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Benz Announces Closing Final Tranche of A$13.5M Financing
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 24, 2025) - Benz Mining Corp. (TSXV: BZ) (ASX...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Benz Announces Closing Final Tranche of A$13.5M FinancingVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - July 24, 2025) - Benz Mining Corp. (TSXV: BZ) (ASX: BNZ) (Benz or the Company) is pleased to advise that, further to its announcements dated April 15, 2025 and April 27, 2025, in relation to the private placement for 33,750,750 new fully paid CHESS Depositary Interests (CDIs) in the Company at an issue price of A$0.40 (C$0.35452) per CDI to raise A$13,500,300 (C$11,965,315.89) (before costs) (Placement), it has successfully completed Tranche 2 of the Placement (Tranche 2 Placement), being the final tranche of the Placement. As previously announced, Tranche 1 of the Placement consisted of 28,722,000 CDIs at a price of A$0.40 per CDI to raise A$11,488,800 (C$10,182,523.44) (before costs) and was completed on April 27, 2025 (Tranche 1 Placement). Each CDI represents one underlying common share in the Company on a one for one basis. All of the securities issued in connection with the Placement are subject to a statutory hold period in Canada of four months and one day from the date of their issuance.Under the Tranche 2 Placement, which received shareholder approval at the special meeting of the Company's shareholders held on June 27, 2025 (AWST), Spartan Resources Limited (Spartan) subscribed for 5,028,750 CDIs at a price of A$0.40 per CDI to raise A$2,011,500 (C$1,782,792.45) (before costs). Accordingly, Spartan has maintained its~14.91% shareholding in the Company. The participation by Spartan in the Placement is a \"related party transaction\" as defined under Multilateral Instrument 61-101- Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (\"MI 61-101\"). The Placement is exempt from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 as neither the fair market value of any CDIs issued to or the consideration paid by Spartan exceeds 25% of the Company's market capitalization.As previously announced, net proceeds from the Placement will be primarily used to accelerate exploration activities at Benz's 100% owned Glenburgh Gold Project, including follow-up RC and diamond drilling programs to test high-grade extensions at Zone 126 and other high priority targets, geological modelling, and associated fieldwork, as well as for the commencement of exploration activities at the Egerton Gold ...