ALACER GOLD CORP. 1 A Yukon Territory limited liability corporation, Australian Registered Body Number 147 848 762
TABLE OF CONTENTS PRELIMINARY NOTES 1 NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS 5 INFORMATION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE 7 CORPORATE STRUCTURE 7 GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS 9 NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS 14 RISK FACTORS 20 MINERAL PROPERTIES 30 DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS 69 DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE 69 MARKET FOR SECURITIES 73 DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS 74 LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND REGULATORY ACTIONS 79 INTERESTS OF MANAGEMENT & OTHERS IN MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS 79 TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR 79 MATERIAL CONTRACTS 79 INTEREST OF EXPERTS 80 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 80 ASX LISTING RULES DISCLOSURE 80 APPENDIX A 83 TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE AUDIT COMMITTEE 83 PRELIMINARY NOTESIn this Annual Information Form (the "AIF"), unless the content otherwise requires, references to "our", "us", "its", the "Corporation" or the "Company" mean Alacer Gold Corp. and its subsidiaries. All the information contained in this AIF is as of December 31, 2015, the last day of the Company's recently completed financial year, unless otherwise indicated. The Company was formerly known as Anatolia Minerals Development Limited. In connection with the merger with Avoca Resources Limited ("Avoca") on February 18, 2011, as discussed below, the Corporation changed its name to Alacer Gold Corp.
The following table sets forth the conversion from metric into imperial equivalents:
To convert from metric measurement units | To imperial measurement units | Multiply by |
Grams | Ounces (troy) | 0.0322 |
Tonnes | Tons (short) | 1.1023 |
Grams/tonne (g/t) | Ounces (troy) /ton (short) | 0.0292 |
Grams/tonne (g/t) | Parts per billion (ppb) | 1.000 |
Kilometers (km) | Miles | 0.6214 |
Meters (m) | Feet | 3.2808 |
All currency references in this AIF are in United States dollars "US$" unless otherwise indicated. Canadian dollars will be designated as "C$". The noon rates of exchange on Dec 31, 2015, as reported by the Bank of Canada were:
US$ | C$ | |
US$ | 1.00 | 1.39 |
C$ | 0.72 | 1.00 |
The following is a glossary of certain mining terms used in this AIF or in the Company's other filings:
Adsorption | The attachment of one substance to the surface of another. |
Ag | Silver. |
Arsenopyrite | A whitish to steel gray colored arsenian mineral (FeAsS). |
Assay | The chemical test of rock samples to determine the mineral content. |
Au | Gold. |
Carbon in Column ("CIC") | A method of recovering gold and silver from pregnant solution by adsorption of the precious metals onto fine carbon suspended by up-flow of solution through a series of tanks. |
Carbon in Leach ("CIL") | A method of recovering gold and silver from fine ground ore by simultaneous dissolution using cyanide and adsorption of the precious metals onto fine carbon in an agitated tank of ore solids/solution slurry. |
Cretaceous | The final period of the Mesozoic era (after the Jurassic and before the Tertiary period), that covered the span of time between 65 and 144 million years ago. |
Cu | Copper. |
Cyanidation | A method of extracting gold or silver by dissolving it in a weak solution of sodium cyanide. |
Diamond Drill ("DD") | A type of rotary drill in which the cutting is done by abrasion rather than percussion. The cutting bit is set with diamonds and is attached to the end of long hollow rods through which water is pumped to the cutting face. The drill cuts a core of rock that is recovered in long cylindrical sections, an inch or more in diameter. |
Doré | A semi-pure alloy of gold and silver, usually created at the site of a mine, and then transported to a refinery for further purification. |
Epithermal | Hydrothermal mineral deposit formed within one kilometre of the earth's surface, in the temperature range of 50-200ºC. |
Fault | A surface or zone of rock fracture along which there has been displacement, from a few centimetres to a few kilometres in scale. |
Fire Assay | A type of analytical procedure that involves the heat of a furnace and a fluxing agent to fuse a sample to collect any precious metals (such as gold) in the sample. The collected material is then analyzed for gold or other precious metals by weight or spectroscopic methods. |
Flotation | A process by which some mineral particles are induced to become attached to bubbles and float, and other particles to sink, so that the valuable minerals are concentrated and separated from the worthless gangue or waste. |
Gangue | Minerals that are sub economic to recover as ore. |
Heap Leaching | The process of stacking crushed ore in a heap on an impermeable pad and percolating through the ore a solution containing a leaching agent such as cyanide. The gold that leaches from the ore into the solution is recovered from the solution by carbon adsorption or precipitation. After removal of the gold, the solution is then recycled to the heap to effect further leaching. |
Hectare | A square of 100 metres on each side. |
HQ | Denotes a specific diameter of cores recovered by a diamond drill, in this case 63.5 mm. |
Hydrothermal | Processes associated with heated or superheated water, especially mineralization or alteration. |
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