DENVER, CO, March 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- US GOLD CORPORATION is pleased to announce that shareholders of White Knight Resources Ltd., Nevada Pacific Gold Ltd., and Tone Resources Limited have overwhelmingly accepted US Gold's offers to acquire the outstanding shares of each target company!
US Gold's wholly-owned subsidiary, US Gold Canadian Acquisition Corporation, has taken up and accepted the following number and approximate percentage of common shares of each target company based on the outstanding shares today:
Number of Common Percentage of Outstanding Shares Tendered Common Shares --------------- ------------- White Knight Resources 55,752,661 93.7% Nevada Pacific Gold 59,278,256 83.5% Tone Resources 18,806,726 89.4%
"We are pleased that shareholders of the three target companies have accepted our offer! We will now move quickly to integrate these four companies and drive forward. During this process, US Gold has accomplished many of the goals I set for the Company in order to create Nevada's premier exploration company: We strengthened the treasury, increased our trading liquidity by listing our common shares on the American and Toronto Stock Exchanges and began an aggressive $30 million exploration program at our Tonkin Project. These three acquisitions will take us one step closer to achieving our goal, with a large discovery being the last and most exciting on the list," stated Rob McEwen, Chairman and CEO of US Gold.
Under the offers, US Gold Canadian Acquisition Corporation offered 0.35 of an exchangeable share for each outstanding White Knight Resources common share, 0.23 of an exchangeable share for each Nevada Pacific Gold common share and 0.26 of an exchangeable share for each Tone Resources common share. The aggregate number of exchangeable shares to be issued in the offers by US Gold Canadian Acquisition Corporation will be approximately 38,037,179. It is anticipated that certificates for the exchangeable shares will be delivered next week.
Now that the offers have expired, US Gold and US Gold Canadian Acquisition Corporation intend to implement a subsequent acquisition transaction under Canadian law, in order to acquire full ownership of each of the target companies.
Cautionary Statements
This press release contains certain "forward-looking statements." Such forward-looking statements are often identified by words such as "intends", "anticipates", "believes", "expects" and "hopes" and include, without limitation, statements regarding the Company's plan of business operations, potential contractual arrangements, receipt of working capital, anticipated revenues and related expenditures. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, among others, those set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, under the caption "Risk Factors" and in other reports filed with the SEC. Most of these factors are outside the control of the Company. Investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Except as otherwise required by applicable securities statutes or regulations, the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
