Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- November 30, 2023) Oroco Resource Corp. (TSX-V: OCO, OTC: ORRCF) (“Oroco” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that it has closed a non-brokered private placement (the “Private Placement”) raising gross proceeds of $2,691,940 through the sale of 6,729,850 units at a price of $0.40 per unit. Each unit consists of one share and one share purchase warrant. Each share purchase warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share for a period of 18 months from closing at a price of $0.65 per share.
The shares and any shares issued pursuant to the exercise of the warrants are subject to a hold period expiring March 29, 2024. The Company has received conditional approval from the TSX Venture Exchange for the Private Placement but has yet to receive final approval.
ATM Mining Corp., a company controlled by Craig Dalziel, Executive Chairman of the Company, Richard Lock, CEO and a director of the Company, Ian Graham, President and a director of the Company, 677185 BC Ltd., a company controlled by Steve Vanry, CFO and a director of the Company, and David Rose, Corporate Secretary of the Company, participated in the Private Placement, purchasing a total of 770,000 units for proceeds of $308,000. The participation of each in the Private Placement is exempt from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 as the fair market value of each participation is less than 25% of the market capitalization of the Company.
No finder’s fees were paid in connection with the Private Placement.
The proceeds of the financing will be used for working capital and corporate overhead and exploration and development activities.
ABOUT OROCO:
The Company holds a net 85.5% interest in those central concessions that comprise 1,173 hectares “the Core Concessions” of The Santo Tomas Project, located in northwestern Mexico. The Company also holds an 80% interest in an additional 7,861 hectares of mineral concessions surrounding and adjacent to the Core Concessions (for a total Project area of 9,034 hectares, or 22,324 acres). The Project is situated within the Santo Tomas District, which extends up to the Jinchuan Group’s Bahuerachi Project, approximately 14 km to the northeast. The Project hosts significant copper porphyry mineralization defined by prior exploration spanning the period from 1968 to 1994. During that time, the Project area was tested by over 100 diamond and reverse circulation drill holes, totalling approximately 30,000 meters. Commencing in 2021, Oroco conducted a drill program (Phase 1) at Santo Tomas, with a resulting total of 48,481 meters drilled in 76 diamond drill holes. In October of 2023, the Company announced a Preliminary Economic Assessment and Updated Mineral Resource for the North and South Zones of the Santo Tomas Project, identifying Indicated and Inferred resources of 561 Mt @ 0.37% CuEq and 549 Mt @ 0.34% CuEq respectively.
The Project is located within 160 km of the Pacific deep-water port at Topolobampo and is serviced via highway and proximal rail (and parallel corridors of trunk grid power lines and natural gas) through the city of Los Mochis to the northern city of Choix. The property is reached, in part, by a 32 km access road originally built to service Goldcorp’s El Sauzal Mine in Chihuahua State.
Additional information about Oroco Resource Corp. can be found on its website at www.orocoresourcecorp.com and by reviewing its profile on SEDAR at www.sedarplus.ca.
For further information, please contact:
Richard Lock, CEO
Oroco Resource Corp.
Tel: 604-688-6200
Email: info@orocoresourcecorp.com
www.orocoresourcecorp.com
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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This news release includes certain “forward-looking information” and “forward-looking statements” (collectively “forward-looking statements”) within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included herein, including, without limitation, statements relating to future events or achievements of the Company, are forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance that such forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated or implied in such statements. Many factors, both known and unknown, could cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the results, performance or achievements that are or may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release concerning these matters. Oroco does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements should they change, except as required by law.
