Loncor Gold Inc has announced a non-brokered private placement of up to 5,000,000 units of the company at a price of C$0.50 per unit for gross proceeds of up to C$2,500,000.
The company said it intends to use the proceeds from the financing for the continued development of the company's Adumbi and Makapela gold deposits and for general corporate purposes.
Each unit will consist of one common share of the company and one-half of one common share purchase warrant of the company, with each warrant entitling the holder to acquire one common share of the company at an exercise price of C$0.75 for a period of 24 months following the closing date of the financing.
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Closing of the financing is subject to receipt of all necessary approvals, including board and Toronto Stock Exchange approvals.
The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the securities laws of any state of the United States and may not be offered or sold within the United States (as defined in Regulation S under the US Securities Act) unless registered under the US Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or pursuant to an exemption from such registration requirements.
Loncor is a Canadian gold exploration company focused on the Ngayu Greenstone Gold Belt in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Loncor team has over two decades of experience of operating in the DRC.
The company's growing resource base in the Ngayu Belt currently comprises the Imbo and Makapela Projects. At the Imbo Project, the Adumbi deposit holds an indicated mineral resource of 1.88 million ounces of gold - 28.185 million tonnes grading 2.08 grams per ton gold (g/t Au) - and the Adumbi deposit and two neighbouring deposits hold an inferred mineral resource of 2.090 million ounces of gold - 22.508 million tonnes grading 2.89 g/t Au - with 84.68% of these resources being attributable to Loncor.
Following a drilling program carried out by Loncor at the Adumbi deposit in 2020 and 2021, the company completed a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) of the Adumbi deposit and announced the results of the PEA in December 2021. The Makapela Project (which is 100%-owned by Loncor and is located approximately 50 kilometres from the Imbo Project) has an indicated mineral resource of 614,200 ounces of gold (2.20 million tonnes grading 8.66 g/t Au) and an inferred mineral resource of 549,600 ounces of gold - 3.22 million tonnes grading 5.30 g/t Au.
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