Issue of Equity (9682W)

TIDMKIBO

RNS Number : 9682W

Kibo Mining Plc

07 February 2012

KIBO MINING PLC

Issue of Equity

Dated: 7 February 2012

Kibo Mining plc ("Kibo" or the "Company") (AIM: KIBO; AltX: KBO), the mineral exploration and development company focused on gold and nickel projects in Tanzania is pleased to announce that Mzuri Gold Limited ("Mzuri") has today agreed to subscribe for a total of 37,500,000 new Ordinary Shares of EUR0.01 each in the capital of the Company at a placing price of 2p per new Ordinary Share to raise GBP750,000, before expenses(the "Placing"). This represents a premium of approximately 23% to the mid-market price, of 1.625p, immediately prior to agreeing the Placing The net proceeds from the Placing will be used to finance continued exploration in Tanzania and for general working capital purposes.

The Placing is conditional on the 37,500,000 new Ordinary Shares of EUR0.01 each in the capital of the Company (the "Placing Shares") being admitted to trading on AIM and the JSE Limited (the "JSE"). The Placing Shares will represent approximately 9.03per cent of the issued share capital of the Company as enlarged by the Placing.

Following the Placing, Mzuri and its related party's will hold 122,072,273 Ordinary Shares, which is approximately 29.41% of the issued share capital of the Company as enlarged by the Placing.

An application will be made to the London Stock Exchange (the LSE") and JSE for the Placing Shares, which will rank pari passu with the Company's existing issued Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to trading and dealings are expected to commence on the LSE at 8:00 a.m. (GMT) on Thursday 16 February 2012 and to commence on the JSE at 10:00 a.m. on or about Thursday 16 February 2012.

Following the issue of the Placing Shares the Company's total issued share capital will be 415,129,511 Ordinary Shares of EUR0.01 each. In accordance with the Financial Services Authority Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the Company has 415,129,511 Ordinary Shares of EUR0.01 each in issue, each share carrying the right to one vote. The Company does not hold any Ordinary Shares in Treasury.

The above figure of 415,129,511 Ordinary Shares may be used by Shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Financial Service Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Commenting today, Louis Coetzee, CEO of Kibo said:

"We are delighted with this fund raising as it allows us to complete Stage 1 of the field exploration now in progress on our Tanzanian projects. We believe there is significant potential, to discover new gold and nickel mineralisation on our favourably located licence portfolio within Tanzania's established and newly emerging gold exploration regions and we anticipate having targets ready for drilling later in 2012".

Enquiries:

 
 Louis Coetzee    +27 (0)83     Kibo Mining          Chief Executive 
                   2606126       plc                         Officer 
 Noel O'Keeffe    +353 (0)91    Kibo Mining              Exploration 
                   384562        plc                        Director 
 John Simpson     +44 (0)207    Daniel Stewart             Nominated 
                   7766550       & Company                   Advisor 
                                 Plc 
 Andreas Lianos   +27 (0)83     River Group               Designated 
                   4408365                                   Advisor 
 Nick Bealer      +44 (0)207    Cornhill Capital   Broker (Corporate 
                   7109612       Ltd                        Broking) 
 Andrew Frangos   +44 (0)207    Cornhill Capital   Broker (Corporate 
                   7109610       Ltd                        Finance) 
 Matt Beale       +44 (0)7966   Fortbridge          Public Relations 
                   389 196       Consulting 
                                 UK 
 

Updates on the Company's activities are regularly posted on its website www.kibomining.com

Notes to Editors:

Kibo is a public company registered in Ireland (company number 451931). Its registered office is Kibo Mining plc, Suite 3, One Earlsfort Centre, Lower Hatch Street, Dublin 2, Ireland. Kibo was established in early 2008 to explore and develop mineral deposits in Tanzania, East Africa and was admitted to AIM on 27 April 2010 and AltX in South Africa on 30 May 2011

The Board of Kibo is composed of highly experienced professionals spanning mineral exploration, mine development, mining finance and financial control of public companies. It is supported by well trained and highly motivated Tanzanian staff that operates from Kibo's exploration offices in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza.

The mineral assets of the Company comprise three projects in Tanzania - Haneti (nickel, platinoid elements and gold), Morogoro (Gold) and Lake Victoria (Gold) which give Kibo access to over 18,000 km(2) of early stage exploration licences in Tanzania's premier gold mining region, the Lake Victoria Goldfield and within the newly emerging gold exploration regions in eastern Tanzania

Strategy

Kibo's objective is to enhance Shareholder value through acquisition, exploration and development of mineral assets in Tanzania. This objective will be pursued primarily through active exploration, particularly drilling on its current projects and by using the Company's experience in Tanzania to acquire further quality mineral projects on competitive terms that can be quickly evaluated and taken to the next stage of development. Kibo will undertake continual risk assessment of its projects and take whatever actions it believes are necessary to ensure that these risks are mitigated.

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