Exercise of Warrants

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 

ECR MINERALS plc
(“ECR Minerals”, “ECR” or the “Company”)

EXERCISE OF WARRANTS

ECR Minerals plc (LON: ECR), the gold exploration and development company focussed on Australia, announces it has received notice to exercise warrants over 18,112,139 new ordinary shares in the Company (“Warrant Shares”). Of this number, 10,612,139 new ordinary shares are being issued pursuant to the exercise of warrants at 1.125p per share, and 7,500,000 new ordinary shares pursuant to the exercise of warrants at 1p per share. Aggregate subscription monies of £194,386.56 have been received by ECR in respect of the exercise of these warrants.

Admission of the Warrant Shares to trading on AIM is expected to occur on or around 7 August 2020 (“Admission”). Upon Admission, ECR’s issued ordinary share capital will comprise 640,953,913 ordinary shares of 0.001p. This number will represent the total voting rights in the Company, and, following admission of the Warrant Shares, 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. The Warrant Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the ordinary shares of the Company currently traded on AIM.

MARKET ABUSE REGULATIONS (EU) No. 596/2014
The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014 (MAR). Upon the publication of this announcement via Regulatory Information Service (RIS), this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

ECR Minerals plc	Tel: [phone]
David Tang, Non-Executive Chairman
Craig Brown, Director & CEO
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.ecrminerals.com
WH Ireland Ltd	Tel: [phone]
Nominated Adviser
Katy Mitchell/James Sinclair-Ford
SI Capital Ltd	Tel: [phone]
Broker
Nick Emerson

ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC

ECR is a mineral exploration and development company. ECR’s wholly owned Australian subsidiary Mercator Gold Australia Pty Ltd has 100% ownership of the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central Victoria, Australia.

Following the sale of the Avoca, Moormbool and Timor gold projects in Victoria, Australia to Fosterville South Exploration Ltd (TSX-V: FSX), ECR has the right to receive up to A$2 million in payments subject to future resource estimation or production at those projects.

ECR has earned a 25% interest in the Danglay gold project, an advanced exploration project located in a prolific gold and copper mining district in the north of the Philippines, and holds a royalty on the SLM gold project in La Rioja Province, Argentina.