have been exercised at various stages over the last 24 months.
The Purchase includes the exercise of warrants to acquire 15,000 Shares by Andrew Cheatle, a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Following the issue of the Shares Andrew Cheatle will be interested in 119,050 Ordinary Shares representing 0.1% of the Company’s enlarged issued share capital.
Application has been made for the Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM (“Admission”), with Admission expected to occur on or around 15 February 2021.
The Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares, including the right to receive all dividends and other distributions declared after the date of their issue.
Following Admission of the Shares, the Company will have 120,995,591 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 20p each in issue with voting rights and admitted to trading on AIM and the TSX. This figure may then be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules and National Instrument 62-103 – The Early Warning System and Related Take-Over Bid and Insider Reporting Rules of the Canadian securities administrators.
The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulations, provides further detail in respect of the transaction as described above.
About Condor Gold plc:
Condor Gold plc was admitted to AIM in May 2006 and dual listed on the TSX in January 2018. The Company is a gold exploration and development company with a focus on Nicaragua.
In August 2018, the Company announced that the Ministry of the Environment in Nicaragua had granted the Company an Environmental Permit for the development, construction and operation of a processing plant with capacity to process up to 2,800 tonnes per day at its wholly-owned La India gold project (“La India Project”). The Environmental Permit is considered to be the master permit for mining operations in Nicaragua. Condor Gold published a Pre-Feasibility Study (“PFS”) on the La India Project in December 2014, as summarised in the Technical Report as defined below. The PFS details an open pit gold Mineral Reserve in the Probable category of 6.9 Mt at 3.0 g/t gold for 675,000 oz gold, producing 80,000 oz gold per annum for seven years. La India Project contains a Mineral Resource of 9,850Kt at 3.6 g/t gold for 1,140Koz gold in the Indicated category and 8,479Kt at 4.3g/t gold for 1,179Koz gold in the Inferred category. The Indicated Mineral Resource is inclusive of the Mineral Reserve. A gold price of $1,500/oz and a cut-off grade of 0.5g/t and 2.0g/t gold were assumed for open pit and underground resources respectively. A cut-off grade of 1.5g/t gold was furthermore applied within a part of the Inferred Resource. Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability. There is no certainty that any part of the Mineral Resources will be converted to Mineral Reserves.
Environmental Permits have also been granted in April and May 2020 in relation to the Mestiza and America open pits respectively, both located in the vicinity of the La India Project. The Mestiza open pit hosts 92Kt at a grade of 12.1 g/t gold (36,000 oz contained gold) in the Indicated Mineral Resource category and 341Kt at a grade of 7.7 g/t gold (85,000 oz contained gold) in the Inferred Mineral Resource category. The America open pit hosts 114 Kt at a grade of 8.1 g/t gold (30,000 oz contained gold) in the Indicated Mineral Resource category and 677Kt at a grade of 3.1 g/t gold (67,000 oz contained gold) in the Inferred Mineral Resource category. Following the permitting of the Mestiza and America open pits, together with the La India open pit Condor has 1.12M oz gold open pit Mineral Resources permitted for extraction, inclusive of a Mineral Reserve of 6.9Mt at 3.0g/t gold for 675,000 oz gold.
