Issue of Equity

Sula Iron & Gold plc / Index: AIM / Epic: SULA / Sector: Natural Resources   

18 October 2013

                Sula Iron & Gold plc (`Sula' or `the Company')                 

                                Issue of Equity                                

Sula Iron & Gold plc, a multi-commodity exploration company focussed on Sierra
Leone, announces that, further to its announcement of 10 October, application
has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the remaining 2,890,000 Placing
Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM (the "Second Admission"), and it is
expected that the Second Admission will become effective and that dealings in
such 2,890,000 Placing Shares will commence on 24 October 2013.

The Placing Shares will, when issued, rank pari passu in all respects with the
existing ordinary shares of the Company.

As set out in the announcement of 10 October, Placees will receive one Warrant
for every Placing Share subscribed for, exercisable at 3p per share for a
period of three years from 15 October 2013.

Following the Second Admission, the Company's enlarged issued share capital
will comprise 161,966,674 ordinary shares with voting rights. The Company does
not hold any shares in treasury. This figure of 161,966,674 ordinary shares 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
FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

                                   **ENDS**                                    

For further information please visit www.sulairongold.com or contact the
following:

Nick Warrell                Sula Iron & Gold plc           [phone] 
                                                                               
James Caithie / Avi         Cairn Financial Advisers LLP   [phone]
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Martin Lampshire / David    Daniel Stewart & Company Plc   [phone]
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Felicity Edwards /          St Brides Media and Finance    [phone]
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Notes

Sula Iron & Gold plc is a multi commodity exploration company focussed on West
Africa. The Company's main objective is to explore and advance its Ferensola
Project, in Northern Sierra Leone, which is highly prospective for iron and
gold. Sula is currently focussed on delineating a maiden JORC compliant iron
resource and proving up the gold mineralisation in 2014, by conducting soil
geochemistry and ground geophysics prior to a diamond drilling programme, in
order to maximise the Licence area's value potential. The 153 sq km licence
area is contiguous to African Minerals' operational Tonkolili Iron Mine, which
has a JORC compliant resource of 12.8 billion tonnes Fe.

Exploration work at the project has confirmed the presence of Banded Iron
Formation (`BIF') at surface, which has a known strike length of 3.1km. The BIF
is proven to extend NE from the Tonkolili licence into Sula's licence area. A
2,000m scout drilling programme conducted over a 2.2km section of BIF,
confirmed the Licence area's prospectivity for consistently high grade iron
mineralisation. An exploration target of 500 million tonnes at 30.4% iron for
magnetite and 55% iron for hematite has been given by exploration consultants
SRK Exploration Services Ltd.

Significant Greenstone Belt-style gold mineralisation has also been identified
at various prospects within the licence area. Five target areas for hard rock
gold mineralisation have been identified based on the location of historic
drill intercepts, the source areas for alluvial gold deposits, and the position
of major structures as defined by airborne magnetic data and drainage
orientation.