Result of EGM

Hambledon Mining PLC
02 March 2006



                              HAMBLEDON MINING PLC

                            EGM RESULT AND ADMISSION

Hambledon Mining Plc (the 'Company'), the AIM-listed mining and exploration
company developing gold and silver deposits in Kazakhstan, is pleased to
announce that at the Company's extraordinary general meeting held earlier today
all the resolutions proposed were duly passed.

As a result, save for Admission itself, the conditions to which the placing of
104,000,000 new ordinary shares of 0.1p each at 10p per share were subject, have
been satisfied and accordingly £10.4m (before expenses) has been raised. It is
expected that the new ordinary shares will be admitted to trading on AIM
tomorrow, 3 March 2006 ('Admission').

ENDS

ENQUIRIES:

Hambledon Mining Plc
Nicholas Bridgen, Chief Executive                Tel: [phone]

Seymour Pierce Limited
Nicola Marrin / Sarah Wharry                     Tel: [phone]

Bankside Consultants
Michael Spriggs / Michael Padley                 Tel: [phone]





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