VANCOUVER, Aug. 19, 2019 /CNW/ - Rover Metals Corp.
(TSXV: ROVR) (OTCQB: ROVMF) ("Rover Metals" or the
"Company") is pleased to announce that further to its
April 10, 2019 and June 26, 2019 news releases, it continues to make
progress on its acquisition of the Toquima precious metals property
(the "Transaction"). Rover Metals has now filed and received
approval for the Transaction from the TSX Venture Exchange (the
"TSXV"), subject to raising the minimum financing
requirement (see below) and completion of a definitive
acquisition agreement.
Judson Culter, CEO at Rover Metals, states: "The Toquima
Property brings Rover Metals a lower cost per meter precious metals
exploration project in the mining friendly jurisdiction of central
Nevada. The Toquima Property is
available for year-round exploration. A 3D video rendering of
the historical silver-gold resource (discussed below) can be
viewed at the following link."
Trading in the Company's common shares remains halted on the
TSXV. The halt is expected to continue pending the completion of
the private placement for minimum proceeds of at least $800,000.
This is an updating press release. The Company plans to issue a
further press release once it has completed the pending conditions
and provide the information prescribed by applicable policies of
the TSXV related to the Transaction.
Private Placement
Further to its April 10, 2019 and
June 26, 2019 news releases, the
Company continues to seek to raise an aggregate of up to
$1.25 million through the issuance of
up to 20,833,333 units of the Company (each a "Unit") at a
price of $0.06 per Unit. Each
Unit will be comprised of one common share in the capital of the
Company (a "Common Share") and one Common Share purchase
warrant (a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the
holder to acquire one additional Common Share at an exercise price
of $0.12 for a period of five (5)
years from the date of issuance. The Company has made progress on
the private placement financing and hopes to do an initial closing
of the financing in the coming weeks.
The Private Placement remains priced below the closing price of
the Company's shares on the date that the Transaction was announced
(April 10, 2019). Since announcing
the private placement on April 10,
2019, the price of gold has appreciated significantly to
over USD1,500 per ounce. The Company
would like to point out to the reader that several creditable
publications have released gold reserve estimates for the producing
miners and the trends continue to show precious metal reserves are
reaching a ten year low. The Company encourages the reader to
research such publications and consider the value proposition of
the five year warrant being offering in connection with the
Company's current financing.
The Company currently anticipates that the net proceeds of a
fully subscribed Private Placement will be allocated as follows:
65% for Toquima Project, 15% for Cabin Lake, and 20% for general
and administrative expenses. Rover Metals anticipates closing the
Private Placement in multiple closings and as funds are received.
The Company intends to finance further exploration at Cabin Lake
with a future flow-through share offering later this year.
About the Toquima Property, Nevada,
USA
The Toquima Property is a gold and silver project located
northeast of Tonopah, in central
Nevada, USA. The Property
comprises 253 contiguous, unpatented mineral claims with an area of
approximately 1,958.6 hectares (ha) (4,840 acres). Eight (8) Core
claims are under option from Shasta Gold Corp.,19 CX claims are
under option from MinQuest Inc., and 226 AR claims were staked in
2016 by Centennial. All claims are in good standing until
August 31, 2019.
The Property has been explored since 1970. Between 1970 and
2011, a total of 123 holes, both core and reverse-circulation, with
an aggregate length of 17,895 m
(58,712 ft) were drilled on the Property. Of this total,
approximately 11,500 meters in 78 holes have been drilled within
the Silver Reef Zone, the most significant of the known mineral
occurrences on the Property. Two historical resource estimates in
the context of National Instrument 43-101 exist for the Property.
The first was done in 1984 by Copper Range Exploration and
estimated 4 million short tons at grades of 2.91 opt Ag and 0.014
opt Au, (3.6 million metric tonnes grading 100 g/t Ag and 0.48 g/t
Au). This historical resource estimate was done by hand and none of
the key assumptions, parameters, and methods used to prepare this
historical resource estimate are available. The second historical
resource estimate was done in 1988 by Echo Bay Explorations Inc.
which reported "probable" and "possible" resources of 1,251,808
short tons at an uncut grade of 7.22 ounces per ton (opt) Ag and
0.026 opt Au, (1,135,621 metric tonnes grading 247.54 grams per
tonne (g/t) Ag and 0.891 g/t Au). A qualified person has not done
sufficient work to classify this historical estimate as a current
mineral resource, and Rover is not treating them as a current
mineral resource.
The Toquima Property is located on the eastern edge of the
Toquima Range, a NNE-trending range typical of the Basin-and-Range
Province. Most of the Toquima Range is underlain by volcanic rocks
of Upper Oligocene to Lower Miocene age, comprising ash-flow tuffs
ranging in composition from dacite to high-silica rhyolite.
Structure in the Toquima Range is dominated by the generally
NE-trending range-front faults on the east and west edges of the
range, smaller NE-trending faults, older NW-striking
pre-Basin-Range faults, and the circular faults and caldera margins
of the Toquima Caldera Complex.
The Toquima Range and the San Antonio Range to the south contain
the Northumberland -Tonopah
gold-silver belt that hosts at least ten gold-silver mines and
properties in addition to the Toquima Property, including
Round Mountain (Kinross), Gold Hill, Northumberland,
Manhattan, Belmont, and Tonopah. The Property exhibits similarities
with most of the other Au-Ag properties in the belt:
low-sulfidation epithermal mineralization in caldera margin and/or
range front fault zones in veins, stockworks, and breccias hosted
in hydrothermally-altered felsic volcanic rocks. Mineralization in
the Silver Reef Zone is hosted in the Late Oligocene-age Corcoran
Canyon Tuff dated at 27.7 Ma and the Trail Canyon Tuff dated at
23.6 Ma. Three types of felsic intrusions are present on the
Property, one or more of which may be related to
mineralization.
Exploration on the Property over the last 46 years has outlined
the Silver Reef Zone and discovered other mineralized zones. The
Silver Reef Ag-Au deposit, a potentially economic zone of pervasive
quartz-adularia-sulfide veining, stockwork, and disseminated
mineralization accompanied by intense quartz-sericite-pyrite
alteration, occurs in a NE-trending, northwest-dipping, zone
500 m wide and 600 m long and has been defined by surface
mapping and sampling as well as drilling.
Elsewhere on the Property, exploration identified four
additional mineralized zones: Zone M/N is located west of the
Silver Reef zone and consists of pervasive quartz-sericite
alteration and quartz-adularia veining in a NE trending zone about
800 meters long. Zone R/S is a large area of strong quartz-sericite
alteration on the western end of the Property, with anomalous rock
and soil assay values. Zone L comprises an ENE-trending Au-Sb-As
soil-rock anomaly 100 m long, over a
silicified breccia zone. In Zone F, Echo
Bay reported rock assays up to 30 g/t Ag, NW of Silver Reef.
Although Echo Bay's subsequent
soil samples did not generate an anomaly, Bullion River reported
one Au-anomalous rock sample in a rhyolite intrusion.
Technical information in this news release has been approved by
Raul Sanabria, M.Sc., P.Geo., VP of
Exploration at Rover Metals Corp. and a Qualified Person for the
purposes of National Instrument 43-101.
About Rover Metals
Rover Metals is a natural resource exploration company
specialized in North American precious metal resources, that is
currently advancing the gold potential of its existing
projects.
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ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
"Judson
Culter"
Chief Executive Officer and Director
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forward-looking statements in the event that management's beliefs,
estimates or opinions, or other factors, should change.
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