TGL.L Regulatory News (TGL)

11 September 2012

Touchstone Gold

Interim Report for the 6 months to 30th June 2012

Touchstone Gold Limited (AIM: TGL) ("Touchstone Gold" or the "Company"), the Colombian focused gold exploration company, is pleased to announce its financial results for the half-year ended 30 June 2012 This report, together with the Management Commentary for the same period, is also available on the Company's website at www.touchstonegold.com. Unless otherwise noted, all financial information is expressed in U.S. dollars.

Corporate Highlights

o On 7 September 2012, after the approval of a resolution by the Company's shareholders, the Company was redomiciled via a continuance of the Company from the British Virgin Islands to the province of Ontario, Canada, where a majority of the Board of Directors and the Company's officers are located.

o On 10 September 2012, the Company completed the acquisition of Atlantis Gold Mines Corp ("Atlantis"). Shareholders of Atlantis received one common share of Touchstone for each Atlantis share.

Financial Highlights

·; For the half year ended 30 June 2012, the Company reported a net loss attributable to common shareholders of $5,372,242 or $0.05 per common share.

·; As at 30 June 2012, the Company had a net cash balance of $4,342,043.

Operational highlights (as previously announced)

·; Stage 3 exploration programme, including completed Geophysical and LiDAR surveys, completed at the Rio Pescado Project in the Antioquia Department, comprising over 8,300 metres of drilling across 74 diamond drill holes, doubling the area of known gold mineralization, and discovering a third high-grade gold zone;

·; Existing areas of shallow, high-grade gold mineralization confirmed, previously separated gold zones connected along strike, new targets generated in areas of previous artisanal mining activity;

·; Selected drilling results include:

- 8.75 g/t gold over 28.25 metres, including 9.88 g/t gold over 24.25 metres, and 20.90 g/t gold over 5.7 metres from hole LPD-1279;

- 8.70 g/t gold over 16.80 metres, including 17.56 g/t gold over 8.15 metres, and 27.60 g/t gold over 4.50 metres from hole LPD-1286;

- 9.13 g/t gold over 15.00 metres, including 24.92 g/t gold over 4.45 metres from hole LPD-1162;

- 5.84 g/t gold over 21.75 metres, including 20.28 g/t gold over 4.20 metres from hole LPD-1159

David Wiley, Chief Executive Officer of Touchstone Gold, commented:

"The Company is pleased to have completed the Atlantis transaction after receiving overwhelming support from Atlantis shareholders. The combined company, now possesses a highly prospective consolidated larger land package in the extremely prolific Segovia-Remedios gold belt. We look forward to updating the market in the coming months as the Atlantis assets are integrated with that of Touchstone and exploration begins."

Operational Review

For a detailed description of the Company's exploration activities to date, please refer to the Company's RNS release dated 29 June 2012. There has been no material change to activities since that date.

Outlook

The Company now plans to complete its Stage 4 drilling programme at the Rio Pescado Project, this will involve the testing of the southerly strike extension and the westerly down-dip of the existing vein system. New permits for these areas have been processed and once the appropriate approvals have been received, the Company will conduct an active programme of definition and exploration drilling in the area. Initial metallurgical work will also be conducted to test gold recovery rates. The Stage 4 drilling programme is fully funded and is expected to commence in Q3 2012.

At the Santa Rosa project, the Company intends to begin employing the same methodical approach to exploration that yielded the positive results at Rio Pescado in H2 2012.

Financial Review

The following table shows selected comparative financial information for the period ended 30 June 2012.

In June 2011, the Company's shareholders approved a share capital re-organisation, as a result the Company has revised its number of basic and diluted shares outstanding for year ended 31 December 2011, to reflect this re-organisation.

Mr. John Nicholson, P.Geo has reviewed and approved the technical information contained within this announcement in his capacity as a qualified person, as required under the AIM rules. Mr. Nicholson is chief geologist of the Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, has a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia, and has been an accredited member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists since 1992. Mr. Nicholson is supervising the work programmes on the Rio Pescado Project.

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About Touchstone Gold

Touchstone Gold is a gold exploration company and the 100% owner of the Rio Pescado Project in Colombia, comprising four mining concessions over a total area of 39 square kilometres in the highly prospective Segovia Gold Belt. It owns further options on the Santa Rosa Project, in the South Bolivar area of Colombia, comprising four proposed mining concessions and one mining concession over a total area of 68 square kilometres. With a philosophy of creating value by the systematic exploration and development of the Company's existing assets as well as the acquisition of suitable exploration and development mineral projects, the Company's long-term intention is to build a significant gold exploration and production company.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Certain information set forth in this Interim Report contains "forward-looking statements" and "forward-looking information" under applicable securities laws. Except for statements of historical fact, certain information contained herein constitutes forward-looking statements which include management's assessment of Touchstone's future plans and operations and are based on Touchstone's current internal expectations, estimates, projections, assumptions and beliefs, which may prove to be incorrect. Some of the forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "expects" "anticipates", "believes", "projects", "plans", and similar expressions. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and undue reliance should not be placed on them. Such forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause Touchstone's actual performance and financial results in future periods to differ materially from any projections of future performance or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Touchstone undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change except as required by applicable securities laws. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

