Result of AGM

BlackRock World Mining Trust plc

LEI:  LNFFPBEUZJBOSR6PW155

Results of Annual General Meeting

BlackRock World Mining Trust plc announces that, at the Annual General Meeting held today, resolutions 1 to 5 and 7 to 15 were duly passed on a poll. Following the Company’s announcement on 19 March 2019 that Ian Cockerill would be retiring as a Director, a motion was put to the meeting to withdraw Resolution 6 seeking his re-election as a Director. This motion was approved and Resolution 6 was duly withdrawn.

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2018, which has previously been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and is available for inspection at:

www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

The results of the poll were as follows:
 

	Votes For			Votes Against		% of Available Voting Rights*	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1	70,347,316		99.98	17,450	0.02	39.91%	2,795,174
Resolution 2	70,179,990		99.81	134,953	0.19	39.88%	2,845,997
Resolution 3	70,347,392		99.98	16,532	0.02	39.90%	2,794,092
Resolution 4	60,234,074		85.62	10,118,289	14.38	39.90%	2,808,576
Resolution 5	70,323,208		99.96	29,156	0.04	39.90%	2,808,576
Resolution 6		Resolution Withdrawn
Resolution 7	70,319,202		99.96	27,062	0.04	39.89%	2,814,676
Resolution 8	69,335,814		98.18	1,284,050	1.82	40.05%	2,811,076
Resolution 9	70,264,690		99.88	85,174	0.12	39.90%	2,811,076
Resolution 10	69,988,430		99.47	370,891	0.53	39.90%	2,801,619
Resolution 11	70,583,406		99.93	48,592	0.07	40.06%	2,798,942
Resolution 12	71,973,459		98.41	1,159,517	1.59	41.48%	27,963
Resolution 13	70,277,953		99.91	63,348	0.09	39.89%	2,819,639
Resolution 14	70,252,914		99.85	103,454	0.15	39.90%	2,804,572
Resolution 15	70,312,700		99.93	51,407	0.07	39.90%	2,796,833

*Available Voting Rights equals 176,330,242

2 May 2019