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AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO
SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT, SENIOR
SECURED CONVERTIBLE NOTES AND WARRANTS
This
AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT, SENIOR SECURED
CONVERTIBLE NOTES AND WARRANTS (this "Amendment") is made and
entered into as of February 23, 2007, by and among Azco Mining,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and the purchasers
identified on the signature pages hereto (each, a "Purchaser" and,
collectively, the "Purchasers").
RECITALS
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The Company and the Purchasers are parties to a
Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 20, 2006 (the
"Purchase Agreement"), as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Senior
Secured Convertible Notes, Warrants, Additional Investment Rights
and Security Agreement dated as of September 6, 2006 ("Amendment
No. 1") pursuant to which the Company issued and sold to the
Purchasers an aggregate of $3,781,662 of Senior Secured Convertible
Notes due January 1, 2008 (the "Notes") and certain Warrants and
Additional Investment Rights (each as defined in the Purchase
Agreement). Capitalized terms used and not defined in this
Amendment shall have the respective meanings set forth in the
Purchase Agreement or Notes, as the case may be.
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In connection with Amendment No. 1, the principal
amount of the Notes consists of (i) $2,500,000 of Senior Secured
Convertible Notes issued on March 20, 2006 (the "Original Notes"),
(ii) $1,000,000 of Senior Secured Convertible Notes issued pursuant
to Amendment No. 1, and (iii) $281,662 of accrued interest and
liquidated damages.
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In connection with Amendment No. 1, the Warrants
and Additional Investment Rights consist of (i) the original
warrants and additional investment rights issued under the Purchase
Agreement on March 20, 2006 (the "Original Warrants" and the
"Original Additional Investment Rights", respectively), and (ii)
the warrants and additional investment rights issued under
Amendment No. 1.
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4.
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The Company and the Purchasers now wish to
further modify certain terms of the Purchase Agreement, Notes and
Warrants.
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NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing Recitals and other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Purchaser,
severally and not jointly, agree as follows:
Azco_Amendment_2_Feb-23-07
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Amendments and Agreements .
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1.1.
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The Company and each Purchaser agrees that
Section 2(b) of the Notes shall be deleted and replaced in
its entirety as follows:
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"(b)
(1) The Company shall pay the
principal balance of this Note to the Holder in 12 equal monthly
installments (each, a " Monthly Installment ") commencing on
February 1, 2007 and to continue on the first day of each of the 11
months thereafter, except if such date is not a Trading Day, in
which case such principal shall be payable on the next succeeding
Trading Day (each, a " Principal Payment Date "), until the
outstanding principal balance of this Note has been paid in full;
provided, however, that the February 2007 and March 2007 Monthly
Installments shall be paid in accordance with Section
2(b)(2) below. On the Maturity Date, the Company shall pay all
then accrued and unpaid interest on this Note together with the
final payment of principal hereunder.
(b)
(2) In connection with the Monthly
Installment due on February 1, 2007 and March 1, 2007, the Company
may pay such Monthly Installments in Common Stock, without being
subject to the Equity Conditions, on or prior to March 15, 2007,
provided that the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to
each Holder as principal shall be determined by dividing the total
principal then payable to such Holder by the lowest of (i) the
Conversion Price, (ii) $0.80, and (iii) the Market Price as of the
applicable Principal Payment Date, and rounding up to the nearest
whole share."
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1.2.
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The Company hereby acknowledges, and shall cause
its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Purchasers, that (i)
the Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes up to the
principal amount of the Original Notes and the Common Stock
issuable upon a cashless exercise of the Original Warrants (to the
extent permitted) shall be eligible to be sold under Rule 144 on
March 20, 2007, and (ii) the Common Stock issuable upon conversion
of all the Notes and the Common Stock issuable upon a cashless
exercise of all the warrants (to the extent permitted) issued under
Amendment No. 1 shall be eligible to be sold under Rule 144 on
September 6, 2007.
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1.3.
