Churchill Resources Announces Exercise of Option and Acquisition of 100% Interest in Florence Lake Mineral Properties in Eastern-Central Labrador
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Churchill Resources Announces Exercise of Option and Acquisition of 100%
Interest in Florence Lake Mineral Properties in Eastern-Central Labrador
TORONTO, July 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Churchill Resources Inc. (“Churchill” or the
“Company”) (TSXV: CRI) is pleased to announce that it has exercised an existing option (the
“Option”) to acquire a 100% interest in certain mineral properties with prospective nickel, copper
and cobalt targets located approximately 150-180km north of the town of Happy Valley-Goose
Bay in east-central Labrador (the "Properties"). On July 22, 2021, the Company entered into an
option agreement (the “Option Agreement") with Altius Resources Inc. (“ Altius”) to acquire a
100% interest in the Properties, subject to a new 1.6% gross sales royalty on the Properties in
favour of Altius.
The Florence Lake project consists of four map-staked licenses totalling 416 claims (104 km2) in
east-central Labrador. Three of the licenses constitute the Altius Florence Lake property, to which
Churchill added a license in 2022 to create a contiguous land package. Churchill is very pleased
to now own 100% of the project, as an important conclusion to the recent technical reporting work
has been the recognition of numerous Al2O3-undepleted ultramafic volcanic areas (i.e. more
primitive lavas, associated with nickel mineralization) at Florence Lake. These occur as stacked
targets located throughout the upper Eastern Volcanic areas of the greenstone belt, and
importantly also within the more basal Western Volcanics . Kambalda-style nickel sulphide
deposits are generally at the base of ultramafic volcanic sequences. Churchill is currently
preparing to commence camp installation, soil sampling, prospecting and geological mapping in
the next few weeks.
Paul Sobie, CEO of Churchill stated “We are very pleased to execute this option at Florence Lake
and to have Altius as our largest shareholder. We’re looking forward to this field season and to
continuing the partnership with Altius both here, and at the magmatic nickel project at Taylor
Brook.”
Since entering into the Option Agreement, the Company has issued an aggregate of 6,415,635
common shares in the capital of the Company (“ Common Shares”) to Altius under the terms of
the Option (of which 5,041,689 Common Shares were issued today) and incurr ed the required
cumulative exploration expenditures in connection with the Properties. Churchill has carried out
a great deal of exploration on the project since entering into the Option Agreement, and recently
published a National Instrument 43- 101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects technical
report on the project that is highly encouraging for nickel discoveries throughout the volcanic
stratigraphy, rather than just the Baikie Showing horizon concentrated on previously.
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Immediately prior to the exercise of the Option and the issuance of 5,041,689 Common Shares,
Altius held 12,797,126 Common Shares representing approximately 15.1% of the issued and
outstanding Common Shares. Upon exercise of the Option, Altius owns 17,838,815 Common
Shares, representing approximately 19.9% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares on a
non-diluted basis. Altius acquired the Common Shares as part of the payment under the Option
Agreement for the acquisition of 100% interest in the Properties. Altius may from time to time
acquire additional Common Shares or other securities of Churchill or dispose of some or all of the
Common Shares or other securities of Churchill that it owns at such ti me, depending on market
and other conditions. Furthe r information concerning the exercise of the Option is contained in
the Early Warning Report filed by Altius on SEDAR. A copy of the Early Warning Report may also
be obtained by contacting Chad Wells, Vice President, Business Development, Altius Minerals
Corporation, Tel. 1-877-576-2206.
About Churchill Resources Inc.
Churchill Resources Inc. is a Canadian exploration company focused on high grade, magmatic nickel
sulphides in Canada, principally at its prospective Taylor Brook and Florence Lake properties in
Newfoundland & Labrador. The Churchill management team, board and its advisors have decades
of combined management experience in mineral exploration and in the establishment of successful
publicly listed mining companies, both in Canada and around the world. Churchill’s Taylor Brook and
Florence Lake projects have the potential to benefit from the province’s large and diversified minerals
industry, which includes world class nickel mines and processing facilities, and a well -developed
mineral exploration sector with locally based drilling and geological expertise. The province was
recently ranked 4th in the world for investment attractiveness by the Fraser Institute in its 2022
annual survey of mining and exploration companies.
Further Information
For further information regarding Churchill, please contact:
Churchill Resources Inc.
Paul Sobie, Chief Executive Officer
Tel. +1 416.365.0930 (o)
+1 647.988.0930 (m)
Email [email protected]
Alec Rowlands, Corporate Consultant
Tel. +1 416.721.4732 (m)
Email [email protected]
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