pcNewsWire – Alabama Graphite Corp. (TSX-V: CSPG; OTCQB: CSPGF; FSE: 1AG) has closed on its second and final tranche of previously announced non-brokered private placement, issuing 3,180,000 units at $0.15 per unit for gross proceeds of approximately $477,000. Together with the first tranche, the company raised approximately $1,326,000 through the issuance of 8,840,000 units.
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Alabama Graphite Corp. Completes $1.3 Million Non-Brokered Private Placement; Announces Granting of Incentive Stock Options
The Energy Graphite™ Company
Sourced and Manufactured in the United States of America
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – May 10, 2017) –
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Alabama Graphite Corp. (“AGC” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:CSPG)(OTCQB:CSPGF)(FRANKFURT:1AG) is pleased to announce that further to its April 26, 2017, May 2, 2017, and May 5, 2017 announcements, the Company has closed on its second and final tranche (the “Second Tranche”) of the previously-announced non-brokered private placement (the “Private Placement”). Pursuant to the Second Tranche, the Company issued 3,180,000 units (the “Units”) at a price of $0.15 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $477,000. Together with the first tranche of the Private Placement, the Company raised approximately $1,326,000 through the issuance of 8,840,000 Units.
Each Unit is comprised of one common share in the capital of the Company (each, a “Common Share”) and one Common Share purchase warrant (each, a “Warrant”). Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one additional Common Share at an exercise price of $0.20 for a period of 36 months following the date of issue, subject to customary adjustment provisions.
AGC intends to use the net proceeds of the Private Placement for working capital and production, full electrochemical testing and characterization of significant quantities of Coated Spherical Purified Graphite (“CSPG”) engineered for use in lithium-ion (“Li-ion”) battery anodes and Delaminated Expanded Graphite (“DEXDG”) engineered for use as a conductivity enhancement diluent in Li-ion battery cathodes. This fully characterized and tested battery-ready material will be conveyed to satisfy outstanding material requests from both existing United States Department of Defense (“DoD”) battery manufacturers and contractors, non-DoD entities, and new potential end users.
Finders’ fees totalling an aggregate of approximately $21,500 in cash commissions and 143,150 compensation options (the “Finders Warrants”) were paid / issued in connection with the Private Placement. Each Finders Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one Unit at an exercise price of $0.15 per Unit for a period of 36 months from the closing of the Private Placement. Toronto-based M Partners Inc. acted as a finder in the Private Placement.
Pursuant to applicable Canadian securities laws, all securities issued pursuant to the Private Placement are subject to a hold period of four months and one day. The hold period for the securities issued pursuant to the Second Tranche expires on September 11, 2017.
The Executive Vice President of the Company, Tyler Dinwoodie, participated in the Second Tranche as an insider. Such participation represents a related-party transaction under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”), but is exempt from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 as neither the fair market value of the subject matter of the transaction, nor the consideration paid, exceed 25% of the Company’s market capitalization.
The Private Placement was approved by all of the independent directors of the Company. The number of Common Shares potentially issuable to insiders of the Company pursuant to the Private Placement (including any Common Shares issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants) represents not more than 10% of the Company’s currently issued and outstanding Common Shares on a non-diluted basis.
Immediately prior to the closing of the Second Tranche, Mr. Dinwoodie owned 500,000 Common Shares of the Company and stock options entitling Mr. Dinwoodie to purchase 1,000,000 Common Shares of the Company, in addition to Warrants entitling Mr. Dinwoodie to purchase 100,000 Common Shares of the Company.
Following the closing of the Private Placement, Mr. Dinwoodie directly and indirectly owns the following securities of the Company:
1,500,000 Common Shares, representing approximately 1.1% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares of the Company;
Warrants entitling Mr. Dinwoodie to purchase 600,000 Common Shares of the Company; and
Stock options entitling Mr. Dinwoodie to purchase 1,000,000 Common Shares of the Company.
Assuming the exercise of all Warrants and stock options held by Mr. Dinwoodie, he would own 3,100,000 Common Shares, representing approximately 2.2% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares of the Company (on a diluted basis with respect to the Second Tranche).
The Private Placement remains subject to the final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange (the “TSX-V”).
GRANT OF INCENTIVE STOCK OPTIONS
AGC also announces ounces that it has granted incentive stock options to purchase up to: (i) 525,000 Common Shares at an exercise price of $0.16 per share for a period of 42 months; and (ii) 1,250,000 Common Shares at an exercise price of $0.15 per share for a period of 48 months, to consultants and directors of the Company, in accordance with the provisions of the Company’s stock-option plan. The stock options will vest immediately. The stock-option grant remains subject to TSX-V approval.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of ALABAMA GRAPHITE CORP.
Donald K. D. Baxter, P.Eng., President, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director
ABOUT ALABAMA GRAPHITE CORP.
Alabama Graphite Corp. is a Canadian-based flake graphite exploration and development company as well as an aspiring battery materials production and technology company. The Company operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Alabama Graphite Company Inc. (a company registered in the state of Alabama). With an advancing flake graphite project in the United States of America, Alabama Graphite Corp intends to become a reliable, long-term U.S. supplier of specialty high-purity graphite products. A highly experienced team leads the Company with more than 100 years of combined graphite mining, graphite processing, specialty graphite products and applications, and graphite sales experience. Alabama Graphite Corp. is focused on the exploration and development of its flagship Coosa Graphite Project in Coosa County, Alabama, and its Bama Mine Project in Chilton County, Alabama as well the research and development of its proprietary manufacturing and technological processing process of battery materials.
Alabama Graphite Corp. holds a 100% interest in the mineral rights for these two U.S.-based graphite projects, which are both located on private land. The two projects encompass more than 43,000 acres and are located in a geopolitically stable, mining-friendly jurisdiction with significant historical production of crystalline flake graphite in the flake graphite belt of central Alabama, also known as the Alabama Graphite Belt (source: U.S. Bureau of Mines). A significant portion of the Alabama deposits are characterized by graphite-bearing material that is oxidized and has been weathered into extremely soft rock. Both projects have infrastructure in place, are within close proximity to major highways, rail, power and water, and are approximately three hours (by truck or train) to the Port of Mobile, the Alabama Port Authority’s deep-seawater port and the ninth largest port by tonnage in the United States (source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/USACE). The state of Alabama’s hospitable climate allows for year-round mining operations and the world’s largest marble quarry (which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in Sylacauga, Alabama), is located within a 30-minute drive of the Coosa Graphite Project.
On November 30, 2015, Alabama Graphite Corp. announced the results of PEA for the Coosa Graphite Project, indicating a potentially low-cost project with potential positive economics. Please refer to the Company’s technical report titled “Alabama Graphite Corp. Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) on the Coosa graphite Project, Alabama, USA” dated November 27, 2015, prepared by independent engineering firms AGP Mining Consultants Inc. and Metal Mining Consultants Inc., and filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Note: a preliminary economic assessment is preliminary in nature, it includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves and there is no certainty that the preliminary economic assessment will be realized.
* Inferred Mineral Resources represent material that is considered too speculative to be included in economic evaluations. Additional trenching and/or drilling will be required to convert Inferred Mineral Resources to Measured or Indicated Mineral Resources. Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. There is no guarantee that all or any part of the Mineral Resource will be converted into a Mineral Reserve.
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Contact Information
Alabama Graphite Corp.
Ann-Marie M. Pamplin
Vice President, Investor Relations
+1 (416) 309-8641
apamplin@alabamagraphite.com
www.alabamagraphite.com
