Issuance of Incentive Stock Options and Deferred Share Units
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Issuance of Incentive Stock Options and Deferred Share Units
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TSXV Trading Symbol: GBU
January 16, 2019
Issuance of Incentive Stock Options
Gabriel Resources Ltd. (“Gabriel” or the “Company”) announces that it has granted an aggregate of 5,000,000
incentive stock options to certain officers and employees of the Gabriel group of companies in relation to 2018
compensation awards. All incentive stock options so granted are exercisable for a period of ten years at $0.36
per share and vest as to 50% immediately from the date of grant and 50% on the first anniversary of the date
of grant.
As of the date hereof, a tot al of 29,750,126 common shares of the Company are reserved for issuance under
the Company’s in centive stock p lan, rep resenting approximately 6 % of the is sued and outsta nding share
capital.
For information on this press release, please contact:
Dragos Tanase
President & CEO
Phone: +44 7799 469694
Richard Brown
Chief Commercial Officer
Phone: +44 7748 760276
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the
TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Further Information
About Gabriel
Gabriel is a Canadian resource company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. The Company’s principal focus has been the exploration and
development of the Roșia Montană gold and silver project in Romania (“Roşia Montană Project”). The Roşia Montană Project, one of the largest
undeveloped gold deposits in Europe, is situated in the South Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania, Romania, an historic and prolific mining district that
since pre-Roman times has been mined intermittently for over 2,000 years. The exploitation license (“License”) for the Roşia Montană Project is held
by Roșia Montană Gold Corporation S.A., a Romanian company in which Gabriel owns an 80.69% equity interest, with the 19.31% balance held
by Minvest Roșia Montană S.A., a Romanian state-owned mining company. It is anticipated that the Roşia Montană Project would bring over US$24
billion (at US$1,200/oz gold) to Romania as potential direct and indirect contribution to GDP and generate thousands of employment opportunities.
Upon obtaining the License in June 1999, the Group (as defined below) focused substantially all of their management and financial resources on the
exploration, feasibility and subsequent development of the Roşia Montană Project. Despite the Company’s fulfilment of its legal obligations and its
development of the Roşia Montană Project as a high-quality, sustainable and environmentally-responsible mining project, using best available
techniques, Romania has blocked and prevented implementation of the Roşia Montană Project without due process and without compensation.
Accordingly, the Company’s current core focus is the ICSID Arbitration. For more information please visit the Company’s website at
www.gabrielresources.com.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking information” (also referred to as “forward-looking statements”) within the meaning of applicable Canadian
securities legislation. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purpose of providing information about management’s current expectations
and plans and allowing investors and others to get a better understanding of the Company’s operating environment. All statements, o ther than
statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements.
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In this press release, forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a n umber of estimates and assumptions that, while considered
reasonable by the Company at this time, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies
that may cause the Company’s actual financial results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied
herein. Some of the material factors or assumptions used to develop forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the uncertainties
associated with: the ICSID Arbitration, actions by the Romanian Government, conditions or events impacting the Company’s ability to fund its
operations (including but not limited to the completion of further funding noted above) or service its debt, exploration, development and operation of
mining properties and the overall impact of misjudgments made in good faith in the course of preparing forward-looking information.
Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors including those set out below, that may never materialize,
prove incorrect or materialize other than as currently contemplated which could cause the Company’s results to differ materially from those expressed
or implied by such forward-looking statements. Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs,
plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance (often, but not always, identified by words or phrases such as “expects”,
“is expected”, “is of the view”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “plans”, “projects”, “estimates”, “assumes”, “intends”, “strategy”, “goals”, “objectives”, “potential”,
“possible” or variations thereof or stating that certain actions, events, conditions or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “should”, “might” or “will” be taken,
occur or be achieved, or the negative of any of these terms and similar expressions) are not statements of fact and may be forward- looking statements.
Numerous factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including without limitation:
• delay or extension to the duration of the ICSID Arbitration;
• required disclosure, costs, process and outcome of the ICSID Arbitration against Romania;
• changes in the liquidity and capital resources of Gabriel, and the group of companies of which it is directly or indirectly parent (“Group”);
• access to funding to support the Group’s continued ICSID Arbitration and/or operating activities in the future;
• equity dilution resulting from the conversion or exercise of new or existing securities in part or in whole to Common Shares;
• the ability of the Company to maintain a continued listing on the TSX Venture Exchange or any regulated public market for trading securities;
• the impact on business strategy and its implementation in Romania of: unforeseen historic acts of corruption, uncertain fiscal investigations;
uncertain legal enforcement both for and against the Group and political and social instability;
• regulatory, political and economic risks associated with operating in a foreign jurisdiction including changes in laws, governments and legal
regimes and interpretation of existing and future fiscal and other legislation;
• volatility of currency exchange rates, metal prices and metal production;
• the availability and continued participation in operational or other matters pertaining to the Group of certain key employees and consultants;
and
• risks normally incident to the exploration, development and operation of mining properties.
This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect any of the Company’s forward-looking statements.
Investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and investors should not infer that there has been no change in the
Company’s affairs since the date of this press release that would warrant any modification of any forward-looking statement made in this document,
other documents periodically filed with or furnished to the relevant securities regulators or documents presented on the Company’s website. All
subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their
entirety by this notice. The Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward-looking statements or the
foregoing list of assumptions or factors, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, subject to the Company’s disclosure
obligations under applicable Canadian securities regulations. Investors are urged to read the Company’s filings with Canadian securities regulatory
agencies which can be viewed online at www.sedar.com.
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