7. | CAPITAL STOCK AND RESERVES |
Authorized – unlimited number of voting common shares without par value.
Private placements and bought deal offering
Transactions during the six months ended June 30, 2024
On June 24, 2024, the Company closed a non-brokered private placement offering, whereby gross proceeds of $22,750,000 were raised by the issuance of 3,418,702 common shares at a price of $6.6545 per common share.
On June 24, 2024, the Company also closed a non-brokered private placement offering, whereby gross proceeds of $100,000,000 were raised by the issuance of 12,021,977 flow-through shares at a price of $8.3181 per flow-through share. In connection with the offering, the Company recognized a flow-through share premium liability of $20,000,000. As a result of the issuance of flow-through shares, as at June 30, 2024, the Company has commitments to incur qualifying development expenditures (Note 4). The flow-through share premium liability as at June 30, 2024 has been recorded in current and non-current liabilities in the statement of financial position on the basis of Management's best estimate of when the Company will transfer the tax deductibility of qualifying expenditures financed by the flow-through shares to the flow-through shareholders.
In connection with the private placements above, the Company incurred share issuance costs of $1,085,000.
Transactions during the six months ended June 30, 2023
On May 24, 2023, the Company closed a bought deal public offering, whereby gross proceeds of $73,537,000 were raised by the issuance of 10,005,000 common shares at a price of $7.35 per common share. In connection with the bought deal offering, the Company incurred share issuance costs of $4,074,000.
Tahltan Investment Rights
On April 16, 2021, the Company entered into an investment agreement with the Tahltan Central Government (“TCG”), pursuant to which TCG invested $5,000,000 into Skeena by purchasing 399,285 Tahltan Investment Rights (“Rights”) for approximately $12.52 per Right. Each Right will vest by converting into one common share upon the achievement of key Company and permitting milestones (“Milestones”), or over time, as follows:
| · | 119,785 Rights: earlier of Milestone 1 achievement or April 16, 2023; |
| · | 119,785 Rights: earlier of Milestone 2 achievement or April 16, 2023; |
| · | 79,857 Rights: earlier of Milestone 3 achievement or April 16, 2023; and |
| · | 79,858 Rights: earlier of Milestone 4 achievement or April 16, 2024. |
As of December 31, 2023, the share payments related to Milestones 1, 2 and 3 had been made. In April 2024, the Company issued the final share payment related to Milestone 4 by converting 79,858 Rights into 79,858 common shares of the Company.
Share-based payments
Stock options
Stock options have a maximum expiry date period of 5 years from the grant date. The Company determines the fair value of the stock options granted using the Black-Scholes option pricing model.