Vancouver, British Columbia – TheNewswire - November 15, 2024 – Canary Gold Corp. (CSE:BRAZ) (the “Company” or “Canary”) is pleased to announce the successful closing of its initial public offering (the “Offering”) consisting of 12,951,556 units of the Company (“Units”) at a price of $0.17 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $2,201,764.52, pursuant to the Company’s final prospectus in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario dated September 23, 2024.

Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company and one transferable common share purchase warrant (each whole such warrant, an “HD Warrant”). Each HD Warrant will entitle its holder to purchase one common share in the capital of the Company (each, a “Warrant Share”) at a price of $0.25 per Warrant Share at any time prior to 4:30 p.m. (Vancouver Time) on the date that is 12 months following the closing of the Offering (the “Closing”). Following completion of the Offering, if the closing price of the Shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange (the “CSE”) is at or above $0.50 per Share for a period of 30 consecutive trading days, the Company may elect to accelerate the expiry date of the Warrants to a date that is 30 calendar days from the date when written notice of such new expiry date is provided by the Company to the Warrant holders (the “Acceleration Right”).

The Company’s common shares are expected to commence trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange (the “CSE”) at the market open on November 18, 2024 under the symbol “BRAZ”.

Haywood Securities Inc. (the “Agent”) acted as sole agent and bookrunner for the Offering, pursuant to the agency agreement dated September 23, 2024. In connection with the Offering, the Company paid to the Agent a cash commission in the amount of $132,105.87 and granted to the Agent non-transferrable warrants entitling the Agent or its subagents, as applicable, to purchase up to a total of 777,093 common shares of the Company at a price of $0.17 for a period of 12 months following the closing of the Offering. In addition to reimbursement of certain expenses, the Agent received a corporate finance fee of $50,000 plus GST, of which $25,000 was paid in cash and $25,000 was paid through the issuance of 147,059 common shares (the “Corporate Finance Shares”) at a deemed price of $0.17 per Corporate Finance Share.

The net proceeds of the Offering will be used by the Company to further the advancement of the Rio Madeira Property and for general working capital, as more particularly set out in the Prospectus.

A director of the Company participated in the Offering, acquiring 294,000 Units. Participation of such insider in the Offering constitutes a “related party transaction” as defined under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”) and is exempt from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 as neither the fair market value of the securities issued to the insider nor the consideration paid by the insider exceeded 25% of Canary’s market capitalization.  

Option Issuances

In connection with the closing of the Offering, the Company is pleased to announce the issuance of an aggregate of 3,832,500 incentive stock options (the “IPO Options”) to certain directors and officers of the Company as set out in the Prospectus. Each IPO Option entitles the holder thereof to acquire one common share of the Company at a price of $0.17 per common share for a period of five years from the date of grant. The Company today also issued a further 700,000 incentive stock options (the “Consultant Options”) to consultants of the Company with each Consultant Option entitling the holder thereof to acquire one common share of the Company at a price of $0.17 per common share for a period of five years from the date of grant.

About Canary Gold Corp.

Canary Gold Corp. is a mineral exploration company whose principal business is the acquisition and exploration of gold mineral exploration properties, with a focus in Rondônia, Brazil. The Company may acquire up to a 70% undivided right, title and interest in one gold mineral property in Brazil, the Rio Madeira Property. The Rio Madeira Property consists of an aggregate of eight applications for exploration licenses covering an area of 68,445 hectares in Rondônia, Brazil.  

More information about Canary can be found at canarygold.ca.

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