CALGARY, Feb. 19, 2014 /CNW/ - Boxxer Gold Corp. (TSX Venture: BXX; OTC: BXXRF) ("Boxxer" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that it has closed an initial tranche of $325,000 of units ("Units") in the non-brokered private placement (the "Offering") previously announced on December 11, 2013.

Financing:
The first tranche closing of the Offering consisted of 6,500,000 Units a price of $0.05 per Unit and raised total proceeds of $325,000, of which insiders purchased $172,500 of Units. Each Unit consisted of one Common Share in the share capital of Boxxer and one Common Share purchase Warrant ("Warrant"). Each Warrant is exercisable into one Common Share at a price of $0.05 until five (5) years from the date of closing. Each Warrant is subject to accelerated expiry provisions such that if any time after the completion of the Offering the closing price of the Common Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange is at least $0.10 per Common Share for 15 consecutive days, the Corporation may give notice to the holders that each warrant will expire 15 business days from the date of providing such notice. The proceeds of the Unit Offering will be used primarily for general working capital purposes. No finders fee was paid on this tranche of the private placement. The Units issued in connection with this tranche of the Offering will be subject to a four month and 1 day hold period that expires on June 20, 2014. It is anticipated that there may be a second tranche closing of the Offering later in February.

The completion of the Offering is subject to final TSX Venture Exchange approval. Three directors and one officer of Boxxer participated in the Offering purchasing a total of 3,450,000 Units and Boxxer has determined that there are exemptions available for the various requirements of TSX Venture Policy 5.9 and Multilateral Instrument 61-101 for the issuance of these Units (Formal Valuation - Issuer Not Listed on Specified Markets; Minority Approval - Fair Market Value Not More Than $2,500,000). No new insiders were created, nor any change of control occurred, as a result of this Offering.

About Boxxer Gold Corp.
Boxxer is a Canadian junior resource company involved in the exploration for large polymetallic copper deposits inNorth America. Boxxer's active projects include the Boss and Buena Vista copper projects in the state of Nevada, the Empire copper-gold-silver property in Idaho, the DOK copper-gold porphyry property in Northwest B.C., and the East Breccia copper-silver-molybdenum property in Ontario. Boxxer also has the Gordon Lake gold project located 110 kilometres north of Yellowknife NWT, Canada.

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Forward-Looking Information: This news release may contain certain forward-looking information. All statements included herein, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking information and such information involves various risks and uncertainties. In particular, this news release contains forward-looking information regarding the use of proceeds of the Offering and a potential second tranche closing of the Offering. There can be no assurance that such forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking information. This forward-looking information reflects Boxxer's current beliefs and is based on information currently available to Boxxer and on assumptions Boxxer believes are reasonable. These assumptions include, but are not limited to: final TSX Venture Exchange approval of the Offering, future costs and expenses being based on historical costs and expenses, adjusted for inflation and market demand for, and market acceptance of, the Offering. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements of Boxxer to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such risks and other factors may include, but are not limited to: general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; capital market conditions and market prices for securities and junior market securities; the actual results of Boxxer's business operations including its exploration operations; natural resource company market conditions and the market conditions of the natural resource industry in general; competition; changes in legislation, including environmental legislation, affecting the Boxxer; timing and availability of external financing on acceptable terms; and lack of qualified, skilled labour or loss of key individuals. A description of additional assumptions used to develop such forward-looking information and a description of additional risk factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from forward-looking information can be found in Boxxer's disclosure documents on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com. Although Boxxer has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Boxxer does not undertake to update any forward-looking information except in accordance with applicable securities laws.

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