Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
8 Feb 2022business combination● NeutralMajor
Bought 286,904 shares of Beattie Gold Mines, the private company holding much of the ground of the Duparquet gold project in Quebec, paying C$4.44 cash and 26.62 First Mining shares per Beattie share. The opening move on what becomes First Mining's Quebec asset.
Agreed to earn up to 80% of Pelangio Exploration's Birch Lake properties near Springpole over two stages and six years, through subsidiary Gold Canyon Resources - this time First Mining is the one earning in rather than being earned into.
Auteco completed stage two at Pickle Crow, having spent $5 million on exploration and paid First Mining $1 million in cash, and granted First Mining a 2% net smelter royalty.
28 July 2021regulatory community update▲ GoodMajor
Signed an exploration agreement with the Animakee Wa Zhing #37 First Nation covering the Cameron gold project - the first of a series of First Nations agreements that come to dominate this company's critical path.
The British Columbia court approved the arrangement letting First Mining hand 23,333,333 Treasury Metals shares and 11,666,666 warrants straight to its own shareholders, by reducing its capital. Shareholders keep the Goldlund exposure directly rather than through First Mining's balance sheet.
Auteco completed stage one of its Pickle Crow earn-in and issued First Mining 100,000,000 Auteco shares - the first hard consideration from the January 2020 deal.
Springpole's first prefeasibility study: a 30,000 tonne-a-day open pit worth US$995 million after tax at a 5% discount with a 29% return, producing an average 335,000 ounces of gold a year at all-in sustaining costs of US$577 an ounce in years one to nine. The first study-grade number on the asset First Mining has held since its early days.
Agreed to buy the East Cedartree claims from Metalore Resources for $3 million cash and 3 million First Mining shares, filling a gap in the ground around the Cameron gold project near Kenora.
12 June 2020asset acquisition disposition▲ GoodMajor
Agreed to sell First Majestic Silver a stream over 50% of Springpole's payable silver for US$22.5 million in staged payments - money for the project that does not dilute shareholders, from a company chaired by First Mining's own chairman Keith Neumeyer.
Agreed to sell Tamaka Gold, the subsidiary holding Goldlund, to Treasury Metals, which would combine it with its adjacent Goliath project; First Mining becomes Treasury's largest shareholder and plans to pass most of the Treasury shares and warrants straight to its own shareholders. The second of the two priority assets is being handed to someone else to develop.