METALS CREEK GETS EXCHANGE APPROVAL TO OPTION

METALS CREEK GETS EXCHANGE APPROVAL TO OPTION SILVER PROJECT TO QUADRO RESOURCES  

Toronto, September 27, 2018. – Metals Creek Resources Corp. (TSX-V: MEK) (“Metals Creek”); Quadro Resources Ltd. (TSX- V: QRO) (“Quadro”), and Benton Resources Inc. (TSX-V: BEX) (“Benton”) are pleased to announce that they have received approval from the TSX Venture Exchange for an option agreement pursuant to which Quadro has acquired the option to earn the one-third interests held by each of MEK and BEX in the jointly staked (33.33% each) Conche Property (see news release dated June 25, 2018) on Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula (the “Option”) (complete details of the option agreement are set out in Metals Creek’s July 9, 2018 news release).

To exercise the Option Quadro is required to issue 1 million shares to each of MEK and BEX over an eighteen month period on the basis of 200,000 shares to each on receipt of regulatory approval for the Option, a further 300,000 shares to each within six months of receipt of regulatory approval and 500,000 shares to each within eighteen months of receiving regulatory approval. Upon exercise of the Option MEK and BEX will each retain a 1% NSR with the Company having the right to purchase 50% of the NSR’s for the payment of $500,000 to each of MEK and BEX. 

MEK and BEX which are both insiders of Quadro and as such the transaction is a ”related party transaction” as such term is defined under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”).  The Company is relying on exemptions from the formal valuation and minority approval requirements set out in MI 61-101.  The Company is exempt from the formal valuation requirement of MI 61-101 under sections 5.5(a) and (b) of MI 61-101 in respect of the transaction as the fair market value of the transaction, insofar as it involves the interested parties, is not more than 25% of the Company’s market capitalization.  Additionally, the Company is exempt from minority shareholder approval under sections 5.7(1)(a) and (b) of MI 61-101 as, in addition to the foregoing, (i) neither the fair market value of the transaction nor the consideration to be provided to the interested parties exceeds $2,500,000, (ii) the Company has one or more independent directors who are not employees of the Company, and (iii) all of the independent directors have approved the transaction.

 

About Metals Creek Resources Corp.

Metals Creek Resources Corp. is a junior exploration company incorporated under the laws of the Province of Ontario, is a reporting issuer in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario, and has its common shares listed for trading on the Exchange under the symbol “MEK”. Metals Creek has earned a 50% interest in the Ogden Gold Property, including the former Naybob Gold mine, located 6 km south of Timmins, Ontario and has a 8 km strike length of the prolific Porcupine-Destor Fault (P-DF) that stretches between Timmins, Ontario and Val d’Or, Quebec. Metals Creek also has an option agreement with Quadro Resources on Metals Creeks and Benton Resources Staghorn Gold Project in Newfoundland as well as two option agreements with Anaconda Mining Inc. on Metals Creek’s Jacksons Arm and Tilt Cove Properties also in Newfoundland. The company also has an option agreement on its Clarks Brook property with Sokoman Iron Corp. and is engaged in the identification, acquisition, exploration and development of other mineral resource properties, and presently has mining interests in Ontario, Yukon and Newfoundland and Labrador including the recently acquired Great Brehat project on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. Additional information concerning the Corporation is contained in documents filed by the Corporation with securities regulators, available under its profile at www.sedar.com.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of Metals Creek Resources Corp.

"Alexander (Sandy) Stares, President and CEO"

 

 

THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE HAS NOT REVIEWED AND DOES NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE.

 

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