Green SwanGreen Swan Engages Financial Advisor and Signs Fresh Letter of Intent With Melkior
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Jul 13, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) --
Green Swan Capital Corp. (TSX VENTURE:GSW.H) ("Green Swan"), a Capital Pool Company, is pleased to announce that it has engaged Brant Capital Partners Inc. ("Brant Capital") of Burlington, Ontario to provide it with financial advisory services. Immediately following Green Swan's Qualifying Transaction ("QT"), it is expected that Mr. Peter M. Clausi and Mr. Brian Crawford of Brant Capital will join Green Swan's management team and board. Mr. Dan Hilton will be the only current director and management member to remain on Green Swan's board post-QT. Green Swan will also add a qualified geologist to its board coincident with the QT and intends to add at least one further independent director coincident with or shortly after the QT.
Green Swan previously announced it had entered into a Letter of Intent dated September 1, 2010 with Melkior Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:MKR) ("Melkior") whereby Green Swan would acquire certain assets from Melkior, with the intention that such acquisition would constitute Green Swan's QT. Melkior and Green Swan are pleased to announce the signing of a fresh binding Letter of Intent ("LOI") which replaces the earlier agreement between them in its entirety.
Under the LOI, Green Swan can acquire up to a 70% interest in the mining areas commonly known as the RiverBank and Broke Back claims (together, the "Claims") from Melkior. The Claims are located in the James Bay Lowlands, Ontario, and consist of 69 unpatented claims covering approximately 14,784 hectares (36,532 acres). The Claims are in the highly prospective Ring of Fire multimetals area, and consist of two groups.
The Broke Back group is located approximately 10 kilometres north of the Noront Resources Ltd.'s "Eagle's Nest", and is contiguous with Noront's claims. Claims belonging to Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. are located approximately 10 kilometres southeast of the Broke Back property.
The RiverBank group is located within a major regional gravity anomaly, and is immediately west of Melkior's 100% owned East Rim claims.
No exploration activity has been carried out on the Claims, save for a detailed 1659.5 line kilometre versatile time domain electromagnetic (VTEM) survey. To the best of Green Swan's knowledge, no ground work of any kind has been carried out by any person on the Claims.
The LOI, to be replaced by a formal option and joint venture agreement, allows Green Swan to earn up to a 70% interest in the Claims, subject to a Gross Overriding Royalty ("GORR"). Green Swan may earn an initial 51% interest ("Option1") in the Claims by making cash payments to Melkior of $25,000, issuing in favour of Melkior 1,500,000 common shares of Green Swan, issuing in favour of Melkior 750,000 warrants (the "Warrants"), and incurring a gross amount of $1,000,000 in eligible exploration expenditures on the Claims before December 31, 2014 (the "Work Program"). The Warrants are exercisable for a period of 12 months at a price of 15 cents per common share and for a further 12 month period at a price of 25 cents per common share, and have an acceleration clause should Green Swan's shares trade above 30 cents for 20 consecutive trading days.
If Melkior carries out any exploration activity on the Claims before the closing of the QT, then by December 31, 2011 Green Swan must reimburse Melkior for the costs of such activity, plus a 10% management fee, which reimbursement and management fee will be deducted against the Work Program.
Upon exercise of Option1 outlined above, Green Swan will have to right to elect to proceed with Option2, under which Green Swan would have the right to earn an additional 19% interest in the Claims by incurring additional exploration expenditures totaling a further $1,000,000 over an additional 24 month time frame. Green Swan must advise Melkior within 20 months of the completion of Option1 as to whether it wishes to incur the additional exploration expenditures of $1,000,000 and a failure to give such notice will trigger a payment from Green Swan to Melkior in the amount of $25,000.
On the completion of Option2, Green Swan will own 70% of the Claims, and an industry standard joint venture will immediately be created, pursuant to which each of Green Swan and Melkior will contribute its proportionate share of all expenditures related to the Claims.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr. Dan Hilton 1400 - 340 Albert Street Ottawa, ON K1R 0A5 john.daniel.hilton@gmail.com (613) 277-3266