Appointment of Director

RNS Number : 1137W

AfriTin Mining Ltd

20 December 2021

 

20 December 2021

AfriTin Mining Limited

 ("AfriTin" or the "Company")

Appointment of Director

AfriTin Mining Limited (AIM: ATM), an African tech-metals mining company with a portfolio of mining and exploration assets in Namibia in tin, lithium and tantalum, and its flagship asset the Uis Tin Mine ("Uis") in Namibia, is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Ian Rawlinson (aged 52) ("Michael" or "Mr Rawlinson") to the board as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.

Glen Parsons, Chairman of AfriTin Mining commented, "On behalf of my fellow board of directors, I would like to welcome Michael Rawlinson to the Board. Michael brings a wealth of experience to an already impactful board as a result of an illustrious career in his previous roles in mining finance. His vast experience and input to the Board will provide a valuable contribution as AfriTin transforms a significant resource into a tier 1 technology mining company."

Mr Rawlinson was previously the Global Co-Head of Mining and Metals at Barclays Investment Bank between the years of 2013 and 2017. He joined Barclays from the boutique investment bank, Liberum Capital - a business he founded in 2007. Prior to this, Michael led the Cazenove & Co (then JP Morgan Cazenove) mining team from 1997 to 2005. Michael joined the Flemings Graduate Programme in September 1992, going directly into a Corporate Finance role.

The following information is disclosed pursuant to Schedule Two, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Michael Rawlinson's directorships and partnerships over the past five years are as follows:

Current Directorships/Partnerships

Non-Executive Chairman, Adriatic Metals plc

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director, Hochschild Mining plc

Non-Executive Director, Capital Limited

Partner, Neighbrook Consulting

Partner, Neighbrook Estates

Past Directorships/Partnerships

Non-Executive Director, African Gold Acquisition Corporation

Michael has an interest in 3,205,542 shares (including 486,166 shares held by his wife, Bozana Rawlinson) in AfriTin Mining Limited which constitute 0.3% of the total issued share capital.

There is no further information to be disclosed pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules.

AfriTin Mining Limited	[phone]
Anthony Viljoen, CEO
Nominated Adviser	[phone]
WH Ireland Limited Katy Mitchell
Corporate Advisor and Joint Broker
H&P Advisory Limited Andrew Chubb Jay Ashfield Nilesh Patel	[phone]
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited Ashton Clanfield Callum Stewart	[phone]
Tavistock Financial PR (United Kingdom)	[phone]
Jos Simson Nick Elwes Oliver Lamb

About AfriTin Mining Limited

Notes to Editors

AfriTin Mining Limited is a London-listed tech-metals mining company with a vision to create a portfolio of globally significant, conflict-free, producing assets. The Company's flagship asset is the Uis Tin Mine in Namibia, formerly the world's largest hard-rock open cast tin mine.

AfriTin is managed by an experienced board of directors and management team with a current strategy to ramp-up production at the Uis Tin Mine in Namibia to 10,000 tonnes of tin concentrate and 350,000 tonnes of lithium concentrate in a Phase 2 expansion, having reached Phase 1 commercial production in 2020. The Company strives to capitalise on the solid supply/demand fundamentals of tin and lithium by developing a critical mass of resource inventory, achieving production in the near term and further scaling production by consolidating tech-metal assets in Africa.

 

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