Grant of Options and Restricted Share Awards

Goldplat plc

28 May 2024

 

Goldplat plc / Ticker: GDP / Index: AIM / Sector: Mining & Exploration

28 May 2024

Goldplat plc

('Goldplat', the 'Group' or 'the Company')

Grant of Options and Restricted Share Awards to Directors

Goldplat plc, (AIM: GDP) the AIM listed Mining Services Group, with international gold recovery operations located in South Africa and Ghana, servicing the African and South American Mining Industry, is pleased to announce that it has granted options to Werner Klingenberg, Chief Executive Officer, to subscribe for 4 million new ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares"), to Brent Doster, Chief Financial Officer, to subscribe for 2 million new Ordinary Shares and to Douglas Davidson, Chief Operating Officer, to subscribe for 2 million new Ordinary Shares (together, the "Options").

The Options have an exercise price of 6.00 pence per share. The Options will vest as twenty-five percent on 30 June 2025, an equivalent twenty-five percent on 31 December 2025 and the balance of fifty percent on 30 June 2026. The exercise period of the Options is one year from the vesting date.

The total number of share options outstanding following the grant of the Options is 12,000,000, representing 7.15% of the issued share capital of the Company.

In addition to the above, Brent Doster and Douglas Davidson will each be awarded 200,000 restricted share awards, on 1 July 2024. The restricted share awards will vest at nil cost to the employee after 1 July 2025 if the individual is still employed by the company on that date.

Further details are set out in the PDMR forms below made in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 which is part of UK law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

For further information visit www.goldplat.com, follow on twitter @GoldplatGDP or contact:

Werner Klingenberg	Goldplat plc (CEO)	Tel: [phone]
Colin Aaronson / Samantha Harrison / Ciara Donnelly	Grant Thornton UK LLP (Nominated Adviser)	Tel: [phone]
James Bavister / Andrew de Andrade	WH Ireland Limited (Broker)	Tel: [phone]
Tim Thompson / Mark Edwards / Fergus Mellon	Flagstaff Strategic and Investor Communications	Tel: [phone] [e-mail]

Notification of Transactions of Persons Discharging Managerial Responsibility and Persons Closely Associated with them:

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Werner Klingenberg
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	Chief Executive Officer
b.	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial Notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Goldplat plc
b.	LEI	213800WJG4PAPXBRG516
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	Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each ISIN: GB00B0HCWM45
b.	Nature of the transaction	Grant of options to acquire Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 6 pence per Ordinary Share.
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 0  pence 4,000,000
d.	Aggregated information ·Aggregated volume ·Price	n/a: single transaction
e.	Date of the transaction	28 May 2024
f.	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Brent Doster
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	Chief Financial Officer
b.	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial Notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Goldplat plc
b.	LEI	213800WJG4PAPXBRG516
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	Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each ISIN: GB00B0HCWM45
b.	Nature of the transaction	Grant of options to acquire Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 6 pence per Ordinary Share.
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 0 pence 2,000,000
d.	Aggregated information ·Aggregated volume ·Price	n/a: single transaction
e.	Date of the transaction	28 May 2024
f.	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

1.	Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a.	Name	Douglas Davidson
2.	Reason for the notification
a.	Position/status	Chief Operating Officer
b.	Initial notification/Amendment	Initial Notification
3.	Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a.	Name	Goldplat plc
b.	LEI	213800WJG4PAPXBRG516
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	Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each ISIN: GB00B0HCWM45
b.	Nature of the transaction	Grant of options to acquire Ordinary Shares at an exercise price of 6 pence per Ordinary Share.
c.	Price(s) and volume(s)	Price(s) Volume(s) 0 pence 2,000,000
d.	Aggregated information ·Aggregated volume ·Price	n/a: single transaction
e.	Date of the transaction	28 May 2024
f.	Place of the transaction	Outside a trading venue

 

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