Paget Minerals Corp. Announces Private Placement

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

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Paget Minerals Corp (NEX:PGS.H) ("Paget" or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Company intends to complete a non-brokered private placement of common shares at a price of $0.05 per share for gross proceeds of up to $1,000,000 (the “Private Placement”). It is anticipated that the Private Placement will be completed after the Paget common shares have been delisted from the NEX Board of the TSX Venture Exchange. The Company intends on using the proceeds from the Private Placement to carry out the transaction with Ascent Industries Corp. as announced today and for general corporate purposes.

Further Information

Further information regarding the Ascent Industries Corp. transaction and the de-listing of the Paget common shares can be found in the Company’s news release dated April 30, 2018, a copy of which is available on the Company’s website at www.pagetminerals.com.

For further information regarding the Private Placement, please contact:

Mark Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Paget Minerals Corp.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to sell any of the securities in the United States. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to U.S. Persons unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.

The NEX has in any way passed upon the merits of the Private Placement and has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION:

This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements relate, among other things, to: the terms and conditions of the Private Placement; the use of funds, the Ascent transaction and the de-listing of the Paget common shares. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; and the delay or failure to receive board, shareholder or regulatory approvals. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. The terms and conditions of the Private Placement and the Ascent transaction may change based on the parties' due diligence (which in the case of Paget is going to be limited as Paget intends largely to rely on the due diligence of other parties of the transaction to contain its costs, among other things) and the receipt of tax, corporate and securities law advice for each of the parties. Except as required by law, Paget and Ascent assume no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.