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    cobalt investing

    Fortune Minerals Limited Announces an Increased Size of the Previously Announced Bought Deal Financing

    Matthew Spizziri
    Feb. 15, 2017 11:01AM PST
    Battery Metals
    Cobalt Investing

    Fortune Minerals Limited (TSX: FT; OTCQX: FTMDF) is pleased to announce that it has agreed with Cormark Securities Inc. (the “Underwriter”) to increase the size of the bought deal offering of units, announced on February 15, 2017, by 2,800,000 units ($700,000 ) to 22,800,000 units (“Units”) of the Company at a price of $0.25 per Unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of $5.7 million.

    Fortune Minerals Limited (TSX: FT; OTCQX: FTMDF) is pleased to announce that it has agreed with Cormark Securities Inc. (the “Underwriter”) to increase the size of the bought deal offering of units, announced on February 15, 2017, by 2,800,000 units ($700,000 ) to 22,800,000 units (“Units”) of the Company at a price of $0.25 per Unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of $5.7 million. Each Unit will consist of one common share of Fortune (a “Common Share”) and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each full warrant, a “Warrant”), each full Warrant being exercisable to acquire one common share of Fortune at a purchase price of $0.35 for a period of 24 months following the closing date.
    In addition, the Company has granted the Underwriter an option to purchase additional Units at the Offering Price to raise additional gross proceeds of up to $750,000, for a period of 30 days after and including the Closing Date to cover over-allotments, if any, and for market stabilization purposes.
    The offering is scheduled to close on or about March 8, 2017. Closing is subject to certain conditions including, but not limited to, the receipt of all necessary approvals including the approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the securities regulatory authorities.
    The net proceeds from the offering will be used to fund an updated feasibility study for the NICO Cobalt-Gold-Bismuth-Copper project and for general corporate purposes.
    This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of any of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The securities will not be and have not been registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or applicable exemption from the registration requirements.
    Read the full company profile.
    About NICO:
    The NICO deposit contains Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves totaling more than 33 million tonnes that will support a 21-year mine life at a planned mill throughput rate of 4,650 metric tonnes of ore per day. Approximately 180 wet tonnes per day of bulk concentrate will be produced by flotation in the mill containing the recoverable metals and will be trucked from the site on the new road to the rail head at Hay River for railway delivery to the refinery in Saskatchewan and downstream processing to value-added metals and chemicals. Life of mine average annual production is projected to be 41,300 ounces of gold, 1,615 tonnes of cobalt contained in a battery grade cobalt sulphate, 1,750 tonnes of bismuth contained in metal ingots and oxide powder, and 265 tonnes of copper.
    The disclosure of scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been approved by Robin Goad, M.Sc., P.Geo., President and Chief Executive Officer of Fortune, who is a “Qualified Person” under National Instrument 43-101. The technical report on the feasibility study referred to above, entitled “Technical Report on the Feasibility Study for the NICO-Gold-Cobalt-Bismuth-Copper Project, Northwest Territories, Canada”, dated April 2, 2014 and prepared by Micon International Limited, from which certain information in this press release has been extracted, has been filed on SEDAR and is available under the Company’s profile at www.sedar.com.
    About Fortune Minerals
    Fortune is a Canadian development stage mining company focused on advancing the vertically integrated NICO gold-cobalt-bismuth-copper project in the Northwest Territories and a related refinery the Company plans to construct in Saskatchewan. Fortune also owns the Sue-Dianne copper-silver-gold deposit located 25 km north of NICO and a potential future source of incremental mill feed to extend the life of the NICO mill. The Company also maintains the right to repurchase the Arctos anthracite coal deposits in northwest British Columbia that were recently purchased by a provincial Crown corporation.
    This press release contains forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities legislation. This forward-looking information includes statements with respect to, among other things, the Company’s plans to develop the NICO project (including the Company’s plans to secure off-take agreements and project financing to start construction), estimated future production, anticipated growth in the demand for cobalt, anticipated constraints on the supply of cobalt and plans for the construction of an all-season road needed for operations at the NICO Project. Forward-looking information is based on the opinions and estimates of management as well as certain assumptions at the date the information is given (including, in respect of the forward-looking information contained in this press release, assumptions regarding the Company’s ability to arrange the necessary financing to continue operations and develop the NICO project, growth in the demand for cobalt, restrictions on the supply of cobalt and the proposed construction of the all-season road, the economic environment in which the Company will operate in the future, including the price of gold, cobalt and other by-product metals, anticipated costs and the volumes of metals to be produced at the NICO Project). However, such forward-looking information is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information. These factors include the risks that the Company may not be able to finance and develop NICO on favourable terms or at all, the market for rechargeable batteries and the use of stationary storage cells may not grow to the extent anticipated, the future supply of cobalt may not be as limited as anticipated, the Company’s production of cobalt and other metals may be less than anticipated and other operational and development risks, market risks and regulatory risks. Readers are cautioned to not place undue reliance on forward-looking information because it is possible that predictions, forecasts, projections and other forms of forward-looking information will not be achieved by the Company. The forward-looking information contained herein is made as of the date hereof and the Company assumes no responsibility to update or revise it to reflect new events or circumstances, except as required by law.
    Fortune Minerals Limited
    Troy Nazarewicz, CIM, CPIR
    Investor Relations Manager
    148 Fullarton Street, Suite 1600
    London, Ontario, CANADA
    N6A 5P3
    Tel. 519-858-8188
    Cel. 519-709-8489
    info@fortuneminerals.com
    www.fortuneminerals.com
    Connect with Fortune Minerals Limited (TSX: FT; OTCQX: FTMDF) to receive an Investor Presentation.
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