Financial Changes Required by Northwest

As a further condition of the Restructuring, Firstgold was required to reduce the amount of debt owed to creditors. Consequently, Firstgold has entered into arm’s length settlement arrangements with certain of its largest unsecured creditors whereby it will issue up to 72,151,842 shares of common stock, together with cash in the amount of approximately $4,838,000 in exchange for the discharge of $8,408,735 of original indebtedness and the cancellation of outstanding warrants exercisable into at least 44,394,000 shares of common stock. In addition, 31,300,000 shares are to be issued to settle compensation and other amounts owed to directors, officers and employees of Firstgold.

Voluntary Changes Deemed Beneficial to Firstgold

In addition to the changes required by Northwest described above, the Company is seeking stockholder approval for several other changes which the Board believes to appropriate at this time including a 1-for-5 consolidation of its outstanding common stock, increasing its authorized shares to 500,000,000 shares, allowing for automatic adjustments to the number of shares issuable pursuant to the Company’s 2006 Stock Option Plan and amending and restating the Company’s Bylaws.

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(I wonder if they are going to wait until they've issued the above shares before consolidating? My total shares pale into insignificance when you look at the millions they are talking about.)