Trading Statement

Anglo Asian Mining PLC
20 September 2005


                               PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

                     Directorate Change and Trading Update


For release at 7.00 a.m. on 20 September 2005


     ANGLO ASIAN MINING welcomes Mr Richard Round to the Board of Directors


Anglo Asian Mining PLC ('Anglo Asian') (EPIC: AAZ), a gold and copper
development company with assets in Azerbaijan, today announces Mr Richard Round
has joined the Board of Directors in the role of Finance Director, as detailed
in the listing Admission Document.  Mr Round joins Anglo Asian from the Mining
(Scotland) Group, the largest opencast coal mining company in the UK, where he
was the Financial Director from 2001.

Between 1995 and 2001, Mr Round was the Finance Director of Consolidated Supply
Management Limited, an international oilfield logistics group operating
primarily in Latin America and the Former Soviet Union, including Azerbaijan and
Kazakhstan.

Charles Hancock, Chief Executive, stated, 'We welcome Richard to Anglo Asian and
look forward to welcoming him onto the board.  With his previous experience in
mining and in the Former Soviet Union region, particularly in Azerbaijan, we
believe he will be an invaluable member of the team.'

Mr Round is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and
has also worked at British Coal as an executive and at Ferrum Holdings plc as
Group Finance Director.

Save as disclosed below, there is nothing further to disclose in relation to the
appointment of Mr Richard Calvin Round, aged 47, under schedule two, paragraph
(g) of the AIM Rules:

Previous directorships or partnerships in the last five years (registered in
either England and Wales or Scotland unless otherwise indicated):

Alba Resource Recovery Limited
Alba Trustees Limited
Castlebridge Plant Limited
Consolidated Supply Management del Ecuador (Ecuador)
Consolidated Supply Management Limited
CSM Caspian Holdings SA (Panama)
CSM Caspian SA (Panama)
CSM Latin America SA (Panama)
CSM Servicios del Peru (Peru)
CSM Trustees Limited
Game Fisheries Limited
IWCSSS Co-ordinator Limited
IWMPS Co-ordinator Limited
Latchmoor Base Services Limited
Latchmoor Oilfield Services Limited
Scottish Bio Fuel Limited
Scottish Coal Contracts Limited
The Scottish Coal Company Limited


Trading update

In keeping with the plans set out in the AIM Admission Document, Anglo Asian has
commenced confirmation drilling in the Piyazbashi area in Ordubad as part of the
fast-track feasibility study and has signed a purchase agreement to acquire a
4,000 tonne per day CIL gold processing plant.


-Ends-


For further details, please contact:

Anglo Asian Mining PLC      Charles Hancock, Chief Executive    [phone]
Numis Securities Limited    John Harrison                       [phone]
Parkgreen Communications    Justine Howarth/Victoria Thomas     [phone]


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