Award of Performance Rights

Adriatic Metals PLC

21 September 2023

 

21 September 2023

 Adriatic Metals PLC 

("Adriatic Metals" or the "Company")

Award of Performance Rights

Adriatic Metals PLC (ASX:ADT, LSE:ADT1, OTCQX:ADMLF) announces that on 19 September 2023, it granted a total of 919,591 performance rights ("PR") vesting on 24 May 2026 to staff under the Company's Employment Incentive Plans. Each PR gives the holder the right to one new ordinary share of £0.013355 in the capital of the Company, subject to satisfying performance-related vesting conditions.

Market Abuse Regulation Disclosure

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company (LEI: 549300OHAH2GL1DP0L61) to constitute inside ‎information for the purposes of Article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended ("UK Market Abuse Regulation").

The person ‎responsible for arranging and authorising the release of this announcement on behalf of Adriatic is Paul Cronin, Managing Director and CEO.

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For further information please visit www.adriaticmetals.com; email: [e-mail], @AdriaticMetals on Twitter; or contact:

Adriatic Metals PLC
Paul Cronin / Klara Kaczmarek	Via Buchanan
Buchanan	Tel: [phone]
Bobby Morse/ Oonagh Reidy	[e-mail]
Morgans Corporate Limited Rob Douglas / Sam Warriner / Mitch Duffy	Tel: [phone]
RBC Capital Markets
James Agnew / Jamil Miah	Tel: [phone]
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited
Ashton Clanfield / Callum Stewart / Varun Talwar	Tel: [phone]
Citadel Magnus
Cameron Gilenko	Tel: [phone]

ABOUT ADRIATIC METALS

Adriatic Metals PLC (ASX:ADT, LSE:ADT1, OTCQX:ADMLF) is a precious and base metals developer that is advancing the world-class Vares Project in Bosnia & Herzegovina, as well as the Raska Project in Serbia.

The Vares Project is fully-funded to production, which is expected in Q4 2023. The 2021 Project Definitive Feasibility Study boasts robust economics of US$1,062 million post-tax NPV₈, 134% IRR and a capex of US$168 million. Concurrent with ongoing construction activities, the Company continues to explore across its highly prospective 44km² concession package.

The Mineral Resource estimate for the Rupice underground deposit comprising part of the Vares Silver Project was updated in accordance with ASX Listing Rule 5.8 on 27 July 2023. The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the previous announcement and that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimate in the previous announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed.

The Ore Reserve estimate for the Rupice deposit comprising part of the Vares Silver Project was announced in accordance with ASX Listing Rule 5.9 on 19 August 2021. The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the information included in the previous announcement and that all material assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimate in the previous announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed.

In accordance with ASX Listing Rule 5.19, the Company confirms that the production targets and forecast financial information for the Vares Project were first disclosed in accordance with ASX Listing Rules 5.16 and 5.17 in the Company's announcement dated 19 August 2021. The Company confirms that all the material assumptions underpinning the production target and the forecast financial information in the previous announcement continue to apply and have not materially changed.

 

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