New Moon Minerals Announces Filing of Amended and Restated Final Prospectus for Initial Public Offering

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December 9, 2011- New Moon Minerals Corp. (“New Moon” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has filed and obtained a receipt dated December 7, 2011 for its amended and restated final prospectus in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia with respect to its proposed initial public offering (the “Offering”) and has also received conditional approval from the TSX Venture Exchange (“the Exchange”) for the listing of its common shares (the “Common Shares”) on the Exchange as a Tier 2 Mining Issuer.

This amended and restated prospectus (the “Prospectus”) qualifies the distribution (the “Offering”) by New Moon of a combination of up to 14,000,000 non-flow through units (each a “NFT Unit”) at a price of $0.15 per NFT Unit and up to 6,000,000 “flow-through” common shares (each a “FT Share”) at a price of $0.15 per FT Share, provided that the maximum aggregate gross proceeds of the Offering are $2,100,000.  Each NFT Unit consists of one non-flow through common share of the Issuer (a “NFT Share”) and one transferable non-flow through common share purchase warrant (a “Warrant”).  Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to purchase one additional common share of the Issuer (a “Warrant Share”) at any time on or before 18 months after the closing (the “Closing”) of the Offering at an exercise price of $0.18 per Warrant Share.

The Offering is being made on a best efforts basis through Haywood Securities Inc. as the Company’s lead agent, and is planned to close on or before December 31, 2011.The Exchange’s final acceptance of the Company’s listing is subject to New Moon fulfilling all of the requirements of the Exchange in accordance with the terms of the conditional approval, including completion of the entire Offering. A copy of the amended and restated final prospectus will be available under New Moon’s profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

About New Moon Minerals

New Moon is a Canadian mineral exploration and development company focused mainly on precious metals exploration properties with economic potential, The Company has a strong experienced team and a portfolio of eight mining properties, which include:

  • the Ithingo Lake Gold Project, located in northern Saskatchewan, the Company’s qualifying property for a public company listing. Historical drilling by Claude Resources has demonstrated high-grade gold mineralization with good potential for outlining a significant gold resource;
  • the Creighton Gold Project encompasses three past-producing gold mines and is located 5 km from the mining-friendly city of Flin Flon, MB
  • two Rainy River area projects in Ontario that showed historical high-grade gold mineralization found on surface;
  • the Berven gold project located in close proximity to a new gold producer;
  • the Cherryville gold and silver property located in the immediate vicinity of five past producers in B.C.
  • the past-producing Anglo-Rouyn Mine in northern Saskatchewan, a copper, gold, and silver mine, and
  • the Border-Niska property, a  strategically-located coal exploration property located contiguous to the Niska 108 coal zone discovered in 2008 by Goldsource Mines Inc..

Richard Rivet,
President & CEO
New Moon Minerals Corp.
(204) 782-5395.
Web: www.newmoonminerals.com
Email: newmoonminerals@yahoo.ca

This offering is only made by prospectus. The prospectus contains important detailed information about the securities being offered. Investors should read the prospectus before making an investment decision. Copies of the amended and restated final prospectus may be also obtained from:

Barry Muir
Haywood Securities Inc
Phone: (604) 697-6172
Facimile: (604) 697-6098
Toll-Free 1-800-663-9499
E-mail: bmuir@haywood.com

Or

Martin Burian, CA. CBV
Haywood Securities Inc.
Phone: (604) 697-6169
Toll Free:1-800-663-9499
E-Mail: mburian@haywood.com

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of, the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The securities described herein have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”), or any U.S. state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to U.S. persons except in compliance with the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws or pursuant to an exemption therefrom.

Forward Looking Statements

Certain statements contained in this news release, including all statements that are not historical facts, contain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Such forward-looking statements or information include, but are not limited to, statements with respect to the Offering.