Issue of Equity, TVR & PDMR Dealing
ECR MINERALS plc
("ECR Minerals" or the "Company")
Issue of Equity and Total Voting Rights
PDMR Dealing
ECR Minerals plc (LON:ECR), the exploration and development company focused on gold in Australia, is pleased to confirm that the new ordinary shares awarded to Nick Tulloch, managing director, and Mike Whitlow, chief operating officer pursuant to their remuneration arrangements announced on 19 September 2023 have been issued and allotted. Accordingly, each of Nick Tulloch and Mike Whitlow have received 7,500,000 new ordinary shares, in lieu of £22,500 of their remuneration for the period 15 March 2024 to 14 June 2024, at a price of 0.3 pence per share.
The total ordinary shares in ECR Minerals currently held by Nick and Mike, as PDMRs of the Company, are as follows:
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Name |
Shares in the Company Issued today |
Total Shares in the Company now held |
Percentage of the Company's issued equity held |
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Nick Tulloch |
7,500,00 |
30,055,417 |
1.62% |
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Mike Whitlow |
7,500,00 |
30,055,417 |
1.62% |
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Total |
15,000,000 |
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Additional Issue of Equity
At the same time, the Company has agreed to issue and allot 2,307,692 new ordinary shares in lieu of £6,000 of fees owed by the Company in order to assist the Company in conserving its cash resources. These shares have been issued at a price of 0.26 pence, which was the volume weighted average price for ECR Mineral's ordinary shares over the 14 trading days prior to the date of the invoice.
Admission and Disclosure and Transparency Rules
Application has been made for 17,307,692 new ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission") and it is expected that Admission will become effective on or around 17 June 2024. The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares. Upon Admission, ECR's issued ordinary share capital will comprise 1,857,061,117 ordinary shares of 0.001 pence. This number will represent the total voting rights in the Company, and, following admission may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they can determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
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ECR Minerals plc |
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Tel: +44 (0) 1738 317 693 |
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Nick Tulloch, Chairman Andrew Scott, Director |
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Email: |
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Website: www.ecrminerals.com |
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WH Ireland Ltd |
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Tel: +44 (0) 207 220 1666 |
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Nominated Adviser Katy Mitchell / Andrew de Andrade |
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Axis Capital Markets Limited |
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Tel: +44 (0) 203 026 0320 |
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Broker |
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Ben Tadd/Lewis Jones |
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SI Capital Ltd |
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Tel: +44 (0) 1483 413500 |
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Broker |
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Nick Emerson |
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Novum Securities Limited |
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Tel: +44 (0) 20 7399 9425 |
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Broker Jon Belliss |
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Brand Communications |
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Tel: +44 (0) 7976 431608 |
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Public & Investor Relations |
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Alan Green |
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ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC
ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company. ECR's wholly owned Australian subsidiary Mercator Gold Australia Pty Ltd ("MGA") has 100% ownership of the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central Victoria, Australia, has six licence applications outstanding which includes one licence application lodged in eastern Victoria (Tambo gold project).
ECR also owns 100% of an Australian subsidiary LUX Exploration Pty Ltd ("LUX") which has three approved exploration permits covering 946 km2 over a relatively unexplored area in Lolworth Range, Queensland, Australia. The Company has also submitted a license application at Kondaparinga which is approximately 120km2 in area and located within the Hodgkinson Gold Province, 80km NW of Mareeba, North Queensland.
Following the sale of the Avoca, Moormbool and Timor gold projects in Victoria, Australia to Fosterville South Exploration Ltd (TSX-V: FSX) and the subsequent spin-out of the Avoca and Timor projects to Leviathan Gold Ltd (TSX-V: LVX), MGA has the right to receive up to A$2 million in payments subject to future resource estimation or production from projects sold to Fosterville South Exploration Limited. MGA also has approximately A$75 million of unutilised tax losses incurred during previous operations.
ECR holds a royalty on the SLM gold project in La Rioja Province, Argentina which could potentially receive up to US$2.7 million in aggregate across all licences.
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities |
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Name |
Nick Tulloch |
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Reason for the notification |
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Position/status |
Chairman |
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b) |
Initial notification/amendment |
Initial notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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a) |
Name |
ECR Minerals plc |
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b) |
LEI |
213800PBXY96KXHISJ17 |
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Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted |
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code |
ordinary shares of 0.001p each
GB00BYYDKX57 |
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Nature of the transaction |
New ordinary shares issued |
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Price(s) and volume(s) |
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d) |
Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price |
7,500,000 0.3p |
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Date of the transaction |
14 June 2024 |
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Place of the transaction |
London Stock Exchange (XLON) |
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities |
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Name |
Mike Whitlow |
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Reason for the notification |
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Position/status |
Chief Operating Officer |
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Initial notification/amendment |
Initial notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor |
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Name |
ECR Minerals plc |
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LEI |
213800PBXY96KXHISJ17 |
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Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted |
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code |
ordinary shares of 0.001p each
GB00BYYDKX57 |
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Nature of the transaction |
New ordinary shares issued |
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Price(s) and volume(s) |
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Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price |
7,500,000 0.3p |
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Date of the transaction |
14 June 2024 |
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Place of the transaction |
London Stock Exchange (XLON) |
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