Gold Reserve Postpones Separation Time Under Shareholder Rights Plan
January 21, 2009 8:54 AM EST
SPOKANE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Gold Reserve Inc. (NYSE Alternext: GRZ) (TSX: GRZ) today announced that its Board of Directors has postponed the separation time under Gold Reserve's shareholder rights plan to February 17, 2009. The hostile offer by Rusoro Mining Ltd. (TSX-V: RML) of December 15, 2008 (the "Offer") to acquire all of the outstanding shares and equity units of Gold Reserve in consideration for three shares of Rusoro for each Gold Reserve share or equity unit tendered under the Offer is not a "Permitted Bid" within the meaning of the Gold Reserve shareholder rights plan.