Grant of Options

RNS Number : 7688I

Amur Minerals Corporation

03 April 2020

 

3 April 2020

Amur Minerals Corporation

("Amur" or "the Company")

Grant of Options

Amur Minerals Corporation ("Amur" or the "Company"), the nickel-copper sulphide exploration and development company focused on the far east of Russia, is pleased to announce that a grant of 30,000,000 share options over Ordinary Shares ("Share Options") to certain Directors, executives and employees .

The grant of Share Options is intended to incentivise and retain management and key Russian staff. The Share Options are allocated as follows:

	Options Awarded	Existing share options	Total share options
Robin Young	3,900,000	3,301,000	7,201,000
Robert Schafer	5,800,000	748,000	6,548,000
Tom Bowens	5,800,000	0	5,800,000
Lou Naumovski	3,900,000	0	3,900,000
Brian Savage	5,800,000	635,000	6,435,000
Paul Gazzard	0	338,000	338,000
Paul McKay	500,000	506,000	1,006,000
Other employees	4,300,000	6,846,000	11,146,000
Adam Habib	0	25,619,260	25,619,260
TOTAL	30,000,000	37,993,260	67,993,260

The Share Options will vest after 12 months from the date of grant and will have a strike price of 1.75 pence, representing a 40% premium to the closing mid-market price on 2 April 2020 of 1.25 pence. The Share Options will expire on 3 April 2023. Following this grant the total number of share options now outstanding is over 67,993,260 Ordinary Shares which represents 8% of the current issued ordinary share capital of the Company.

The Company would like to note that 12,374,000 currently existing options with a strike price on 24.58 pence will expire on 27 July 2020.

Enquiries:

Company Amur Minerals Corp.	Nomad and Broker S.P. Angel Corporate Finance LLP	Public Relations Blytheweigh
Robin Young CEO	Richard Morrison Soltan Tagiev	Megan Ray Tim Blythe
[phone]	[phone]	[phone]

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure

Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement.

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide further detail on the director's share dealing.

NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name:	1. Robin Young 2. Robert Schafer 3. Tom Bowens 4.  Lou Naumovski 5.  Brian Savage 6.  Paul McKay
2.	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status:	1.  Chief Executive Officer 2.  Non-Executive Chairman 3.  Non-Executive Director 4.  Non-Executive Director 5.  Non-Executive Director 6.  CFO
b)	Initial notification/Amendment:	Initial notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name:	Amur Minerals Corporation
b)	LEI:	213800XFW6MKVCHHPW88
4a.	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:	Ordinary shares of no par value  VGG042401007
b)	Nature of the transaction:	Grant of options over ordinary shares
c)	Price(s) and volume(s):	Price(s) Volume(s) 1.  1.75 p 2.  1.75 p 3.  1.75 p 4.  1.75 p 5.  1.75 p 6.  1.75 p 1.  3,900,000 2.  5,800,000 3.  5,800,000 4.  3,900,000 5.  5,800,000 6. 500,000
d)	Aggregated information: Aggregated volume: Price:	Single transaction as in 4 c) above Price(s) Volume(s) 1.75 p 25,700,000
e)	Date of the transaction:	2020-04-03
f)	Place of the transaction:	Outside of trading venue

 

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