ATEX Announces Grant of Incentive Stock Options and Restricted Share Units
ATEX Announces Grant of Incentive Stock
Options and Restricted Share Units
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 28, 2024) -
ATEX Resources Inc. (TSXV: ATX)
("
ATEX
"
or the "
Company
") is pleased to announce that in accordance with its Stock Option Plan, it has granted
an aggregate of 2,290,870 incentive stock options to employees of which 1,474,650 have been granted
to officers. Each option entitles the holder to acquire one ATEX common share at an exercise price of
$1.63 over a period of five years. In addition, 422,098 restricted share units ("
RSU
") have been granted
to directors of the Company and will vest on the date of termination of his or her membership on the
Board. The RSUs were granted in accordance with the Company's Restricted Share Unit Plan.
About ATEX
ATEX is exploring the Valeriano Copper-Gold Project which is located within the emerging copper gold
porphyry mineral belt linking the prolific El Indio High-Sulphidation Belt to the south with the Maricunga
Gold Porphyry Belt to the north, located in the Atacama Region, Chile. This emerging belt, informally
referred to as the Link Belt, hosts several copper gold porphyry deposits at various stages of
development including, Filo del Sol (Filo Mining), Josemaria (Lundin Mining), Los Helados (NGEX
Minerals/JX Nippon), La Fortuna (Teck Resources/Newmont) and El Encierro (Antofagasta/Barrick
Gold). The Valeriano Project hosts a large copper gold porphyry mineral resource: 1.41 billion tonnes at
0.67% CuEq (0.50% Cu, 0.20 g/t Au, 0.96 g/t Ag and 63.80 g/t Mo), which includes a higher-grade core
totaling 200 million tonnes at 0.84% CuEq (0.62% Cu, 0.29 g/t Au 1.25 g/t Ag and 55.7 g/t Mo), as
reported by ATEX on September 12, 2023
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.
For further information, please contact:
Ben Pullinger,
President and CEO
Email:
Aman Atwal,
Vice President, Business Development and Investor Relations
Email:
1-647-398-9405
or visit ATEX's website at
www.atexresources.com
.
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Such forward-looking statements include, among others: the issuance of common shares or making of
cash payments, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or settlement of RSUs, including any
vesting thereof; as well as those factors disclosed in ATEX's publicly filed documents.
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results to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors
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Please see NI 43-101 technical report titled "Independent Technical Report for the Valeriano Copper-Gold Project, Atacama Region, Chile" by
Joled Nur, CCCRRM-Chile, and David Hopper, CGeol, with an effective date of September 1, 2023, filed at
www.sedarplus.ca
on October 25,
2023, for additional details on the 2023 Mineral Resource Estimate for the Valeriano project.
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