Freegold Announces $5 Million Second Tranche Brokered Private Placement Financing
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FREEGOLD ANNOUNCES $5 MILLION SECOND TRANCHE BROKERED
PRIVATE PLACEMENT FINANCING
NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWS WIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Vancouver, BC – May 13, 2020 – Freegold Ventures Limited (TSX: FVL) (“Freegold” or the
"Company"), a growth‐focused gold exploration and development company, announces that it
has agreed to issue, addition to the private placement announced on May 7, 2020 up to C$5
million via a second tranche best eff orts brokered private placement (the “Private Placement”).
Paradigm Capital Inc. will act as sole agent (the “Agent”) on the Private Placement of subscription
receipts (the “Subscription Receipts”). Each Subscription Receipt will be issued at a price of
C$0.30 per Subscription Receipt for gross proceeds of up to C$5 million. Ea ch Subscription
Receipt will entitle the holder thereof to receive, without payment of any additional
consideration, one Unit. Each Unit will consist of one common share (each a “Common Share”)
and one‐half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant a “Warrant”). Each
whole Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to purchase on e Common Share at a price of $0.45,
for a period of 2 years following the closing of the Private Placement. The exchange of the
Subscription Receipts for Units will be conditional upon the approval of Freegold shareholders.
The Agent shall have th e option (the “Agent’s Option”) to increase the size of the second tranche
of the Private Placement by up to 15% of the base Private Placement size, which Agent’s Option
shall be exercisable, by notice in writing to the Company, at any time not less than 48 hours prior
to the cl osing date.
Mr. Eric Sprott has agreed to invest $4 million in the Private Placement. Following the conversion
of the Subscription Receipts, his interest in the Company will be approximately 28%, assuming
both the private placement announced on May 7, 2020 and this second tranche Private
Placement are fully subscribed.
The Private Placem
ent is subject to regulatory approval and all securities issued pursuant to the
Private Placement will have a hold period of four months and one day.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Private Placement to fund ongoing
exploration, to update the Company’s technical studies, and for general corp orate purposes.
The securities have not been, and will not be, registered under the Unites States Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”), or any U.S. state security laws, and may not be
offered or sold in the Unites States without registration under the U.S. Securiti es Act and all
applicable state securities laws or compliance with requirements of an applicable exemption
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therefrom. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to
buy securities in the Unites States, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction
in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
About Freegold Ventures Limited
Freeg
old is a TSX listed company focused on exploration in Alaska and holds through leases the
Golden Summit Gold Project, near Fairbanks as well the Shorty Creek Copper – Gold Project near
Livengood.
For further information, please visit www.freegoldventures.com or contact:
Kristina Walcott, President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Telephone: (604) 662‐7307
Email: j
Cautionary Statement
Neither the Toronto Stock Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined
in the policies of the Toronto Stock Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy
of this news release.
This News Release includes certain "forward‐looking statements" which are not co mprised of
historical facts. Forward‐looking statements include estimates and statements that describe the
Company’s future plans, objectives or goals, including words to the effect that the Company or
management expects a stated condition or result to occur. Forward‐looking statements may be
identified by such terms as “believes”, “anticipates”, “expects”, “estimates”, “ma y”, “could”,
“would”, “will”, or “plan”. Since forward‐looking statements are based on assumptions and
address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and
uncertainties. Although these statements are based on information currently available to the
Company, the Company provides no assurance that actual results w ill meet management’s
expectations. Risks, uncertainties and other factors involved with forward‐looking information
could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially
from those expressed or implied by such forward‐looking information. Forward looking
information in this news release includes, but is not limited to, the Comp any’s objectives, goals
or future plans, statements, completion of the Private Placement, exploration results, potential
mineralization, the estimation of mineral resources, exploration and mine development plans,
timing of the commencement of operations and estimates of market conditions. Factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward‐look ing information include, but
are not limited to the inability to complete the Private Placement on the terms as announced or
at all, failure to identify mineral resources, failure to convert estimated mineral resources to
reserves, the inability to complete a feasibility study which recommends a production decision,
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the preliminary nature of metallurgical test results, delays in obtaining or failures to obtain
required governmental, environmental or other project approvals, political risks, uncertainties
relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, changes in equity markets,
inflation, changes in exchange rates, fluctuations in commodity prices, delays in the development
of projects, capital, op
erating and reclamation costs varying significantly from estimates and the
other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry, and those risks set out
in the Company’s public documents filed on SEDAR. Although the Company believes that the
assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward‐lo oking information in this news release
are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as
of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the
disclosed time frames or at all. The Company disclaims an y intention or obligation to update or
revise any forward‐looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise, other than as required by law.