Director's Dealing and Exerci

RNS Number : 8636X

Regency Mines PLC

21 August 2009

REGENCY MINES PLC

Director's Dealing, Exercise of Options and Issue of Equity

Dated: 24 August 2009

Regency Mines PLC ('Regency' or the 'Company') was notified on 21 August 2009 that Andrew Bell, Chairman of the Company, had disposed of 2,250,000 ordinary 0.1p shares ('Ordinary Shares') in the Company at an average price of 3.38 pence per Ordinary Share on the same day.

On 21 August 2009, Mr Andrew Bell also exercised 2,250,000 options to subscribe for Ordinary Shares in the Company at a price of 1 pence per share ('New Ordinary Shares').

As a result of this disposal and exercise of options, Andrew Bell remains interested in 43,744,282 Ordinary Shares in the Company. Of these 43,744,282 Ordinary Shares, only 100,002 are held by Mr. Bell directly. The remainder are held by companies in which Mr. Bell is interested. This holding represents 12.18 per cent. of Regency's issued ordinary share capital, as enlarged by the New Ordinary Shares.

In addition to Andrew Bell's interest in the Ordinary Share Capital of the Company stated above, Mr. Bell remains interested in the following options to subscribe for the Company's Ordinary Shares.

	Number of Options	Expiry Date	Exercise Price
Andrew Bell	250,000	31 May 2010	1 pence
	2,500,000	31 May 2011	1.25 pence
	1,000,000	11 May 2012	4.5 pence

Application has been made for the New Ordinary Shares, which rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued ordinary share capital, to be admitted to trading on AIM. It is expected that the admission of the New Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM will occur on 27 August 2009.

Following the issue and allotment of the new Ordinary Shares, the Company will have 359,057,330 ordinary shares in issue.

Enquiries:

Andrew Bell	0207 402 4580 or 07766 474849	Regency Mines plc	Chairman

Peter Trevelyan-Clark / Ben Jeynes	020 7489 4500	Blomfield Corporate Finance Ltd	Nominated Adviser
Nick Emerson	01483 413500	Simple Investments Ltd	Broker
Ron Marshman / John Greenhalgh	020 7011 9411	Lothbury Financial Limited	Public Relations