Further re Exercise of Warrants Announced on Friday 22nd April 2022

Further re Exercise of Warrants Announced on Friday 22nd April 2022

ECR Minerals plc

ECR MINERALS Plc

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

Further to the announcement of 22 April 2022 regarding a Warrant Exercise the Company provides the following by way of further information.

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 20,500,000 new ordinary shares in the Company (“Warrant Shares”). 20,500,000 new ordinary shares are being issued pursuant to the exercise of warrants at 1p per share and aggregate subscription monies of £205,000 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 27 April 2022 (“Admission”). Upon Admission, ECR’s issued ordinary share capital will comprise 1,064,464,551 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 Andrew Haythorpe, CEO
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.ecrminerals.com
WH Ireland Ltd		Tel: [phone]
Nominated Adviser Katy Mitchell / Andrew de Andrade
SI Capital Ltd		Tel: [phone]
Broker
Nick Emerson
Novum Securities Limited		Tel: [phone]
Broker Jon Belliss
Blytheweigh		Tel: [phone]
Public Relations
Tim Blythe

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 eight licence applications outstanding including two licence applications lodged in eastern Victoria. (Tambo gold project). MGA is currently drilling at both the Bailieston (EL5433) and Creswick (EL6148) projects and has an experienced exploration team with significant local knowledge in the Victoria Goldfields and wider region.

https://mercatorgold.com.au/

ECR also owns 100% of an Australian subsidiary LUX Exploration Pty Ltd (“LUX”) which has three licence applications covering 900 km2 covering a relatively unexplored area in Queensland, Australia.

https://luxexploration.com/

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), Mercator Gold Australia Pty Limited 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.

ECR holds 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, which has a 43-101 compliant resource. ECR also holds a royalty on the SLM gold project in La Rioja Province, Argentina and can potentially receive up to US$2.7 million in aggregate across all licences.

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