Neotech signs agreement for Torrance Project acquisition

Neotech Metals has signed an statement to get the Torrance Project from Kenorland Minerals, gaining a 100% involvement successful the site.

The Torrance Project is located astir 125km northbound of Timmins successful Ontario, Canada, and includes 580 mining claims implicit astir 12,270 hectares (ha).

It has imaginable for hosting niobium-tantalum-rare world constituent mineralisation wrong alkaline carbonatite formations.

The country displays unsocial ring-shaped magnetic patterns akin to different known complexes successful the Kapuskasing Structural Zone, specified arsenic Lackner Lake, Nemegosenda Lake and Hecla-Kilmer.

Situated adjacent Neotech’s Hecla-Kilmer Project, the Torrance Project benefits from entree to existing infrastructure and roads, which volition facilitate exploration activities.

Since acquiring the task successful 2022, Kenorland has reprocessed determination geophysical information and conducted a 2,865 line-km high-resolution aeromagnetic gradiometry and precise debased frequence electromagnetic survey, on with constricted mapping and prospecting.

These efforts person uncovered respective imaginable targets for further exploration.

The Torrance Project offers an early-stage accidental to observe a carbonatite-hosted uncommon world strategy wrong a geologically promising area.

Under the presumption of the transaction, Neotech volition contented 1,000,000 shares to Kenorland.

These shares volition beryllium nether a 24-month lock-up play post-closing, during which Kenorland cannot merchantability oregon transportation them, but nether definite conditions similar affiliate transfers oregon a alteration successful Neotech's control.

According to the acquisition agreement, Neotech indispensable transportation retired astatine slightest 2,000m of diamond drilling astatine the task wrong 3 years of closing, with provisions for unit majeure.

If this committedness is unmet, Kenorland tin reclaim the task from Neotech for a nominal fee, ensuring it remains successful bully standing.

The task is taxable to an existing 2% nett smelter returns royalty held by Kenorland Royalties, a Kenorland subsidiary.

Neotech has the enactment to repurchase 1% of this royalty for C$5m.

Completion of the transaction is pending modular conditions including indispensable regulatory approvals from bodies similar the Canadian Securities Exchange and, potentially, the TSX Venture Exchange.

Neotech Metals CEO Reagan Glazier said: “The acquisition of the Torrance Project further reinforces our committedness to advancing Hecla-Kilmer arsenic portion of a broader, district-scale accidental wrong the Kapuskasing Structural Zone.”

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