Eloro Announces $1,000,000 FinancingJUNE 14, 2006 - 08:30 ET
Eloro Announces $1,000,000 Financing
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - June 14, 2006) -
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Eloro Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:ELO) (the "Company" or "Eloro") announced today that a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") of 2,222,222 Flow-Through Units (the "Units") to be issued on a "flow-through" basis under the Income Tax Act (Canada) at a price of 45 cents per Unit, for gross proceeds to the Company of $1,000,000 has been arranged with MineralFields Group.
Each Flow-Through Unit will consist of one common share (the "Common Shares") to be issued on a "flow-through" basis under the Income Tax Act (Canada) and one non-transferable share purchase warrant of the Company (the "Unit Warrants"). Each Unit Warrant will have a term of 24 months (the "Term") and will entitle the holder to purchase one Common Share at a price of $0.75 per share in the first year of the Term and $1.00 in the second year of the Term. Pursuant to the Private Placement, if the average closing price of the Common Shares is over $1.00 for a period of 20 consecutive trading days (following the expiry of the hold period) in the first year of the Term, or $1.25 in the second year of the Term, the Unit Warrants must be exercised within ten business days of receiving written notice from Eloro or they are to be terminated.
All securities to be issued pursuant to this Private Placement will be subject to a four-month hold period. Subject to regulatory approval, the Company will pay a finder's fee equal to 5% of the completed Private Placement, and further, the Company will issue finder's fee share purchase warrants, equal to 10% of the number of Units subscribed for to an arm's length party.
The net proceeds of the Private Placement will be used to finance continued exploration programs at Eloro's exploration projects located in the James Bay District of northern Quebec, and the Company's Hurdman Zinc Silver Gold Property, located in northeastern Ontario. The Private Placement is subject to approval by the TSX Venture Exchange.
About Eloro
Eloro Resources Ltd. is a junior exploration company focused on discovering and developing precious and base metal quality resources in the James Bay District of northern Quebec and the Timmins Camp of northern Ontario. Eloro currently has 11 gold-copper-silver properties covering 240 km2 in the La Grande and Eastmain Belts, proximal to Goldcorp Inc.'s Eleonore Gold Deposit in the Eastmain Belt. In the Timmins Camp, Eloro is currently exploring the 66 km2 zinc-silver-gold Hurdman Propery, where the Company has recently announced significant assay results from its Winter 2006 drill program, such as 3.7% zinc and 7.71 g/t silver over 11.6 meters core length (ELO-06-01), 2.09% zinc and 40 g/t silver over 11.3 meters core length (ELO-06-04), 2.48% zinc and 10.4 g/t silver over 7.9 meters core length (ELO-06-06), and 0.41% zinc, 166 g/t silver and 49 g/t gold over 0.5 meters core length (ELO-06-12).
About MineralFields
MineralFields Group is a Toronto-based mining fund with significant assets under administration that offers its tax-advantaged super flow-through limited partnerships to investors throughout Canada during most of the calendar year, as well as hard-dollar limited partnerships to investors throughout the world. Information about MineralFields Group is available at www.mineralfields.com.