Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd 6-K, filed Jul 5, 2023
Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd (NAK)
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Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd filed this 6-K on July 5, 2023.
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of June 2023
Commission File No. 001-32210
NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD.
(Translation of registrant's name into English)
14th Floor - 1040 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6E 4H1, Canada
(Address of principal executive office)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F
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SUBMITTED HEREWITH
| Exhibits | |
| 99.1 | News release dated June 30, 2023 |
| 99.2 | Voting Results Report of Annual General Meeting |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: July 4, 2023
NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD.
(Registrant)
/s/ Trevor Thomas
Trevor Thomas
Secretary and General Counsel
Northern Dynasty Reports Annual General Meeting Results and Army Corps Extension of
Deadline to Comment on Plans to July 28, 2023
June 30, 2023, Vancouver, BC - Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX: NDM; NYSE MKT: NAK) ("Northern Dynasty" or the "Company") announces the voting results from its 2023 Annual General Meeting held on June 30, 2023 in Vancouver, British Columbia (the "Meeting").
At the Meeting, a total of 206,154,294 common shares were voted, representing 39% of the votes attached to all outstanding common shares as of the record date. All eight nominees were elected to the Company's Board of Directors. The voting results were as follows:
| Director | % of Votes For | % of Votes Withheld |
| Christian Milau | 95.40 | 4.60 |
| Desmond M. Balakrishnan | 57.54 | 42.46 |
| Isabel Satra | 94.68 | 5.32 |
| Kenneth W. Pickering | 95.40 | 4.60 |
| Robert A. Dickinson | 95.67 | 4.33 |
| Ronald W. Thiessen | 95.73 | 4.27 |
| Siri C. Genik | 94.44 | 5.56 |
| Wayne Kirk | 94.19 | 5.81 |
Shareholders also re-appointed Deloitte LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants as the Company's auditor for the ensuing year.
Detailed voting results for the Meeting are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The Company also reports that its 100%-owned U.S.-based subsidiary Pebble Limited Partnership has been informed that the Alaska District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ("USACE") requested a third extension of the deadline to communicate the plan on how the District plans to move forward with its reconsideration of the administrative record after remand. The USACE Division Engineer approved the request for extension and the new deadline is July 28, 2023.
About Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.
Northern Dynasty is a mineral exploration and development company based in Vancouver, Canada. Northern Dynasty's principal asset, owned through its wholly owned Alaska-based U.S. subsidiary, Pebble Limited Partnership, is a 100% interest in a contiguous block of 1,840 mineral claims in Southwest Alaska, including the Pebble deposit, located 200 miles from Anchorage and 125 miles from Bristol Bay. The Pebble Partnership is the proponent of the Pebble Project.
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For further details on Northern Dynasty and the Pebble Project, please visit the Company's website at www.northerndynastyminerals.com or contact Investor services at (604) 684-6365 or within North America at 1- 800-667-2114. Review public filings, which include forward looking information cautionary language and risk factor disclosure regarding the Company and the Pebble Project in Canada at www.sedar.com and the US at www.sec.gov.
Trevor Thomas
Secretary
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VOTING RESULTS REPORT
Pursuant to Section 11.3 of National Instrument 51-102
OF
NORTHERN DYNASTY MINERALS LTD.
(the "Company")
The Company reports that the following matters were voted upon by the Shareholders of the Company at the annual general meeting of the Company held on June 30, 2023 (the "Meeting"):
1. The following directors were elected at the Meeting, with the following voting results for each nominee:
| DIRECTOR | FOR | WITHHELD | ||||
| Christian Milau | 113,046,187 (95.40%) | 5,455,460 (4.60%) | ||||
| Desmond M. Balakrishnan | 68,189,315 (57.54%) | 50,312,331 (42.46%) | ||||
| Isabel Satra | 112,197,848 (94.68%) | 6,303,799 (5.32%) | ||||
| Kenneth W. Pickering | 113,054,332 (95.40%) | 5,447,314 (4.60%) | ||||
| Robert A. Dickinson | 113,370,219 (95.67%) | 5,131,427 (4.33%) | ||||
| Ronald W. Thiessen | 113,443,038 (95.73%) | 5,058,608 (4.27%) | ||||
| Siri C. Genik | 111,908,245 (94.44%) | 6,593,401 (5.56%) | ||||
| Wayne Kirk | 111,619,133 (94.19%) | 6,882,513 (5.81%) |
2. Deloitte, Chartered Professional Accountants, were appointed auditor of the Company. Shares voted in person and by proxies received represented 199,217,501 (96.64%) votes FOR and 6,936,792 (3.36%) votes WITHHELD.
There were non-votes recorded (but not voted) on each resolution as follows: (1.) 87,652,648 per director, other than Christian Milau and Isabel Satra, who received 87,652,647 non-votes; and (2.) 1 for the appointment of auditor. Non-votes are discretionary votes given to a broker by a US beneficial holder not allowed under Canadian Securities Regulations.