Dividend declaration of US$0.01 per share

RNS Number : 6099M

Polymetal International PLC

28 August 2013

 



Release time	IMMEDIATE
Date	28 August 2013

Polymetal International plc

Dividend declaration of US$0.01 per share

Polymetal International plc (LSE, MICEX: POLY; ADR: AUCOY) (together with its subsidiaries, including JSC "Polymetal" - "Polymetal", the "Company", or the "Group") is pleased to announce that the Board of Directors of the Company has resolved to pay an interim dividend of US$0.01 per share for the six months ended 30 June 2013.

Dividend declaration

The Directors of Polymetal in accordance with Polymetal's dividend policy have resolved to pay an interim dividend of US$0.01 per ordinary share for the six months ended 30 June 2013 which represents 30% of the Group's underlying net income for the reporting period (1H 2012: no interim dividend was declared). The dividend will be paid on 26 September 2013 in US Dollars, with an option for shareholders to elect to receive the dividend in pounds sterling. Such election should be made not later than 9 September 2013. Payments in pounds sterling will be based on the US$/GBP exchange rate determined by the Company on 10 September 2013 and announced immediately thereafter.

Details:

EX DIV DATE:                                                 4 September 2013

RECORD DATE:                                             6 September 2013

LAST DATE FOR CURRENCY ELECTION:       9 September 2013

PAYMENT DATE:                                           26 September 2013

The Company's issued share capital consists of 389,472,865 ordinary shares.

Enquiries

Media		Investor Relations
College Hill Leonid Fink Tony Friend	[phone]	Polymetal Maxim Nazimok Evgenia Onuschenko Elena Revenko	[e-mail] [phone] (Russia) [phone] (UK)
Joint Corporate Brokers
Morgan Stanley Bill Hutchings Sandip Patodia	[phone]	Canaccord Genuity Andrew Chubb Robert Lambert	[phone]

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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