Targa Announces Close of Private Placement FOR Gross Proceeds of $1M
CSE: TEX | OTCQB: TRGEF | FRA: V6Y
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 25, 2025
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TARGA ANNOUNCES CLOSE OF PRIVATE PLACEMENT FOR GROSS PROCEEDS OF $1M
Vancouver, British Columbia (August 25, 2025) – Targa Exploration Corp. (CSE: TEX | FRA: V6Y | OTCQB:
TRGEF) (“Targa” or the “Company”) today announced that, further to the Company’s news releases dated
August 8, 2025 and August 15, 2205, it has closed its previously announced private placement for aggregate
gross proceeds of approximately C$1,007,375 (the “Offering”).
Pursuant to the closing of the Offering, the Company issued 6,715,834 flow-through shares of the Company
(each, an “FT Share”) at a price of C$0.15 per FT Share. Each FT Share will be issued as a “flow-through share”
as defined in subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and in section 359.1 of the Quebec Tax Act
with respect to purchasers in Quebec. The net proceeds of the Offering will be used for exploration of the
Company’s Opinaca gold project. The gross proceeds from the issuance of the FT Shares will be used to incur
eligible “Canadian exploration expenses” in Quebec that qualify as “flow-through mining expenditures” as
such terms are defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada). The Company has agreed to renounce such qualifying
expenditures with an effective date of no later than December 31, 2025, in an amount of not less than the
total amount of the gross proceeds raised from the issuance of FT Shares and incur such expenses by
December 31, 2026.
In connection with the Offering, the Company paid finders fees of an aggregate of C$50,092.51 in cash and
issued an aggregate of 333,950 finders warrants of the Company (the “Finders Warrants”) to certain eligible
arm’s length finders. Each Finders Warrant entitles the finder to purchase one common share of the Company
(a “Finder Warrant Share”) at a price of C$0.30 per Finder Warrant Share until August 25, 2027.
All securities issued pursuant to and in connection with the closing of the Offering, including Finder Warrant
Shares issuable upon the exercise of Finder Warrants, are and will be subject to a hold period expiring
December 26, 2025.
The securities described herein 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 accordingly, may not be
offered or sold within the United States except in compliance with the registration requirements of the U.S.
Securities Act and applicable state securities requirements or pursuant to exemptions therefrom. This press
release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any securities in any jurisdiction.
About the Opinaca Gold Project
The Opinaca Project is located in the James Bay region of Quebec, approximately 45km south of the all-season
Trans-Taiga Road and 140km northeast of the Eleonore gold mine. The Opinaca Project covers 85,267
contiguous hectares of the Opinaca geological sub-province, dominantly a metasedimentary region with
neoarchean-aged igneous intrusions including of the Vieux Comptoir suite of granites. Till sampling and
prospecting work in 2023 and 2024 has identified a 7km-long gold target trend near the center of the project.
Boulder sampling in 2024 returned a dozen boulders with anomalous (>0.1g/t) gold values, including up to
6.7g/t Au. A recent airborne magnetic survey has identified a 4km magnetic anomaly at the center of the gold
trend.
Qualified Person
The disclosure of scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and
approved by Adrian Lupascu M. Sc. P.Geo., Exploration Manager of Targa Exploration Corp., who is a “qualified
person” within the meaning of National Instrument 43 -101- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
About Targa
Targa Exploration Corp. (CSE: TEX | FRA: V6Y | OTCQB: TRGEF) is a Canadian exploration company engaged in
the acquisition, exploration, and development of gold mineral properties with headquarters in Vancouver,
British Columbia. Targa’s principal asset is it’s Opinaca Gold Project where a significant gold-in-till anomaly
has been identified over a strike length of 7km.
Contact Information: For more information and to sign-up to the mailing list, please contact:
Cameron Tymstra, CEO and President
Tel: 416-668-1495
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.targaexploration.com
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release includes certain “Forward-Looking Statements” within the meaning of the United States Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and “forward-looking information” under applicable Canadian securities laws.
When used in this news release, the words “anticipate”, “believe”, “proposed”, “estimate”, “expect”, “target”, “plan”,
“forecast”, “may”, “would”, “could”, “schedule” and similar words or expressions, identify forward-looking statements
or information. These forward-looking statements or information relate to, among other things: obtaining the required
regulatory, exchange, and board approvals; receipt of exploration permits; timing of exploration programs; the proposed
use of proceeds of the Offering; the tax treatment of the FT Shares; the renouncement of applicable expenditures; and
the exploration and development of the Company’s properties.
Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information relating to any future mineral production, liquidity,
enhanced value and capital markets profile of Targa, future growth potential for Targa and its business, and future
exploration plans are based on management’s reasonable assumptions, estimates, expectations, analyses and opinions,
which are based on management’s experience and perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments,
and other factors that management believes are relevant and reasonable in the circumstances, but which may prove to
be incorrect. Assumptions have been made regarding, among other things, the price of gold and other metals; costs of
exploration and development; the estimated costs of development of exploration projects; Targa’s ability to operate in
a safe and effective manner and its ability to obtain financing on reasonable terms.
These statements reflect Targa’s respective current views with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon
a number of other assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by management, are inherently subject
to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors, both
known and unknown, could cause actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from the
results, performance or achievements that are or may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or
forward-looking information and Targa has made assumptions and estimates based on or related to many of these
factors. Such factors include, without limitation: price volatility of gold and other metals; risks associated with the
conduct of the Company's mineral exploration activities in Canada; regulatory, consent or permitting delays; risks
relating to reliance on the Company's management team and outside contractors; the Company's inability to obtain
insurance to cover all risks, on a commercially reasonable basis or at all; currency fluctuations; risks regarding the failure
to generate sufficient cash flow from operations; risks relating to project financing and equity issuances; risks and
unknowns inherent in all mining projects, including the inaccuracy of reserves and resources, metallurgical recoveries
and capital and operating costs of such projects; contests over title to properties, particularly title to undeveloped
properties; laws and regulations governing the environment, health and safety; the ability of the communities in which
the Company operates to manage and cope with the implications of public health crises; the economic and financial
implications of public health crises to the Company; operating or technical difficulties in connection with mining or
development activities; employee relations, labour unrest or unavailability; the Company's interactions with surrounding
communities; the Company's ability to successfully integrate acquired assets; the speculative nature of exploration and
development, including the risks of diminishing quantities or grades of reserves; stock market volatility; confli cts of
interest among certain directors and officers; lack of liquidity for shareholders of the Company; litigation risk; and the
factors identified under the caption “Risk Factors” in Targa’s management discussion and analysis and other public
disclosure documents. Readers are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements or
forward-looking information. Although Targa has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results
to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be anticipated, estimated or intended. Targa
does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements or forward-looking
information to reflect changes in assumptions or changes in circumstances or any other events affecting such statements
or information, other than as required by applicable law.
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor the Market Regulator (as that term is defined in the policies of the
Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.