Granting of share options and PDMR Notification

RNS Number : 7769Z

Atalaya Mining PLC

27 January 2022

 

27 January 2022

Atalaya Mining Plc.

("Atalaya" or the "Company")

Granting of share options and Director/PDMR Notification

Atalaya Mining Plc (AIM: ATYM; TSX: AYM) announces that, in accordance with the Company's Long Term Inventive Plan 2020 (the "LTIP20"), it has granted 120,000 share options (the "Options") to Luis Rodriguez Pevida, its business development manager.

The Options expire ten years from the deemed date of grant (26 January 2022), have an exercise price of 416.0 pence per ordinary share, based on the average of the mid-market closing prices for the five dealing days immediately preceding the grant date, and vest in two equal tranches, half on grant and half on the first anniversary of the granting date.

The details of the share options are as per the table below:

Name	Position	Number of share options granted	Total number of share options following this notification	Total beneficial holding of ordinary shares following this notification	Total beneficial holding (options + ordinary shares) as % of Company's fully diluted issued share capital
Luis Rodriguez Pevida	Business development manager	120,000	120,000	-	0.08%
	Total	120,000	120,000	-	0.08%

Following these grants, the Company has granted options over an aggregate of 2,341,000 ordinary shares, equivalent to 1.67% of the Company's issued share capital.

Set out below is the information required by Article 19(3) of the EU Market Abuse Regulation No 596/2014:

1	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
a)	Name	Luis Rodriguez Pevida
2	Reason for the notification
a)	Position/status	Business development manager
b)	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial notification
3	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)	Name	Atalaya Mining Plc
b)	LEI	549300QNQPXVRXGXOX56
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	Share options CY0106002112
b)	Nature of the transaction	Share option grant
c)	Price(s) and volume(s)	416.0p and 120,000 share options
d)	Aggregated information	GBP 499,200.00
e)	Date of the transaction	26/01/2022
f)	Place of the transaction	London Stock Exchange

Contacts:

SEC Newgate UK	Elisabeth Cowell / Tom Carnegie	+ 44 20 3757 6880
4C Communications	Carina Corbett	[phone]
Canaccord Genuity (NOMAD and Joint Broker)	Henry Fitzgerald-O'Connor / James Asensio	[phone]
BMO Capital Markets (Joint Broker)	Tom Rider / Andrew Cameron	[phone]
Peel Hunt LLP (Joint Broker)	Ross Allister / David McKeown	[phone]

About Atalaya Mining Plc

Atalaya is an AIM and TSX-listed mining and development group which produces copper concentrates and silver by-product at its wholly owned Proyecto Riotinto site in southwest Spain. Atalaya's current operations include the Cerro Colorado open pit mine and a modern 15 Mtpa processing plant, which has the potential to become a centralised processing hub for ore sourced from its wholly owned regional projects around Riotinto that include Proyecto Masa Valverde and Proyecto Riotinto East. In addition, the Group has a phased, earn-in agreement for up to 80% ownership of Proyecto Touro, a brownfield copper project in the northwest of Spain. For further information, visit www.atalayamining.com

 

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