Macarthur Minerals Closes Successful $1.9M Fully Underwritten Rights Offer

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Macarthur Minerals Limited (TSX-V:MMS) (the “Company” or “Macarthur Minerals”) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced rights offering which expired on December 12, 2017 (the "Rights Offering"), subject to final Exchange approval. Macarthur Minerals will issue 31,712,730 Units ("Units") of the Company at a price of C$0.06 per Unit for gross proceeds of C$1,902,764.

Cameron McCall, Executive Chairman of Macarthur Minerals commented;

“We thank our Shareholders for their strong support, with over half of the Rights Offering being additional subscriptions from our current Shareholders. $1.9 million raised from the Rights Offering, will be directed towards exploration of Macarthur Minerals’ gold and lithium projects in Pilbara, as well as its Reynolds Springs lithium brine project in Nevada. The Company will also continue to advance its iron ore projects in the Yilgarn region of Western Australia towards development.”

Each whole Unit consists of one Common Share and one Common Share purchase warrant (“Warrant”). Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to acquire one Common Share for C$0.20 for a term of 12 months from the date of issue of the Unit, unless accelerated by the Company.

A total of 7,685,031 Units will be issued pursuant to the basic subscription privilege granted under the Rights Offering, of which, to the knowledge of the Company, 614,042 Units will be issued to insiders of the Company and 7,070,989 Units will be issued to non-insiders of the Company. A total of 16,692,425 Units will be issued pursuant to the additional subscription privilege granted under the Rights Offering, of which, to the knowledge of the Company, all of the additional subscription privilege Units will be issued to non-insiders of the Company.

Orbit Drilling Pty Ltd (“Orbit Drilling”), the Standby Guarantor will acquire an aggregate of 7,335,274 Units in connection with the Rights Offering pursuant to its stand-by commitment. Orbit Drilling will own 7,335,274 Common Shares representing ~3% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares following closing and 7,335,274 Warrants.

Following closing of the Rights Offering, Macarthur Minerals will have 231,285,350 Common Shares issued and outstanding.

The net proceeds of the Rights Offering to analyse the potential for lithium and gold on its acreage, pay care and maintenance costs on Macarthur Minerals’ existing acreage and for ongoing working capital.

ABOUT MACARTHUR MINERALS LIMITED (TSX-V:MMS)

Macarthur Minerals Ltd. is an exploration company that is focused on identifying high grade gold and lithium. Macarthur Minerals has significant gold, lithium and iron ore exploration interests in Australia and Nevada. Macarthur Minerals has two iron ore projects in Western Australia; the Ularring hematite project and the Moonshine magnetite project.

On behalf of the Board of Directors,
MACARTHUR MINERALS LIMITED

“Cameron McCall”
Cameron McCall, Executive Chairman

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