EastCoal Announces Annual General and Special Meeting Results

EastCoal Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ECX) (AIM:ECX) (the "Company" or "EastCoal") is
pleased to announce the results of its recently held annual general and special
meeting of the shareholders (the "Meeting") on July 26, 2013. 


At the Meeting, the shareholders re-elected the board of directors, Abraham
Jonker, John Byrne, John Conlon, Gregory Cameron and Frank Moxon and also
approved the re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's
auditors. 


All of the resolutions (including the special resolutions as discussed below)
that shareholders were asked to consider at the Meeting were approved by
shareholders at the Meeting. 


In respect to the special resolutions, shareholders voted in favour to approve
the proposed consolidation (the "Consolidation") of the Company's issued and
outstanding common shares at a ratio of up to twenty (20) to one (1) and give
the board of directors of the Company (the "Board") the authority to fix the
final ratio of pre-consolidation to post-consolidation common shares to be used
in the Consolidation (the "Final Consolidation Ratio"). The Final Consolidation
Ratio will not exceed twenty (20) to one (1). Details of the Final Consolidation
Ratio and the expected trading dates for the newly consolidated shares are
expected to be announced shortly. 


Any fractional common shares arising from the Consolidation will be rounded down
or up to nearest whole common share, with 0.5 of a common share being rounded
up. 


Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that
term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.


This press release contains projections and forward-looking information that
involve various risks and uncertainties regarding future events. Such
forward-looking information can include without limitation statements based on
current expectations involving a number of risks and uncertainties and are not
guarantees of future performance. There are numerous risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the
forward looking information. These and all subsequent written and oral
forward-looking information are based on estimates and opinions on the dates
they are made and are expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice.
Except as required by law, EastCoal assumes no obligation to update
forward-looking information should circumstances or management's estimates or
opinions change.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
EastCoal Inc.
Abraham Jonker
President and Acting CFO
[phone] / [phone] (Cell)
www.eastcoal.ca


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