Blue Star Gold Announces Closing of Final Tranche of Non-Brokered Private Placement, Conversion of Debt and Cancellation of Warrants
Blue Star Gold Announces Closing of Final
Tranche of Non-Brokered Private Placement,
Conversion of Debt and Cancellation of
Warrants
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 20, 2021) -
Blue Star Gold Corp. (TSXV: BAU)
(FSE: 5WP0) ("Blue Star"
or the
"Company")
announces that, further to its news releases of June 1,
2021 and June 18, 2021, and subject to the final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the
"
Exchange
"), it has closed the final tranche of its non-brokered private placement (the "
Private
Placement
") issuing 1,276,741 flow-through shares (each a "
FT Share
") and 6,847,549 common
shares (each a "
Share
") at a price of $0.70 per FT Share and Share raising gross proceeds of
$5,687,002.80.
Total proceeds of $8,426,630.60 were raised in both tranches through the issuance of
2,738,994 FT Shares and 9,299,049 Shares at a price of $0.70 per Share.
Blue Star's CEO, Grant Ewing, commented, "We truly appreciate the strong endorsement from our long-
standing shareholders and many new investors who participated in our fully subscribed financing and
supported our capital restructuring plan.
The Company now has a very attractive capital structure, a
pristine balance sheet, and is fully funded to carry out its current exploration program where multiple
priority targets will be drill tested on its district scale projects in Nunavut."
The Company's share capitalization following closing of the Private Placement is as follows:
Number of
Securities
Common Shares
50,170,266
Stock Options
1,965,000
Warrants
2,798,910
The Company paid finder's fees totaling $38,952.91 to EMD Financial Inc., Red Cloud Financial
Services Inc. and Dundee Goodman Merchant Partners and issued an aggregate of 229,051 finder's
shares (the "
Finder's Shares
") at a deemed price of $0.70 per Share to Teresa Schmidt and GloRes
Securities Inc.
The Shares, FT Shares and Finder's Shares are subject to a four-month hold period pursuant to
securities laws in Canada and, where applicable, the Exchange.
The Company intends to use the net
proceeds from the Private Placement for exploration and development of the Company's projects in
Nunavut and for general working capital.
Debt Conversion and Warrant Cancellations
The Company also announces that on July 2, 2021, it issued an aggregate of 8,200,000 Shares at a
deemed price of $0.50 per Share pursuant to the conversion of convertible debentures that were issued
pursuant to a private placement that closed on July 3, 2020. Additionally, the Company announces that
on July 12, 2021, a total of 7,850,000 warrants (the "
Warrants
") were voluntarily cancelled by certain
Warrant holders.
The Warrants were originally issued by the Company pursuant to private placements
that closed on November 26, 2019 and July 3, 2020 and were exercisable at $0.75 per Share.
About Blue Star Gold Corp.
Blue Star is a gold company focused on exploration and development within Nunavut, Canada. The
Company owns the
Ulu Gold Property
lease, an advanced gold project, and the highly prospective
Hood River Property
that is contiguous to the Ulu mining lease. With the recent acquisition of the
Roma Project
, Blue Star now controls over 16,000 hectares of highly prospective and underexplored
mineral properties in the High Lake Greenstone Belt, Nunavut. A significant high-grade gold resource
exists at the Flood Zone deposit (Ulu lease), and numerous high-grade gold occurrences and priority
targets occur throughout the Ulu, Hood River and Roma Projects.
Blue Star is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol: BAU and on the Frankfurt Exchange
under the symbol: 5WP. For information on the Company and its projects, please visit our website:
www.bluestargold.ca
.
For further information, please contact:
Grant Ewing, P. Geo., CEO
Telephone: +1 778-379-1433
Email:
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the
Policies of the TSX-Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
Release.
The securities referred to in this news release have not been, nor will they be, registered under
the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold within the
United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent U.S. registration or an
applicable exemption from the U.S. registration requirements.
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