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Following March 20, 2007, if the Company issues
any Common Stock as a Monthly Installment that is not eligible for
resale under Rule 144 and the Registration Statement is not
effective (any such shares issued, the "Restricted Shares"), then
(x) the number of shares of Common Stock that are issued to each
Purchaser as principal shall be adjusted so that the number of
shares of Common Stock such Purchaser receives is equal to the
quotient obtained by dividing the total principal then payable to
such Purchaser by the Issue Price, and (y) each Purchaser shall
have the right to require the Company to repurchase (the
"Repurchase Option") in cash all or any portion of such Restricted
Shares, within 10 Trading Days following delivery by such Purchaser
of a notice to the Company, at a price equal to 130% of the Issue
Price. A Purchaser shall not be permitted to exercise its
Repurchase Option if at the time of the delivery by such Purchaser
of the notice to the Company the Restricted Shares can be sold
under Rule 144 (and Company’s counsel has
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provided the requisite legal opinion for the sale
of such shares pursuant to Rule 144, at a cost born solely by the
Company) or a Registration Statement is effective. For the purposes
of this Amendment, the "Issue Price" shall mean the lowest of (i)
the Conversion Price, (ii) $0.80, and (iii) the Market Price as of
the applicable Principal Payment Date (as defined in the Notes),
and rounding up to the nearest whole share.
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1.4.
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The Purchasers agree that any amounts due under
Section 6.1(d) of the Purchase Agreement shall only apply to
Events occurring on or after April 30, 2007, except as otherwise
set forth in this Amendment.
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2.1.
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In connection with the transaction contemplated
by this Amendment, the Company agrees to issue to each Purchaser a
warrant in the form of Exhibit A hereto (the "Additional
Warrant A"), registered in the name of such Purchaser, pursuant to
which such Purchaser shall have the right to acquire such number of
Underlying Shares indicated on Schedule A hereto under the
heading "Additional Warrant A Shares".
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Registration Rights . To ensure that
the registration rights of the Purchasers are not adversely
affected as a result of the transactions contemplated by this
Amendment and to provide registration rights consistent with the
existing registration rights in respect of the Common Stock
issuable upon exercise of the Securities, the parties agree as
follows with respect to registration rights.
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3.1.
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The Company and each Purchaser agrees that the
first sentence of Section 6.1(a) of the Purchase Agreement
shall be deleted and replaced in its entirety as
follows:
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"As promptly as possible, and in any event on or
prior to the Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with
the Commission a "shelf" Registration Statement covering the resale
of all Registrable Securities and the sale of an additional amount
of shares equal to 40% of the number of Registrable Securities for
an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule
415."
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3.2.
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The parties hereby agree that the definition of
"Registrable Securities" under the Purchase Agreement shall include
(a) the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion or
exercise of the Notes, Warrants, Additional Warrants and Additional
Investment Rights, and (b) any Common Stock (including Underlying
Shares) issued or issuable pursuant to the Transaction Documents,
Amendment No. 1 and this Amendment, together with any securities
issued or issuable upon any stock split, dividend or other
distribution, recapitalization or similar event with respect to the
foregoing.
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3.3.
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The Company will use commercially reasonable
efforts to prepare and file the
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Registration Statement to cover all shares of
Common Stock issuable under this Amendment, Amendment No. 1 and the
Transaction Documents, including the Registrable
Securities.
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3.4.
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The Filing Date with respect to the initial
Registration Statement shall be April 30, 2007 and the Required
Effectiveness Date with respect to the initial Registration
Statement shall be the earlier of (i) July 31, 2007 and (ii) the
fifth Trading Day following the date on which the Company is
notified by the Commission that the initial Registration Statement
will not be reviewed or is no longer subject to further review and
comments. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a breach
of this Section 3.4 shall subject the Company to amounts due
under Section 6.1(d) of the Purchase Agreement.
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3.5.
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In addition to any amounts due under Section
6.1(d) of the Purchase Agreement, if the Company fails to file
the Registration Statement by April 30, 2007, then the Company
agrees to issue to each Purchaser on May 1, 2007 an additional
warrant in the form of Exhibit B hereto (the "Additional
Warrant B" and together with the Additional Warrant A, the
"Additional Warrants"), registered in the name of such Purchaser,
pursuant to which such Purchaser shall have the right to acquire
such number of Underlying Shares indicated on Schedule A
hereto under the heading "Additional Warrant B Shares".
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3.6.
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Charter Amendment .
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(a)
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The Company shall use its best efforts to obtain
as soon as possible, but in no event later than June 30, 2007,
shareholder approval of the Charter Amendment (the "Charter
Amendment App
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