Detour Gold Closes US$105 Million Financing for Mining Fleet
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 05/03/11 -- Detour Gold Corporation (TSX: DGC) ('Detour Gold' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce the closing of the previously announced agreement with Caterpillar Financial ('Cat Financial') pursuant to which Cat Financial will underwrite US$105 million in mobile fleet equipment financing to fund the Company's acquisition of Cat mining equipment supplied by Toromont Industries Limited (a Cat dealer in Ontario), for the Detour Lake gold project in northeastern Ontario (the 'Equipment Financing Facility').
The Equipment Financing Facility will be available to the Company upon the satisfactory completion of customary conditions precedent and will be used towards the acquisition cost of 23 Cat 795F - 322-tonne haul trucks and ancillary equipment (the 'Mobile Fleet') being supplied by Toromont (the 'Lease'). Deliveries of the Mobile Fleet are expected to commence arriving at site in mid-2011 and be completed in early 2013. The term of the Equipment Financing Facility is 5.5 years and will be secured by the Mobile Fleet. Title to the Mobile Fleet will transfer to the Company at the completion of the Lease.
About Detour Gold
Detour Gold is a Canadian gold exploration and development company whose primary focus is to advance the development of its flagship Detour Lake gold project located in northeastern Ontario towards production. Detour Gold's shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol DGC.
Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains certain forward-looking information as defined in applicable securities laws (referred to herein as 'forward-looking statements'). Specifically, this press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the delivery of the mobile fleet. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are beyond Detour Gold's ability to predict or control and may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any of future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, the satisfaction of the closing conditions of the Transaction, gold price volatility, changes in debt and equity markets, the uncertainties involved in interpreting geological data, increases in costs, environmental compliance and changes in environmental legislation and regulation, interest rate and exchange rate fluctuations, general economic conditions and other risks involved in the gold exploration and development industry, as well as those risk factors discussed in the section entitled 'Description of Business - Risk Factors' in Detour Gold's 2009 annual information form. Such forward-looking statements are also based on a number of assumptions which may prove to be incorrect, including, but not limited to, assumptions about the following: the satisfaction of the closing conditions of the Transaction, the availability of financing for exploration and development activities; the estimated timeline for the development of the Detour Lake gold project; the supply and demand for, and the level and volatility of the price of, gold; the accuracy of reserve and resource estimates and the assumptions on which the reserve and resource estimates are based; the receipt of necessary permits; market competition; ongoing relations with employees and impacted communities; and general business and economic conditions. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Detour Gold undertakes no obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward-looking statements contained herein whether as a result of new information or future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
Contacts:
Detour Gold Corporation
Gerald Panneton
President and CEO
(416) 304.0800
Detour Gold Corporation
Laurie Gaborit
Director Investor Relations
(416) 304.0581
Detour Gold Corporation
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Toronto, Ontario M5J 2J1