MIRL Minera

 
TIDMMIRL 
 
Minera IRL Limited Provides Corporate and Operational Update 
FOR:  MINERA IRL LIMITED 
 
AIM, LMA SYMBOL:  MIRL 
TSX SYMBOL:  IRL 
 
October 21, 2015 
 
Minera IRL Limited Provides Corporate and Operational Update 
 
LIMA, PERU--(Marketwired - Oct. 21, 2015) - Minera IRL Limited ("Minera IRL" or the "Company") 
(AIM:MIRL)(BVLAC:MIRL)(TSX:IRL) provides the following corporate and operational update. 
 
Gold sales 
 
The Company has to date used offtake arrangements whereby the proceeds from its gold produced at the Corihuarmi 
mine have been paid into a Jersey bank account operated by Minera IRL, a company incorporated in Jersey, via a 
Swiss refiner. This has allowed the Company to maintain full control of the proceeds from gold sales which can 
then be disseminated down to its operating subsidiaries as required. 
 
However, due to recent efforts by Mr. Diego Benavides, the former interim CEO of the Company, in his role as 
President and General Manager of the Company's Peruvian subsidiaries, to amend the existing offtake 
arrangements such that the proceeds from the sale of gold are directed straight to the Peruvian subsidiaries, 
the Company's existing offtaker has suspended receipt of shipments of gold in dore for refining and sale. 
Furthermore, the Company believes that Mr. Diego Benavides may be seeking alternative solutions for the sale of 
gold dore produced from the Corihuarmi mine, which would likely involve the proceeds being transferred directly 
to the Peruvian subsidiaries. The Company believes 1,070 ounces of gold are currently held in dore form which 
would be shipped for refining and sale. A further 1,000 ounces are expected to be capable of shipment shortly. 
 
The Company currently has no control over the counterparty for its gold sales from the Corihuarmi mine and is 
unable to specify the recipient of the proceeds. 
 
As previously announced, the Company is in the process of dismissing Mr. Diego Benavides from his role as 
President and General Manager of the Company's two Peruvian subsidiaries. This process is expected to take 
several months under Peruvian corporate law. 
 
Working capital 
 
As announced on 21 September 2015, the Company has significant working capital constraints caused primarily by 
recent lower gold prices adversely affecting the profitability of the Company's low-grade Corihuarmi mine, 
which has been in operation since 2008, but is nearing the end of its mine life. 
 
Furthermore, under the existing US$70 million bridge loan structured by the Peruvian state-owned development 
and promotion bank, Corporacion Financiera de Desarrollo S.A. ("COFIDE"), funds are not permitted to be used 
for general corporate working capital purposes. The Company has so far been unsuccessful in its attempts to 
reach an agreement with COFIDE pursuant to which the funds can be used for this purpose. 
 
Due to the Company's limited existing cash resources and the possibility that it will not receive the proceeds 
of near term gold sales, the Company expects that it may have difficulty meeting its obligations as they fall 
due until appropriate control of the Peruvian subsidiaries is re-established. In addition, the Company has 
limited visibility as to the financial position of the Peruvian subsidiaries. Consequently, the directors are 
considering the solvency of the Company as a whole and a further announcement will be made in due course. 
 
EGM requisition 
 
Pursuant to the announcement on 9 October 2015, the Company will shortly be convening an Extraordinary General 
Meeting (EGM) as requisitioned by a group of shareholders (the "Proposing Shareholders"). The Proposing 
Shareholders are seeking to requisition an EGM to consider special resolutions to appoint six new directors: 
Messers. Leonard Harris, Julian R. lngham, Diego Benavides, Jorge L. Ramos, Frank S. O'Kelly and Jesus A. Lema 
and to remove Messers. Robin Fryer, Douglas Jones and Jaime A. Pinto as directors of the Company. If 
successful, this would have the effect of removing all of the independent non-executive directors and replacing 
them with six appointees of the Proposing Shareholders. The circular convening the EGM will include the reasons 
for which the Proposing Shareholders have requisitioned an EGM as well as the directors' robust responses to 
these matters. 
 
About Minera IRL Limited 
 
Minera IRL Limited is an AIM, TSX and BVL listed precious metals mining and exploration company with operations 
in Latin America. Minera IRL is led by a management team with extensive operating experience in South America. 
In Peru, the Company operates the Corihuarmi Gold Mine and is advancing its flagship Ollachea Gold Project 
towards production. For more information, please visit www.minera-irl.com. 
 
No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the 
information contained in this news release. 
 
Cautionary Statement on Forward-Looking Information 
 
Certain information in this news release, including information about the Company's financial or operating 
performance and other statements expressing management's expectations or estimates of future events, 
performance and exploration and development programs or plans constitute "forward-looking statements". Forward- 
looking statements often, but not always, are identified by words such as "seek", "believe", "expect", "do not 
expect", "will", "will not", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "plan", "schedule" and similar expressions of 
a conditional or future oriented nature identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are, 
necessarily, based upon a number of estimates and assumptions. While considered by management to be reasonable 
in the context in which they are made, forward-looking statements are inherently subject to political, legal, 
regulatory, business and economic risks and competitive uncertainties and contingencies. 
 
The Company cautions readers that forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and 
other factors that may cause Minera IRL's actual financial results, future performance and results of 
exploration and development programs and plans to be materially different than those expected or estimated 
future results, performance or achievements and that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future 
performance, results or achievements. 
 
Forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and Minera IRL assumes no obligation, 
except as may be required by law, to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances. Risks, 
uncertainties and contingencies and other factors that might cause actual performance to differ from forward- 
looking statements include, but are not limited to, any failure to obtain or complete project financing for the 
Ollachea Gold Project (including the Senior Debt Facility),changes in the price of precious metals and 
commodities, changes in the relative exchange rates of the US dollar against the Peruvian nuevo sol, interest 
rates, legislative, political, social or economic developments both within the countries in which the Company 
operates and in general, contests over title to property, the speculative nature of mineral exploration and 
development, operating or technical difficulties in connection with the Company's development or exploration 
programs, increasing costs as a result of inflation or scarcity of human resources and input materials or 
equipment. Known and unknown risks inherent in the mining business include potential uncertainties related to 
the title of mineral claims, the accuracy of mineral reserve and resource estimates, metallurgical recoveries, 
capital and operating costs and the future demand for minerals. For additional information, please consult the 
Company's most recently filed MD&A and Annual Information Form. 
 
 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
 
Minera IRL 
Eric Olson (COO) 
+1 (416) 907-7363 
 
Canaccord Genuity Limited 
(Nominated Adviser & Broker, London) 
Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor 
Oliver Donaldson 
+ 44 (0)20 7523 8000 
 
Buchanan (Financial PR, London) 
Bobby Morse 
+44 (0)20 7466 5000 
 
 
 
Minera IRL Limited 
 

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