November 24, 2016 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Select Sands Corp. (“Select Sands” or the “Company”) (TSXV: SNS, OTC:CLICF) is pleased to announce that it has exercised the option to acquire and has now completed the acquisition of a 100% undivided right, title, and interest in its approximately 520-acre frac sand property (the “Property”) located in northeast Arkansas, USA.
The option agreement was entered into with an arm’s length landowner in October 2014 (See press release dated October 9, 2014) providing the Company with the option to acquire the Property for US$936,000 at any time on or before the 18 month anniversary of the agreement. Pursuant to the terms of the agreement an initial payment of US$200,000 was paid by the Company to the vendors with a final payment of US$736,000, to be paid on closing.
The Company extended the term of the option by paying US$4,000 per month to the vendors, US$2,000 of which was credited against the US$736,000 purchase price. To date US$32,000 of extension payments have been paid with US$16,000 being credited against the US$736,000 purchase price bringing the aggregate amount paid to the vendors (inclusive of extension payments) to US$952,000.
An aggregate finder’s fee of US$65,520 (equal to 7% of the transaction value) was paid in respect of this transaction to two separate finders. One-half of this finder’s fee was satisfied through the issuance of 46,191 common shares in the capital of the Company. The number of common shares was based on the 20-day volume weighted average price of the Company’s common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange (for the 20 days preceding the closing date) with Canadian dollars converted to U.S. dollars at the noon rate of Exchange for Cdn/U.S. dollars on the closing date as posted on the Bank of Canada’s website.
About Select Sands Corp.
1,500 tons per day (see August 23, 2016 News Release). The wet processing plant includes feed hopper, conveyor, classifiers, cyclones, and control building and is optimized to increase its daily capacity at minimal cost as needed. The Company Select Sands’ Sandtown property, located in northeast Arkansas, USA, is underlain by the Ordovician St. Peter sandstone formation, which is a major source of Northern White Silica Sand.’). Compared to competitive sand mines located in Wisconsin owned by the largest US frac sand producers, Sandtown has a competitive location advantage as it is approximately 650 rail miles closer to the Texas/Louisiana oil/gas plays as well as the Houston port and industrial hub.
The Company has acquired a wet processing plant to produce Northern White 40/70 and 100 mesh silica sand products with daily capacity of up to continues to seek additional opportunities in the region to secure strategic assets that will continue to optimize production
The Company has acquired 20 million common shares of Comstock Metals Ltd. pursuant to its sale of its gold assets to Comstock as set forth in the Company’s press release issued on Sept. 14, 2016. The 20 million shares were issued at a deemed price of 29 cents per share for total deemed consideration of $5.8-million. After giving effect to the acquisition by the Company of the 20 million common shares, the Company has ownership or control over approximately 35.4 percent of the issued and outstanding common shares of Comstock.
As per the June 2015 PEA report by Tetra Tech of Golden, Colorado, USA and Vancouver, BC, Canada, the Sandtown property has a pre-tax net present value of US $160 million and a post-tax net present value of US$92 million. The PEA was completed on a portion of the current silica sand mineral resources (see the Select Sands’ June 10, 2015 News Release). Select Sands would like to remind investors that mineral resources for the Sandtown Property are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability and there is no certainty that this PEA will be realized. The PEA is preliminary in nature that it includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves, and there is no certainty that the PEA will be realized. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability. There is no certainty that the resources development, production, and economic forecasts on which this PEA is based will be realized. Subsequent to the completion of the 2015 PEA, Select Sands announced an updated mineral resource estimate for the Sandtown property totaling 41.98 Million Tons of Indicated silica sand mineral resources (see the Select Sands February 10, 2016 news release).
Mark Horan, P.Eng. of Tetra Tech, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical disclosure in this News Release.
Forward Looking Statements
This News Release includes forward-looking information and statements, which may include, but are not limited to, information and statements regarding or inferring the future business, operations, financial performance, prospects, and other plans, intentions, expectations, estimates, and beliefs of the Company. Such statements include statements regarding targets and future exploration on the Company’s properties. Information and statements which are not purely historical fact are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking information and statements involve and are subject to assumptions and known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause actual events, results, performance, or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future events, results, performance, and achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking information and statements herein. Although the Company believes that any forward-looking information and statements herein are reasonable, in light of the use of assumptions and the significant risks and uncertainties inherent in such information and statements, there can be no assurance that any such forward-looking information and statements will prove to be accurate, and accordingly readers are advised to rely on their own evaluation of such risks and uncertainties and should not place undue reliance upon such forward-looking information and statements. Any forward-looking information and statements herein are made as of the date hereof, and except as required by applicable laws, the Company assumes no obligation and disclaims any intention to update or revise any forward-looking information and statements herein or to update the reasons that actual events or results could or do differ from those projected in any forward looking information and statements herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or results, or otherwise, except as required by applicable laws.
For more information about Select Sands Corp., please visit www.selectsandscorp.com or contact:
Rasool Mohammad, B.Sc. (Mining)
President & CEO.
Phone: (604) 639-4533
Investor Relations
Arlen Hansen
Phone: (604) 684-6730
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