Touchstone Gold Limited

Unaudited Interim Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

For the three and six months ended 30 June 2012 and 2011

MANAGEMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY

FOR CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

All of the information in the accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements of Touchstone Gold Limited is the responsibility of management. The unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared by management in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. Where necessary, management has made judgments and estimates in preparing the consolidated financial statements, and such statements have been prepared within acceptable limits of materiality.

Management maintains appropriate systems of internal control given its size to give reasonable assurance that its assets are safeguarded, and the financial records are properly maintained.

The Board of Directors is responsible for ensuring that management fulfills its responsibilities for financial reporting and internal control and exercises this responsibility principally through the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee meets with management to review the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements to satisfy itself that management is properly discharging its responsibilities to the Directors, who approve the consolidated financial statements.

(signed)"David Wiley" (signed) "Brian Morales"

David Wiley Brian Morales

Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer

Toronto, Canada

September 10, 2012

TOUCHSTONE GOLD LIMITED

UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION

(Expressed in U.S. Dollars)

Signed on behalf of the Board of Directors:

Fraser Buchan (signed) , Director David Wiley (signed) , Director

TOUCHSTONE GOLD LIMITED

UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(Expressed in U.S. Dollars)

TOUCHSTONE GOLD LIMITED

UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

(Expressed in U.S. Dollars)

TOUCHSTONE GOLD LIMITED

UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

(Expressed in U.S. Dollars)

TOUCHSTONE GOLD LIMITED

UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Expressed in U.S. Dollars)

NOTE 1 - NATURE OF OPERATIONS

Touchstone Gold Limited ("Touchstone Gold") and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Touchstone Gold Holdings S.A. and Touchstone Colombia (collectively "the Company") is an exploration stage company engaged in the exploration and development of gold properties in Colombia.

Touchstone Gold was incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands on 29 June 2009 and exists under the provisions of British Virgin Islands Companies Act, 2004, as Company number 1536599. The Company's registered office is Akara Building, 24 De Castro Street, Wickhams Cay 1, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

On 7 September 2012, after the approval of a resolution by the Company's shareholders, the Company was redomiciled via a continuance of the Company from the British Virgin Islands to the province of Ontario, Canada, where a majority of the Board of Directors and the Company's officers are located.

On June 7, 2011, the Company's directors and shareholders approved a share re-organisation as a result, all per share amounts have been restated to reflect the share re-organisation.

On June 7 2011, the Company completed a placing of new Ordinary Shares at a price of 27 pence per Ordinary Share, raising a total of approximately £10,000,000 (U.S. $16,442,000). Additionally, 586,106 broker warrants were issued as part of the Placing.

These consolidated financial statements have been prepared using International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") applicable to a going concern, which assumes that assets will be realized and liabilities will be settled in the normal course of business as they become due. Additionally, the consolidated financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost basis except for certain financial instruments, which are measured in accordance with the policies described below. The financial year-end for Touchstone Gold is December 31.

Statement of Compliance: These interim condensed consolidated financial statements are unaudited and have been prepared in accordance with IAS 34 "Interim Financial Reporting‟ ("IAS 34") using accounting policies consistent with the International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") issued by the International Accounting Standards Board ("IASB") and Interpretations of the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee ("IFRIC"). The unaudited interim consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company's audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011.

The accounting policies applied in the preparation of these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements are consistent with those applied and disclosed in the Company's consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011, except as described in note 2.

The preparation of the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with IFRS requires management to make estimates and assumptions about uncertain future events that may affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.

The Company's interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year.

The unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company for the three and six months ended 30 June 2012 and 2011, have been prepared by management, reviewed by the Audit Committee and approved and authorized for issue by the Board of Directors on 10 September 2012.

NOTE 2 - ACCOUNTING CHANGES AND RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

On 1 January, 2012, the Company adopted the amendments required by IFRS 7 "Financial instruments - Disclosures" ("IFRS 7"). The amendments introduce new disclosure requirements for transfers of financial assets including disclosures for financial assets that are not derecognized in their entirety, and for financial assets that are derecognized in their entirety but for which continuing involvement is retained. The adoption of IFRS 7 did not have an impact on the Company's unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements.

Accounting pronouncements for the years beginning on 1 January 2013 and later are included in the Company's financial statements for the years ended 31 December 2011 and 2010.

