Grant of Share Options

Rockfire Resources PLC

23 December 2024

 

23 December 2024

Rockfire Resources Plc

("Rockfire" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Grant of Share Options

Rockfire Resources plc (LON: ROCK), the base metal, precious metal and critical mineral exploration company, announces that options to subscribe for 57,000,000 new ordinary shares in the Company (the "Ordinary Shares") were granted on 19 December 2024 to the Directors at an exercise price of 0.32 pence per Ordinary Share, being the double the mid-market closing price on 19 December 2024 of 0.155 plus 0.01 pence, in accordance with the terms of the Directors' service agreements. The options have a term of three years and any unexercised options will expire at midnight on 19 December 2027.

The options granted will result in an increase from 0 to 57,000,000 in the number of outstanding options over Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 1.45% of the Company's issued share capital. 

The options vested immediately upon issue.

The grants made are as follows:

Directors	No. of options	Exercise price	Option expiry date	Total no. of options now held
David Price	15,000,000	0.32 pence	19 December 2027	15,000,000
Gordon Hart	15,000,000	0.32 pence	19 December 2027	15,000,000
Ian Staunton	9,000,000	0.32 pence	19 December 2027	9,000,000
Nicholas Walley	9,000,000	0.32 pence	19 December 2027	9,000,000
Patrick Elliott	9,000,000	0.32 pence	19 December 2027	9,000,000
Total	57,000,000			57,000,000

For further information on the Company, please visit www.rockfireresources.com or contact the following: 

Rockfire Resources plc:	[e-mail]
David Price, Chief Executive Officer
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser & Broker):	Tel: [phone]
John Depasquale / George Payne (Corporate Finance)
Guy McDougall / Kelly Gardiner (Sales and Corporate Broking)

Notes to Editors

Rockfire Resources plc (LON: ROCK) is a gold, base metal and critical mineral exploration company, with a high-grade zinc/lead/silver/germanium deposit in Greece and a portfolio of gold/copper/silver projects in Queensland Australia.

The Molaoi deposit in Greece has a JORC Inferred Mineral Resource of 15 million tonnes @ 7.26 % Zn, 1.75 % Pb and 39.5 g/t Ag, for 1.09 million tonnes of zinc, 260,000 tonnes of lead and 19.1 million ounces of silver.

The Plateau deposit in Queensland has a JORC Inferred resource of 131,300 ounces of gold and 800,000 ounces of silver. Plateau is subject to a joint venture with ASX-listed Sunshine Metals Ltd (ASX:SHN).

The Copperhead porphyry deposit in Queensland has a JORC resource of 80,000 tonnes of copper, 9,400 tonnes of molybdenum and 1.1 million ounces of silver.

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)	Name	Name Position 1)    Gordon Hart 2)    David Price 3)    Ian Staunton 4)    Patrick Elliott 5)    Nicholas Walley Chairman Chief Executive Officer Non-Executive Director Non-Executive Director Non-Executive Director
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	See 1a)
b)	Initial notification /Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Rockfire Resources plc
b)	LEI	213800THSZQSFKTXOI24
4	Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)	Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code	Options over ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in Rockfire Resources plc  GB00B42TN250
b)	Nature of the transaction	Grant of options over ordinary shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	Name  Volume(s) Price(s) 1)    Gordon Hart 15,000,000 0.32 pence 2)    David Price 15,000,000 0.32 pence 3)    Ian Staunton 9,000,000 0.32 pence 4)    Patrick Elliott 9,000,000 0.32 pence 5)    Nicholas Walley 9,000,000 0.32 pence
d)	Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Price	n/a
e)	Date of the transaction	19 December 2024
f)	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

 

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