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June 11, 2012 Vancouver, Canada - Fire
River Gold Corp. (the "Company") [TSXV: FAU| OTCQX: FVGCF| FSE: FWR]
announces a non-brokered private placement to raise up to $4,000,000 by
issuing up to 34,782,609 Units at a price of $0.115 per Unit. (the
"Offering"). Each Unit consists of one common share and one whole share
purchase warrant (a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder, on
exercise, for a term of 24 months from the closing date, to purchase one
additional common share at $0.16 per warrant share. The Company may
issuer finder's fees in connection with this Offering and both the
Offering and the finder's fees are subject to final acceptance by the
TSX Venture Exchange.
The proceeds of the Offering will be used for working capital during the
start-up phase of the new carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit at the Company's
Nixon Fork Gold Mill. The addition of CIL leaching, as the third ore
recovery process (after gravity and flotation), is expected to increase
gold production from 67% to 95%. To date, the start-up process has
required two significant changes to the processing circuit 1) waste
disposal was switched from impoundment in a dammed tailings pond to
placement in a dry stack; and 2) the water balance was converted to zero
discharge. In addition, the company has made subsequent improvements by
increasing pump sizes, improving programming logic for the main filter
controls and adjusting reagent usage. A water treatment component will
also be added to the recirculating process water.
The Nixon Fork Underground Gold Mine is fully operational and a total of
34,400 tonnes of ore have been processed through the mill to date. At
present, there is a broken inventory of 12,900 tonnes grading up to 20
g/t gold. This is a sufficient quantity of ore for approximately three
months of processing. The broken ore inventory is expected to increase
over the coming months due to additional feed provided by near surface
mining operations. (See our release of
May 16, 2012 for mining, processing and production figures to the
end of March 2012.)
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
"Richard Goodwin"
Richard Goodwin
President
Certain information regarding the Company
including management's assessment of future plans and operations, may
constitute forward-looking statements under applicable securities laws
and necessarily involve risks associated with mining exploration and
development, volatility of prices, currency fluctuations, imprecision of
resource estimates, environmental and permitting risks, access to labour
and services, competition from other companies and ability to access
sufficient capital. As a consequence, actual results may differ
materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. A
feasibility study has not been completed and there is no certainty the
disclosed targets will be reached nor that the proposed operations will
be economically viable. Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation
Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX
Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of
this release. We seek safe harbour.
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