NOTE 3 -ACQUISITIONS

Atlantis

On 10 September 2012, the Company completed an amalgamation with Atlantis Gold Mines Corp. ("Atlantis"), where a wholly-owned subsidiary of Touchstone amalgamated with Atlantis to form a new amalgamated company. All of the holders of common shares of Atlantis will received one common share of the Company for each Atlantis Share held. Following completion of the merger the new amalgamated company indirectly held all of Atlantis' assets and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Touchstone. On completion of the transaction, Touchstone and Atlantis shareholders held approximately 64% and 36%, respectively, of the Combined Company on an undiluted basis.

The transaction provides the Company with a larger land package along the Segovia-Remedios Gold Belt, covering 309 sq km, which will include over 12km of prospective strike length where the Company has already reported highly encouraging drilling results.

The Atlantis portfolio encompasses a similar geological setting to Touchstone's Rio Pescado project and has shown numerous large gold anomalies with promising initial results. Previous exploration has identified several prospective targets for gold mineralization, an important addition to the existing exploration programme and upside potential, which Touchstone intends to explore further in the months ahead.

Bolivar

On 5 March 2012, the Company entered into an option agreement with a private company to acquire a 90% interest in four mining concessions, over a total area of 57 square kilometres that together comprise the important Santa Rosa Project located in the well-known gold mining district in the south of the Bolivar Department, Colombia.

The material terms of the Agreement are summarised below:

• Initial payment of US$59,000 to the current concession holders, a non-related private company, upon signing the option agreement;

• An additional payment of US$50,000 upon the mining concessions being registered to Touchstone Colombia on the National Mining Registry of Colombia;

• Four annual payments of US$327,750 that will commence one year after the mining concessions have been registered;

• US$1,000,000 in exploration expenditures on the property before earning the 90% interest;

• The Company has secured a right of first refusal to acquire the remaining 10% of the Santa Rosa Project.

NOTE 4 -PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, NET

NOTE 5 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Compensation of Directors and management

For the three months ended 30 June 2012, and 2011 the Company paid $57,773 and $127,855, respectively, in salaries and consulting costs to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, the Company paid $49,899 and $58,771, respectively.

For the three and six months ended 30 June 2012, the Company incurred $361,339 and $864,205, respectively in geologic consulting costs to a Company owned by and controlled by an officer of the Company. For the three and six months ended 30 June 2011, the Company incurred, $377,188 and $638,383, respectively. These transactions were in the normal course of operations and all transactions are measured at the exchange amount, which is the amount agreed to by the related parties and is recorded in professional and consulting fees.

For the three and six months ended 30 June 2011, the Company paid $32,684 and $54,028, respectively in consulting fees to the former Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

For the three and six months ended 30 June 2012, the Company paid $33,181 and $52,040, respectively in fees to a Director of the Company. The Company paid $nil for the three and six months ended 30 June 2012.

A total of $144,408 and $484,321 in share-based payment expense was recognized in respect of options granted to Officers, Directors and employees of the Company for the three and six months ended 30 June 2012, respectively. A total of $71,352 was recognized for the three and six months ended 30 June 2011.

Commitments

In 2009, the Company entered into a contract with an employee of the Company for the purchase of a mining interest payable over a five year period as of the date of the registration of the mining interest on behalf of the Company. The total payable under the contract is $587,500.

Under the contract, the Company reserves the right to continue the agreement based on the results obtained from exploration, economical assessment and construction. At any time while the contract is in force the agreement may be terminated by the Company with no further payments required.

NOTE 6 - SHARE CAPITAL AND CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, STOCK OPTIONS AND SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS

Share capital

The Company is authorized to issue an unlimited number of shares with no par value.

In June 2011, the shareholders of the Company passed a written resolution to approving the following: 

·; consolidation of all of the issued and outstanding Ordinary shares of the Company on the basis of one post consolidation share for each 40 pre-consolidation shares. The result of the resolution was that the issued and outstanding shares was reduced from 124,919 to 3,123;

·; immediately following the consolidation, reclassification of the 3,123 ordinary shares into 2,630 A shares and 493 B shares;

·; immediately following the share consolidation and reclassification, the issue of 13,307 bonus A shares for each existing A share held and 64,218 bonus B shares for each existing B share, the result of which was that the aggregate number of shares issued and outstanding was then 66,666,667;

·; immediately following the bonus issue, the reclassification of both the A shares and B shares into 66,666,667 Ordinary Shares; and

·; cancellation of the warrants issued in October 2010.

As a result of the resolution described above, the share reserve premium made of $2,109,324 on the shares issued in October 2011 and $890,677 allocated to the warrants issued in October 2011 was reclassified to share capital.

