Issue of Equity

Centamin Egypt Limited 07 March 2008 07 March 2008 Centamin Egypt Limited ('Centamin' or 'the Company') Issue of Equity Centamin Egypt Limited (TSX:CEE, ASX:CNT, AIM:CEY) announces that, following the exercise of unquoted employee options, 200,000 ordinary shares have been issued and allotted at an exercise price of A$0.7106 per share. Application has been made for the new ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on AIM. The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with the existing ordinary shares in the Company and trading of these shares on AIM is expected to commence on 14 March 2008. The total number of Ordinary Shares on issue following this issue is 876,579,163. For more information please contact: Centamin Egypt Limited + 61 (8) 9316 2640 Josef El-Raghy www.centamin.com Pelham Public Relations + 44 (0) 207 743 6376 Candice Sgroi Mobile: + 44 (0) 7894 462 114 Ambrian Partners Limited + 44 (0)207 776 6400 Richard Brown This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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