VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – April 4, 2017) –
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Colonial Coal International Corp. (TSX VENTURE:CAD) (the “Corporation” or “Colonial Coal“) is pleased to announce that it has engaged O&M Partners, LLC (“O&M“) to assist in targeting non-deal institutional and independent money managers throughout the United States including financial centres often overlooked.
The marketing effort by O&M will include a combination of group Town Hall conference calls and follow-up roadshows. This campaign is an integral part of the Company’s overall marketing effort focused on the United States. The Company’s agreement with O&M will run for a period of six months and may be further extended by agreement of the parties. In consideration for providing the services thereunder, the Company will pay O&M a total of US$33,000 over the term of the agreement. In addition, 250,000 stock options have been granted to O&M with an exercise price of $0.25 with a five year term vesting quarterly over a twelve month period, subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Any cost and expenses incurred by O&M on behalf of the Company will be reimbursed.
New York based O&M is a non-deal institutional marketing agency specializing in bringing Canadian companies to US investors. O&M maintains strong relationships with over 5,000 accredited investors across the United States who are mandated to buy stock in the open market.
About Colonial Coal International Corp.
Colonial Coal is a publicly traded coal corporation in British Columbia that focuses primarily on coking coal projects. The northeast Coal Block of British Columbia, within which our Corporation’s projects are located, hosts a number of proven deposits and has been the subject of M&A activities by Xstrata, Walter Energy, Anglo-American and others.
Additional information can be found on the Corporation’s website www.ccoal.ca or by viewing the Corporation’s filings at www.sedar.com.
Forward-Looking Information
Information set forth in this news release involves forward-looking statements, including statements relating to the Corporation’s potential sale of an interest in its Flatbed Property. Forward-looking statements are statements that relate to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements often address a Corporation’s expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “plan”, “estimate”, “expect”, and “intend”, statements that an action or event “may”, “might”, “could”, “should”, or “will” be taken or occur, or other similar expressions. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the following risks: risks associated with marketing and sale of securities; the need for additional financing; reliance on key personnel; the potential for conflicts of interest among certain officers or directors with certain other projects; and the volatility of common share price and volume. Forward-looking statements are made based on management’s beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date that statements are made and except as required by law, the Corporation undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change. Investors are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements.
THE FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS NEWS RELEASE REPRESENTS THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE CORPORATION AS OF THE DATE OF THIS NEWS RELEASE AND, ACCORDINGLY, IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AFTER SUCH DATE. READERS SHOULD NOT PLACE UNDUE IMPORTANCE ON FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION AND SHOULD NOT RELY UPON THIS INFORMATION AS OF ANY OTHER DATE. WHILE THE CORPORATION MAY ELECT TO, IT DOES NOT UNDERTAKE TO UPDATE THIS INFORMATION AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME EXCEPT AS REQUIRED IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE SECURITIES LEGISLATION.
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David Austin
President and CEO
604.568.4962
daustin@ccoal.ca
www.ccoal.ca