In October 2010, the Company issued 19,724 warrants which had a term of one year, exercisable into one common share of the Company at an exercise price of $190.13. In valuing the warrants the Company used an interest rate of 0.21%, a volatility of 95% and a dividend yield of nil. As noted above, these warrants were cancelled in June 2011.

The following tables denote the movement in share capital and warrants to 30 June 2012.

Stock options

A total of 20,000 options were granted during the three and six months ended 30 June 2012. The options have an expiry of June 2021, vest over a period ended June 2014 and have an exercise price of £0.27.

During the three and six months ended 30 June 2011, the Company issued 3,666,666 options, of which 1,666,667 options have an exercise price of £0.27, and 1,999,999 options have an exercise price of £0.29. The options expire in June 2021.

As at June 30, 2012, the following options were outstanding.

Of the options outstanding 8,348,376 were exercisable at June 30, 2012.

Capital management

The Company includes equity, comprised of issued Ordinary Shares, options and warrants and deficit, in the definition of capital. The Company's primary objectives when managing capital are to safeguard the Company's ability to fund the exploration and development of its gold properties in Colombia.

Management reviews its capital management approach on an ongoing basis and believes that this approach, given the relative size and stage of the Company is reasonable. The Company is not subject to other externally imposed capital requirements.

NOTE 7 - FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND FINANCIAL RISK FACTORS

The Company has exposure to liquidity risk and foreign currency risk. The Company's risk management objective is to protect cash flow and, ultimately, shareholder value. Risk management strategies, as discussed below, are designed and implemented to ensure the Company's risks and the related exposure are consistent with the business objectives and risk tolerance.

Liquidity Risk: Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they come due. The Company manages its liquidity by ensuring that there is sufficient capital to meet short and long-term business requirements, after taking into account cash flows from operations and the Company's holdings of cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments. The Company also strives to maintain sufficient financial liquidity at all times in order to participate in investment opportunities as they arise, as well as to withstand sudden adverse changes in economic circumstances.

Management forecasts cash flows for its current and subsequent fiscal years to predict future financing requirements. Future requirements may be met through a combination of credit and access to capital markets. At 30 June 2012, the Company had $4,342,043 (December 31, 2011 - $9,704,345) in cash and cash equivalents

Currency risk: The Company's expenditures are incurred Colombian peso, British pounds, U.S. dollars and Canadian dollars. The results of the Company's operations are subject to currency transaction risk. As the Company's reporting currency is the U.S. dollar, fluctuations in the Colombian peso, British pound and Canadian dollar relative to the U.S. dollar will affect the results of the Company. A 10% change in foreign exchange rates would have an impact of approximately $98,800.

Credit risk: Credit risk is the risk of loss associated with a counterpartys inability to fulfill its payment obligations. As at June 30, 2012 the Company's credit risk is primarily attributable to cash. At June 30, 2012, the majority of the Company's cash was held with a reputable bank with a Standard and Poor's investment rating of AA-.

Interest rate risk: Interest rate risk is the risk borne by an interest-bearing asset or liability as a result of fluctuations in interest rates. Financial assets and financial liabilities with variable interest rates expose the Company to cash flow interest rate risk. The Company's most significant interest rate risk arises from its investments in cash equivalents. However, the maturity on these investments is less than ninety days, thereby mitigating the exposure to the impact of changing interest rates.

Fair Values: The Company's cash and cash equivalents, receivables and payables all had fair values which approximate their carrying values and are considered Level 2 in the fair value hierarchy.

NOTE 8 -LOSS PER SHARE

The following table details the weighted average number of outstanding common shares for the purposes of computing basic and diluted loss per common share for the three and six months ended 30 June 2012 and 2011.

As noted previously, as a result of the share re-organisation, the Company has re-stated basic and diluted shares outstanding.

As a result of the losses for the three and six months ended 30 June 2012 and 2011, there is no dilutive effect of options and warrants.

NOTE 9 - SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company primarily operates in one reportable operating segment, being the development of mineral properties in Colombia. The Company also has an administrative office in Toronto, Canada. In order to determine reportable operating segments, the chief operating decision maker reviews various factors including geographical location, quantitative thresholds and managerial structure. Segmented information on a geographic basis is as follows:

NOTE 10 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENT LIABILITIES

In 2009, the Company entered into a contract with an employee of the Company for the purchase of a mining interest payable over a five year period as of the date of the registration of the mining interest on behalf of the Company. The total payable under the contract is $587,500.

In 2009, the Company entered into a contract for the purchase of a mining interest payable over a five year period as of the date of the registration of the mining interest on behalf of the Company. The total payable under the contract is $2,000,000.

Under the contract, the Company reserves the right to continue the agreement based on the results obtained from exploration, economical assessment and construction. At any time while the contract is in force the agreement may be terminated by the Company with no further payments required.