LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG -- (Marketwired) -- 12/17/13 -- Northland Resources S.A. (OSLO: NAUR)(FRANKFURT: NPK)(OMX: NAURo) - (together with its subsidiaries "Northland", "NRSA" or the "Company") announces the number of warrants exercised in December 2013.
The deadline for the Company's warrant holders to exercise their warrants in December 2013 has now expired. The Company has received exercise notices from warrant holders for the issuance of a total of 74,810 shares in the Company. The shares are expected to be issued and registered in the Norwegian Central Securities Depository ("VPS") before the start of trading on December 19, 2013. The new shares to be issued are not tradable until they have been issued and registered in VPS and this has been confirmed through an announcement by the Company.
After the issuance of the new shares, the total number of outstanding shares will be 41,722,353. The remaining number of outstanding warrants issued in connection with the USD 335 million bond will be 47,011,322.
Northland is a producer of iron ore concentrate, with a portfolio of production, development and exploration mines and projects in northern Sweden and Finland. The first construction phase of the Kaunisvaara project is complete and production ramp-up started in November 2012. The Company expects to produce high-grade, high-quality magnetite iron concentrate in Kaunisvaara, Sweden, where the Company expects to exploit two magnetite iron ore deposits, Tapuli and Sahavaara. Northland has entered into off-take contracts with three partners for the entire production from the Kaunisvaara project over the next seven to ten years. The Company is also preparing a Definitive Feasibility Study ("DFS") for its Hannukainen Iron Oxide Copper Gold ("IOCG") project in Kolari, northern Finland
Forward-Looking Information
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Contacts:
Johan Dagertun
Senior Vice President Financing and Business Control
+46 703 70 00 31
Jonas Lundstrom
Senior Vice President Corporate Communication
+46 705 49 33 38
www.northland.eu
