Gold Mountain arranges $12M funding for development of Elk gold project

Jackson Chen | April 13, 2022 | 11:59 am News Canada Gold 
The Elk project is located approximately 45 km southeast of Merritt and 59 km west of Kelowna in British Columbia. Credit: Bayshore Minerals Inc.

Gold Mountain Mining (TSX: GMTN; OTC:GMTNF) has arranged a public offering, with Eight Capital acting as lead underwriter and sole bookrunner, to raise gross proceeds of $12 million through the issuance of 9.6 million units priced at $1.25 each. Each unit offered will consisted of one common share of Gold Mountain, plus one-half of a common share purchase warrant. The warrants can be exercised at a price $1.75 for two years.

Proceeds of this financing will be used for the development of the company’s Elk gold project, which began production last fall and is currently undergoing resource expansion drilling. The company has already successfully upgrade the project resource through two phases of drilling, and is now in the midst of a Phase 3 program.

Located 57 km from Merritt in south-central B.C., the Elk property contains as many as nine mineralized zones, covering a total area of over 21,000 hectares. Their combined resources are estimated at 4.36 million tonnes grading 5.6 g/t gold (796,000 oz. gold) and 11.0 g/t silver (1.52 million oz. silver) in the measured and indicated category, plus 1.50 million tonnes grading 5.3 g/t gold (259,000 oz. gold) and 14.4 g/t silver (686,000 oz. silver) in the inferred category.

According to a 2020 preliminary economic assessment (PEA), the Elk gold project has a post-tax net present value of $231 million, using a 5% discount rate. All-in sustaining costs, based on US$1,600 per oz. gold, are projected at US$554 per oz.

The project was acquired by the company in May 2019, when it was operating under the name Bayshore Minerals, from Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX).

For more information, visit: www.gold-mountain.ca.

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