Holding in Company

Mercury World Mining Trust PLC 18 August 2000 1 Name of company: Mercury World Mining Trust plc 2 Name of shareholder having a major interest: Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and Merrill Lynch Group Inc. and Mercury Asset Management Ltd. 3 Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18: Non-beneficial 4 Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of shares held by each of them: Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 21,488,842 (including earlier notification made by Mercury Asset Management Ltd) 5 Number of shares/amount of stock acquired: Unknown 6 Percentage of issued class: Unknown 7 Number of shares/amount of stock disposed: n/a 8 Percentage of issued class: n/a 9 Class of security: Ordinary 5p each 10 Date of transaction: 11th August 2000 11 Date company informed: 17th August 2000 after 5.30 p.m. 12 Total holding following this notification: 21,488,842 13 Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification: 11.79% 14 Contact name for queries: Miss A J Marsh 15 Contact telephone number: 020 7743 5430 16 Name of company official responsible for making notification: Miss A J Marsh for Mercury Asset Management Group Services Ltd Secretary 17 Date of notification: 18th August 2000
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