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$3,000,000 Private
Placement Closes
Pitchstone Exploration
Ltd. (TSX-V: PXP; “Pitchstone”) is pleased to announce that it has
closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement for
gross proceeds of $3,000,000. Under the private placement Pitchstone
has issued 1,000,000 units at $3.00 per unit, with each unit
consisting of one common share and one-half of a share purchase
warrant. Each whole warrant will entitle the holder to acquire a
common share for eighteen months at a price of $3.75. In connection
with the private placement Pitchstone paid a cash finder’s fee in the
amount of $150,000. All securities issued under the private placement
will have a hold period expiring on December 8, 2007.
The proceeds of the
private placement will be used for exploration on Pitchstone’s
property interests and for general working capital.
Pitchstone is actively
exploring for uranium in four proven districts. The property portfolio
features eight projects in the eastern Athabasca Basin,
Saskatchewan, five of which are joint ventured with Uranium One, with
the other three being 100% owned. In addition, there are five joint
venture projects with Triex in the Hornby Bay Basin, Nunavut and NWT,
an exploration partnership with Cameco and Motapa Diamonds in the
Franceville Basin, Gabon, and an option on three projects in Namibia.
Pitchstone has a unique group of geologists with extensive uranium
exploration and production experience.
On behalf of the
Board,
E.A.G. (Ted) Trueman,
CEO and Director
For further
information contact: Ted Trueman, CEO, (604) 630 5560,
ted@pitchstone.net, Mark T. Brown,
CFO, (604) 687-3520,
mark@pitchstone.net, or
www.pitchstone.net
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed
and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of
this release. This news release may contain assumptions, estimates,
and other forward-looking statements regarding future events. Such
forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties
and are subject to factors, many of which are beyond the Company’s
control, that may cause actual results or performance to differ
materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. |