As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 2011.

 

Registration No. 333-158343

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C.  20549

 

 

POST- EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

 

FORM F-10

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

YAMANA GOLD INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

150 York Street, Suite 1102, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5H 3S5 (416) 815-0220

(Address and telephone number of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

MERIDIAN GOLD COMPANY

9670 Gateway Drive

Suite 200

Reno, Nevada 89521-3952

(775) 850-3777

(Name, address and telephone number of agent for service in the United States)

 

 

Copies to:

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale of the securities to the public:

Not Applicable.

 

Province of Ontario, Canada

(Principal jurisdiction regulating this offering)

 

 

It is proposed that this filing shall become effective (check appropriate box):

A. x  Upon filing with the Commission, pursuant to Rule 467(a) (if in connection with an offering being made contemporaneously in the United States and Canada).

B. o   At some future date (check the appropriate box below):

1.     o    pursuant to Rule 467(b) on (     ) at (     ) (designate a time not sooner than 7 calendar days after filing).

2.     o    pursuant to Rule 467(b) on (     ) at (     ) (designate a time 7 calendar days or sooner after filing) because the securities regulatory authority in the review jurisdiction has issued a receipt or notification of clearance on (    ).

3.     o    pursuant to Rule 467(b) as soon as practicable after notification of the Commission by the Registrant or the Canadian securities regulatory authority of the review jurisdiction that a receipt or notification of clearance has been issued with respect hereto.

4.     o    after the filing of the next amendment to this Form (if preliminary material is being filed).

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to the home jurisdiction’s shelf prospectus offering procedures, check the following box.  o

 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

On April 1, 2009, Yamana Gold Inc., a Canadian corporation (the “Registrant”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement on Form F-10, Registration No. 333-158343, as amended on April 7, 2009 (the “Registration Statement”), registering up to Cdn$500,000,000 of debt securities, common shares, warrants and subscription receipts of the Registrant. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is being filed to remove from registration the securities that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-10 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Toronto, Province of Ontario, Canada, on April 25, 2011.

 

 

	YAMANA GOLD INC.
	By:	/s/ Charles Main
		Charles Main
		Executive Vice President, Finance and
		Chief Financial Officer

 

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

 

 

Signature		Title		Date
*		Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director		April 25, 2011
Peter Marrone		(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Charles Main		Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer		April 25, 2011
Charles Main		(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
*		Director		April 25, 2011
Patrick Mars
*		Director		April 25, 2011
John Begeman
*		Director		April 25, 2011
Richard Graff
*		Director		April 25, 2011
Robert Horn
*		Director		April 25, 2011
Nigel Lees
*		Director		April 25, 2011
Juvenal Mesquita Filho
*		Director		April 25, 2011
Carl Renzoni
*		Director		April 25, 2011
Antenor Silva

 

 

*		Director		April 25, 2011
Dino Titaro
		Director
Alex J. Davidson

 

 

By:	/s/ Charles Main
	Charles Main Attorney- in-Fact

 

 

AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 6(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, the undersigned has signed this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement, solely in its capacity as the duly authorized representative of Yamana Gold Inc. in the United States on April 25, 2011.

 

 

	MERIDIAN GOLD COMPANY
	By:	/s/ Darcy Marud
		Name:   Darcy Marud
		Title:     President