13 June 2022
Kore Potash Plc
("Kore Potash" or the "Company")
Issue of Equity
Kore Potash plc advises that 44,132,674 new ordinary shares of US$0.001 each in the capital of the Company ("New Ordinary Shares") have today been issued to Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. ("SQM") in lieu of fees payable under a Technical Services Agreement.
Application has been made for the admission of 44,132,674 New Ordinary Shares on AIM, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange with admission expected to take place on 17 June 2022.
Following this issue, the Company's total issued share capital will consist of 3,420,177,120 Ordinary Shares. No shares are held in treasury. Accordingly, the total number of voting rights in the Company will be 3,420,177,120 .
The above figure 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 Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
As a result of the above issue of shares to SQM, its shareholding will increase from 14.64% to 15.74% of the enlarged share capital.
For ASX's purposes, these securities are issued under ASX Listing Rule 10.11.
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure
The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014 ('MAR') which has been incorporated into UK law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Upon the publication of this announcement via Regulatory Information Service ('RIS'), this inside information is now considered to be in the public domain.
This announcement has been approved for release by the Board.
For further information, please visit www.korepotash.com or contact :
Kore Potash Brad Sampson - CEO |
Tel: +27 84 603 6238 |
Tavistock Communications Jos Simson Emily Moss Adam Baynes |
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7920 3150 |
SP Angel Corporate Finance - Nomad and Broker Ewan Leggat Charlie Bouverat |
Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7470 0470
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Shore Capital - Joint Broker Toby Gibbs James Thomas |
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7408 4050 |
Questco Corporate Advisory - JSE Sponsor Doné Hattingh |
Tel: +27 (11) 011 9205 |