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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 29,
2022 /CNW/ - FPX Nickel Corp. (TSXV:
FPX) (OTCQB: FPOCF) ("FPX" or the
"Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a
subscription agreement for a private placement financing (the
"Private Placement") with a new corporate strategic investor
(the "Strategic Investor").
Under the terms of the Private Placement, FPX will issue
24,000,000 common shares ("Common Shares") in the capital of
the Company to the Strategic Investor at a price of $0.50 per Common Share, for gross proceeds of
$12 million. Upon completion of the
Private Placement, the Strategic Investor will own approximately
9.95% of FPX's issued and outstanding Common Shares on a
non-diluted basis.
"This is a transformational investment for FPX, providing
important support for the continued development of our large-scale,
low-cost, and low-carbon Baptiste Nickel Project (the
"Project") in central British
Columbia," commented Martin
Turenne, FPX's President and CEO. "Prior to making the
investment, the Strategic Investor conducted multi-functional
technical reviews and a Project site visit, and we believe the
Private Placement represents a significant endorsement of the
Project and our approach to project development. On closing of the
Private Placement, the Company will have a working capital position
of approximately $18.5 million, which
will permit the Company to fully fund the completion of a
preliminary feasibility study in the second half of 2023 and fund
subsequent project development activities well into 2024."
The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Private
Placement primarily for development activities at the Project,
including the completion of a preliminary feasibility study and
continuance of ongoing environmental baseline activities, as well
as general corporate purposes. The Private Placement is expected to
close on December 1, 2022 and is
subject to certain customary conditions, including acceptance by
the TSX Venture Exchange and applicable securities regulatory
authorities. The Common Shares issued pursuant to the Private
Placement will be subject to a hold period of four (4) months and
one (1) day from the date of issuance in accordance with applicable
securities laws. No finders' fees or commissions are payable on the
Private Placement.
Concurrently with the Private Placement, the Company and the
Strategic Investor have entered into an investor rights agreement
(the "Investor Rights Agreement") that provides, among other
things, the Strategic Investor with certain rights in the event it
maintains minimum ownership thresholds in the Company, including
the right to participate in equity financings. In addition,
pursuant to the Private Placement, the Strategic Investor has
agreed to a two-year standstill with respect to the acquisition of
additional securities in FPX, other than acquisitions pursuant to
the Strategic Investor's rights under the Investor Rights
Agreement.
This news 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 jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or
sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under
the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. This news release
does not constitute an offer of securities for sale in the United States. The securities being
offered have not been, nor will they be, registered under the
United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and such
securities may not be offered or sold within the United States absent registration under
United States federal and state
securities laws or an applicable exemption from such United States registration requirements.
About the Decar Nickel
District
The Company's Decar Nickel District claims cover 245
km2 of the Mount Sidney Williams
ultramafic/ophiolite complex, 90 km northwest of Fort St. James in central British Columbia. The district is a two-hour
drive from Fort St. James on a
high-speed logging road.
Decar hosts a greenfield discovery of nickel mineralization in
the form of a naturally occurring nickel-iron alloy called awaruite
(Ni3Fe), which is amenable to bulk-tonnage, open-pit
mining. Awaruite mineralization has been identified in four target
areas within this ophiolite complex, including the Baptiste
resource, and the B, Sid and Van targets. All four target areas
have been confirmed by drilling, petrographic examination, electron
probe analyses and outcrop sampling. Since 2010, approximately
US$32 million has been spent on the
exploration and development of Decar.
Of the four targets in the Decar Nickel District, the Baptiste
deposit, which is the most accessible and has the biggest surface
footprint, has been the focus of diamond drilling since 2010 with a
total of 99 holes and 33,695 m of
drilling completed. The Sid target was tested with two holes in
2010 and the B target had a single hole drilled in 2011; all three
holes intersected nickel-iron alloy mineralization over wide
intervals with DTR nickel grades comparable to the Baptiste
deposit. At the Van target, the Company followed up 2021's highly
successful maiden drilling program with an aggressive step-out
program in the summer of 2022, with results forecast for sequential
release in the fourth quarter of 2022 and first quarter of
2023.
About FPX Nickel Corp.
FPX Nickel Corp. is focused on the exploration and development
of the Decar Nickel District, located in central British Columbia, and other occurrences of the
same unique style of naturally occurring nickel-iron alloy
mineralization known as awaruite.
On behalf of FPX Nickel Corp.
"Martin Turenne"
Martin Turenne, President, CEO and
Director
Forward-Looking
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statements of historical fact included herein including, without
limitation, statements regarding potential quantity
and/or grade of minerals, potential size and expansion of a
mineralized zone, proposed timing of exploration and development
plans (including, the completion of a preliminary feasibility study
in the second half of 2023), proposed timing for completion of the
Private Placement (if it is to close at all), any anticipated
benefits to be derived from the Private Placement, the Company's
working capital position on completion of the Private Placement,
and the use of proceeds of the Private Placement are by their
nature forward-looking statements that involve known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual
results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to
be materially different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Such factors include, among others, the following
risks: operational risks associated with mineral exploration;
fluctuations in commodity prices; title matters; the fact that the
Private Placement may not close as scheduled or at all; and the
additional risks identified in the annual information form of the
Company or other reports and filings with the TSX Venture Exchange
and applicable Canadian securities regulators. Forward-looking
statements are made based on management's beliefs, estimates and
opinions on the date that statements are made and the Company
undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if
these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances
should change, except as required by applicable securities laws.
Investors are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to
forward-looking statements.
SOURCE FPX Nickel Corp.