PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – October 7, 2024 – Adyton Resources Corporation (TSX Venture: ADY) (“Adyton” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement offering, pursuant to which it has issued 53,000,000 common shares of the Company (“Shares”) at a price of C$0.13 per Share for aggregate gross proceeds of C$6,890,000 or approximately US$5,000,000 (the “Financing”).
As previously announced, the Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Financing for exploration activities primarily focused on Feni Island, working capital and general corporate purposes.
Tim Crossley, Chief Executive Officer of Adyton, commented “This was a pivotal financing for Adyton, Being able to complete the financing at a 15.6% premium to the 20 day VWAP demonstrated huge confidence by the incoming strategic investor in Adyton’s team and projects. The company is now well funded to execute its exploration program at Feni Island, as well as under its JV funding arrangements with EVIH to continue to progress development activities at both the Gameta and Wapolu Fergusson Island projects including discussing options with the Mineral Resources Authority for a fast-track approval regime for the restart of operations at Wapolu. We are now very well funded to advance in parallel both our key projects at Feni Island and Fergusson Island.”
Feni Island, Adyton’s flagship project, is located in one of the world’s greatest gold discovery zones which hosts the famous Lihir, Panguna and Simberi mines. Adyton’s Gameta project on Fergusson Island is an advanced, expandable, shallow, easily accessible gold exploration asset ready to be taken into development and its Wapolu project on Fergusson Island a restart of an operating mine which closed down in the mid-90s. Both projects are in the same Milne Bay Island discovery area as the Woodlark project and the well-known very successful but now closed Misima mine (reserves depleted after 15 years of successful operations).
The Shares issued under the Financing were offered pursuant to available prospectus exemptions under applicable securities laws and are subject to a restricted resale period pursuant to applicable Canadian securities laws ending on February 4, 2025. In addition, the Shares issued under the Financing are subject to contractual resale restrictions imposed by the Company whereby 25% portions of the Shares purchased by the purchasers under the Financing may only be sold, transferred or otherwise traded after each of the dates which are 6, 9, 12 and 15 months from closing.
Adyton has agreed to provide one of the investors under the Financing the right to appoint a qualified nominee to the Company’s Board of Directors.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF ADYTON RESOURCES CORPORATION
Tim Crossley, Chief Executive Officer
For further information please contact:
Tim Crossley, Chief Executive Officer
E-mail: tcrossley@adtyonresources.com
Phone: +61 7 3854 2389
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ABOUT ADYTON RESOURCES CORPORATION
Adyton Resources Corporation is focused on the development of gold and copper resources in world class mineral jurisdictions. It currently has a portfolio of highly prospective mineral exploration projects in Papua New Guinea on which it is exploring to expand its identified gold inferred and indicated mineral resources and expand on its recent significant copper drill intercepts on the 100% owned Feni Island project. The Company’s mineral exploration projects are located on easy to access island locations on the Pacific Ring of Fire which hosts several globally significant copper and gold deposits including the Lihir gold mine and Panguna copper/gold mine on Bougainville Island, both neighboring projects to the Company’s Feni Island project.
Adyton has a total mineral resource estimate inventory within its PNG portfolio of projects comprising indicated resources of 173,000 ounces gold and inferred resources of 2,000,000 ounces gold.
The Feni Island Project currently has a mineral resource dated October 14, 2021 prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101101 ‐ Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”), which has outlined an initial inferred mineral resource of 60.4 million tonnes at an average grade of 0.75 g/t Au, for contained gold of 1,460,000 ounces, assuming a cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t Au. See the NI 43-101 technical report entitled “NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Feni Gold-Copper Property, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea prepared for Adyton by Mark Berry (MAIG), Simon Tear (MIGI PGeo), Matthew White (MAIG) and Andy Thomas (MAIG), each an independent mining consultant and “qualified person” as defined in NI 43-101,available under Adyton’s profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and have not demonstrated economic viability.
The Fergusson Island Project currently has a mineral resource dated October 14, 2021 prepared in accordance with NI 43-101, which has outlined an indicated mineral resource of 4.0 million tonnes at an average grade of 1.33 g/t Au for contained gold of 173,000 ounces and an inferred mineral resource of 16.3 million tonnes at an average grade of 1.02 g/t Au for contained gold of 540,000 ounces. See the NI 43-101 technical report entitled “NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Fergusson Gold Property, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea” prepared for Adyton by Mark Berry (MAIG), Simon Tear (MIGI PGeo), Matthew White (MAIG) and Andy Thomas (MAIG), each an independent mining consultant and “qualified person” as defined in NI 43-101,available under the Company’s profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and have not demonstrated economic viability.
Adyton is also quoted on the OTC under the code ADYRF and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the code 701:GR.
Figure 1: Feni Island in relation to known mineralized gold-copper deposits: Simberi, Lihir, and Panguna(1). (CNW Group/Adyton Resources Corporation)
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information contained in this press release has been prepared, reviewed, and approved by Dr Chris Wilson BSc (Hons), PhD, FAusIMM (CP), FSEG, FGS, the Chief Geologist and a Director of Adyton, who is a “Qualified Person” as defined by National Instrument 43‐101 ‐ Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
Forward looking statements
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