On September 28, 2018, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to complete a business combination with Pershing Gold. The combination will add a shovel-ready, gold-silver development project in Nevada that adds significant precious metal growth to the Company’s production profile. Once completed, Relief Canyon is expected to produce 75,000 to 90,000 ounces of gold annually at low cash costs over an initial seven-year life and generate annual post-tax cash flow from $25 to $30 million. 1 This transformative combination is expected to increase the Company’s precious metal production by over 5 times with precious metals representing greater than 60% of silver equivalent production.