Burgeoning gold miner Artemis Gold has launched an up to $US156M equity financing to make its final cash acquisition payment to New Gold for its Blackwater Gold Project.
Artemis agreed to buy the Blackwater project in June 2020, a proposed open-pit mine, 160km SE of Prince George, Canada, for $C190M, with initial plans to develop a 248,000oz pa operation, which will cost nearly $600M, and then finance 2 subsequent expansion stages from future operating cashflows.
The new deal is with a syndicate of underwriters under which they will buy on a bought deal basis 16.39M common shares at $6.10ps for $100M. Artemis is also undertaking a non-brokered private placement bought deal for up to 9.2M common shares for up to $56.12M. The underwriters have an option for an additional 15% of the bought deal offering to cover over-allotments, if any.