ATAC Resources Ltd. Announces closing of Upsized Private Placement
VANCOUVER, April 1, 2022 - ATAC Resources Ltd. (TSXV: ATC) ("ATAC" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has closed the private placement originally announced on March 9, 2022, as amended by its news release dated March 11, 2022. The private placement consisted of the sale of 25,000,000 flow-through units (the "Units") at a price of $0.16 per Unit, for total subscription proceeds of $4,000,000. Each Unit consisted of one flow-through common share and one-half (1/2) of a share purchase warrant, with each whole warrant entitling the holder to purchase one additional common share at a price of $0.22 until March 31, 2024. The Company paid cash commissions totalling $231,180 and issued a total of 1,444,875 finder warrants to various finders including Dundee Goodman Merchant Partners, Marquest Asset Management Inc., Haywood Securities Inc., Leede Jones Gable Inc. and Canaccord Genuity Corp. in connection with the private placement. Each finder warrant entitles the holder to purchase one common share at a price of $0.22 until March 31, 2024.
All of the securities issued pursuant to this private placement, including any common shares that may be issued pursuant to the exercise of the warrants or the finder warrants, are subject to a hold period in Canada until August 1, 2022.
ATAC is a Vancouver-based exploration company focused on exploring for gold and copper in Yukon, BC and Nevada. Work on its ~1,700 km2 Rackla Gold Property in Yukon has resulted in the Osiris Project Inferred Mineral Resource of 1,685,000 oz of gold at an average grade of 4.23 g/t (in 12.4 Mt), the Tiger Deposit Measured & Indicated Mineral Resource of 464,000 oz of gold at an average grade of 3.19 g/t (in 4.5 Mt), a positive Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Tiger Gold Deposit (Pre-tax NPV of $118.2M and IRR of 54.5%), and numerous early-stage gold and base metal discoveries. ATAC is well-financed with over $9 million in working capital.
On behalf of ATAC Resources Ltd.
Graham Downs, President and CEO
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please contact: Andrew Carne, M.Eng., P.Eng., VP Corporate and Project Development, ATAC Resources Ltd., T: 604-688-0111 ext. 106, acarne@atacresources.com