GTA Announces Results of Shareholder Meeting
BURLINGTON, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct 17, 2014) - GTA Resources and Mining Inc. ("GTA") (TSX VENTURE:GTA) reports that pursuant to the Annual and Special Shareholder Meeting held October 16, 2014, shareholders have voted in favour of all management resolutions proposed in the Management Information Circular including the re-approval of GTA's Stock Option Plan, the election of directors, and the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as GTA's auditors. The members re-elected to the Board of Directors include: Wayne Reid, CEO, Robert Duess, VP Exploration, Brian Crawford, CFO, James Macintosh, Stephen Stares, Birks Bovaird and Clinton Barr. Mr. Bovaird will continue as Chair of the Board.
About GTA
GTA is a well funded publicly traded mineral exploration company. It is led by an experienced and successful management team and is focused on exploring for gold and graphite in Canada. GTA currently has three exploration focused projects in its portfolio. Its flagship project is the Northshore Property, located near Schreiber, Ontario, in which it has earned a 51% interest. Secondly the 100% owned Auden Property, is located near Hearst, Ontario and consists of 1748 claim units covering virtually an entire greenstone belt and hosting a number of graphite, gold, base metal and PGE targets. The third project is the Ivanhoe Property located near the town of Foleyet in northern Ontario. The 100 sq. km. (616 claim units) property is located between Probe Mines Ltd.'s new gold discovery at Borden Lake and the prolific Timmins Gold Camp.
GTA has 30,906,855 shares outstanding of which insiders control approximately 22% of the outstanding shares. The Company's shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "GTA."
On behalf of the board of directors
GTA Resources and Mining Inc.
Wayne Reid, President and CEO
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This press release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, "forward looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, including statements regarding the anticipated content, commencement, duration and cost of exploration programs, anticipated exploration program results, the discovery and delineation of mineral deposits/resources/reserves, the timing of the receipt of assay results, and business and financing plans and trends, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as: believe, expect, anticipate, intend, estimate, postulate and similar expressions or are those which, by their nature, refer to future events. Although the Company believes that such statements are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. The Company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements by the Company are not guarantees of future performance, and that actual results may differ materially from those in forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from the Company's expectations include those related to weather, equipment and staff availability; performance of third parties; risks related to the exploration stage of the Company's projects; market fluctuations in prices for securities of exploration stage companies and in commodity prices; and uncertainties about the availability of additional financing; risks related to the Company's ability to identify one or more economic deposits on the properties, and variations in the nature, quality and quantity of any mineral deposits that may be located on the properties; risks related to the Company's ability to obtain any necessary permits, consents or authorizations required for its activities on the properties; and risks related to the Company's ability to produce minerals from the properties successfully or profitably. Trading in the securities of the Company should be considered highly speculative. All of the Company's public disclosure filings may be accessed via www.sedar.com and readers are urged to review these materials, including the latest technical reports filed with respect to the Company's mineral properties.
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