Athena Gold Corporation Announces Increase in Private Placement and Closes Second Tranche
Athena Gold Corporation Announces Increase in Private
Placement and Closes Second Tranche
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V ACA VILLE, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 4, 2024 / Athena Gold Corporation
(CSE:ATHA)(OTCQB:AHNR) ("Athena" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that due to
strong demand, the Company has increased the size of the non-brokered private placement
previously announced on October 3, 2024, from CDN $1,000,000 to up to CDN $1,250,000 (the
"Offering"). The Offering, as amended, will now consist of up to 25,000,000 units (the "Units")
(increased from 20,000,000 Units) at a price of CDN $0.05 per Unit. All other terms of the
Offering remain unchanged.
The Company further announces that it has closed a second tranche of the Offering through the
issuance of 6,460,000 Units at a price of CDN $0.05 per Unit for gross proceeds of CDN
$323,000. The Company closed the first tranche of the Offering on October 25, 2024 (refer to
press release dated October 28, 2024) and issued 12,000,000 Units at CDN $0.05 per Unit for
gross proceeds of CDN $600,000.
Each Unit consists of one common share in the capital of the Company (a "Common Share") and
one-half of a common share purchase warrant (a "Warrant"). Each whole Warrant is exercisable
into one Common Share at a price of CDN $0.12 per Warrant for a period of thirty-six months
from the date of issuance, subject to the following acceleration provision. If, at any time after the
date that is 4 months and one day after the date of issuance of the Warrants, the average volume
weighted trading price of the Company's Common Shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange
(or such other stock exchange on which the Common Shares may be traded from time to time) is
at or above CDN $0.20 per share for a period of 10 consecutive trading days (the "Triggering
Event"), the Company may at any time, after the Triggering Event, accelerate the expiry date of
the Warrants by giving ten calendar days notice to the holders of the Warrants, by way of news
release, and in such case the Warrants will expire on the first day that is 30 calendar days after
the date on which such notice is given by the Company announcing the Triggering Event.
Proceeds of the Offering will be used to fund exploration work on the Company's Excelsior
Springs Project located in Nevada, USA, and the Laird Lake and Oneman Lake Projects recently
acquired in Ontario, Canada, and for general and administrative expenses, including costs related
to its proposed amalgamation and redomicile from Delaware to British Columbia, Canada, with
any surplus to provide general working capital and additional exploration.
No finder's fees were paid in connection with the closing of the second tranche of the Offering.
To date, certain insiders of the Company have participated in the Offering, of which 4,590,000
Units for proceeds of CDN $229,500 were acquired in the first tranche and an additional
2,200,000 Units for proceeds of CDN $110,000 in the second tranche, totaling 6,790,000 Units
for proceeds of CDN $339,500. This constitutes a related party transaction pursuant to
Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions
("MI 61-101"). The Company relied on Sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101 for an
exemption from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements,
respectively, of MI 61-101, as, neither the fair market value of the subject matter of, nor the fair
market value of the Units purchased by the insiders under the Offering exceed 25% of the
Company's market capitalization.
All securities issued in connection with the Offering are subject to a four month and one day hold
period in Canada and are subject to applicable United States hold periods.
None of the foregoing securities have been or will be registered under the United States
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act") or any applicable state securities laws and
may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S.
persons (as defined in Regulation S under the 1933 Act) or persons in the United States absent
registration or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements. This press release
does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor will there be any sale
of the foregoing securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be
unlawful.
About Athena Gold Corporation
Athena is engaged in the business of mineral exploration and the acquisition of mineral property
assets. Its objective is to locate and develop economic precious and base metal properties of
merit and to conduct additional exploration drilling and studies on its projects across North
America. Athena's flagship Excelsior Springs Au-Ag project is located in the prolific Walker
Lane Trend in Nevada. Excelsior Springs spans 1,675 ha and covers at least three historic mines
along the Palmetto Mountain trend, where the Company is following up on a recent shallow
oxide gold discovery, with drill results including 5.2 g/t Au over 33 m. Meanwhile, the
Company's new Laird Lake project is situated in the Red Lake Gold District of Ontario, covering
4,158 hectares along more than 10 km of the Balmer-Confederation Assemblage contact, where
recent surface sampling results returned up to 56.5 g/t Au. This underexplored area is road-
accessible, located about 10 km west of the Madsen mine by West Red Lake Gold Mines and 34
km northwest of Kinross Gold's Great Bear project.
For further information about Athena Gold Corporation and our Excelsior Springs Gold project,
please visit www.athenagoldcorp.com.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
John C. Power
President, Athena Gold Corporation
For further information, please contact:
Phone: John C. Power, (707) 291-6198
Email: [email protected]
CHF Capital Markets
Cathy Hume, CEO
Phone: 416-868-1079 x 251
Email: [email protected]
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information
(collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and US.
securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein including,
without limitation, statements regarding future exploration plans, future results from exploration,
and the anticipated business plans and timing of future activities of the Company, are forward
looking statements. Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable, it can
give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements
are typically identified by words such as: "believes", "will", "expects", "anticipates", "intends",
"estimates", ''plans", "may", "should", ''potential", "scheduled", or variations of such words and
phrases and similar expressions, which, by their nature, refer to future events or results that may,
could, would, might or will occur or be taken or achieved. In making the forward-looking
statements in this press release, the Company has applied several material assumptions,
including without limitation, that there will be investor interest in future financings, market
fundamentals will result in sustained precious metals demand and prices, the receipt of any
necessary permits, licenses and regulatory approvals in connection with the future exploration
and development of the Company's projects in a timely manner.
The Company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements by the Company are not
guarantees of future results or performance, and that actual results may differ materially from
those in forward-looking statements as a result of various risk factors as disclosed in the final
long form prospectus of the Company dated August 31, 2021.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company
undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements in this press release or
incorporated by reference herein, except as otherwise.
SOURCE: Athena Gold Corp