Following the announcement on April 21, 2016 of a proposed debt for equity conversion for up to $1.5 million the board of Minnova is pleased to announce that the conversion price of the proposed debt conversion has been amended to $0.35 per share for arm’s-length debt holders and the conversion price for non-arm’s length debt holders has been increased to $0.40 per share.
At the PL Mine the company is pleased to announce that it has initiated planning for spring and summer 2016 field programs consisting of a minimum of 1,000 meter diamond drilling program (including core re-logging and re-sampling) and geological mapping and sampling (including ground truthing of airborne VTEM™ anomalies on the mining lease). In addition we have commissioned a structural lineament analysis and analogue modeling study towards updating and revising the current geologic model and improving our understanding of the controls to gold mineralization at the PL Mine, Nokomis deposit and near mine exploration targets. The PL and Nokomis gold deposits remain open both down dip and on strike.
In addition to the geological and resource expansion focused field programs the Company is working diligently with a number of consulting engineers and equipment suppliers to further refine the underground mine development plan for the proposed re-start of the PL Mine under our existing Environment Act License 1207E. The company has identified several manufacturers’ of Ultra-Low Profile and Extra-Low Profile (ULP/XLP) mining equipment which it believes represent an opportunity to further mechanize the mine plan with commercially proven mining equipment to optimize ore extraction, mine cycle productivity and mine safety. ULP/XLP equipment is in commercial use globally and has demonstrated ability to mine at widths as low as 1.2 meters.
Detailed underground mine planning studies assessing the use of commercial ULP/XLP equipment, in various combinations, were initiated in April 2016.
We will look forward to reporting the results of all of the above programs and initiatives in the near future.
Read the press release about the Minnova Corp. update here.