Issue of Equity

Issue of Equity

Mercator Gold Plc

MERCATOR GOLD plc
(“Mercator” or “the Company”)

AIM: MCR
US OTC: MTGDY

ISSUE OF EQUITY

Placing of 42.5 Million New Ordinary Shares at 1p
to Raise £425,000

London 17 May 2010

Mercator Gold plc, the diversified mineral development company, is pleased to announce a further placing (“the Placing") of 42.5 million new ordinary shares of 0.1p each ("the Placing Shares") at a price of 1p per share to raise £425,000 before costs in order to satisfy institutional demand.

Mercator’s co-broker Old Park Lane Capital plc acted for the Company in the Placing, which is conditional upon, inter alia, admission of the Placing Shares to trading on AIM.

Application has been made for the admission of the Placing Shares to AIM effective 21 May 2010, following which the Company will have 331,750,562 ordinary shares in issue. The Placing Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the ordinary shares of the Company currently traded on AIM.

Use of Proceeds

The net proceeds of the Placing will enable the Company to continue implementing its stated strategy of adding, and where appropriate, realising value from its existing portfolio of assets whilst taking advantage of new opportunities as they arise.

For further information please contact:

Mercator Gold plc
Michael Silver, Chairman								Tel: [phone]
Patrick Harford, Managing Director								Tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
Website: www.mercatorgold.com
Daniel Stewart & Company plc
Oliver Rigby								Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7776 6550
Old Park Lane Capital plc
Forbes Cutler								Tel: [phone]
Bankside Consultants Ltd
Simon Rothschild/Oliver Winters								Tel: [phone]
Barry Kaplan Associates
Larry Kaplan								Tel: [phone]