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Fireweed Metals Closes Previously Announced Offering for Total Proceeds of $43 Million
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FIREWEED METALS CORP. (“Fireweed” or the “Company”) (TSXV: FWZ; OTCQX: FWEDF) is pleased to annou
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FIREWEED METALS CORP. (“Fireweed” or the “Company”) (TSXV: FWZ; OTCQX: FWEDF) is pleased to announce the closing of the non-brokered private placement (the “Offering”) first announced June 6, 2024. Highlights $43 million total raised, a significant increase over the initial $30 million offering. The Lundin Family Trusts, through their company Nemesia S.à.r.l., subscribed for a total of 5,000,000 shares and Larry Childress for a total 3,363,636 shares. The Offering The Offering consisted of three parts for gross proceeds of approximately C$43 million as follows: 12,985,586 common shares of the Company (“Shares”) issued at a price of C$1.10 per share; 909,090 common shares of the Company that qualify as “flow-through shares” within the meaning of subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (“FT Shares”) issued at a price of C$1.55 per share; and 15,828,359 common shares of the Company that qualify as “flow-through shares” within the meaning of subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) sold to charitable purchasers (“CFT Shares” and collectively with the Shares and the FT Shares, the “Offered Shares”) issued at a price of C$1.73 per share. The FT Shares and CFT Shares are being issued by the Company at a premium to the trading price of the Shares, as is customary for such issuances, because subscribers of those shares receive a flow-through of the Company’s eligible exploration expenses which are then used by such subscribers as a personal tax attribute. CFT Shares are generally issued at a higher premium relative to FT Shares given subscribers benefit from an additional tax incentive. The proceeds from the Offering will be used for exploration and development of the Company’s projects in northern Canada, and, to the extent permissible, for general working capital purposes. The gross proceeds from the issuance of FT Shares and CFT Shares will be used on the Company’s projects to incur Canadian Exploration Expenses, with the largest portion qualifying as “flow-through critical mineral mining expenditures” under the Income Tax Act (Canada). These expenses will be renounced by the Company to the purchasers of FT Shares and CFT Shares with an effective date no later than December 31, 2024, in an aggregate amount no less than the proceeds raised from the issue o...