Zincore and Mines & Metals Trading (PERU) Provide Update ON Business Combination and Announce Additional Property Acquisition
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ZINCORE AND MINES & METALS TRADING (PERU) PROVIDE UPDATE ON BUSINESS
COMBINATION AND ANNOUNCE ADDITIONAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION
Vancouver, B.C. March 1 2, 20 20 – Zincore Metals Inc. (NEX: ZNC.H ) (“Zincore” or the
“Company”) is pleased to provide an update on the business combination and reverse takeover
(the “Transaction” and “RTO”, respectively) of Zincore by Mines & Metals Trading (Peru) PLC
(“MMTP”), as originally announced January 21, 2019. The Company has now been informed by
MMTP that the Transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2020 . The Company
also reports that MMTP has acquired an additional property package near its Recuperada silver
lead-zinc mine and processing pla nt, located in Huancavelica, Peru , from Peruvian Metals, a
Canadian processing and mineral exploration company.
MMTP President and CEO, José María García commented, “With this acquisition we will increase
the potential resources for our currently producing Recuperada processing facility. As importantly,
we will further consolidate and strengthen our position as one of only two polymetallic processing
facilities in the Huachocolpa Mining District”.
MMTP is acquiring Peruvian’s Metals 100% owned subsidiary, Corongo Exploraciónes ,
(“Corongo”) which holds concessions totaling 2420 hectares located in the Huachocolpa Mining
District in South-Central Peru. The Huachocolpa Mining District is host to several producing and
past-producing vein-hosted polymetallic, base metal (silver-zinc-lead-copper plus or minus gold)
mines. Polymetallic mining and milling continue to be the dominant formal economic activity in
the district with Compañia Minera Kolpa S.A and MMTP’s Recuperada Mill being the two largest
operations currently in production in the area. With the Corongo acquisition, MMTP will now
control a large land package totaling in excess of 15,000 hectares with many of the acquired
Peruvian Metals’ concessions being contiguous with MMTP concessions.
In exchange for Corongo and its concessions, Peruvian Metals will receive US$200,000 from
MMTP and 45,008 shares of MMTP valued at C$17.33 per share or an aggregate of C$780,000.
Upon completion of the RTO with Zincore , each share of MMTP will be exchanged f or
approximately 73.2 Zincore shares and Peruvian Metals will receive approximately 3,294,540
shares in the resulting TSX-Venture listed issuer.
Details of the RTO Transaction
The Business Combination Agreement between Zincore and MMTP, as announced December
24, 2019, provides that Zincore will acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares
of MMTP (the “ MMTP Shares ”) by way of a three -cornered merger (the “ Merger”) between
Zincore, MMTP, and Zincore (IOM) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Zincore (“Subco”).
Pursuant to the Merger, each [post-split?] MMTP Share will be exchanged for one common share
of the Resulting Issuer (a “ Resulting Issuer Share”), and each ordinary share in the capital of
Subco will be exchanged for one preferred share in the capital of Subco, following which the
MMTP Shares and Subco Shares will be cancelled, and Subco will be dissolved. All outstanding
MMTP warrants will be exchanged for warrants of the Resulting Issuer.
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Upon closing, the Resulting Issuer is expected to be renamed “Latitude Base Metals Inc.”, and
will continue the businesses of MMTP and Zincore.
The Transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2020, subject to the satisfaction or
waiver of conditions set out in the Business Combination Agreement, including:
• MMTP Split and Zincore Consolidation. MMTP shall have subdivided the issued and
outstanding MMTP Shares on a one to 73.1990851585 basis (the “ MMTP Split”), and
Zincore shall have consoli dated the outstanding Zincore Shares on a four to one basis
(the “ Zincore Consolidation ”), in each case subject to adjustment as agreed by the
parties.
• Debt Settlement. The debt settlement agreement dated August 8, 2019, between Zincore
and its CEO, Jorge Benavides, providing for the settlement of debts owed by Zincore to
Mr. Benavides in the amount of US$482,234 (the “ Debt Settlement”), shall remain in
effect. The Debt Settlement was approved by the shareholders of Zincore at the annual
general and special meeting of Zincore shareholders held on September 5, 2019, and is
expected to be completed immediately after the Merger. Further information is provided in
Zincore’s press release of August 14, 2019.
• Financing. MMTP shall have completed a concurrent fin ancing for minimum gross
proceeds of C$7,500,000.
• Shareholder Approvals. All required shareholder and regulatory approvals shall have been
received by each of MMTP, Zincore, and Subco for the Transaction, including the Debt
Settlement, the MMTP Split and the Merger.
• TSXV Approval . The TSX Venture Exchange (“ TSXV”) shall have approved the
Transaction, subject only to the satisfaction of customary conditions.
