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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / March 17, 2025 / Arras Minerals Corp. (TSX-V:ARK)(OTCQB:ARRKF) ("Arras" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that further to the Company's news release on February 12, 2025 whereby the Company announced that it elected to exercise its right under the terms of certain common share purchase warrants issued on June 6, 2024 (the "Warrants") to accelerate the expiry date of the Warrants, all 10,134,332 Warrants have been exercised by the holders. This has brought in gross proceeds of C$4,053,733 to the Company.
Tim Barry, CEO commented, "We wish to thank shareholders for their continued support through the full exercise of the warrants. We are currently finalizing geophysical survey and drilling contracts and expect to commence fieldwork later in April. The Company is well positioned to kick off our Phase 2 program at Elemes and together with the work program planned on the Arras-Teck Strategic Alliance, we are very excited about the many targets we will be advancing over the next 8-12 months in Kazakhstan".
Grant and Settlement of Restricted Share Units
In accordance with the Company's Equity Incentive Plan, Arras has granted an aggregate of 241,196 restricted share units ("RSUs") to certain officers as annual performance awards for 2024. The RSUs vest one year from the grant date (February 27, 2025).
Additionally, an aggregate of 1,495,484 RSUs that were granted in February 2024 as annual performance awards for 2023 were settled as common shares of the Company effective March 14, 2025.
Following the exercise of these warrants and settlement of RSUs, the Company now has 100,865,297 common shares issued and outstanding.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
"Tim Barry"
Tim Barry, MAusIMM CP(Geo)
Chief Executive Officer and Director
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About Arras Minerals Corp.
Arras is a Canadian exploration and development company advancing a portfolio of copper and gold assets in northeastern Kazakhstan, including the Elemes copper-gold porphyry project and the Option Agreement on the Beskauga copper and gold project. The Company has established the third-largest license package in the country prospective for copper and gold (behind Rio Tinto and Fortescue). In December 2023, the Company entered into a strategic alliance with Teck Resources Limited ("Teck") in which Teck may sole fund a US$5 million generative exploration program over a portion of the Arras license package in 2024-2025. The Company's shares are listed on the TSX-V under the trading symbol "ARK" and on the OTCQB under the trading symbol "ARRKF"