Banyan GOLD Announces Closing $11.9 M First Tranche of Financing
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BANYAN GOLD ANNOUNCES CLOSING $11.9 M FIRST TRANCHE OF
FINANCING
July 28, 2021 TSX-V: BYN
VANCOUVER, B.C, July 28, 2021 – Banyan Gold Corp. (the "Company" or "Banyan") (TSX-V:
BYN) is pleased to announc e, subject to TSX -V approval, it is closing the first tranche of
$11,928,571 of a total $16 million private placement (the “ Private Placement ) previously
announced on July 19, 2021.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Private Placement to advance its mineral
exploration and development projects and for general corporate purposes. The 2021-22
Exploration Programs at AurMac are intended to include additional diamond drilling, geotechnical
drilling, metallurgical test work, resource update, environmental baseline data collection and the
commencement of a Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) Study.
The first tranche includes 19,642,858 Charity Flow Through Shares priced at $0.38, 6,326 ,530
Regular Flow Through Shares priced at $0.35 and 8,035,715 regular shares prices at $0.28. A
second tranche of Charity Flow Through Shares for $4.07 million is expected to close on or before
August 14, 2021.
The flow through gross proceeds component received from the sale to subscribers of the Charity
Flow Through Shares and Flow Through Shares will be used to incur “Canadian exploration
expenses” as defined in subsection 66.1(6) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “Tax Act”) on
the Company’s properties in the Yukon Territory, and renounced to such subscribers effective not
later than December 31, 2021. Such Canadian exploration expenses will also qualify as “flow -
through mining expenditures” as defined in subsection 127(9) of the Tax Act.
In connection with the first tranche, the Company is expected to pay a finder’s fee of $420,000,
subject to all necessary regulatory approvals. The shares issued will be subject to the customary
4 month plus a day hold period.
Certain insiders of the Company participated in the first tranche for 1,426,387 in Flow Through
Shares or $499,000. Such participation represents a related party transaction under Multilateral
Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”),
but the transaction is exempt from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval
requirements of MI 61-101 as neither the fair market value of the subject matter of the transaction,
nor the consideration paid for, the transaction, insofar as it involves interested parties , exceed
25% of the Company’s market capitalization.
Qualified Person
Paul D. Gray, P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration for the Company, is a “qualified person” as
defined under NI 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the content of this news release.
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COVID-19 Update
Banyan Gold continues to take proactive measures to protect the health and safety of our Yukon
communities, our contractors and our employees from COVID 19 and exploration activities in
2021 will have ad ditional safety measures in place, following and exceeding all the
recommendations of Yukon’s Chief Medical Officer. Over 90% of Banyan Gold employees and
contractors on site are fully vaccinated.
About Banyan
Banyan's primary asset AurMac is adjacent to Victoria Gold's Eagle Gold Mine, in Canada’s
Yukon Territory, which announced commercial production on July 1, 2020. The AurMac initial
resource of 903,945 oz Au (see Table 1 below) was announced in May 2020. Our major strategic
shareholders include Alexco Resource Corp, Victoria Gold Corporation and Osisko Development.
Banyan is focused on gold exploration projects that have the geological potential, size of land
package and proximity to infrastructure that is advantageous for a mineral project to have potential
to become a mine. Our Yukon based projects both fit this model and our objective is to gain
shareholder value by advancing projects in our pipeline.
The 173 sq km A urMac Property lies 30 km from Victoria Gold's Eagle Project and adjacent to
Alexco's Keno Hill Silver District and is highly prospective for structurally controlled, intrusion
related gold-silver mineralization. The property is located adjacent to the ma in Yukon highway
and just off the main access road to the Victoria Gold open-pit, heap leach Eagle Gold mine. The
AurMac Property benefits from a 3 -phase powerline, existing Yukon Energy Corp. switching
power station and cell phone coverage. Banyan has optioned the properties from Victoria Gold
and Alexco respectively with a right to earn up to a 100% subject to royalties.
