The Transaction would benefit both Tyhee and Sutter shareholders. In particular, benefits include:
For Sutter, improved financial standing, with significantly improved liquidity and access to capital to properly capitalize completion of development of the Lincoln mine and mill to achieve commercial production.
For Tyhee, enabling the execution of its strategy of building its production profile through additional acquisitions with near-term production potential;
For Tyhee and Sutter, being transformed into a developing precious metals production company with gold production planned from Lincoln;
or Tyhee and Sutter, significantly enhanced development and exploration upside across a diverse portfolio of precious metals properties, including the Keystone deposit in California as well as the large undeveloped gold resources (Feasibility Study -- August 2012) at the Yellowknife Gold Project, NWT;
For Tyhee and Sutter, utilizing Tyhee's highly experienced underground mining team that will be key to successful operations at Lincoln; and
For Sutter, access to an expanded management team that includes complementary experience in exploration, development, operations, and financing.
Mark T. Brown, Sutter's Chairman of the Board, said, "Despite the issues we have had with an orderly development and the difficulties of raising funding given Sutter's financial position, we have always had confidence in the Lincoln project.
Our number one priority over the last many months has been to secure the additional investment needed to achieve commercial production.
We are supportive of RMB and Tyhee's transaction, which will provide both the funding and technical/operational expertise to make Lincoln a success, aligning all parties' interests.
We look forward to working with Tyhee to meet our common objectives."
About Sutter
Sutter has two projects:
the Lincoln Project located in Amador County, on the California
Mother Lode Gold Belt, and the Santa Theresa Project located in the Northern Baja region of Mexico.
Currently, the Company is completing the mill construction and underground development of the Lincoln Mine Project, beginning with the shallow portion of the Lincoln-Comet ore zone.
The Lincoln-Comet and Keystone zones have a NI 43-101 compliant Indicated Resource estimate (completed in February 2008). Sutter currently controls approximately 3.6 miles of the Mother Lode of Amador County, with 90% of the property still unexplored.
In Mexico, Sutter holds the rights to the geologically similar, high-grade El Alamo district of northern Baja.
I had posted quite a while back that the lenders were in the driver's seat...
Sutter had not yet been able to prove up much more reserves to support its share price. Add in the decline in the price of gold and you have a situation in which management could not do very much.
Debt did the Company in. You simply have as much debt as Sutter did with most of any projected future net income dedicated to servicing this debt instead of being able to drill more...