PUMA Exploration and El Nino Ventures Terminate the Murray Brook Purchase Agreement
PUMA TSXV
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PRESS RELEASE
PUMA EXPLORATION AND EL NINO VENTURES TERMINATE
THE MURRAY BROOK PURCHASE AGREEMENT
Rimouski, August 4, 2020 – Puma Exploration Inc., PUMA-TSXV, (“Puma”) and El Nino Ventures, ELN-
TSXV, (‘’El Nino’’) have terminated the amended and restated asset purchase agreement signed on
October 5, 2016, as amended thereafter. Pursuant to the last amendment signed by Puma and El Nino,
Puma had until July 31, 2020, to proceed with the final $1- million cash consideration or to agree on an
alternative agreement to deal with the a cquisition of the Project . Puma will execute the requirements of
the termination according to the amended agreement (see news release 09/07/2019). Puma retains no
interest in the Murray Brook Deposit nor in the Murray Brook East property.
ADDITIONAL CORPORATE UPDATE
PUMA EXPLORATION CLOSES $500,000 PRIVATE PLACEMENT
Puma has closed a fully-subscribed private placement for an amount of $500,000. The Company issued
5 million units (“Units”) at the price of $0. 10 per Unit. Each Unit is comprised of one (1) flow -through
common share (a “Flow-Through Common Share”) and one half (1/2) common share purchase warrant
(each whole warrant, a “Warrant”), each Warrant entitling the holder to purchase an additional common
share (a “Warrant Share”) at an exercise price of $0.15 per Warrant Share for a period of twenty-four (24)
months following the Closing Date.
In connection with the private placement, the Company has paid cash finders' fees in an amount of $32,560
and issued 325,600 finders' warrants, each entitling the holder to acquire one additional common share of
Puma at a price of $0.10 for 24 months. All securities issued to purchasers and finders under the offering
are subject to a four-month hold period from the date of issuance of the securities, pursuant to applicable
securities legislation and the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. The placement has received the
conditional approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. The Company will use the proceeds of the offering to
explore its current flagship Triple Fault Gold Project.
Two (2) insiders of the Company participated in the placement for aggregate gross proceeds of $25,000.
The insiders purchased units under the same terms as the other investors. The participation of these
insiders is exempt from the formal valuation and shareholder approval requirements pursuant to sections
5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 -- Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special
Transactions, on the basis that the fair market value of such participation or the consideration paid by such
insiders does not exceed 25 per cent of the market capitalization of the Company.
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175, rue Legaré | Rimouski (Québec) G5L 3B9 www.explorationpuma.com
WARRANTS REPRICING
Puma, subject to acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange, wishes to modify the exercice price of the
warrants previously issued in connection with its non-brokered private placements of units that were closed
in December 2018, September 2019, and December 2019. A total of 6,346,950 warrants will be repriced
to $0.20. The expiry date remains the same. Holders of these warrants will be receiving their new warrant
certificates shortly with the following amendments:
Under the terms of the December 2018 financing, 638,000 warrants were issued at $1.00 with an expiry
date of December 31, 2020. The Company will now proceed to reprice these warrants to $0.20.
Under the terms of the September 2019 financing, 4,366,450 warrants were issued at $0.50 with an expiry
date of September 27, 2023. The Company will now proceed to reprice these warrants to $0.20.
Under the terms of the December 2019 financing, 1,342,500 w arrants were issued at $0.35 expiring in
December 2021. The Company will now proceed to reprice these warrants to $0.20.
GRANT OF OPTIONS
Puma, pursuant to its Stock Option Plan and subject to regulatory acceptance, has granted an aggregate
total of 1, 000,000 incentive stock options to certain directors, officers and consultants of the Company,
vesting immediately. These options will be exercisable at a price of $0. 15 per common share and will
expire on August 4, 2025.
TRIPLE FAULT GOLD AREA
Puma is currently focusing its field work on its flagship TRIPLE FAULT GOLD PROJECT in New
Brunswick. The initial phase of the program incorporates large detailed prospecting, mapping, trenching,
and stripping focused over the entire William s Brook Gold property of the Triple Fault Gold Project. The
Williams Brook Gold property includes selected drill results of 11.2 g/t over 2.8m, 1.0 g/t over 23 m, gold
occurrences grading up to 50.8 g/t Au in bedrock, numerous gold soil anomalies and extremely anomalous
till samples with up to 508 gold grains that occur over an area approximately 12 by 3 kilometres.
The Triple Fault Gold Project includes four (4) properties named Williams Brook Gold, Jonpol Gold, Rocky
Brook, and Portage Lake and controls more than 25,000ha of favorable gold exploration. There are m any
gold occurrences up to 50.8 g/t Au, 40 g/t Au, 28 g/t Au, 17 g/t Au with previous holes intersected 11.2
g/t over 2.8m, 8.02 g/t Au over 1.0m, 1.0 g/t over 23.0m, 3.46 g/t Au over 2.0m. There has been
very limited drilling and exploration in the area with excellent access by the paved Route 180 close to the
mining camp infrastructure. The Dunnage Zone hosts major gold deposits and gold occurrences in siluro-
devonian host rocks with the emergence of many companies in Eastern Canada for gold exploration and
development.
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QUALIFIED PERSONS
Marcel Robillard, PGeo, qualified person as defined by Canadian National Instrument 43- 101 standards,
has reviewed and approved the geological information reported in this news release. Neither TSX Venture
Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture
Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
ABOUT PUMA EXPLORATION
Puma Exploration is a Canadian- based mineral exploration company with precious and base metals
projects in early to advanced stages located in the Famous Bathurst Mining Camp (BMC) in New
Brunswick, Canada. Great efforts will be made by the Company in the coming years to deploy its DEAR
strategy (Development, Exploration, Acquisition and Royalties) in order to generate maximum value for
shareholders with low shares dilution.
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statements involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the
actual results, performance or achievements of Puma to be mat erially different from actual future results and
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reliance on these forward-looking statements which speak only as of the date the statements were made, except as
required by law. Puma undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward- looking statements. These
risks and uncertainties are described in the quarterly and annual reports and in the documents submitted to the
securities administration.