Mr. Keith Anderson reports
FAR RESOURCES SIGNS OPTION AGREEMENT WITH REDLINE MINERALS
Far Resources Ltd.
has entered
into an option agreement, effective as of Oct. 17, 2014, with Redline
Minerals Inc., Redline
Mining Corp.
and Southwest Land & Exploration Inc., to acquire up to an 80-per-cent interest in and to 105
unpatented and two patented mineral claims located in Sierra county, New Mexico,
United States of America, known as the LG/Ivan and Little Granite unpatented mineral claims and
the Ivanhoe/Emporia patented mineral claims.
The option agreement supersedes
and replaces the binding letter of intent between the company and Redline announced
on Nov. 5, 2013, and sets out the terms under which Far can acquire an
initial 50-per-cent interest in the property and further sets out how the company can earn up to an additional
30-per-cent interest in the property from the optionors.
To date, the
company has completed an initial site visit to the
property as announced on March 17, 2014, and made cash payments to Redline
totalling $66,250. To exercise the initial option, the
company must: (1) make further cash
payments of $13,750 on Nov. 15, 2014, and $15,000 on Jan. 15, 2015 (or 300,000
common shares at a deemed price of five cents per share in lieu thereof), and (2)
make additional cash payments totalling $240,000, payable at $80,000 per year,
which the optionors must use to keep the properties in good standing, issue a
total of 2.5 million common shares of the company to the optionors with the first
tranche of 500,000 common shares due on closing and the remaining shares due in
four equal instalments of 500,000 shares each on the anniversary dates of the
option agreement, and incur exploration expenses of $1-million over a period of
four years with $200,000 to be spent the first and second years, respectively,
and $300,000 in each subsequent year.
Upon exercise of the initial option, the
company will have the further option, exercisable for a period of 90 days, to
acquire up to an additional 30-per-cent interest in the property, in increments
of 10 per cent per annum, by paying an additional $80,000 per year to cover continuing assessment/recording
fees, taxes and underlying property payments (up to $240,000 in total), issuing
an additional 500,000 common shares per year to the optionors (up to 1.5 million shares in total), and incurring a further $500,000 in exploration expenditures
per year (up to $1.5-million in total) on the property over a period of three
years.
All shares issued under the option agreement will be subject to a four-month-and-one-day statutory hold period
from the date of issuance and be subject to a five-month
voluntary pooling restriction, which will allow for the shares to be released
from the pool at the rate of 100,000 shares per month for five months after the
expiry of the hold period. The 300,000
shares which may be issued in lieu of the $15,000 cash payment described herein
will not be subject to the pooling restriction, but will be subject the hold
period.
During the option
period, the parties will jointly undertake all exploration programs on the
property through a technical committee to be composed of two representatives from
the company and one representative from the optionors. Upon exercise of the initial option or, if
applicable, the initial option and all or part of the additional option, the
company and the optionors will enter into a joint venture agreement for the
further exploration and development of the property with the company as the initial
operator.
The property is
subject to certain permitted encumbrances including a 2-per-cent net smelter return
royalty on the Ivanhoe/Emporia patented claims.
We seek Safe Harbor.
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