Surge Copper Announces Closing of Private Placement
PO Box 10351 888-700 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V7Y 1G5
www.surgecopper.com
TSX-V Trading Symbol: SURG
OTCQX: SRGXF
Frankfurt Trading Symbol: G6D2
Telephone: +1 (604) 781-5454
Email: [email protected]
January 31, 2023
NEWS RELEASE
Surge Copper Announces Closing of Private Placement
Not for distribution to U.S. newswire services or dissemination in the United States
January 31, 2023, Vancouver, British Columbia – Surge Copper Corp. (TSXV: SURG)
(OTCQX: SRGXF) (Frankfurt: G6D2) (“Surge” or the “Company”) announces that it has
closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement (the “Offering”), consisting of a
total of 11,539,000 units (the “Units”) issued at a price of $0.13 per Unit and 11,077,000 charity
flow-through units (the “CFT Units”) issued at a price of $0.215 per CFT Unit, for total gross
proceeds of approximately $3.9 million.
Each Unit consists of one common share and one-half of one transferrable common share
purchase warrant (each whole such common share purchase warrant, a “Warrant”). Each CFT
Unit consists of one charity flow-through common share and one-half of one Warrant to be issued
on a non-flow-through basis. Each Warrant shall be exercisable into one additional common share
for twelve months from closing at an exercise price of C$0.20 per Warrant.
It is anticipated that the net proceeds raised from the Units will be used for the completion of the
Preliminary Economic Assessment on the Berg Project and for working capital and general
corporate purposes. The aggregate gross proceeds raised from the CFT Units will be used before
2025 for general exploration expenditures which will constitute Canadian exploration expenses
within the meaning of subsection 66.1(6) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “Tax Act”), that will
qualify as “critical mineral flow through mining expenditures” within the meaning of the Tax Act.
The Company paid finders fees totalling approximately $46,260 to PI Financial Corp. and EDE
Asset Management Inc. in connection with the Offering.
Subject to compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and in accordance with National
Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions (“NI 45-106”), the Offering was completed pursuant to
the listed issuer financing exemption under Part 5A of NI 45-106 (the “Listed Issuer Financing
Exemption”). Except those Units sold to insiders of the Company (discussed below), the Units
and CFT Units offered under the Listed Issuer Financing Exemption will not be subject to a hold
period pursuant to applicable Canadian securities laws.
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Insiders of the Company subscribed for a total of 1,926,613 Units. The participation of insiders in
the Offering constitutes a “related party transaction”, within the meaning of TSX-V Policy 5.9 and
Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions
("MI 61-101”). The Company has relied on the exemptions from the formal valuation and minority
shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 contained in sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(1)(a) of MI
61-101 in respect of the related party participation in the Offering as neither the fair market value
(as determined under MI 61-101) of the subject matter of, nor the fair market value of the
consideration for, the transaction, insofar as it involved the interested party, exceeded 25% of the
Company's market capitalization (as determined under MI 61-101).
The Units sold to certain insiders of the Company will be subject to an “Exchange Hold Period”
(as that term is defined in the Policies of the TSXV) expiring four months and one day from the
date of issuance.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall
there be any sale of any securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would
be unlawful including any of the securities in the United States of America. The securities have
not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the “1933 Act”) or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United
States or to, or for account or benefit of, U.S. Persons (as defined in Regulation S under the 1933
Act) unless registered under the 1933 Act and applicable state securities laws, or an exemption
from such registration requirements is available.
About Surge Copper Corp.
Surge Copper Corp. is a Canadian company that is advancing an emerging critical metals district
in a well-developed region of British Columbia, Canada. The Company controls a large,
contiguous mineral claim package that hosts multiple advanced porphyry deposits with pit-
constrained NI 43-101 compliant resources of copper, molybdenum, gold, and silver – metals
which are critical inputs to the low-carbon energy transition and associated electrification
technologies.
The Company owns a 100% interest in the Ootsa Property, an advanced-stage exploration project
containing the Seel and Ox porphyry deposits located adjacent to the open pit Huckleberry
Copper Mine, owned by Imperial Metals. The Ootsa Property contains pit-constrained NI 43-101
compliant resources of copper, gold, molybdenum, and silver in the Measured, Indicated, and
Inferred categories.
The Company is also earning a 70% interest in the Berg Property from Centerra Gold. Berg is a
large, advanced-stage exploration project located 28 km northwest of the Ootsa deposits. Berg
contains pit-constrained NI 43-101 compliant resources of copper, molybdenum, and silver in the
Measured, Indicated, and Inferred categories. Combined, the adjacent Ootsa and Berg properties
give Surge a dominant land position in the Ootsa-Huckleberry-Berg district and control over three
advanced porphyry deposits and multiple copper, gold, and silver exploration targets.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
“Leif Nilsson”
Chief Executive Officer
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For further information, please contact:
Riley Trimble, Corporate Communications & Development
Telephone: +1 604 416 2978
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @SurgeCopper
LinkedIn: Surge Copper Corp
https://www.surgecopper.com
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in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy
of this release.
This News Release contains forward-looking statements, which relate to future events. In some
cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "will", "may", "should",
"expects", "plans", or "anticipates" or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology.
All statements included herein, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking
statements, including but not limited to: the use of anticipated proceeds of the Offering, including
the completion of the Preliminary Economic Assessment on the Berg Project; the tax treatment
of the charity flow through shares issued in connection with CFT Units; and the Company’s plans
regarding the Berg Property (including any earned future interest therein) and the Ootsa Property.
These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and
other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results, level of activity, performance, or
achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance, or
achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Such uncertainties and
risks may include, among others, actual results of the Company's exploration activities being
different than those expected by management, delays in obtaining or failure to obtain required
government or other regulatory approvals, the ability to obtain adequate financing to conduct its
planned exploration programs, inability to procure labour, equipment, and supplies in sufficient
quantities and on a timely basis, equipment breakdown, impacts of the current coronavirus
pandemic, and bad weather. While these forward-looking statements, and any assumptions upon
which they are based, are made in good faith and reflect the Company's current judgment
regarding the direction of its business, actual results will almost always vary, sometimes materially,
from any estimates, predictions, projections, assumptions, or other future performance
suggestions herein. Except as required by applicable law, the Company does not intend to update
any forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual results.