Samaranta Options Siguiri Property to Private Ontario Corporation
May 22 2012 - 12:34PM
Marketwired Canada
Samaranta Mining Corporation (TSX VENTURE:SAX) ("the Company" or "Samaranta ")
announces that further to the Company's press release of September 21, 2011
wherein the Company announced it had effectively acquired an 80% interest in the
Siguiri property in Guinea West Africa (the "Property"), the Company has entered
into an agreement with Siguiri Mining Guinea Ltd. ("SMG") wherein SMG may
acquire Samaranta's effective 80% interest in the Property. Samaranta holds its
effective 80% interest in the Property by virtue of its 100% ownership of
Guinean Global Resources SA ("GGR"), a Guinean corporation that owns an 80%
interest in Group Guinea Investment SA ("GGI"), a second Guinea company which in
turn owns the Property. SMG is a wholly owned subsidiary of Siguiri Gold Mining
Corp. ("SGMC"), a private Ontario corporation.
GGR has 2,000 authorized and issued shares and its sole asset is its 80%
shareholding interest in GGI, and therefore an 80% interest in the Property. As
such, each GGR share represents a 0.04% interest in GGI and therefore the
Property. As set forth below, SMG will acquire ownership of GGR upon making
US$125,000 in cash payments, delivering 1,500,000 SGMC shares(2) issued in the
name of Samaranta, and completing US$2,500,000 in exploration. SMG's acquisition
of the GGR shares is staged in four tranches. To crystallize SMG's earned
interest in GGR, Samaranta shall transfer to SMG the required number of GGR
shares upon completion of each vesting milestone, as follows:
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Cumula-
SMG tive
SMG SGMC US$ GGR GGR
US$ Share Work Shares Shares Cumulative
Payment Issuance Completed Issued Issued ownership
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On signing 125,000(1) 100,000 70 SMG will own
3.5% of GGR
representing
a 2.8%
interest in
GGI/the
Property
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1st 200,000 500,000 280 350 SMG will own
Anniversary 17.5% of GGR
representing
a 14%
interest in
GGI/the
Property
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2nd 200,000 1,000,000 630 980 SMG will own
Anniversary 49% of GGR
representing
a 39.2%
interest in
GGI/the
Property
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3rd 1,000,000(2) 1,000,000(3) 1,020 2,000 SMG will own
Anniversary 100% of GGR
representing
an 80%
interest in
GGI/the
Property
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125,000 1,500,000 2,500,000 2,000
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1. The payment due on signing is US$125,000 plus costs associated with the
acquisition of the Property, such acquisition costs not to exceed
US$75,000
2. At SMG's sole option this payment may be either US$1,000,000 or
1,000,000 SGMC shares
3. SMG is also required to complete a technical report that complies with
NI 43-101
In addition, prior to or concurrent with the final payment, Samaranta will be
granted a 2% NSR on the Property, one-half of which (1% NSR) may be purchased at
any time by SMG for US$1,000,000.
In the event that SMG fails to make cash payments, deliver SGMC Shares to be
issued to Samaranta, incur expenditures or otherwise comply with any
requirements (the "SMG option requirements") within the defined time periods,
SMG will have 30 days following receipt of notice of default to cure such
default, failing which the Option, to the extent of any then-unexercised tranche
of the Option, shall automatically terminate. SMG may terminate the agreement by
providing written notice of termination. SMG shall be entitled to keep all GGR
shares which it has paid for up to the effective date of termination.
"This transaction allows Samaranta to build its asset base while continuing to
focus on its core Colombian properties," stated Volkmar Hable, President and CEO
of Samaranta.
The Siguiri Property
The Property lies immediately south of Block 4 and just to the east of Block 3,
both of which represent two of four concessions that comprised AngloGold
Ashanti's Siguiri Mine (the "AGA's Guinea Mine"). AGA's Guinea Mine is located
in north-east Guinea approximately 850 km from the capital city of Conakry.
Mineralization occurs in Paleoproterozoic Birimian rocks consisting of turbidite
and lesser volcanicalstic sequences and is structurally controlled and occurs as
sheeted veins or within shear zones. Weathering occurs to depths of 100 metres
with two types of oxide mineralization are present: elluvioal or alluvial-hosted
laterite mineralization and primary quartz vein related or shear hosted
mineralization.
Technical information in this news release has been reviewed by Derrick
Strickland, P.Geo., a qualified person as defined in NI 43-101.
SAMARANTA MINING CORPORATION
Volkmar Hable, President
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