The 2020 Initial Mineral Resource Estimate prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-
101 (“NI 43 -101”) guidelines for the AurMac Property is 903,945 ounces of gold. It is a near
surface, road accessible pit constrained Mineral Resource contained in two near/on -surface
deposits: The Airstrip and Powerline deposits. The Mineral Resource is summarized in Table 1
below.
Table 1: Pit-Constrained Inferred Mineral Resources at a 0.2 g/t Au Cut-Off – AurMac Property
Deposit Classification
Tonnage
Tonnes
Average Au
Grade
g/t
Au Content
oz
Airstrip Inferred 45,997,911 0.524 774,926
Powerline Inferred 6,578,609 0.610 129,019
Total Combined Inferred 52,576,520 0.535 903,945
Notes:
1. The effective date for the Mineral Resource is May 25, 2020.
2. Mineral Resources which are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. The estimate of Mineral
Resources may be materially affected by environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, sociopolitical, marketing, changes
in global gold markets or other relevant issues.
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3. The CIM definitions were followed for classification of Mineral Resources. The quantity and grade of reported inferred
Mineral Resources in this estimation are uncertain in nature and there has been insufficient exp loration to define these
inferred Mineral Resources as an indicated Mineral Resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in upgrading
them to an indicated or measured Mineral Resource category.
4. Mineral Resources are reported at a cut-off grade of 0.2 g/t Au, using a US$/CAN$ exchange rate of 0.75 and constrained
within an open pit shell optimized with the Lerchs-Grossman algorithm to constrain the Mineral Resources with the following
estimated parameters: gold price of US$1,500/ounce, US$1.50/t mining cost, US$2.00/t processing cost, US$2.50/t G +A,
80% heap leach recoveries, and 45° pit slop.
5. Mineral Resource Estimate prepared in accordance with 43-101 guidelines by Marc Jutras, P.Eng., M.A.Sc., Principal, Ginto
Consulting Inc, with technical report filed July 7,2020.
The Hyland Gold Project, located 70 km Northeast of Watson Lake, Yukon, along the Southeast
end of the Tintina Gold Belt is a sediment hosted, structurally controlled, intrusion related gold
deposit, with a large land package (over 125 sq km), with the resource contained in the Main Zone
area (900 m x 600 m) daylighting at surface and numerous other known surface gold targets. The
Main Zone oxide zone is amenable to heap leach open pit mining, with column leach recoveries
of 86%. The project has an existing gravel access road.
Table 2 shows the Hyland Main Zone Indicated Gold Resource Estimate, prepared in accordance
with NI 43 -101, at a 0.3 g/t gold equivalent cutoff, contains 8.6 million tonnes grading 0.85 g/t
AuEq for 236,000 AuEq ounces with an Inferred Mineral Resource of 10.8 million tonnes grading
0.83 g/t AuEq for 288,000 AuEq ounces. NI 43-101 prepared by Robert Carne, Allan Armitage
and Paul Gray on May 1, 2018.
Table 2: Hyland Main Zone Indicated Gold Resource Estimate
Cut-off
Grade
(AuEq g/t) In situ Tonnes
Au Ag AuEq
Grade
(g/t) Ozs
Grade
(g/t) Ozs
Grade
(g/t) Ozs
Indicated
0.3 8,637,000 0.78 216,000 7.04 1,954,000 0.85 236,000
Inferred
0.3 10,784,000 0.77 266,000 5.32 1,845,000 0.83 288,000
Notes:
1. Mineral resources which are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.
2. All figures are rounded to reflect the relative accuracy of the estimate.
3. Mineral resources are reported at a cut-off grade of 0.3 g/t AuEq. AuEq grade is based on $1,350.00/oz Au, $17.00/oz Ag
and assumes a 100% recovery. The AuEq calculation does not apply any adjustment factors for difference in metallurgical
recoveries of gold and silver. This information can only be derived from definitive metallurgical testing which has yet to be
completed.
Banyan trades on the TSX -Venture Exchange under the symbol “BYN”. For more information,
please visit the corporate website at www.BanyanGold.com or contact the Company.
ON BEHALF OF BANYAN GOLD CORPORATION
(signed) "Tara Christie"
Tara Christie
President & CEO
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