First Mining Gold Corp FFMGF

Additional Interest in Beattie Gold Mines

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VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - First Mining Gold Corp. ("First Mining" or the "Company") (TSX: FF) (OTCQX: FFMGF) (FRANKFURT: FMG) is pleased to announce that it has acquired, from two individuals, an aggregate of 286,904 common shares ("Shares") of Beattie Gold Mines Ltd. ("Beattie"), a private company that owns the mineral rights to mining claims that make up the former Beattie mining concession that form a large part of the Duparquet Gold Project located on the Destor-Porcupine Fault in Qubec (the "Transaction").  The per Share consideration paid under the Transaction was C$4.44 cash per Beattie Share and 26.62 common shares of First Mining per Beattie Share for a total consideration of C$1,272,824 in cash and 7,636,944 First Mining common shares.  Together with the 187,839 common shares of Beattie already owned by Clifton Star Resources Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Mining, the Company now owns 474,743 shares of Beattie, increasing its ownership in Beattie from 10% to 25.3% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Beattie.