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Red Lake Gold ends financing amid lack of market support

30th June 2025

By: Mariaan Webb

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

     

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CSE-listed Red Lake Gold has discontinued a planned financing effort after failing to attract sufficient market or insider interest, underscoring mounting challenges facing the junior exploration company as it considers a possible shift in strategy.

In a corporate update on Friday, the Vancouver-based miner said there was no “material arm’s-length or insider interest” in the financing first announced in mid-May. CEO and sole control person Ryan Kalt declined to participate, marking a break from his previous role as a primary source of working capital and exploration funding.

The company said the absence of investor demand reflects a broader lack of market-based support for its current portfolio of projects, particularly the Whirlwind Jack gold project in Ontario’s Red Lake district. Red Lake Gold had already recognised an impairment to the project’s carrying value in its February-end financials and views the lack of appetite for the latest financing as a market affirmation of that write-down.

“The corporation requires working capital to remain a going-concern,” Red Lake Gold said in the statement, adding that it may reassess its public listing status depending on future developments.

Exchange-imposed conditions, such as minimum pricing and participant restrictions, may further hinder its ability to raise capital under current market conditions, the company noted.

Red Lake Gold said it is considering acquiring new mineral interests that could reignite market interest and improve access to funding. It also plans to potentially engage a third-party valuation firm to assess whether any residual value remains in its Whirlwind Jack claims. Without fresh capital for exploration, the company warned the claims may lapse through the Crown reversion process.

The Whirlwind Jack project is carried at a nominal value in the company’s most recent financial statements.

Red Lake Gold's stock closed 20% down at C$0.04 a share on Friday.

 

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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