Pelangio Exploration Completes First Tranche Of Previously Announced Private Placement For Gross Proceeds Of $734,000 And Further Increases Size Of Private Placement

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TORONTO, Ontario (May 19, 2020) – Pelangio Exploration Inc. (PX:TSX-V; OTC PINK:PGXPF) (“Pelangio” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has closed the first tranche of the non-brokered private placement previously announced on May 7, 2020 and May 11, 2020 (the “Offering”). In this first tranche, the Company raised aggregate gross proceeds of $734,000 (the “First Tranche”) by issuing 5,000,000 hard dollar units (the “HD Units”) at a price of $0.12 per HD Unit and 957,142 common shares of the Company issued on a flow-through basis (the “FT Shares”) at a price of $0.14 per FT Share.

 

Each HD Unit consists of one common share of the Company (a “Common Share”) and one Common Share purchase warrant (“Warrant”). Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Common Share at a price of $0.18 for a period of two years from May 19, 2020 (the “Initial Closing Date”). The FT Shares will qualify as “flow-through shares” (within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada)). 

 

The gross proceeds from the sale of the FT Shares will be used to incur qualifying Canadian Exploration Expenses.  Qualifying expenses are to be incurred by no later than December 31, 2021 for renunciation to investors of FT Shares in the Offering effective December 31, 2020.  The balance of the proceeds of the Offering will be used for general corporate and working capital purposes, and for the development of the Company’s mining projects.

 

In connection with the closing of the First Tranche, the Company paid finder’s fees to Canaccord Genuity Corp., PI Financial Corp., Haywood Securities Inc., and Laurentian Bank Securities Inc., each arm’s length finders, consisting of an aggregate of $28,560 in cash and an aggregate of 238,000 non-transferrable warrants (“Finder Warrants”). Each Finder Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Common Share at a price of $0.18 for a period of one year from the Initial Closing Date.

 

All securities issued in the First Tranche of the Offering, including the Finder Warrants, are subject to a statutory hold period expiring on September 20, 2020. 

 

A second and final closing of the Offering is expected to take place on or around May 29, 2020. Pelangio is pleased to announce that due to additional demand, the Company has further increased the size of the Offering from aggregate gross proceeds of up to $1,350,000 to aggregate gross proceeds of up to $1,450,000. The Offering remains subject to final acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange. 

 

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

 

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdictions in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. Any offering made will be pursuant to available prospectus exemptions and restricted to persons to whom the securities may be sold in accordance with the laws of such jurisdictions, and by persons permitted to sell the securities in accordance with the laws of such jurisdictions. 

 

About Pelangio 

 

Pelangio acquires and explores land packages in world-class gold belts in Canada and Ghana, West Africa. In Canada, the company is focusing on the 6.7 km2  Grenfell property located approximately 10 km from the Macassa Mine in Kirkland Lake,  the Dome West property located 800 metres from the Dome Mine in Timmins, the 25 km2 Birch Lake Property located in the Red Lake Mining District and the Dalton Property located 1.5 km from the Hollinger Mine in Timmins. In Ghana, the Company is focusing on two 100% owned camp-sized properties: the 100 km2 Manfo Property, the site of seven recent near-surface gold discoveries, and the 284 km2 Obuasi Property, located 4 km on strike and adjacent to AngloGold Ashanti’s prolific high-grade Obuasi Mine. Ghana is an English speaking, common law jurisdiction that is consistently ranked amongst the most favourable mining jurisdictions in Africa.

 

For additional information, please visit our website at www.pelangio.com, or contact: 

 

Ingrid Hibbard, President and CEO

Tel: 905-336-3828 / Toll-free: 1-877-746-1632 / Email: info@pelangio.com