West Kirkland Mining Inc. (TSX-V:WKM) announces that it has closed a private placement of common shares of the Company first announced on November 30, 2018. The Company issued an aggregate 40,000,000 common shares at a price of $0.05 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $2,000,000.  The Private Placement was completed with two of its major shareholders and six investors.  A 6% cash finder’s fee amounting to $27,000 was paid on a portion of the Private Placement, which was otherwise arranged by management.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Private Placement to focus on permitting Phase 2 of its 75%-owned Hasbrouck Gold Project located in Nevada and for general working capital.  The shares sold in this Private Placement will be subject to a four-month and one-day resale restriction expiring April 8, 2019.

Sun Valley Gold Master Fund, Ltd. and Ruffer LLP, each being a related party to the Company under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101”) by virtue of being a holder of more than 10% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company, participated in the Private Placement. The Private Placement therefore constitutes a “related party transaction” under MI 61-101. The Company relied upon exemptions from the valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 available pursuant to sections 5.5(b) and 5.7(1)(b) of MI 61-101, as the Company is not listed on a senior specified stock exchange and the Private Placement raised proceeds of less than $2,500,000.

The common shares sold pursuant to the Private Placement have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”) or any U.S. state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent registration or any applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in the United States, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

About West Kirkland Mining Inc.

West Kirkland owns a 75% interest in, and a 1.1% net smelter return royalty over, the Hasbrouck Gold Project in Tonopah, Nevada. A Pre-feasibility Study was completed and updated in 2016 for two open-pit heap-leach pits comprising the Hasbrouck Gold Project.  The Pre-feasibility Study along with construction-level drawings and all federal and state permits for the Phase 1, Three Hills Mine provides a ready-to-construct project. 

The Company has secured an option on a district scale land position for future exploration. At this time, the Company will focus its efforts on completing full permitting for its gold reserves.