27 Aug 2008capital raising announcement▼ BadMajor
Newport Gold wiped out $711,861 of debt by issuing 14.2 million shares at $0.05 each to 15 individuals -- a heavily dilutive conversion that included debt originally owed to CEO Derek Bartlett ($277,859), his late son's estate, and major shareholder Ann Pineau ($302,000), i.e. mostly insider and insider-adjacent debt.