Brixton Metals Announces Intention to Spin-out its Cobalt Assets
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Brixton Metals Announces Intention to Spin-out its Cobalt Assets
June 20, 2018 – Brixton Metals Corporation (TSXV: BBB) (the “Company” or “Brixton”) is pleased
to announce the intention to spin-out its Cobalt assets located in the Cobalt Camp, Ontario into a
standalone public company.
Chairman and CEO of Brixton, Gary R. Thompson stated, “Given the recent activity in the Cobalt
market with higher prices and strong demand from th e electrical vehicle market, we think that
Brixton and its shareholders would benefit from a spin -out of its wholly owned cobalt -silver asset.
Brixton will tighten its focus on its high quality precious metals projects, and we are confident that
these projects will generate shareholder value. If the spin -out transaction is completed, the newly
formed company would focus on all of the battery metals and would look to gain market share in
that sector by advancing its cobalt assets and adding new advanced stag e projects in the battery
metals space, including vanadium, which has seen a similar growth rate as cobalt.” “Either way you
shape it the battery metals market in general has a strong growth profile”.
The Company believes that its Cobalt assets will develop into an independent and viable company
on its own with a unique business model from Brixton. In that case, the Company is considering
reorganizing its business by way of spin -out of its 100% owned Hu dson Bay and Langis mine
projects, both located in the Cobalt Camp, Ontario, to its shareholders through a plan of
arrangement. Brixton intends to maintain exposure to the cobalt assets through a retained equity
interest in the spin -out company. The comple tion of such plan arrangement and any listing of the
resulting entity will be subject to regulatory approval, the approval of shareholders of the Company
and the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The spin -out ratio to Brixton shareholders, retained
equity level and timing of the record date shall be provided in due course. It is not anticipated that
the arrangement would trigger a taxable event for the Company’s shareholders.
Some recent transa ctions in the sector include First Cobalt’s acquisition of US C obalt in an all
stock deal valued at C$150 million . U.S. Cobalt owns the Iron Creek cobalt project, l ocated in the
Idaho cobalt belt which hosts a 1.3-million-ton historical resource estimate (non -compliant with
National Instrument 43-101) grading 0.59 per cent cobalt. Vale SA announced it will sell most of
the Voisey’s Bay mine future cobalt production for US$690 million to finance a long -delayed
$1.7-billion expansion. Under the terms of the deal, Wheaton Precious Metals Corp., will pay
US$390 million in cash for 42.2 per cent of the mine’s cobalt or about 2.6 million po unds per
year and Cobalt 27 Capital Corp. will pay US$300 million for 32.6 per cent or 1.9 million pounds
per year in exchange for an amount of combined cobalt equal to 75 percent of th e production
from Voisey’s Bay.
The Bank of Montreal analysts forecast that electric vehicles would account for 10 percent of global
auto sales by 2025 while UBS analysts suggested 16 per cent. More than sixty percent of the
world’s cobalt comes from the Dem ocratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has a history of war
and child labour. The DRC recently increased the taxes and royalties from mines output in the
country. Panasonic, which is Tesla’s exclusive battery cell provider, expects its cobalt consumption
will more than triple in the next five years exceeding its earlier projections.
About the Langis and Hudson Bay Cobalt Projects
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Brixton’s wholly owned Langis and Hudson Bay past producing mines are located 500km north
from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The projects are brownfields exploration staged without defined
resources. The high -grade cobalt-silver mineralization occurs as steeply -moderately and in some
cases shallow dipping veins within any of the three main rock types: A rchean volcanics, Coleman
Member sediments and Nipissing diabase. In addition, broad low -grade Co-Ni-Ag mineralization
occurs as disseminations within the Archean volcanics. The Langis mine produced 10.4Moz of
silver and 358,340 pounds of cobalt and the Hu dson Bay mine produced 6.4 Moz of silver and
185,570 pounds of cobalt. Historically, the Cobalt Camp produced 50M pounds of cobalt as a by -
product of 500M ounces of silver production.
Table of Highlights from drill holes previously released to date at the Hudson Bay Mine
Table of Highlights from drill holes previously released to date at the Langis Mine
Mr. Sorin Posescu, P.Geo, is a Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43 -101
standards and has reviewed and approved this news release.
About Brixton Metals Corporation
Brixton is a Canadian exploration and development company focused on the advancement of its
gold and silver projects toward feasibility. Brixton wholly owns four highly prospective exploration
projects, the Thorn gold-silver and the Atlin gold projects located in NWBC, the Langis-Hudson Bay
cobalt-silver projects in Ontario and the Hog Heaven silver -gold-copper project in NW Montana,
USA. The Company is actively seeking JV partners to advance one or more of its pr ojects. Brixton
Metals Corporation shares trade on the TSX-V under the ticker symbol BBB. For more information
about Brixton please visit our website at www.brixtonmetals.com.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Hole From To Interval Silver Cobalt Copper Zinc
ID (m) (m) (m) g/t % % %
HB-18-06 36.00 42.70 6.70 625.80 - 0.26 0.45
HB-18-23 9.00 32.00 23.00 55.55 - 1.16 1.04
HB-18-23 79.00 96.82 17.82 15.57 0.04 0.54 -
HB-18-23 133.00 135.00 2.00 63.00 1.38 0.16 0.16
HB-18-21B 132.00 137.00 5.00 23.90 0.42 0.45 -
Hole From To Interval Silver Cobalt Nickel
ID (m) (m) (m) g/t % %
LM-18-16 158.73 166.60 7.87 2,787.26 0.27 0.06
LM-18-20 116.00 141.00 25.00 22.29 0.04 0.08
LM-18-20 124.67 195.32 70.65 7.07 0.01 0.10
LM-18-22 139.00 149.00 10.00 2.24 0.10 0.02
LM-18-23 157.52 158.50 0.98 3.80 3.55 0.10
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Mr. Gary R. Thompson, Chairman and CEO
Tel: 604-630-9707 or email: [email protected]
For Investor Relations please contact Mitchell Smith at [email protected] or 604-
630-9707.
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