Mayfair Gold Announces that Certain Employees have Withdrawn Notices of Termination under Change of Control and Continue Employment with the Company
June 05 2024 - 10:46AM
Mayfair Gold Corp. (“
Mayfair” or the
“
Company”) (
TSX-V:
MFG; OTCQB:
MFGCF) announces that it has received notices (the
“
Rescission Notices”) from all Terminating
Employees (as defined below) except Patrick Evans, that they have
rescinded their Terminating Notices (as defined below), will
continue their employment relationship with the Company and direct
that their respective portions of the Change of Control Payment (as
defined below), totaling approximately $2.47 million, be returned
to the Company from trust.
Terminating Employees and Change of
Control Payments
As previously disclosed by the Company, on May
1, 2024, Patrick Evans (CEO), Justin Byrd (CFO), Howard Bird (VP
Exploration) and certain other employees (the “Terminating
Employees”) delivered notices (the “Terminating
Notices”) to the board of directors of the Company (the
“Board”) terminating their respective employment
agreements pursuant to change of control provisions in their
respective employment agreements. On May 6, 2024, the Company,
having received independent legal advice, entered into a settlement
agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) with the
Terminating Employees, whereby the Terminating Employees agreed to
hold in abeyance their Terminating Notices and continue their
employment with the Company up to the Company’s annual and special
general meeting of shareholders (the “Meeting”) to
be held on June 5, 2024. Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, the
Company delivered approximately $4.0 million (the “Change
of Control Payment”) into trust until completion of the
Meeting.
The Company announces that in advance of the
Meeting, it has received the Rescission Notices from all
Terminating Employees except Patrick Evans, that they have
rescinded their Terminating Notices, will continue their employment
relationship with the Company and direct that their respective
portions of the Change of Control Payment, totaling approximately
$2.47 million, be returned to the Company. Patrick Evans’s portion
of the Change of Control Payment, as detailed in the Settlement
Agreement, remains in trust pursuant to the terms of the Settlement
Agreement.
For more information regarding the Terminating
Employees and the Settlement Agreement, please see the Company’s
management information circular dated May 6, 2024 (the
“Circular”) and the Company’s news releases dated
June 4, 2024, May 29, 2024, and May 9, 2024.
Proxy Contest
Shareholders who have any questions relating to the Meeting to
be held at 2 p.m. PST on June 5, 2024 may contact Alliance
Advisors, LLC by telephone at 844-858-7380 or email at
Mayfair@allianceadvisors.com.
Additional details relating to the matters to be
voted upon at the Meeting and the Board’s recommendations are
included in the Circular, which is available on www.sedarplus.ca,
as well as the Investor Resources section of the Company’s website
at https://mayfairgold.ca/investor-resources/.
Scientific and Technical
Information
Scientific and technical information contained
in this news release has been derived, in part, from the Company’s
technical report titled “National Instrument 43 101 Technical
Report Fenn–Gib Project, Ontario, Canada” with an effective date of
April 6, 2023 and reviewed and approved by Tim Maunula, an
independent “qualified person” pursuant to National Instrument
43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
About Mayfair
Mayfair Gold is a Canadian mineral exploration
company focused on advancing the 100% controlled Fenn-Gib gold
project in the Timmins region of Northern Ontario. The Fenn-Gib
gold deposit is Mayfair’s flagship asset and currently hosts an
updated NI 43-101 resource estimate with an effective date of April
6, 2023 with a total Indicated Resource of 113.69M tonnes
containing 3.38M ounces at a grade of 0.93 g/t Au and an Inferred
Resource of 5.72M tonnes containing 0.16M ounces at a grade of 0.85
g/t Au at a 0.40 g/t Au cut-off grade. The Fenn-Gib deposit has a
strike length of over 1.5km with widths ranging over 500m. The gold
mineralized zones remain open at depth and along strike to the east
and west. Recently completed metallurgical tests confirm that the
Fenn-Gib deposit can deliver robust gold recoveries of up to
94%.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
For further information contact:Patrick Evans,
President and CEOPhone: (416) 670-5114Email:
patrick@mayfairgold.caWeb: www.mayfairgold.ca
Media contact:John Vincic, Oakstrom
AdvisorsPhone: (647) 402-6375Email: john@oakstrom.com
For information on voting:Alliance Advisors,
LLC Phone: 1-844-858-7380Email: Mayfair@allianceadvisors.com
Forward Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking
statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of
Canadian securities legislation (collectively,
“forward-looking statements”) that relate to
Mayfair’s current expectations and views of future events including
the return of any portion of the Change of Control Payment to the
Company; and that any of the Terminating Employees will continue
their employment relationship with the Company. Forward-looking
statements and may involve estimates, assumptions and uncertainties
which could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially
from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. No
assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be
correct and such forward-looking statements included in this news
release should not be unduly relied upon. These statements speak
only as of the date of this news release.
Forward-looking statements are based on a number
of assumptions and are subject to a number of risks and
uncertainties, many of which are beyond Mayfair’s control, which
could cause actual results and events to differ materially from
those that are disclosed in or implied by such forward- looking
statements. Mayfair undertakes no obligation to update or revise
any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required
by law. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not
possible for Mayfair to predict all of them, or assess the impact
of each such factor or the extent to which any factor, or
combination of factors, may cause results to differ materially from
those contained in any forward-looking statement. Any
forward-looking statements contained in this news release are
expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary
statement.
Neither the 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 news release.
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