Placing and
Notice of General Meeting
London 4 March 2009 - Cluff Gold plc (AIM: CLF; TSX: CFG)
announces that, further to the announcement made on 23 February 2009,
and subject to certain conditions and approvals including as set
out below, the Company has placed 20,285,000 new ordinary
shares (the "Placing Shares"), at a price of 40p per share to
raise gross proceeds of ?8,114,000 (approximately
US $11,397,736) (the "Placing"). The Placing has been conducted
by BMO Capital Markets, Thomas Weisel
Partners International Limited and Smith's Corporate Advisory
Limited as placing agents to the Company. The
estimated expenses of the Placing are ?486,840.
After
completion, the funds will be used to progress an
accelerated drilling programme, which will test the down-dip and
along strike extensions of the Company's flagship gold exploration project, Baomahun, located in Sierra Leone; to increase
production at the Company's Kalsaka mine
in Burkina Faso by further investment in the on-site plant and equipment
and through additional ore reserve definition
drilling; and for general working capital purposes.
The
Placing is conditional on, inter alia, the satisfaction of
certain conditions including the approval of certain resolutions by
the shareholders of the Company at a general
meeting ("GM") of the Company to be held on
27 March 2009.
Accordingly,
the Company has dispatched a circular convening a GM to be held
at the offices of Maclay Murray & Spens LLP, 12th floor, One London Wall, London, EC2Y
5AB on 27 March 2009 at
10.00 a.m. (GMT).
At
the GM, resolutions will be proposed to disapply
pre-emption rights and to give the directors authority to allot the Placing
Shares for cash.
Subject
to the resolutions being passed at the GM, application will be
made to London Stock Exchange plc for the Placing Shares to be admitted to
trading on AIM. The Placing Shares are expected to be admitted to AIM and to
commence trading at 8.00 a.m. (GMT)
on 31 March 2009. The Company has applied to the Toronto Stock
Exchange ("TSX") for acceptance of the Placing and for the
Placing Shares to be listed on the TSX. Provided the TSX grants
approval for the listing of the Placing Shares, the Placing Shares are expected
to be listed on the TSX at 9.30
a.m. on 31 March 2009. However, in accordance
with the form of subscription letter used in connection with the Placing, each placee has agreed not to trade any Placing Shares through
the facilities of the TSX for a period of four months and one day
following the closing of the Placing.
A
copy of the GM circular is available from www.sedar.com or the
Company's website: www.cluffgold.com
A
further update will be provided in due course as to the result of the GM. The securities
offered have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S.
Securities Act of 1993, as amended, (the "Securities
Act") and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an
applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act and applicable securities laws of any U.S. state.
For
further information, please contact:
Cluff Gold plc
J.G.
Cluff
Chairman
Tel:
+44 (0) 20 7340 9790
Nominated
Adviser
WH
Ireland Limited
David
Youngman / Katy Mitchell
Tel:
+44 161 832 2174
Joanna
Longo
Investor
Relations (Canada)
The
Equicom Group
+1 416
815 0700 ext 233
jlongo@equicomgroup.com
|
Simon
Robinson
Investor
Relations (U.K.)
Farm
Street Communications Ltd
+44 (0) 207 099 2212
simon.robinson@farmstreetmedia.com
|
Notes to Editors
About Cluff Gold
Cluff Gold is focused on the identification,
acquisition and development of gold deposits in West
Africa that are amenable to open-pit mining and low cost
production techniques. The Company has assembled a portfolio of
mineral interests at various stages of development in C?te d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Sierra
Leone, Mali and Ghana. Cluff Gold progressed from being an explorer to a producer
in Q1, 2008 and is expected to produce 100,000 ounces of
gold on an annualised basis from 2009 from its Angovia
Gold Mine in Cote d'Ivoire and
from its Kalsaka Gold Mine in Burkina Faso.
This
News Release includes certain "forward-looking information" within
the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. All
statements other than statements of historical fact, included in this release,
including, without limitation, the positioning of the Company for future
success, statements regarding potential future production at Angovia and Kalsaka, exploration and
drilling results at Baomahun, and
future capital plans and objectives of Cluff
Gold, are forward-looking information that involve various risks and uncertainties.
There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and
actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated
in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from Cluff Gold's expectations
include, among others, risks related to international operations, the actual
results of current exploration and drilling activities, changes in
project parameters as plans continue to be refined as well as future price of
gold. Although Cluff Gold 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 as
anticipated, estimated or intended..
There
can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate as actual
results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in
such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance
on forward-looking statements. Cluff
Gold does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are
included herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
NO REGULATORY
AUTHORITY HAS APPROVED OR DISAPPROVED THE CONTENT OF THIS PRESS RELEASE.
This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock
Exchange
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