Exercise of Share Options and Issue of Equity

RNS Number : 2208V

Anglo Asian Mining PLC

19 July 2018

 

Anglo Asian Mining plc / Ticker: AAZ / Index: AIM / Sector: Mining

19 July 2018

Anglo Asian Mining plc

PDMR Exercise of Share Options and Issue of Equity

Anglo Asian Mining plc ("Anglo Asian" or the "Company"), the AIM listed gold, copper and silver producer in Azerbaijan, has today applied for the admission of 136,000 new ordinary shares of 1p each in the share capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") to be admitted to trading on AIM. The Ordinary Shares were issued by Anglo Asian on 19 July 2018 pursuant to the exercise of share options over Ordinary Shares of the Company by Farhang Hedjazi, a person discharging managerial responsibilities ("PDMR").

Further information is provided below:

Name	Position	Exercise Price (pence)	Number of share options exercised
Farhang Hedjazi	Vice President Technical Services  (Non-board)	22.25	136,000

The 136,000 new Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with the existing ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company including the right to receive any dividend or other distribution thereafter declared, made or paid. Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM ("Admission"). It is expected that Admission will become effective and that dealings in the new Ordinary Shares will commence on or around 26 July 2018.

Following the issue of the new Ordinary Shares referred to above, Farhang Hedjazi has an interest in a total of 772,665 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.68 per cent. of the issued Ordinary Share capital, as enlarged by the issue of new Ordinary Shares in connection with the above share option exercise.

Farhang Hedjazi will retain all the Ordinary Shares following their allotment.

Total Voting Rights

Following the issue of the new Ordinary Shares, the Company's issued share capital now consists of 114,317,024 ordinary shares of 1p each, none of which are held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 114,317,024.

The above figure of 114,317,024 may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure

Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement.

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide further detail on the director's share dealing.

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM.

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	Farhang Hedjazi
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	Vice President Technical Services
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	Anglo Asian Mining plc
b)	LEI:	213800F9JM669WH34359
4.	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument: Identification code:	Ordinary shares of 1 pence each  GB00B0C18177
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Exercise of share options
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) 22.25p 136,000
d)	Aggregated information:	Single transactions as in 4 c) above
e)	Date of the transaction:	2018-07-19
f)	Place of the transaction:	Off-market

**ENDS**

For further information please visit www.angloasianmining.com or contact:

Reza Vaziri	Anglo Asian Mining plc	Tel: [phone]
Bill Morgan	Anglo Asian Mining plc	Tel: [phone]
Stephen Westhead	Anglo Asian Mining plc	Tel: [phone]
Ewan Leggat	SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP Nominated Adviser and Broker	Tel: [phone]
Soltan Tagiev	SP Angel Corporate Finance LLP	Tel + 44 (0) 20 3470 0470
Susie Geliher	St Brides Partners Ltd	Tel: [phone]
Lottie Wadham	St Brides Partners Ltd	Tel: [phone]

 

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