NORTH SYDNEY, Australia, April 3, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Company announces that, further to the Company's news release dated February 5, 2013 which announced that it was voluntarily delisting from the Toronto Stock Exchange with effect the close of business of on or about, February 12, 2013, it has applied for a decision from the Ontario Securities Commission that it is no longer a reporting issuer in Ontario.
The Company is not a reporting issuer in any other Canadian jurisdiction. If the requested decision is made by the Ontario Securities Commission, the Company will cease being a reporting issuer in any jurisdiction in Canada and, as a result, will no longer be required to file financial statements and other continuous disclosure documents with Canadian securities regulatory authorities.
Notwithstanding a decision that the Company is not a reporting issuer in Canada, the Company will continue to file all financial statements and other continuous disclosure materials required to be filed by it in accordance with applicable securities laws of the United Kingdom and the rules of the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange ("AIM"). All such continuous disclosure documents of the Company are publicly available to all Company securityholders on the Company's website at www.marianaresources.com and the Company's securityholders resident in Canada will continue to receive copies of continuous disclosure documents that are required to be delivered to securityholders in the United Kingdom, in the same manner and at the same time as is required under the applicable securities laws of the United Kingdom and the rules of AIM."
For further information please visit website at www.marianaresources.com or contact the following.
| In Australia: | ||
| John Horsburgh (Chairman) | Mariana Resources Ltd | +61 2 9437 4588 |
| Glen Parsons (CEO) | Mariana Resources Ltd | +61 2 9437 4588 |
| Rob Adamson | RFC Ambrian Limited (Nomad) | +61 2 9250 0041 |
| Will Souter | RFC Ambrian Limited (Nomad) | +61 2 9250 0050 |
| In U.K. | ||
| Jonathan Williams | RFC Ambrian Limited (UK Broker) | +44 20 3440 6817 |
| Felicity Edwards | St Brides Media and Finance Ltd (PR) | +44 20 7236 1177 |
| In Canada: | ||
| Kathryn Witter | Mariana Resources Ltd (Vancouver Office) | +1 604 669 9336 |
About Mariana Resources
Mariana Resources Ltd (LSE:MARL) is an AIM quoted exploration and development company with an extensive portfolio of gold, silver and copper projects in South America. In Peru, Mariana has an option to earn a 51% interest in highly prospective copper-gold and copper silver porphyry targets in the Cordillera del Condor of northern Peru as well as an option to earn a 70% interest in the Soledad copper-gold and silver project in Central Peru. In southern Argentina, the Company's core gold-silver projects are Las Calandrias (100%), Sierra Blanca (100%), Los Cisnes (100%), Bozal (100%) and Los Amigos JV (30%). These projects are part of a 200,000+ Ha land package in the Deseado Massif epithermal gold-silver district in mining-friendly Santa Cruz Province.