Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 8469E

Hummingbird Resources PLC

07 June 2012

 

Hummingbird Resources plc

("Hummingbird" or the "Company") (AIM: HUM)

Holding in Company

Hummingbird Resources plc was notified yesterday that following a purchase of 300,000 ordinary shares of the Company on 6 June 2012, Mark Hillery is now interested in a total of 6,035,361 ordinary shares, representing approximately 11.3% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.

ENDS

Enquiries:

Hummingbird Resources plc

Daniel Betts, Chief Executive Officer

Thomas Hill, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary

Robert Monro, Head of Business Development  [phone]

Liberum Capital Limited

Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker

Tom Fyson / Richard Bootle [phone]

Mirabaud Securities LLP

Joint Broker

Peter Krens [phone]

Yellow Jersey PR Limited

Dominic Barretto

[phone]

Harry Fielder

[phone]

Notes to Editors

Hummingbird Resources plc is an AIM quoted mineral exploration company incorporated in England and Wales and headquartered in London. Since its establishment in November 2005, the Company and its subsidiaries (the "Group") has been active in Liberia, West Africa, and is currently the holder of the largest area of mineral exploration ground in the highly prospective Birimian geological region of eastern Liberia.  The Group's total Resource is 3,817,000 ounces of gold (Indicated Resource of 1,373,000 ounces Gold and Inferred Resource of 2,444,000 ounces gold).

The Group has published a resource on its Dugbe F deposit of 43.01 million tonnes at 1.276 g/t Au to give 1,765,000 ounces of gold using a lower cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t Au and no upper cut-off grade (Indicated Resource of 1,373,000 ounces of gold at 1.28 g/t Au and an Inferred Resource of 392,000 ounces of gold at 1.23 g/t Au).   In addition, the Group has declared a maiden Inferred Resource on its Tuzon project of 52.8 million tonnes at 1.21 g/t Au to give 2,052,000 ounces gold using a lower cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t Au and an upper cut- of 7.0 g/t Au. Tuzon lies 2.6km to the east of the Dugbe F deposit.  Exploration is being carried to best industry practices.

The Group currently holds exploration licences covering approximately 7,000 square kilometres in total, which constitutes a significant proportion of eastern Liberia containing the Birimian sequence.

For more information, please visit www.hummingbirdresources.co.uk

 

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