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Guardian Metal ResourcesAnnouncement

15/08/2024 07:00

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RNS Number : 5113A  Guardian Metal Resources PLC  15 August 2024

15 August 2024

Guardian Metal Resources plc

('Guardian Metal' or the 'Company')

Strategic North American Financing

£2,154,074.58 (US $2.75M) raised for Accelerated Project Exploration &
Development

Guardian Metal Resources plc (LON:GMET, OTCQB:GMTLF), a mineral exploration
company focused on tungsten, lithium, gold, copper and silver within Nevada,
USA, is pleased to announce it has completed a strategic financing raising
£2,154,074.58 (US $2.75M) (the "Financing") through a direct subscription
with the Company.

The Financing enables an immediate and material expansion of ground
exploration and project development activities, leveraging the success of the
Company's work to date in 2024.

Subscription Highlights:

-     Guardian Metal has completed a strategic financing of £2,154,074.58
(US $2.75M) through the issue of 7,978,054 new ordinary shares of 1.0p each
("Subscription Shares"), representing 6.7% of the enlarged issued share
capital of the Company at an issue price of 27p per share.

 

-     The subscribers will receive one warrant with every two Subscription
Shares subscribed for (3,989,027 new warrants). The warrants have an exercise
price of 40p per ordinary share and will expire two-years after the date of
the Subscription Shares' admission to trading on AIM.

 

-     The Financing has the potential to significantly increase North
American investor interest in the Company.  This interest can be channelled
through the Company's quotation on the OTCQX market, where CEO Oliver Friesen
recently rang the bell on market open.

 

-     The £2,154,074.58 (US $2.75M) raised will be applied to the
acceleration of exploration and project development activities at the
Company's Pilot Mountain and Garfield projects. In particular on drilling of
new and validated porphyry targets across both projects, and the continuing
resource expansion drilling at Pilot Mountain.

 

-     The expanded work programmes are justified given the significant
findings to date and enable the Company to execute accelerated exploration
without delay.  The Company believes that these work programmes have the
potential to markedly increase the value of its leading projects.

 

-     Initial results from ongoing drilling is expected in short order and
final interpretations of geophysical data is nearing completion. As a result,
a number of key announcements are expected in the near term.

 

-     In addition, the Company is proactively working on various corporate
initiatives including non-dilutive grant funding and separate announcements
will be made in each key area as material developments are finalised.

Oliver Friesen, CEO of Guardian Metal, commented:

"It has been a very  productive summer, and the outcomes from various work
streams thus far have been significant including the discovery and validation
of multiple porphyry targets at both our Pilot Mountain and Garfield projects,
as well as success to date from drilling which is targeting an expansion of
the existing Pilot Mountain strategic tungsten resource.

"This exploration success has drawn interest from North American resource
investors and, following my recent North American business trip, we have been
able to finalise this important strategic financing. The Financing has been
undertaken at the perfect time as we are keen to expand our operational
activities given our findings to date.

"Monies raised will directly support multiple drillholes in the various
porphyry targets at Pilot Mountain, of which further news is expected shortly,
and further resource drilling as well as various ongoing development
workstreams associated with Pilot Mountain. Drilling at the Garfield project
is also planned, subject to urgent completion of preparatory work, including
the acquisition of relevant permits and final interpretations of all
geophysical data.

"As a result of the rapid inflow of exploration data expected across the two
key projects, we look forward to the release of multiple exploration and
development announcements over the coming weeks and months."

 

ADMISSION AND TOTAL VOTING RIGHTS

 

Application will be made for the 7,978,054  Subscription Shares to be
admitted to trading on AIM, which is expected to occur on or around 21 August
2024 ("Admission"). The Subscription Shares will rank pari passu in all
respects with the ordinary shares of the Company currently traded on AIM.

 

Following Admission, the Company's issued share capital will comprise
119,036,319 ordinary shares of 1p each. This number will represent the total
voting rights in the Company and may be used by shareholders as the
denominator for the calculation by which they can determine if they are
required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the
Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency
Rules.

 

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of
EU Regulation 596/2014 (which forms part of domestic UK law pursuant to the
European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018).

