Bravada Finalizes Option/JV Agreement with OceanaGold for its Highland Gold/Silver Project in Nevada
Bravada Finalizes Option/JV Agreement with OceanaGold
for its Highland Gold/Silver Project in Nevada
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 20, 2018) -
Bravada Gold Corporation (TSXV: BVA) (OTCQB:
BGAVF) (FSE: BRTN) ("Bravada") announces that an Option/Joint Venture Agreement ("Agreement") has been fully executed
with
Oceana
G
old U.S. Holdings Inc.
(
"Oceana
Gold
")
, a wholly owned subsidiary of
OceanaGold
Corp
. As previously
announced (see news release NR-08-18), OceanaGold may earn up to a 75 percent interest in Bravada's low-sulfidation
Highland gold/silver project
in Nevada's Walker Lane Gold trend.
OceanaGold may earn a 51 percent interest by making certain cash or share payments and incurring aggregate exploration
expenditures of US$4 million over five years. OceanaGold may increase its interest to 75 percent within four years of earning its
51% interest by incurring an additional US$6 million in exploration expenditures. Payments include advanced minimum royalty
("AMR") payments to underlying property vendors, claim fees, an initial cash payment of US$50,000 to Bravada and an
additional US$200,000 payment to Bravada upon OceanaGold earning a 51% interest in the property. Payment to Bravada at
51% earn-in can be in cash or shares at OceanaGold's option.
A technical committee composed of OceanaGold and Bravada personnel will recommend work programs with OceanaGold
having the sole decision on program work and expenditures. The Highland property is subject to a 3% NSR royalty in favour of
the underlying vendors of the property subject to a reduction of the royalty to 2% upon payment of US$1 million. All AMR
payments will be deducted from production royalties. Approximately US$500,000 in AMR payments have been made to date.
President Joe Kizis commented
: "
Highland is an excellent example of Bravada's business model, which is to identify and
advance early-stage, potentially high-margin gold/silver deposits in Nevada to a point that joint-venture partners then further
advance the property through a combination of providing significant project funding and adding technical expertise.
Shareholder dilution is minimized, and property dilution only occurs when a partner's expenditures have increased the value
of the property.
We believe that there is
great potential at Highland to discover
high-grade gold/silver deposits
, and we are pleased to have
OceanaGold, a company with an excellent record of discovery of and production from similar deposits worldwide, advance
our project
. Low-sulfidation
deposits
worldwide are among the
most attractive,
highest
-
margin
gold
/
silver deposits
and m
any
of the deposits are exploited by small
-
footprint, underground mining
and
relatively benign milling operations.
Another
important characteristic of low-sulfidation deposits is that they
usually occur as clusters of similar-grade deposits
, many of
which may be blind at surface. Discovery rates tend to be high in such districts long after mining has begun.
Highland's
location in an established mining region in Nevada reduces risks associated with land tenure, logistics,
and
capital and
operation costs when compared to many regions of the world
."
About
Highland
The Highland low-sulfidation-type project consists of 102 Federal lode claims for a total of approximately 825 hectares and is
located along the Walker Lane Gold trend of western Nevada. Previous drilling by Bravada's US subsidiary intersected vein
zones with locally high-grade intercepts; the Company's best hole, H02013, intersected 1.5 meters (m) of 66.9 grams of gold per
ton (g/t) and 397.7g/t silver within a 12.2m intercept of 9.5g/t gold and 109.4g/t silver, with true thicknesses estimated at 65% of
the intervals. A thin layer of alluvial gravel covers much of the property and several targets have been identified that have not
been previously tested with drilling.
About Bravada
Bravada is an exploration company with a portfolio of high-quality properties in Nevada, one of the best mining jurisdictions in
the world. During the past 12 years the Company has successfully identified and advanced properties that have the potential to
host high-margin deposits while successfully attracting partners to fund later stages of project development. With the addition of
OceanaGold's option of Highland, four of Bravada's eleven Nevada properties are being funded by partners. As well, there are
no NSR-type royalties to vendors that cannot be reduced. Bravada's value is underpinned by a substantial gold and silver
resource with a positive PEA at Wind Mountain and the Company has significant upside potential from possible new
discoveries at its exploration properties, most of which host encouraging drill intercepts of gold and which already have drill
targets developed by the Company.
About OceanaGold
OceanaGold Corporation is a mid-tier, high-margin, multinational gold producer with assets located in the Philippines, New
Zealand and the United States. The Company's assets encompass the Didipio Gold-Copper Mine located on the island of
Luzon in the Philippines. On the North Island of New Zealand, the Company operates the high-grade Waihi Gold Mine while on
the South Island of New Zealand, the Company operates the largest gold mine in the country at the Macraes Goldfield which is
made up of a series of open pit mines and the Frasers underground mine. In the United States, the Company operates the Haile
Gold Mine, a top-tier, long-life, high-margin asset located in South Carolina. OceanaGold also has a significant pipeline of
organic growth and exploration opportunities in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions.
Joseph Anthony Kizis, Jr. (AIPG CPG-11513, Wyoming PG-2576) is the Qualified Person responsible for reviewing and
preparing the technical data presented in this release and has approved its disclosure.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Bravada Gold Corporation
Joseph A. Kizis, Jr., Director, President, Bravada Gold Corporation
For further information, please visit Bravada Gold Corporation's website at
bravadagold.com
.
Neither 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.
This news release may contain forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and
content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral recovery
processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. These statements are
based on a number of assumptions, including, but not limited to, assumptions regarding general economic conditions,
interest rates, commodity markets, regulatory and governmental approvals for the company's projects, and the availability of
financing for the company's development projects on reasonable terms. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in forward looking statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration successes, the timing
and receipt of government and regulatory approvals, and continued availability of capital and financing and general
economic, market or business conditions. Bravada Gold Corporation does not assume any obligation to update or revise its
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by
applicable law.
Contact:
Jay Oness
(604) 641-2759