Day: February 28, 2020

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Monument Mining Limited (TSX-V: MMY and FSE: D7Q1) (“Monument” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has commenced a 38 hole, 4,580 metre drilling program at its 100% owned Burnakura and Gabanintha gold projects in Western Australia. The objective of the program is to test certain exploration targets identified through geological interpretation of last year’s data collection, prior years’ drilling results and structural geological studies.  The main focus of the drill program is to test down plunge extensions of existing high grade mineralization at Alliance, New Alliance and NOA deposits at Monument’s Burnakura project, including the North of NOA7/8 (“NOA 9”) regional target, and at Yagahong at Monument’s Gabanintha project. The holes have been significantly...

CLEVELAND, Feb. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — – Data Genomix LLC, an operating company owned by Crawford United Corporation (OTC: CRAWA), today announced that the company won a prestigious Reed Award for its social media advertising work in a ballot initiative campaign.The political marketing publication Campaigns & Elections hosted the 2020 Reed Awards in Atlanta, Georgia on February 20 and selected Data Genomix among thousands of entries for its sophisticated targeting on social media.  The Data Genomix “Topplr” software platform, which has been leveraged by hundreds of campaigns in over 25 states, won for Best Use of Online Targeting for a Ballot Initiative.  The award recognized the company’s work supporting the passage of the Lake County Transportation (LakeTran) Levy, which won in November 2019 with 58% of the vote. ...

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATESTORONTO, Feb. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Troilus Gold Corp. (TSX: TLG; OTCQB: CHXMF) (“Troilus” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement of an aggregate of 6,449,188 common shares of the Company that will qualify as “flow-through shares” (within the meaning of subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “Tax Act”) (collectively, the “Flow-Through Shares“).The Flow-Through Shares were issued in three tranches as follows:Tranche 1: 2,000,000 Flow-Through Shares issued to investors resident in the Province of Québec at an issue price of C$1.00 per Flow-Through Share for aggregate gross proceeds of  C$2,000,000 (the “T1 Offering”);Tranche 2: 2,070,617 Flow-Through...

HOUSTON, Feb. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLCM), a leader in developing novel, controllable cellular immunotherapies for cancers, today announced equity inducement grants to one new employee consisting of an aggregate of 15,000 stock options. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors approved the grants with an effective date of February 28, 2020. The stock options were granted as inducements material to the employees entering into employment with the Company in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).The stock options have an exercise price of $9.00 per share and vest over four years, with 25% of the shares vesting on the one-year anniversary of the applicable vesting commencement date and 1/48 of the shares vesting monthly thereafter, subject to the new employee’s...

STUDIO CITY, CA, Feb. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tix Corporation (the “Company”) (OTCQX: TIXC), a leading provider of discount ticketing services, today reported it entered into a new employment agreement, effective March 1, 2020, with its existing Chief Executive Officer, Mitch Francis.    The new employment agreement with Mitch Francis, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (the “Francis Employment Agreement”), replaces his prior employment agreement expiring on February 28, 2020.  The Francis Employment Agreement has a four-year term through February 28, 2024, and provides for the following:An initial base salary to be $495,000 per year, subject to annual increases based on the greater of three percent and the one year percentage increase in the Federal Cost of Living Index, Southern California District consumer price index,...

SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Avista Utilities, an operating division of Avista Corp. (NYSE: AVA), is planning to reduce carbon-emitting resources from its portfolio in alignment with the company’s clean electricity goal announced in 2019. In its 2020 Electric Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) filed today with the Idaho Public Utility Commission, Avista is projecting a much cleaner generation mix.“This IRP reflects a significant reduction in fossil fuel generation for our customers,” said Jason Thackston, Avista’s senior vice president of energy resources. “Avista’s electric generation mix is already more than half renewable, making our emissions some of the lowest in the nation. Looking to the next 25 years, we believe our goal of 100 percent clean energy is possible. We are proactively building a dynamic, clean...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lilis Energy, Inc. (NYSE American: LLEX) (the “Company”), an exploration and production company operating in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, announced today that it has closed the previously announced sale of approximately 1,146 undeveloped net acres in the Company’s northernmost acreage in Lea County, New Mexico.  The net cash proceeds of approximately $24.1 million will be used to fund the first two borrowing base deficiency installment payments under the amended revolving credit agreement aggregating $17.25 million, with the balance to be used for general corporate purposes. Two subsequent installment payments of $1.5 million and $6.25 million remain due on March 16, 2020 and April 14, 2020, respectively.The Company continues to consider additional...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — IRIDEX Corporation (Nasdaq: IRIX) today announced the Company will release financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2019 after the close of trading on Thursday, March 12, 2020.  The Company’s management team will host a corresponding conference call beginning at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET.Investors interested in listening to the conference call may do so by dialing (844) 707-0665 for domestic callers or (703) 326-3030 for international callers, using conference ID: 6384497.  A live and archived webcast of the event will be available on the “Investors” section of the Company’s website at: www.iridex.com.About IRIDEXIRIDEX Corporation is a worldwide leader in developing, manufacturing, and marketing innovative and versatile laser-based medical systems, delivery...

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bionano Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNGO), a life sciences instrumentation company that develops and markets Saphyr®, a platform for ultra-sensitive and ultra-specific structural variation detection in genome analysis, today announced that it will host a conference call and live webcast on Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time to report financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2019 and provide a business update.To access the call, participants should dial the applicable telephone number above at least 5 minutes prior to the start of the call.  An archived version of the webcast will be available for replay in the Investors section of the Bionano website.About Bionano GenomicsBionano is a genome analysis company focused on structural variation detection....

BURLINGAME, Calif., Feb. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Corvus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRVS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of precisely targeted oncology therapies, today announced that the Company will host a conference call and webcast on Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 4:30 pm ET (1:30 pm PT) to provide a business update and report fourth quarter 2019 financial results. The conference call can be accessed by dialing 1-800-263-0877 (toll-free domestic) or 1-720-543-0197 (international) and using the conference ID 3380789. The live webcast may be accessed via the investor relations section of the Corvus website. A replay of the webcast will be available on Corvus’ website for 90 days.About Corvus PharmaceuticalsCorvus Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical...