Vizsla Announces Closing of Approximately C$35 Million Bought Deal Financing
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 15, 2022 /CNW/ - Vizsla Silver Corp. (TSXV: VZLA) (NYSE: VZLA) (Frankfurt: 0G3) ("Vizsla Silver" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously announced bought deal prospectus offering of 23,805,000 units of the Company (the "Units") at a price of C$1.45 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of C$34,517,250, which includes the exercise in full of the Underwriters' (as defined below) over-allotment option for 3,105,000 Units (the "Public Offering").
Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole common share purchase warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant entitles the holder to acquire one common share of the Company until November 15, 2024 at a price of C$2.00.
The Public Offering was conducted by PI Financial Corp. and Canaccord Genuity Corp., as co-lead underwriters and joint bookrunners, and Raymond James Ltd., H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, Roth Canada Inc. and Stifel Nicolaus Canada Inc. (collectively, the "Underwriters"). In consideration for the services provided by the Underwriters in connection with the Public Offering, on closing the Company paid to the Underwriter a cash commission equal to 6% of the gross proceeds raised under the Public Offering. As further consideration for the services provided by the Underwriters in connection with the Public Offering, on closing the Company issued broker warrants to the Underwriters, exercisable at any time on or before November 15, 2024, to acquire that number of common shares of the Company which is equal to 6% of the number of Units sold under the Public Offering at an exercise price of C$1.45.
The Public Offering was completed pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated November 9, 2022 to the short form base shelf prospectus of the Company dated December 1, 2020 in each of the provinces of Canada (except Quebec), in the United States on a private placement basis pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") and applicable state securities laws and other jurisdictions outside of Canada and the United States on an exempt basis. The Public Offering remains subject to the final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSX-V").
The net proceeds of the Public Offering will be used to advance the exploration and development of the Panuco Project (as defined below), including the delivery of an updated mineral resource estimate in the fourth quarter of 2022, as well as for working capital and general corporate purposes as set out in the prospectus supplement.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in the United States, nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The securities offered have not been, nor will they be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act or under any U.S. state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
The newly consolidated Panuco silver-gold project (the "Panuco Project") is an emerging high-grade discovery located in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, near the city of Mazatlán. The 6,761-hectare, past producing district benefits from over 86 kilometres of total vein extent, 35 kilometres of underground mines, roads, power, and permits.
The district contains intermediate to low sulfidation epithermal silver and gold deposits related to siliceous volcanism and crustal extension in the Oligocene and Miocene. Host rocks are mainly continental volcanic rocks correlated to the Tarahumara Formation.
The Panuco Project hosts an estimated in-situ indicated mineral resource of 61.1 Moz AgEq and an in-situ inferred mineral resource of 45.6 Moz AgEq. A NI 43-101 technical report, titled "National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report for the Panuco Project Mineral Resource Estimate Concordia, Sinaloa, Mexico" which was filed on SEDAR on April 7, 2022, with an effective date of March 1, 2022 and was prepared by Tim Maunula, P.Geo., Principal Geologist, T. Maunula & Associates Consulting Inc. and Kevin Murray, P.Eng, Manager Process Engineering, Ausenco.
In accordance with NI 43-101, Martin Dupuis, P.Geo., Chief Operating Officer, is the Qualified Person for the Company and has reviewed and approved the technical and scientific content of this news release.
Vizsla Silver is a Canadian mineral exploration and development company headquartered in Vancouver, BC, focused on advancing its flagship, 100%-owned Panuco Project located in Sinaloa, Mexico.
To date, Vizsla Silver has completed over 210,000 metres of drilling at the Panuco Project leading to the discovery of several new high-grade veins. For 2022, Vizsla Silver has budgeted over 120,000 metres of resource/discovery-based drilling, designed to upgrade, and expand the maiden mineral resource estimate as well as test other high priority targets across the district.
Website: www.vizslasilvercorp.ca
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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release includes certain "Forward‐Looking Statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward‐looking information" under applicable Canadian securities laws. When used in this news release, the words "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect", "target", "plan", "forecast", "may", "would", "could", "schedule" and similar words or expressions, identify forward‐looking statements or information. These forward‐looking statements or information relate to, among other things: the intended use of the net proceeds of the Public Offering, receipt of final TSX-V approval; future drilling and exploration activities at the Panuco Project; and publication of a mineral resource estimate update in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Forward‐looking statements and forward‐looking information relating to any future mineral production, liquidity, enhanced value and capital markets profile of Vizsla Silver, future growth potential for Vizsla Silver and its business, and future exploration plans are based on management's reasonable assumptions, estimates, expectations, analyses and opinions, which are based on management's experience and perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, and other factors that management believes are relevant and reasonable in the circumstances, but which may prove to be incorrect. Assumptions have been made regarding, among other things, the price of silver, gold and other metals; costs of exploration and development; the estimated costs of development of exploration projects; Vizsla Silver's ability to operate in a safe and effective manner and its ability to obtain financing on reasonable terms.
These statements reflect Vizsla Silver's current views with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of other assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by management, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. 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 or forward-looking information and Vizsla Silver has made assumptions and estimates based on or related to many of these factors. Such factors include, without limitation: the Company's dependence on one mineral project; precious metals price volatility; risks associated with the conduct of the Company's mining activities in Mexico; regulatory, consent or permitting delays; risks relating to reliance on the Company's management team and outside contractors; risks regarding mineral resources and reserves; the Company's inability to obtain insurance to cover all risks, on a commercially reasonable basis or at all; currency fluctuations; risks regarding the failure to generate sufficient cash flow from operations; risks relating to project financing and equity issuances; risks and unknowns inherent in all mining projects, including the inaccuracy of reserves and resources, metallurgical recoveries and capital and operating costs of such projects; contests over title to properties, particularly title to undeveloped properties; laws and regulations governing the environment, health and safety; the ability of the communities in which the Company operates to manage and cope with the implications of COVID-19; the economic and financial implications of COVID-19 to the Company; operating or technical difficulties in connection with mining or development activities; employee relations, labour unrest or unavailability; the Company's interactions with surrounding communities and artisanal miners; the Company's ability to successfully integrate acquired assets; the speculative nature of exploration and development, including the risks of diminishing quantities or grades of reserves; stock market volatility; conflicts of interest among certain directors and officers; lack of liquidity for shareholders of the Company; litigation risk; and the factors identified under the caption "Risk Factors" in Vizsla Silver's management discussion and analysis. Readers are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward‐looking statements or forward-looking information. Although Vizsla Silver has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be other factors that cause results not to be anticipated, estimated or intended. Vizsla Silver does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward‐looking statements or forward-looking information to reflect changes in assumptions or changes in circumstances or any other events affecting such statements or information, other than as required by applicable law.
SOURCE Vizsla Silver Corp.
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