Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 7916F

Shanta Gold Limited

20 June 2012

 



20 June 2012

Shanta Gold Limited

("Shanta Gold" or the "Company")

Directors' Shareholdings

Further to the announcements on 31 January 2011, 18 February 2011 and 13 October 2011 (providing for certain Directors to acquire existing ordinary shares in the Company in a Board approved monthly purchase scheme), Shanta Gold announces that a total of 37,564 ordinary shares were purchased yesterday by certain Directors of the Company.

Further details concerning the share purchases by certain Directors are set out below:

Director	Number of shares purchased	Share price paid	Resultant shareholding	Resultant % of issued share capital of the Company
Walton Imrie	15,652	20.4251p	10,239,760	3.21
Gareth Taylor	15,652	20.4251p	1,110,009	0.35
Paul Heber	6,260	20.4251p	346,739	0.11

Enquiries:

Shanta Gold Limited	Tel: [phone]
Walton Imrie / Gareth Taylor
Nominated Adviser and Broker
Liberum Capital Limited	Tel: + 44 (0)20 3100 2000
Michael Rawlinson / Clayton Bush / Christopher Kololian
Financial Public Relations
Tavistock Communications	Tel: [phone]
Emily Fenton / Mike Bartlett

About Shanta Gold Limited

Shanta Gold is a Tanzania focussed gold explorer and mine developer. It currently has defined ore resources on the New Luika, Singida and Mgusu projects and holds exploration licences over a number of additional properties. The New Luika Gold Mine is currently under construction and is expecting first production in 2012. The Company is admitted to trading on AIM and has approximately 319 million shares in issue.

For further information visit the Company's website: www.shantagold.com.

 

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