Surge Exploration Enters into Option Agreement to Acquire a 60% Interest in Ontario Cobalt Properties from LiCo Energy Metals
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NEWS RELEASE
Surge Exploration Enters into Option Agreement to Acquire a
60% Interest in Ontario Cobalt Properties
from LiCo Energy Metals
Vancouver, BC – May 8, 2018 – Surge Exploration Inc. (the "Company" or “Surge”) (TSX‐V: SUR,
OTCQB:CKVLF) announces that it has entered into an option agreement with LiCo Energy Metals
Inc. (“LiCo”) dated May 7, 2018 (the Agreement”), whereby the Company may earn an undivided
60% interest in the Glencore Buck Property and the Teledyne Cobalt Property, located in Cobalt,
Ontario. The transaction is subject to TSX Venture Exchange (Exchange) approval.
Terms of the Option:
Purchase Price – The Company will pay LiCo the sum of $240,000 and issue 1,000,000 fully paid and
non‐assessable common shares in the capital of Surge upon Exchange Approval. In addition, Surge
shall incur an aggregate of $1,536,000 in Exploration Expenditures on the Property on or before two
years from the date of the Agreement.
Joint Venture – Upon the Company having exercised the Option, Surge will have earned an
undivided 60% interest in the Property, and the parties will enter into a Commercially Reasonable
and Definitive Joint Venture Agreement.
Finder’s fees will be paid on behalf of the transaction in accordance with Exchange policies.
Pursuant to TSXV Policy 5.9 and Multilateral Instrument 61‐101 ‐‐ Protection of Minority Security
Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"), the Option Agreement constitutes a "related party
transaction" due to the fact that one of the directors of the Company is also President and CEO of
LiCo. The Company relied on Section 5.5(a) of MI 61‐101 for an exemption from the formal
valuation requirement and Section 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61‐101 for an exemption from the minority
shareholder approval requirement of MI 61‐101 as the fair market value of the transaction did not
exceed 25% of the Company's market capitalization. The disinterested members of the board of
directors have unanimously approved the transaction and have determined that the purchase price
of the transaction is fair to the Company and its shareholders based on LiCo’s previous positive
drilling programs on the properties, two unsolicited expressions of interest from arm’s length
parties, combined with the purchase price that LiCo previously paid to acquire the properties.
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About the Ontario Cobalt Properties:
Glencore Bucke Cobalt Project (Cobalt, Ontario):
LiCo Energy Metals Inc. purchased a 100% interest from Glencore Canada Corporation (subsidiary
of Glencore plc) in the Glencore Bucke Property, situated in Bucke Township, 6 km east‐northeast
of Cobalt, Ontario, subject to a back‐in provision, production royalty and off‐take agreement.
Strategically, the Glencore Bucke Property consists of 16.2 hectares and sits along the west
boundary of LiCo’s Teledyne Cobalt Project. The Property covers the southern extension of the #3
vein that was historically mined on the neighbouring Cobalt Contact Property located to the north
of the Glencore Bucke Property. Diamond drilling in 1981 on the Glencore Bucke Property
delineated two zones of mineralization measuring 150 m and 70 m in length. During the fall of
2017, LiCo completed 21 diamond drill holes totaling 1,900 m. This drill program, along with the
Phase 1 diamond drilling program completed on the Teledyne Cobalt Property, satisfied LiCo’s flow‐
through financing obligations. The exploration program at the Glencore Bucke Property also
satisfied our contractual obligations to Glencore plc. whereby LiCo was to incur $250,000 of
exploration expenditures on the Property within six months of the approval date (see News Release
dated September 5th, 2017).
Teledyne Cobalt Project (Cobalt, Ontario):
LiCo Energy Metals Inc. has recently exercised its option to earn 100% ownership, subject to a
royalty, in the Teledyne Project located near Cobalt. Ontario. The Property adjoins the south and
west boundaries of claims that hosted the Agaunico Mine. From 1905 through to 1961, the
Agaunico Mine produced a total of 4,350,000 lbs. of cobalt and 980,000 oz. of silver. A significant
portion of the cobalt that was produced at the Agaunico Mine located along structures that extended
southward onto the Teledyne property. LiCo recently completed a total of 11 diamond drill holes
totaling 2,200 m in the fall of 2017. The drilling has confirmed cobalt mineralization present on the
Property which is consistent with historical grades as reported historically by Cunningham‐Dunlop
(1979) and Bressee (1981), disclosed in earlier news releases. These reports are available in the
public domain through MNDM’s AFRI database.
NI 43‐101 Reports for both the Teledyne and Glencore Bucke Properties, are publicly available on
www.SEDAR.com under LiCo’s profile as well as LiCo’s website. LiCo’s recently completed diamond
drilling program (September to December 2017) consisted of both twinning and infill drilling of the
historical drill holes located on both the Teledyne Cobalt and Glencore Bucke Properties.
Qualified Person
The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved Joerg Kleinboeck, P.Geo.,
an independent consulting geologist and a qualified person as defined in NI 43‐101.
About Surge Exploration Inc. https://surgeexploration.com/
The Company is a Canadian‐based mineral exploration company which has been active in the
resource sector in British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada. The Company has an exploration
office in Santiago, Chile to review mineral exploration opportunities in Chile and elsewhere in South
America.
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Hedge Hog Property, British Columbia
The Company has an option to earn an undivided 60% interest seven mineral tenure covering 2,418
hectares (5,972 acres) located approximately 80 km northeast of the town of Quesnel, BC and 20
km north of the historic gold mining towns of Wells and Barkerville.
On Behalf of the Board of
Directors
“Gordon Jung”
Gordon Jung
CEO
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Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release may contain forward‐looking statements which include, but are not limited to, comments that involve future
events and conditions, which are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Except for statements of historical facts, comments
that address resource potential, upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt and security of mineral property
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