Magna Mining Announces Closing of $33.5 Million Private Placement
Magna Mining Announces Closing of $33.5
Million Private Placement
Sudbury, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 5, 2025) - Magna Mining Inc. (TSXV: NICU) (the
"
Corporation
") is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced "best efforts" private
placement of: (i) $23,967,000 aggregate principal amount of unsecured convertible debentures of the
Corporation (the "
Convertible
Debentures
"), issued in ordinary multiples of $1,000, less an original
issue discount of 2% of the face amount of the Convertible Debentures, for aggregate gross proceeds of
$23,487,660; and (ii) an aggregate of 6,451,620 common shares of the Corporation (the "
Offered
Common Shares
" and together with the Convertible Debentures, the "
Offered Securities
") at a price
of $1.55 per Offered Common Share, for aggregate gross proceeds of $10,000,011 (collectively, the
"
Offering
"). The Corporation intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the Offering to advance its
existing Sudbury projects and for general corporate and working capital purposes.
The principal amount of the Convertible Debentures bears interest at a fixed rate of 10.0% per annum,
payable in cash quarterly in arrears and will mature on March 5, 2029 (the "
Maturity Date
"). The
Convertible Debentures are governed by the terms and conditions of a debenture indenture dated as of
March 5, 2025 between the Corporation and Computershare Trust Company of Canada, as debenture
trustee (the "
Debenture Indenture
"). The principal amount of each Convertible Debenture will be
convertible, at the election of the holder, into common shares of the Corporation ("
Common Shares
"
and, the Common Shares issuable upon conversion of the Convertible Debentures, the "
Conversion
Shares
") at a conversion price of $2.00 per Conversion Share (the "
Conversion Price
") at any time
until the earlier of (i) the business day preceding the Maturity Date, and (ii) the date of repayment in full of
the principal amount of the Convertible Debentures and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon.
If at any time following the two-year anniversary of the closing date of the Offering, the daily volume
weighted average trading price of the Common Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange (the
"
Exchange
") equals or exceeds 150% of the Conversion Price (subject to adjustment in accordance
with the terms of the Debenture Indenture) for 20 consecutive trading days ("
Trading Period
"), the
Corporation shall have the right to elect, at any time during the three trading days after such Trading
Period, to have all of the principal amount outstanding under the Convertible Debentures converted into
Conversion Shares at the Conversion Price.
The Offering was completed pursuant to the terms of an agency agreement dated as of March 5, 2025
among the Corporation and SCP Resource Finance LP and Desjardins Securities Inc., as co-lead
agents, for and on behalf of a syndicate of agents that included Paradigm Capital Inc, Canaccord
Genuity Corp. and BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. (collectively, the "
Agents
"). In consideration for their services,
the Corporation paid the Agents an aggregate $1,270,464.23 in cash, comprised of a cash commission
of $1,229,814.14 and an advisory fee of $40,650.09
.
The Offered Securities issued under the Offering are subject to a hold period expiring four months and
one day from the date hereof. The Offering remains subject to the final acceptance of the Exchange.
In connection with the Offering, Dundee Corporation ("
Dundee
") exercised its participation right to
subscribe for $8,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Convertible Debentures through its wholly
owned subsidiary, Dundee Resources Limited, for an aggregate subscription amount of $7,840,000.
Prior to the Offering, Dundee had beneficial ownership of, or control or direction over, directly or
indirectly, 42,725,318 Common Shares and warrants exercisable to acquire 4,259,259 Common
Shares (the "
Warrants
"), representing approximately 21.7% of the issued and outstanding Common
Shares prior to the Offering on a non-diluted basis (or approximately 23.4% on a partially-diluted basis).
Following closing of the Offering, Dundee has beneficial ownership of, or control or direction over,
directly or indirectly 42,725,318 Common Shares, 4,259,259 Warrants and $8,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of Convertible Debentures, representing approximately 21.0% of the issued and
outstanding Common Shares immediately following the Offering on a non-diluted basis (or
approximately 24.1% on a partially-diluted basis).
In addition, certain other insiders of the Corporation subscribed for a total of $3,650,00 aggregate
principal amount of Convertible Debentures and 6,500 Offered Common Shares, for gross proceeds to
the Corporation of $3,577,000 and $10,075, respectively.
Each subscription under the Offering by an insider (including Dundee) is considered to be a "related
party transaction" for purposes of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 -
Protection of Minority Security
Holders in Special Transactions
("
MI 61-101
"). The Corporation did not file a material change report
more than 21 days before the expected closing date of the Offering as the details of the Offering and the
participation therein by the insiders were not settled until shortly prior to the closing of the Offering, and
the Corporation wished to close the Offering on an expedited basis for sound business reasons. The
Corporation relied on exemptions from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval
requirements available under MI 61-101. The Corporation is exempt from the formal valuation
requirement in section 5.4 of MI 61-101 in reliance on section 5.5(b) of MI 61-101 as the Corporation is
not listed or quoted on a specified market. Additionally, the Corporation is exempt from minority
shareholder approval requirement in section 5.6 of MI 61-101 in reliance on section 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-
101 as the fair market value of the transaction, insofar as it involves the insiders, was not more than the
25% of the Corporation's market capitalization.
The securities offered have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an
applicable exemption from the registration requirements. This news release shall not constitute
an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities
in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
About Magna Mining Inc.
Magna is a producing mining company with a portfolio of copper, nickel and PGM operating, exploration
and development projects in the Sudbury Region of Ontario, Canada. The Corporation's primary assets
are the producing McCreedy West copper mine and the past producing Levack, Podolsky,
Shakespeare and Crean Hill mines. Additional information about the Corporation is available on
SEDAR+ (
www.sedarplus.ca
) and on the Corporation's website (
www.magnamining.com
).
For further information on this news release, visit
www.magnamining.com
or contact:
Jason Jessup
Chief Executive Officer
or
Paul Fowler, CFA
Senior Vice President
Email:
Tel: 705-482-9667
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of the applicable Canadian
securities legislation that is based on expectations, estimates, projections, and interpretations as at the
date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions,
expectations, interpretations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or
performance including in respect of the use of proceeds of the Offering, the timing and ability of the
Corporation to obtain final approval of the Offering from the Exchange, if at all; and the prospects of the
Corporation's properties (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is
expected", "interpreted", "management's view", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget",
"scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or
stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur
or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking information and are
intended to identify forward-looking information. This forward-looking information is based on
reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Corporation, at the time it was made, and
involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results,
performance or achievements of the companies to be materially different from any future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Although the
forward-looking information contained in this news release is based upon what management believes, or
believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the parties cannot assure shareholders and
prospective purchasers of securities that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking
information, as there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or
intended, and neither the Corporation nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and
completeness of any such forward-looking information. The Corporation does not undertake, and
assumes no obligation, to update or revise any such forward-looking statements or forward-looking
information contained herein to reflect new events or circumstances, except as may be required by law.
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defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy
or accuracy of this news release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other
regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein.
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