March 1, 2021: Vancouver, British Columbia: CopAur Minerals Inc. (the “Company”) (CPAU: TSX-V) announces that further to the Company’s news release of January 27, 2021 the Company closed the non-brokered private placement consisting of 4,424,833 shares (“Shares”) at a purchase price of $0.12 per Share and raised gross proceeds of $530,979.96. Existing insiders and one new reporting insider of the Company participated in the private placement for an aggregate amount of $136,000 being 25% of the private placement. All securities issued in conjunction with this private placement are subject to a hold period expiring four months plus a day after the date of issuance.
A portion of the Private Placement constitutes a “related party transaction” within the meaning of TSXV Policy 5.9 and Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”) adopted in the Policy. The Company intends to rely on exemptions from the formal valuation and minority approval requirements in sections 5.5(b) and 5.7(e) of MI 61-101 on the basis that the Company is not listed on any specified senior stock exchanges and that the Company is facing financial hardship and the transactions are designed to improve the Company’s financial position.
The proceeds received from this private placement will be used to advance the Williams gold & porphyry property in the Toodoggone trench area of northern BC and general working capital.
The Company also announces that the board has approved the grant of 480,000 stock options to its directors, officers, employees, and consultants, at an exercise price of $0.25 per share for a term of five years from the date of the grant. The stock options were granted in accordance with the Company’s Stock Option Plan.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Conrad Swanson
President & CEO
For further information, please contact:
CopAur Minerals Inc.
Telephone: 604-317-3090
Email: info@copaurminerals.com
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Forward-looking information
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