Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. Private Placement Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. Closes Non-Brokered Private Placement
Mr. George Glasier reports:
Toronto, Ontario and Nucla, Colorado, Feb. 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. (CSE: WUC) (OTCQX: WSTRF) (“Western” or the ”Company”) is pleased to announce the closing of a non-brokered private placement (the “Private Placement”) of 3,250,000 units (the ”Units”) at a price of CAD$0.80 per Unit. The aggregate gross proceeds raised in this Private Placement amount to CAD$2,600,000.
Each Unit consists of one common share of Western (a "Share") plus one common share purchase warrant of Western (a “Warrant”). Each Warrant shall entitle the holder to purchase one Share at a price of CAD$1.20 per Share for a period of three years following the closing date of the Private Placement. A total of 3,250,000 Shares and 3,250,000 Warrants are being issued in the Private Placement.
The Warrants contain a provision that if the Company’s Shares trade at or above CAD$2.40 per Share for 10 consecutive trading days, the Company may, at any time after the expiry of the applicable statutory hold period, accelerate the expiration of the Warrants upon not less than 30 days’ written notice by the Company (the “Acceleration Clause”).
The Company anticipates that the net proceeds of the Private Placement will be used to secure value-added opportunities, fund follow-on work at the five mines comprising the Sunday Mine Complex, the exploration and development of a second production center and for general corporate and working capital purposes.
In connection with the Private Placement, the Company is paying CAD$123,000 in finder’s fees plus 153,750 compensation warrants exercisable for three years, each warrant being exercisable at CAD$0.94 per Share of the Company. The compensation warrants are subject to the Acceleration Clause. Red Cloud Securities Inc. has acted as a finder with respect to the Private Placement.
Securities issued pursuant to the Private Placement shall be subject to a minimum six (6) month hold period. The closing of the Private Placement remains subject to final regulatory approval.
The securities offered and sold have not been registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.
About Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. is a Colorado based uranium and vanadium conventional mining company focused on low cost near-term production of uranium and vanadium in the western United States, and development and application of kinetic separation.