• General. Other conditions that are customary for a transaction of this nature.
MMTP currently intends to complete a concurrent private placement financing of equity securities,
or securities convertible into equity securities, for gross proceeds of at least C$7,500,000 (the
“Financing”). The structure of the Financing and price per security offered w ill be determined in
the context of the market.
Zincore intends for trading in the Zincore Shares to remain halted until completion of the
Transaction. Further details of the Transaction and the concurrent financing will be provided in a
further press release, and in the disclosure documents (which will include business and financial
information in respect of MMTP) to be filed by Zincore in connection with the Transaction. For
further details on the Transaction, please see the Company’s news releases dated January 21st,
August 14th and December 24th of 2019.
Listing
An application has been made to list the common shares of the Resulting Issuer on the TSXV
upon completion of the Proposed Transaction. The listing will be subject to satisfying all of the
TSXV’s listing requirements.
Sponsorship
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Zincore intends to apply to the TSXV for a waiver from the requirement to obtain a sponsor for
the Transaction. There can be no assurance that a waiver will be obtained. If a waiver from the
sponsorship requirement is not obtained, the identity of the sponsor will be disclosed in a
subsequent press release.
About MMTP
MMTP, a company incorporated under the Companies Act (2006) (Isle of Man), is a young and
dynamic mining company with a vision to extract full value from undervalued projects across Latin
America. MMTP's primary asset is the Recuperada silver -lead-zinc property, located i n
Huancavelica, Peru, which consists of 178 concessions covering a total of 11,261.32 hectares
hosting a network of mineral-bearing veins, advanced infrastructure from historical underground
mining operations, and an ore processing plant with processing capacity of 600 tonnes of ore per
day and 210,000 tonnes of ore per year. For more information on MMTP, please visit
http://latitudebasemetals.com/
About Zincore
Zincore is a Vancouver -based mineral exploratio n company focused on zinc and related base
metal opportunities in Peru. The Company’s common shares trade on the NEX Board of the TSX-
V under the symbol ZNC.H.
For more information please contact:
Zincore Metals Inc.
Adam Ho, CFO, Director
(604) 669-6611
Cautionary Notes
Completion of the Transaction is subject to a number of conditions, including but not limited to,
TSX-V acceptance and if applicable, disinterested shareholder app roval. Where applicable, the
Transaction cannot close until the required shareholder approval is obtained. There can be no
assurance that the Transaction will be completed as proposed or at all.
Investors are cautioned that, except as disclosed in the management information circular or filing
statement to be prepared in connection with the Transaction, any information released or received
with respect to the Transaction may not be accurate or complete and should not be relied upon.
Trading in the securities of Zincore should be considered highly speculative.
The TSX -V has in no way passed upon the merits of the proposed Transaction and neither
approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release.
Neither the TSX-V nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of
the TSX-V) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Information
This news release contains certain forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable
Canadian securities legislation. Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect
to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events
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or performance (often, but not always, using words or phrases such as “expects” or does not
expect”, “is expected”, anticipates” or “does not anticipate ” “plans”, “estimates” or “intends” or
stating that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken,
occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be “forward-looking
information”. This forward-looking information contained in this news release includes, without
limitation, information concerning the Transaction, the Finan cing, the Debt Settlement,
expectations regarding whether the Transaction will be consummated, including whether
conditions to the consummation of the Transaction will be satisfied, the timing for completing the
Transaction, expectations for the effects of the Transaction or the ability of the Resulting Issuer
to successfully achieve business objectives, expectations regarding whether the Financing will be
consummated, and expectations for other economic, business, and/or competitive factors.
Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Zincore
to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such information and statements. In
addition, in connection with the forward -looking information contained in this press release,
Zincore has made certain assumptions. Among the key factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those proj ected in the forward -looking information are the following: the
ability to consummate the Transaction and the Financing; the ability to obtain requisite regulatory
and securityholder approvals and the satisfaction of other conditions to the consummation of the
Transaction on the proposed terms and schedule; the ability to satisfy the conditions to the
consummation of the Financing; changes in general economic, business and political conditions,
including changes in the financial and commodities markets; cha nges in applicable laws;
compliance with government regulation; and the diversion of management time on the
Transaction and the Financing. Should one or more of these risks, uncertainties or other factors
materialize, or should assumptions underlying the f orward-looking information prove incorrect,
actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated,
believed, estimated or expected.
Although Zincore believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing, a nd the
expectations contained in the forward-looking information are reasonable, undue reliance should
not be placed on such information, and no assurance or guarantee can be given that such
forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could
differ materially from those anticipated in such information. Statements containing forward-looking
information that are contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release,
and Zincore assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward -looking information, except
as required by law.