 

 

Forward Looking Statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements relating to expected or
anticipated future events and anticipated results that are forward-looking in
nature and, as a result, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, such
as general economic, market and business conditions, competition for qualified
staff, the regulatory process and actions, technical issues, new legislation,
uncertainties resulting from potential delays or changes in plans,
uncertainties resulting from working in a new political jurisdiction,
uncertainties regarding the results of exploration, uncertainties regarding
the timing and granting of prospecting rights, uncertainties regarding the
timing and granting of regulatory and other third party consents and
approvals, uncertainties regarding the Company's or any third party's ability
to execute and implement future plans, and the occurrence of unexpected
events.

Actual results achieved may vary from the information provided herein as a
result of numerous known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other
factors.

For further information visit www.guardianmetalresources.com
(http://www.guardianmetalresources.com) or contact the following:

 Guardian Metal Resources plc                 Tel: +44 (0) 20 7583 8304

 Oliver Friesen (CEO)
 Cairn Financial Advisers LLP                 Tel: +44 20 7213 0880

 Nominated Adviser

 Sandy Jamieson/Jo Turner/Louise O'Driscoll
 Shard Capital Partners LLP                   Tel: +44 (0) 20 7186 9000

 Lead Broker

 Damon Heath/Erik Woolgar
 First Equity Limited                         Tel: +44 20 7374 2212

 Broker

 Jason Robertson

 

THE PROJECTS

Pilot Mountain Project

The Pilot Mountain project is an advanced exploration and mineral resource
definition stage project located in Mineral County in western Nevada. The
project covers an area of 14.80 km(2) (3,904.1 acres) and is located 200km
southeast of Reno and 18km east of Mina, Nevada. It is well situated for
the supply of power, water and skilled labour and proximity to transport
infrastructure in Mineral County and is centred around four existing mineral
deposits: Garnet; Good Hope; Gunmetal and Desert Scheelite, all of which
possess significant skarn-style tungsten-copper-silver-zinc
mineralisation. The Pilot Mountain project consists of 176 active lode
mining claims and 4 filed mill site claims. The four mill site claims filed at
the former Dunham mill site have secure access to groundwater supply
sufficient for the proposed project.

Garfield Project

The Garfield Project is an exciting copper-gold-silver prospect consisting of
65 lode mining claims covering 9.18 km2 (2,268 acres) located in Mineral
County, Nevada, approximately 14km due east of the town of Hawthorne and
120km due west-northwest of Tonopah. Exploration to date has included
detailed geochemical sampling and follow up analysis which highlighted the
presence of both porphyry and skarn-type mineralisation and alteration at the
'High-Grade Zone'. Further to this, mapping, prospecting and rock sampling was
recently completed with results confirming presence of high-grade copper,
silver and gold mineralisation as well as leading to the bedrock discovery of
the Pamlico Au Zone with individual rock samples up to 18.35g/t Au, 1,225g/t
Ag & 1.89% Cu. Following this, geochemical analysis of the full suite of
data confirmed the strong presence of porphyry style mineralisation across the
Project, as well as potentially overprinting epithermal style mineralisation
leading to increased gold-silver prospectivity.

Kibby Basin Lithium Project

The Kibby Basin Project covers two claim packages which are prospective for
lithium brine mineralisation. The southern claim package is less than 250m
from a 2022 drillhole which returned a significant interval (169m) of lithium
brine mineralisation which was determined to be open in all directions. The
Project is less than 5km to the southeast of the Company's flagship Pilot
Mountain Project.

Golconda Summit Project

Guardian Metal is the operator of the Golconda Summit project, which is held
under an earn-in right to acquire up to 100 per cent. of the project from the
mineral claim owner pursuant to an option agreement. The Golconda Summit
project is an exploration stage gold and silver project located in Humboldt
County and situated at the confluence of the Getchell and Battle
Mountain - Eureka metallogenic trends, and consists of 44 lode mining
claims, covering a total area of approximately 3.22 km(2) (795.4 acres)
located approximately 27km east of Winnemucca.

Stonewall Project

The Stonewall project is an exploration stage gold-silver property prospective
for epithermal gold-silver mineralisation. The property consists of 19 lode
mining claims covering 1.59 km(2) (392.5 acres) located on the northern flank
of Stonewall Mountain, on the western edge of the Nellis Airforce Range
Restricted Access Area, in Nye County, Nevada, approximately 24km south-east
of the historic gold mining town of Goldfield and 60km due south
of Tonopah.

 

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