Catalyst Below was a NR in Dec 2009 which brought to my attention that Greenslade was invovled in another mexican copper project. I try to avoid situations were mgmt is working on multiple companies. So this was a concern to me. I emailed Greenslade in Jan 2010 asking for clarification of his role in Catalyst and Baja. He responded as follows:
My focus remains Baja until financing complete. Once financing is done my time demand reduces somewhat and will allow time for Svit (to be renamed catalyst Copper corp. Note that prior to Baja and continuing until recently I was also the President of Minterra resource Corp (still technically President but company is inactive).
Terry Hodson currently is underutilized as an exploration geologist with Baja and the acquisition of the La Verde project (offered to Baja and declined as it is totally focused on Boleo) allows us to keep Terry at Baja but keep his interest up by working on a new project. La Verde is probably already an orebody but Terry and My success in acquiring option from Teck is that we agreed to determine how big the project could be by spending $10 million over the next 2-3 years on exploration (primarily drilling).
I was satisfied with greenslades response and I was very satisifed with his success in financing El Boleo, most of you will recall he was given very high accolades and recognition in the mining industry for his successful and innovative financing of El Boleo. So he did his job on the financing and getting El Boleo to construction. My assumption was that he would take a lesser role as BAJ moves to production.
According to Greenslade, La Verde was 'offered to Baja and declined as it is totally focused on Boleo". I beleive that was the correct decision at the time, maybe once Baja gets to production things will change. But I personally don't think Greenslade will be around much longer, someone will buy Baja and he will be eliminated. For now I expect Greenslade to do everything in his power to ensure a buyout of Baja is at a much higher price.
MK on the other hand will be looking to profit at the expense of other shareholders, they know the value of Baja will go up significantly in the near future and they will want to leverage as much of that as possible into their own profits, it's how they make their money.
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Svit Gold announces acquisition of interest in Mexican copper property, financing, name change
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TSXV: SDP
VANCOUVER, Dec. 8 /CNW/ - Svit Gold Corp. (the "Company") reports that it has entered into an option agreement with a subsidiary of Teck Resources Limited ("Teck") to earn an interest in the La Verde copper property located in Michoacan in west-central Mexico (the "Property").
The Property, located in the Sierra Madre del Sur approximately 320 km west of Mexico City, consists of two claims, Capire and Unificacion Santa Maria, comprising approximately 17,000 ha. The Property is underlain by multi-phase intrusions dominated by quartz diorite and quartz feldspar porphyry. Historically, copper porphyry mineralization has been exposed and tested in two main mineralized zones termed East Hill and West Hill. Geological and geophysical vectors indicate that there remains significant potential for copper (+/- gold +/- molybdenum) mineralization to be hosted outside the known magmatic-hydrothermal breccia complex. There is significant potential to expand the scale of mineralization at the Property with a moderate amount of drilling. The Property is the subject of a historic non-NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate, and an engineering company has been retained to prepare a NI 43-101 compliant technical report which summarizes historical drilling and resource figures.
The Company may earn a 60% interest in a to be formed Mexican subsidiary of Teck ("Newco") which will hold the Property, by advancing US $6 million to Teck toward purchase of shares in Newco, and incurring aggregate exploration expenditures of US $10 million on the Property on or before December 31, 2012. After the Company earns its 60% interest in Newco, Teck may elect to increase its interest to 60% by incurring aggregate optional expenditures equal to two times the expenditures incurred by the Company, to a maximum of US $20 million. Should Teck fail to exercise the option to earn a 60% interest, the Company can acquire a 100% interest in Newco by paying Teck a further US $20,000,000.
The initial advance to Teck is being financed with a US $6 million non-revolving term facility from Endeavour Financial Corporation (the "Facility"). The Facility is repayable in 12 months, and amounts drawn will bear interest at a rate of 10% per annum. Endeavour will be issued 10,000,000 share purchase warrants on draw-down of the Facility, each warrant entitling Endeavour to acquire one common share of the Company at an exercise price of CDN
.14 per common share for a period of 12 months. In the event the Facility has not been repaid by April 1, 2010, an additional fee of US $500,000 will be payable to Endeavour at the Company's option in cash or in shares of the Company.
A finder's fee of 3,333,000 common shares of the Company issued at a price of
.105 per common share will be paid in connection with this transaction.
The Company is undertaking a non-brokered private placement of 100,000,000 common shares at a price of Can.
.105 per share to raise aggregate proceeds of Can. $10.5 million, Can. $4 million of which will be used for first year exploration costs, US $4 million of which will be used to repay the US $6 million borrowed from Endeavour under the Facility, and the balance of which will be used for general working capital. Prior to closing the placement, the Company will change its name to Catalyst Copper Corp.
Effective at closing, all of the Company's directors and officers will resign with the exception of continuing directors Gordon Keep and John Reynolds. John Greenslade will join the Company's board of directors and will be appointed as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Terry Hodson will join the board and be appointed as the Company's VP Exploration. An additional director as yet to be determined will also join the board, and Denby Greenslade will be appointed as the Company's corporate secretary. In conjunction with these transactions, the Company will issue options to acquire an aggregate of 8 million common shares of the Company exercisable at a price of
.14 per common share for a period of 10 years.
The transactions described above are subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange.
Trading in the Company's shares will recommence on December 10, 2009.
ON BEHALF OF SVIT GOLD CORP.
"Gordon Keep"
Gordon Keep - Director
Terry Hodson, P. Geo., a qualified person as defined in NI 43-101, has reviewed the disclosure contained in this news release on behalf of the Company.
Neither the 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.