Holding(s) in Company

Pan Andean Resources PLC
23 April 2004

Pan Andean Resources announces that it was today informed that, as a result of a
sale of 168,278 ordinary shares in the Company, the beneficial interest of the
Gartmore Growth Opportunities Fund in the Company's ordinary shares is no longer
a notifiable interest under section 198 of the Companies Act 1985.


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