Directorate change Anglesey Mining Strengthens ...

Anglesey Mining Strengthens Board

Reinforces Project Development and Operations Capability

Anglesey Mining plc is pleased to announce two new appointments to the board of
directors:

  ·    D W (Bill) Hooley as an Executive Director, and
  ·    Roger W Turner as a non-executive director.

Both these new directors are professional mining engineers with many years
experience in the development and operation of mining properties throughout the
world. The board believes that the additional skills and knowledge that now will
be available to the company will be important for the rapid development of the
company's Parys Mountain base metal and Labrador Iron Ore projects.

Bill Hooley

Bill Hooley has extensive experience in Australia, the UK and North America in
mineral project development and assessment. A graduate in Mining Engineering
from Imperial College, Royal School of Mines, he is a Fellow of the Australasian
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He has worked for a number of major mining
companies as well as running a number of junior mining companies. He was until
recently managing director of Micon International Co Limited, the
internationally respected minerals consulting group.

As Executive Director Mr Hooley will concentrate his efforts on both bringing
the Parys Mountain mine into production and to providing assistance for the
development of the Labrador Iron Ore project. His appointment as Executive
Director will significantly add to the management resources of the company, as
well as providing the necessary impetus to move the company's assets towards
production. Mr Hooley is also a director of Delta Pacific Mining plc.

Roger Turner

Roger Turner has more than 30 years worldwide experience in mine engineering,
management and project development in both open pit and underground mining. A
graduate in Mining Engineering from the Camborne School of Mines, with an MSc in
Economic Geology from Leicester University, he is a member of the Institution of
Mining and Metallurgy UK, the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and
the American Institute of Mining Engineers.

Early in his career he worked as a mine manager for Noranda and Hudson Bay in
Canada and for Falconbridge in Africa. In the UK he was manager of the Westfield
open pit coal mine in Scotland and the Wheal Jane tin mine in Cornwall for Rio
Tinto Zinc Corporation. As a mining consultant he worked for, amongst others,
Warrior International (now Standard Bank) and Samuel Montagu & Company.

In 1994 he was appointed President of Nelson Gold Corporation and was
responsible for the financing, construction and start up of the Jilau gold mine
in Tajikistan. From 1996 to 2002 he was co-founder, President and CEO of Oxus
Gold plc, and was responsible for the acquisition and development of the
Amantaytau gold mine in Uzbekistan. Mr. Turner is currently chairman of Minco
plc and Ovoca Gold plc. Mr. Turner will serve as a non-executive director of the
company and will bring significant experience in project development as well as
mining operations to the company.


Commenting on the two appointments, the chairman of Anglesey Mining, John
Kearney said "This is an exciting time for Anglesey. These appointments are in
line with the company's objective to move the Parys Mountain mine and the
Labrador Iron Ore project towards production as soon as practicable. The skills
and knowledge that both these experienced mining professionals will bring to the
company will be invaluable. Bill Hooley's close involvement will add
significantly to the management resources and commitment available to Anglesey."


Issue of Share Options

Simultaneously with these appointments, the board, acting upon the
recommendations of the remuneration committee, approved the granting to
directors of the following share options under the company's 2004 Share Option
Scheme:

         Bill Hooley                1,000,000
         Roger Turner                 500,000
         David Lean                   100,000
         Howard Miller                100,000
         Danesh Varma                 200,000
         Ian Cuthbertson              300,000

These options were granted at an exercise price of 10.625 pence per share, being
the average mid-market price of the company's shares for the three trading days
preceding the grant of the option. There is a performance condition to be met In
respect of these options, namely that the company's share price performance over
the period from grant to exercise must exceed that of the companies in the top
quartile of the FTSE 100 index.


The Company

Anglesey Mining plc is a UK based company established in 1984. It has a full
London Stock Exchange listing and two major projects under active development
towards mining production:

  ·  The historically important Parys Mountain copper-lead-zinc deposit (6.5Mt
     at 10% combined) in North Wales, where work is underway on an updated
     feasibility study and exploration drilling. There is excellent mineral
     exploration potential adjacent to the already identified resources. It is
     estimated that the mine could be in production within two years from financing.

·    The Labrador Iron Ore project, a unique opportunity to re-establish major
     iron ore mines previously operated by the Iron Ore Company of Canada, based on
     100 million tonnes of hematite iron ore in Labrador, a direct shipping
     partially
     developed project which will produce lump and sinter fines ores with a short
     time to production and relatively low capital expenditure requirements. Target
     production is 2 million tonnes ("mt") per year by 2008, increasing to between
     3 and 5 mt after 3 years.

The focus of the company for 2006 is the development of its two mining projects.


For further information please contact:
Ian Cuthbertson, Finance Director        + (44) 1248 361333
Bill Hooley, Executive Director          + (44) 1492 541981
John F. Kearney, Chairman                + (1) 416 362 6686
Cathy Malins / Annabel Leather,
Parkgreen Communications                 + (44) 20 7493 3713