Newrange is focused on district-scale exploration for precious metals in the prolific Red Lake District of northwestern Ontario. The past-producing high-grade Argosy Gold Mine is open to depth, while the adjacent North Birch Project offers additional blue-sky potential. Focused on developing shareholder value through exploration and development of key projects, the Company is committed to building sustainable value for all stakeholders. Further information can be found on our website at www.newrangegold.com .
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Creating a new silver-focused development and production company. Newrange recently signed a definitive agreement with Great Panther Mining Limited (NYSE American, GPL) to acquire a 100% interest in the past-producing Coricancha mine in central Peru. Coricancha is a high-grade, narrow-vein, gold-silver-copper-lead-zinc underground mine in the Central Polymetallic Belt of Peru and will take the stage as the company’s flagship project. It is ninety kilometers east of Lima and includes a 600-tonne per day processing plant, dry-stack tailings storage facility and requisite surface and underground infrastructure.
Acquisition terms. Newrange has agreed to make a single cash payment of US$750,000 to Great Panther upon closing. Because the transaction is on a cash basis, it does not require shareholder approval. Newrange is considering a “one new for six old” share consolidation and subsequent name change to be effective upon closing. Closing is subject to certain conditions, including financing by Newrange, and receipt of all necessary third-party approvals, including by the TSX Venture Exchange.
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Mark Reichman, Senior Research Analyst, Natural Resources, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.
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Private placement financing. Aurania Resources announced a non-brokered private placement financing of up to 4,444,444 units at a price of C$0.45 per unit for gross proceeds of up to C$2,000,000. Each unit will consist of one common share and one common share purchase warrant. Each warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one share for C$0.75 per warrant for a period of 24 months. Proceeds will be used to fund drilling and exploration activities and general working capital. Closing is subject to receipt of approvals, including from the TSX Venture Exchange.
Drilling to commence shortly. Detailed interpretation of the “Anaconda Method” mapping program at Aurania’s Tatasham porphyry target in southeastern Ecuador is nearing completion and the first few drill holes are being defined for a drill program expected to begin in the latter half of November or early December 2022, with drilling at the Awacha target to follow.
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Exploration potential may be greater than previously thought. Relogging of drill core, along with the integration of geophysics and geochemistry from the Tiria-Shimpia target, revealed the presence of three structural grabens in the middle of Aurania’s concession block in Ecuador. Grabens are bordered by parallel faults. The identification of grabens is significant given that their faults are often conduits for hydrothermal fluids and have significant potential to host mineralization.
Long and wide. The north graben is 10 kilometers long and 3.5 kilometers wide, while the central graben is 26 kilometers long and 3 kilometers wide. The south graben is 18 kilometers long and 5 kilometers wide.
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Toronto, Ontario, September 26, 2022 – Aurania Resources Ltd. (TSXV: ARU; OTCQB: AUIAF; Frankfurt: 20Q) (“Aurania” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that an intensive “Anaconda method” mapping program (see press release dated August 8, 2022) at the Company’s Tatasham target has discovered highly prospective porphyritic felsic intrusive rock, and at the Awacha target area, mapping has confirmed diorite and other intrusive rocks, with local hydrothermal breccias. The intrusives are crosscut by several generations of quartz veinlets locally containing chalcopyrite and galena (see Figures 1 and 2). These results are considered positive indications of porphyry-style mineralization at both localities.
Tatasham and Awacha are contained in Aurania’s large, 207,764-hectare concession block in southeastern Ecuador, located immediately north of the highly productive mineralized belt containing Solaris Resources’ Warintza and SolGold’s Porvenir porphyry copper deposits, as well as operating mines at Mirador (copper) and Fruta del Norte (gold).
The mapping program at Tatasham has been completed and is currently underway at Awacha. This work is being carried out ahead of a drilling campaign which is anticipated to commence in the last quarter of 2022.
The Tatasham target is a blind geophysical target with no previously recognized alteration or mineralization at surface. The 3-kilometre (km) x 1 km target is both a magnetic and resistivity high, flanked by conductive anomalies, that are speculated to represent a mixed magnetite skarn and porphyry cluster.
The Awacha target area comprises a cluster of geophysical anomalies representing porphyry targets located in an area approximately 9 km x 6 km in size. These targets are covered by post-mineral sedimentary rock. Where streams have cut down through these sediments, they have exposed the classic phyllic alteration envelope (quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration) which typically accompanies copper mineralization. Low levels of copper and molybdenum have been returned in analyses of stream sediments in this area, as well as copper in soils (see press release dated April 19, 2022).
Figure 1: Quartz diorite porphyry from Tatasham
Figure 2: Hydrothermal breccia exposure at Awacha
Amendment to Option Terms
An amendment was made to the vesting period of the stock options granted to SRC Swiss Resource Capital AG (“SRC”), the details of which were announced in a press release dated August 18, 2022. The 35,000 stock options granted to SRC at a price of $0.84 CAD, will vest in quarters with ¼ vesting three months from the date of grant, ¼ vesting six months from the date of grant, ¼ vesting at the one-year anniversary from the date of grant, and ¼ vesting at the two-year anniversary from the date of grant. All other terms remain unchanged.
Qualified Person
The geological information contained in this news release has been verified and approved by Jean-Paul Pallier, MSc. Mr. Pallier is a designated EurGeol by the European Federation of Geologists and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects of the Canadian Securities Administrators.
About Aurania
Aurania is a mineral exploration company engaged in the identification, evaluation, acquisition and exploration of mineral property interests, with a focus on precious metals and copper in South America. Its flagship asset, The Lost Cities – Cutucu Project, is located in the Jurassic Metallogenic Belt in the eastern foothills of the Andes mountain range of southeastern Ecuador.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking information as such term is defined in applicable securities laws, which relate to future events or future performance and reflect management’s current expectations and assumptions. The forward-looking information includes statements about: Investor Relations Activities (as such term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) to be performed by SRC and the anticipated approval of the TSX-V for said activities, Aurania’s objectives, goals or future plans, statements, exploration results, potential mineralization, the corporation’s portfolio, treasury, management team and enhanced capital markets profile, the estimation of mineral resources, exploration, timing of the commencement of operations and estimates of market conditions. Such forward-looking statements reflect management’s current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and information currently available to Aurania, including the assumption that, there will be no material adverse change in metal prices, all necessary consents, licenses, permits and approvals will be obtained, including various local government licenses and the market. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees and are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ materially from those expected. Risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking information include, among other things, a failure to obtain or delays in obtaining the required regulatory licenses, permits, approvals and consents, an inability to access financing as needed, a general economic downturn, a volatile stock price, labour strikes, political unrest, changes in the mining regulatory regime governing Aurania, a failure to comply with environmental regulations and a weakening of market and industry reliance on precious metals and copper. Aurania cautions the reader that the above list of risk factors is not exhaustive.
