Minnova Corp. Announces Start of Exploration and Infill Resource Delineation Programs at PL Mine
Minnova Corp. Announces Start of Exploration and Infill Resource Delineation
Programs at PL Mine
NOT FOR DISSEMINATION INTO THE UNITED STATES
January 12, 2017, Toronto, Ontario – Minnova Corp. (TSXV: MCI) (“ Minnova” or the
“Company”), an advanced-stage mining exploration and gold development company focused
on the advancement and re-start of our 100% owned PL Mine in central Manitoba, is pleased to
announce that its planned exploration and infill drill program at the PL Mine site has started.
Camp mobilization is underway and drilling is expect ed to commence shortly. The program has
two key objectives: 1) infill drill on the PL deposit to upgrade and expand the existing resource
to form the basis of a new NI 43-101 resource estimate that in turn will form the basis of Pre-
Feasibility Study (PFS) and 2) drill test high prio rity, near surface, mine property exploration
targets that are associated with high grade gold mineralization to discover additional gold
resources on the PL Mine property.
As part of this initiative the Company is also pleased to announce the hiring of Mr. Chris
Buchanan, M.Sc., P.Geo., principal of BGS Consulting Ltd. to oversee the geology and drilling
program and advance the company’s resource upgrade and property-wide discovery initiative.
Mr. Buchanan has over 20 years of experience and is specialized in structural controls and
alteration assemblages of gold systems.
Gorden Glenn, Minnova President & CEO comment ed, “The engagement of Chris is the first
critical step in building Minnova’s owner’s team of professional geologists and mining engineers
that will ultimately take the PL mine into produ ction. We are extremely pleased to attract a Sr.
geologist of Chris’s caliber and experience, particularly as it relates to assessing structural
controls of gold deposits in complex, poly-deformed, and metamorphosed terranes, like that of
the PL Mine property. Part of Chris’s mandate will be to initiate a series of studies to identify the
relationship between deformation fabrics, alt eration and gold mineralization in the primarily
quartz vein hosted PL deposit and the banded ir on formations associated with numerous
untested, high priority Airborne VTEM anomalies (see Auriga Gold press release from April 10,
2012). We are in discussions with other owner’s team candidates and we hope to make further
announcements on this in the near future.”
The Company announces today that it has issued a total of 300,000 Deferred Stock Units
("DSUs") to non-executive directors as an annual award as outlined in the DSU Plan adopted in
August 2016.
The Company has also granted 1,500,000 Restricted Share Units ("RSUs") to executives and
consultants. The RSUs were granted in accordance with Minnova's Restricted Share Unit Plan
and are subject to vesting provisions. More specific ally, the grant consists of a base amount of
500,000 units with vesting subject to retention while the remaining bonus units are subject to
performance conditions.
Minnova Corp. Office: +1 647 985 2785
MCI:TSXV 365 Bay Street, Suite 400
www.minnovacorp.ca Toronto, Ontario M5H 2V1
Minnova has also granted incentive stock options to recently hired employees to purchase up to
an aggregate of 725,000 common shares, exercisable on or before January 12, 2022 at a strike
price of $0.85.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of
the securities in the United States. The securities have not been and will not be registered under
the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state
securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons as
defined under applicable securities laws unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and
applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
About Minnova Corp.
Minnova Corp. is an emerging Canadian gold producer focused on re-starting the PL Mine and
expanding gold resources on its PL and Nokomis gold deposits. The Company completed an
Updated PEA which supports average annual production of 48,100 ounces over a +10 year
mine life. Work to date supports advancing the project toward production with an initial program
of detailed definition drilling to be followed by a future underground test mining and bulk sample
program and completion of a Feasibility Study to bring the PL Mine back into production. The PL
Mine has a valid underground mining license, an exis ting flotation mill, over 7,000 meters of
developed underground ramp to 135 metres depth, is fully road accessible and close to existing
mining infrastructure in the prolific Flin Flon – Snow Lake Greenstone Belt of Central Manitoba.
Qualified Person
Mr. Chris Buchanan, M. Sc., P. Geo., a consultant of the Company and a “Qualified Person”
under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical
information in this press release.
For more information please contact:
Minnova Corp.
Gorden Glenn
President & Chief Executive Officer
For further information, please contact Investor Relations at 647-985-2785 or
Visit our website at www.minnovacorp.ca.
Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains "forward‐looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation.
Forward‐looking information includes, but is not limited to, information regarding the Company including management’s
assessment of future plans and operations, that may involve risks associated with mining exploration and development,
volatility of prices, currency fluctuations, imprecision of resource estimates, environmental and permitting risks, access to labour
Minnova Corp. Office: +1 647 985 2785
MCI:TSXV 365 Bay Street, Suite 400
www.minnovacorp.ca Toronto, Ontario M5H 2V1
and services, competition from other companies and ability to access sufficient capital. As a consequence, actual results may
differ materially from those anticipated in the forward looking statements. A feasibility study has not been completed and there
is no certainty the disclosed targets will be achieved nor that the proposed operations will be economically viable. Although
Minnova has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in
forward‐looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.
There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ
materially from those anticipated in such information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward‐looking
information. Minnova does not undertake to update any forward‐looking information, except in accordance with applicable
securities laws.
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Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.