Vendetta Mining Corp. Closes Final Tranche of Its Non-Brokered Private Placement and Resignation and Appointment of CFO
Vancouver, July 2, 2020 - Vendetta Mining Corp. (TSXV: VTT) ("Vendetta" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has closed the final tranche of its previously announced Private Placement with a total of 6,326,138 units being issued at a price of $0.04 per Unit for gross proceeds of $253,045.52. Each Unit comprises of one common share and one common share purchase warrant exercisable for three years at a price of $0.06. Together with the proceeds from the first tranche, the Company issued 20,288,188 units for a total of $811,527.52. All securities issued and issuable under the Private Placement are subject to a four-month hold period from the date of closing of the Private Placement, in addition to any other restrictions under applicable law. Net proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the development of the Companies 100% owned Pegmont Lead-Zinc project and general working capital.
Total commissions of $5,040 were paid in association with the proceeds of the final tranche of the private placement.
Resignation and Appointment of CFO
The Company also announces Jasmine Lau has resigned her position as Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"), Ms. Lau is an associate of Red Fern Consulting Ltd. ("Red Fern"), which provides the Company with accounting services. The Company has appointed Mr. Alastair Brownlow, a senior consultant with Red Fern, to the position of CFO, effective June 23, 2020.
Mr. Brownlow is a Chartered Professional Accountant and a U.S. Certified Public Accountant (Washington) specializing in resource-focused accounting and finance. Mr. Brownlow has accumulated extensive experience working as CFO for TSX:V listed exploration, development and production companies. Mr. Brownlow previously occupied the position of Audit Associate at Davidson & Co. LLP and Assistant Manager at Baker Tilly (BVI) Ltd. Mr. Brownlow has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with first class honours from Simon Fraser University.
Michael Williams, CEO commented: "We would like to thank Ms. Lau for her contribution to the Company over the last two and a half years and wish her well with her future endeavours. I would like to welcome Mr. Brownlow to the Company and thank he and Ms. Lau for ensuring a smooth transition."
About Vendetta Mining Corp.
Vendetta Mining Corp. is a Canadian junior exploration company engaged in acquiring, exploring, and developing mineral properties with an emphasis on lead and zinc. It is currently focused on advancing the Pegmont Lead Zinc project in Australia. Additional information on the Company can be found at www.vendettaminingcorp.com.
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Certain of the statements and information in this news release constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian provincial securities laws. Any statements or information that express or involve discussions with respect to interpretation of exploration programs and drill results, predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance (often, but not always, using words or phrases such as "expects", "is expected", "anticipates", "believes", "plans", "projects", "estimates", "assumes", "intends", "strategies", "targets", "goals", "forecasts", "objectives", "budgets", "schedules", "potential" or variations thereof or stating that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved, or the negative of any of these terms and similar expressions) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements or information.
These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward‐looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward‐looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward‐looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward‐looking statements include, but are not limited to, changes in commodities prices; changes in expected mineral production performance; unexpected increases in capital costs; exploitation and exploration results; continued availability of capital and financing; differing results and recommendations in the Feasibility Study; and general economic, market or business conditions. In addition, forward‐looking statements are subject to various risks, including but not limited to operational risk; political risk; currency risk; capital cost inflation risk; that data is incomplete or inaccurate. The reader is referred to the Company's filings with the Canadian securities regulators for disclosure regarding these and other risk factors, accessible through Vendetta Mining Corp.'s profile at www.sedar.com.
There is no certainty that any forward‐looking statement will come to pass and investors should not place undue reliance upon forward‐looking statements. The Company does not undertake to provide updates to any of the forward‐looking statements in this release, except as required by law.
