Wallbridge Closes on Duluth Metals Share Sale Transaction with Antofagasta and Pays Down its Outstanding Debt to Auramet
TORONTO, Nov. 12, 2014 /CNW/ - Wallbridge Mining Company Ltd. (TSX: WM, FWB: WC7) ("Wallbridge") is pleased to announce that it has closed on its previously disclosed share purchase transaction with Antofagasta Investment Company Limited ("Antofagasta"), whereby Antofagasta purchased 5,075,061 common shares in the capital of Duluth Metals Ltd. ("Duluth Metals") from Wallbridge at $0.45 (Canadian) per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $2,283,777.45. For more information regarding this transaction or Antofagasta's proposed acquisition of Duluth Metals, please refer to Wallbridge's and Duluth Metals' respective press releases dated November 3, 2014.
Concurrent with the closing of the share purchase transaction with Antofagasta, Wallbridge also prepaid US$750,000 of its outstanding US$1.5 million bridge loan owing to Auramet International LLC ("Auramet"). No penalty was payable by Wallbridge to exercise its prepayment rights in respect of the Auramet loan.
About Wallbridge Mining
Wallbridge Mining Company Ltd. (WM:TSX) is currently operating its first polymetallic mine, producing copper, platinum, palladium, and gold from the Broken Hammer open pit mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada's premier mining district.
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