Lupaka Provides Invicta Update
Lupaka Provides Invicta Update
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, December 3, 2019 – Lupaka Gold Corp.
("Lupaka Gold" or the “Company") (TSX-V: LPK, FRA: LQP).
We reference the Company’s August 27, 2019 news release wherein the Company
provided news on the sale of PLI Huaura LC (“PLI”) to Lonely Mountain Resources SAC
(“Lonely Mountain”), and its declaration of an early termination date of the PLI Loan
under which the Company received US$6.1 million (net). With its unexpected and
unilateral declaration of an early termination date, PLI immediately demanded that the
Company pay PLI US$15,581,654 and initiated foreclosure proceedings on various
assets of the Company held as collateral. PLI has now completed certain foreclosure
procedures, which resulted in the transfer of all of the ownership shares of Invicta Mining
Corp., which holds the Invicta Gold Project, to PLI.
The Company considers that these actions by PLI are a consequence of the illegal
blockade erected by the Paran Community wherein the Community prevented any
access to the Company’s Invicta mine site. The Company had begun its planned
shipments from the mine to processing plants in the third quarter of 2018, but such
shipments were suspended as a result of the illegal Paran Community blockade which
began in October 2018. Without access to the mine site, Lupaka was unable to continue
mining, shipping and processing the mine’s mineralized rock, and thereby create
operating cash flow with which to commence payments on the PLI Loan, which were
scheduled to begin during the first quarter of 2019. Despite numerous requests for
assistance from and meetings with government officials of the Republic of Peru, the
requested assistance was not provided and the blockade appears to continue to this
day.
Mr. Gordon Ellis, CEO, commented, “There can be no doubt that the Company’s loss of
the Invicta Gold Project is a direct consequence of the Paran Community’s ongoing
blockade preventing access to the Invicta project”. He continued, “If we had been able to
continue transporting Invicta’s mineralized rock as planned, sufficient cash flow would
have been generated to meet the necessary conditions of the PLI Loan. In this regard,
we believe that Lupaka Gold has been wronged not only by the manner and actions by
which PLI undertook their foreclosure proceedings but, moreover, by the inactions of the
Peru Government in not ensuring that the Company’s concession and property rights
were protected, at a minimum, pursuant to the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement
(“CPFTA”). The Company reserves all rights under Peruvian and international law.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider (as the term
is defined in the policies of the TSX Ve nture Exchange) accepts responsibility for
the adequacy of this news release.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Gordon Ellis, C.E.O.
Tel: (604) 985-3147
or visit the Company’s profile at www.sedar.com