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Chakana Copper Announces C$7.0 Million Private Placement, Gold Fields to Follow Its Participation Rights
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 19, 2022) - Chakana Copper Corp. (TSXV: PERU) (OTCQB: CHKKF) (FSE: 1ZX) (the "Company" or "Chakana") is pleas
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[{"type":"text","content":" Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 19, 2022) - Chakana Copper Corp. (TSXV: PERU) (OTCQB: CHKKF) (FSE: 1ZX) (the \"Company\" or \"Chakana\") is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of up to 63,636,363 units of the Company (\"Units\") at a price of C$0.11 per Unit for gross proceeds of up to C$7.0 million (the \"Private Placement\"). Each Unit will consist of one common share in the capital of the Company (each, a \"Share\") and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a \"Warrant\"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one additional Share at a price of $0.20 per Share for a period of two years from closing of the Private Placement. The Company may accelerate the expiry of the Warrants in the event that for any ten consecutive trading days the closing price of the Shares is greater than $0.30. Pursuant to an agreement between the Company and Gold Fields Nazca Holdings Inc. (\"Gold Fields\"), a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Gold Fields Limited (see news release dated April 19, 2019), Gold Fields has informed the Company that it intends to participate in the financing. The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Private Placement for exploration and development of the Company's high-grade copper-gold-silver discovery at the Soledad Project, located in the Ancash region of Peru, and for general working capital and administrative purposes. On January 11, 2022, the Company announced an initial inferred resource hosting 191,000 ounces of gold, 11.7 million ounces of silver, and 130 million pounds of copper in seven tourmaline breccia pipes. Chakana may pay finder's fees on some portion of the gross proceeds of the Private Placement to certain arms-length parties who assist the Company in introducing subscribers to the Private Placement. The Private Placement is subject to all necessary regulatory approvals, including the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange The common shares have not been registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy such securities in any jurisdiction in which such an offer or sale would be ...