Director Shareholding

RNS Number:5993S
Avocet Mining PLC
27 November 2003

Avocet Mining PLC ("Avocet" or the "Company")



Directors' shareholdings



The following directors have been granted options to acquire ordinary shares in
the Company at an exercise price of 72 pence per share.  The options are
exerciseable between 27 November 2006 and 27 November 2010.


Director                                                   Number of options
J T Catchpole                                                        209,000
J G Henry                                                            110,000



Under the terms of the Company's Employee Benefit Trust ("EBT"), the following
directors have been granted a deferred share bonus which will be issued to the
directors at any time after 1 August 2006, subject to remaining in the Group's
service at that date.


                                                                       Total number of
                                                                       EBT shares held
                                    Existing number                                       Date at which
                                      of EBT shares                                         shares vest
                                                      Number Granted

Director
Sir Richard Brooke Bt.                            -            5,714             5,714         01/08/06
J T Catchpole                                66,666           40,000           106,666  22/7/05 and 01/
                                                                                                  08/06
J G Henry*                                   53,333           30,000            83,333  22/7/05 and 01/
                                                                                                  08/06
N G McNair Scott                                  -           28,571            28,571         01/08/06
J F Newman                                        -            5,714             5,714         01/08/06
J G Oelofse                                       -           30,000            30,000         01/08/06
R A Pilkington                                    -            5,714             5,714         01/08/06
J D Pollock                                       -            5,714             5,714         01/08/06

*Of the total number of EBT shares held by J G Henry, 20,344 shares have been transferred to the
Company's UK Share Incentive Plan.








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