Aston BAY Holdings Announces Non-Brokered Private Placement
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ASTON BAY HOLDINGS ANNOUNCES NON-BROKERED PRIVATE PLACEMENT
October 8, 201 9 – Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. (TSX -V: BAY ; OTCQB: ATBHF) (“Aston Bay” or the
“Company”) is pleased to announce that it will conduct a non -brokered private placement (the
“Offering”), subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”), for aggregate
gross proceeds of up to $ 1,000,000. The Offering will consist of units (the “Units”) at a price of
$0.08 per Unit. The Company intends to close the Offering during the month of October 2019.
Each Unit will consist of one common share of the Company and one full warrant (a “Warrant”)
entitling the holder thereof to acquire an additional common share (the “Warrant Share”) of the
Company at an exercise price of $0.15 per Warrant Share for a period of 24 months from the date
of issuance. The Warrants will be subject to acceleration provisions when the volume weighted
average trading price is greater than $0.30 for 10 consecutive trading days.
The Company anticipates that current insiders of the Company may participate in the Offering.
Subject to Exchange approval, finder’s fees may be paid to persons who introduce the Company
to investors.
Should Aston Bay complete this Offering, it will permit the Company to proceed with a planned
exploration program on the Company’s Buckingham Gold Property in Virginia, USA. The program
plans include a drill campaign this fall. The proceeds will also be used for general corporate
purposes.
Shares and Warrant Shares acquired by the placees will be subject to a hold period of four months
plus one day from the date of completion of the Offering, in accordance with applicable securities
legislation.
About Aston Bay Holdings Ltd.
Aston Bay is a publicly traded mineral exploration company exploring for gold and base metal
deposits in Virginia, USA, and Nunavut, Canada. The Company is led by CEO Thomas Ullrich with
exploration directed by Chief Geologist Dr. David Broughton, the award-winning co-discoverer of
Kamoa-Kakula and Flatreef, in conjunction with the Company’s advisor, Don Taylor, the 2018
Thayer Lindsley Award winner for his discovery of the Taylor Pb-Zn-Ag Deposit in Arizona.
The Company has also acquired the exclusive rights to an integrated dataset over certain
prospective private lands at the Blue Ridge Project and has signed agreements with timber and
land companies which grants the company the option to lease the mineral rights to 11,065 acres
of land located in central Virginia. These lands are located within a copper -lead-zinc-gold-silver
mineralized belt, prospective for sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX) and Broken Hill (BHT) type base
metal deposits, as well as Carolina slate belt gold deposits. Don Taylor, who led the predecessor
company to Blue Ridge and assembled the dataset, has joined the Company’s Advisory Board and
will be directing the Company’s exploration activities for the Blue Ridge Project. The Company is
actively exploring the Buckingham Gold Project in Virginia an d is in advanced stages of
negotiation on other lands in the area.
The Company is also 100% owner of the 1,024,345-acres (414,537-hectares) Aston Bay Property
located on western Somerset Island, Nunavut, which neighbours Teck’s profitable, past-
producing Polaris (Pb-Zn) Mine just 200km to the north. The Aston Bay Property hosts the Storm
Copper Project and the Seal Zinc Deposit with drill -confirmed presence of sediment -hosted
copper and zinc mineralization.
The Company’s public disclosure documents are available on www.sedar.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Statements made in this press release, including those regarding the completion of the
acquisition, management objectives, forecasts, estimates, expectations, or predictions of the
future may consti tute “forward- looking statement”, which can be identified by the use of
conditional or future tenses or by the use of such verbs as “believe”, “expect”, “may”, “will”,
“should”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “project”, “plan”, and words of similar import, incl uding
variations thereof and negative forms. This press release contains forward -looking statements
that reflect, as of the date of this press release, Aston Bay’s expectations, estimates and
projections about its operations, the mining industry and the ec onomic environment in which it
operates. Statements in this press release that are not supported by historical fact are forward -
looking statements, meaning they involve risk, uncertainty and other factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking
statements. Although Aston Bay believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward- looking
statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on these statements, which
apply only at t he time of writing of this press release. Aston Bay disclaims any intention or
obligation to update or revise any forward- looking statement, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by securities leg islation.
We seek safe harbour.
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policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
news release.
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SECURITIES DESCRIBED HEREIN IN THE UNITED STATES. THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN,
AND WILL NOT BE, REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD IN THE
UNITED STATES OR TO U.S. PERSONS UNLESS REGISTERED OR EXEMPT THEREFROM.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas Ullrich, Chief Executive Officer
(416) 456-3516
Sofia Harquail, IR and Corporate Development
(647) 821-1337