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GoviEX Uranium closes first tranche of fully subscribed non-brokered private placement offering for gross proceeds of approximately $5M

Published: 09:30 07 Aug 2020 EDT

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The first tranche consists of the issue of up to 35,714,286 units at a price of 14 cents per unit

GoviEx Uranium Inc. (OTCMKTS:GVXXF) (CVE:GXU) said it has closed the first tranche of a fully subscribed non-brokered private placement offering for gross proceeds of approximately $5 million.

The group said the net proceeds from the private placement will be used to finance continued exploration and development activities on GoviEx's Madaouela, Mutanga and Falea projects and for general working capital purposes.

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The first tranche consists of the issue of up to 35,714,286 units at a price of 14 cents per unit. Each unit consist of one Class A common share in the capital of the company and one transferable share purchase warrant. Each warrant will entitle the holder to acquire one common share for a period of 60 months from the date of issue at an exercise price equal to the US dollar equivalent of 20 cents.

The final tranche of the private placement is expected to close on or before August 13 2020. All securities issued under this private placement are subject to the customary four-month hold period. The private placement remains subject to the final TSX Venture Exchange acceptance.

In a statement, Govind Friedland, GoviEX executive chairman commented: "The U308 spot price is up over 30 per cent from the beginning of this year and we are delighted by the strong support received from our lead institutional investor as well as other long-term shareholders seeking exposure to our quality pipeline of mineral projects," stated

"We believe we are at a key turning point in the uranium market, and with this equity raise and support from a number of astute institutions, including a single lead investor taking the majority of the placement, the company will be well funded to achieve our corporate objectives for the year.”

He added: ”The first half of 2020 has brought with it major challenges and GoviEX has responded to them well. Despite the various COVID-19 restrictions around the globe the company continues to advance its projects.

"The global demand for uranium has remained strong. New reactor construction is ongoing and COVID-19 related supply restrictions on top of existing production constraint from the major producers has put pressure on the uranium spot price to the upside.

"Accordingly, the updated prefeasibility study for the Madaouela project in Niger continues to be advanced with the team focusing improvements to the planned operations and process design to potentially reduce capital and operating expenses and improve resulting project economics from those previously reported in the current prefeasibility study on the Madaouela project, thereby improving the potential bankability of our flagship fully permitted Madaouela project.

"Although COVID-19 has slightly impacted the timing for completion of the study, we remain confident to be able to announce results later this year."

GoviEX is a mineral resource company focused on the exploration and development of uranium properties in Africa.

As announced on July 6, 2020, a recent gold geochemical sampling program on the company's Falea and Madini exploration licences forming part of the Falea (uranium-silver-copper) project in Mali highlighted significant gold in soils anomalies that show the potential extensions of the Sirabaya West and the Siribaya-Bambadinka gold trends through, and potentially intersecting within, the Falea project.

The company believes these preliminary results, when combined with the known uranium-silver-copper mineralisation of the Falea project mineral resources, have significantly raised the exploration potential of these licences. A significant portion of this current financing is anticipated to be allocated to testing this precious metal potential.

Contact the author at jon.hopkins@proactiveinvestors.com

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