Amur Minerals Corporation Issue of Equity (9948V)

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RNS Number : 9948V

Amur Minerals Corporation

13 August 2015

13 August 2015

Amur Minerals Corporation

(AIM: AMC)

Issue of Equity

Amur Minerals Corporation ("Amur" or the "Company"), an exploration and development company focused on Far East Russia, announces that it has [today] issued 976,400 new ordinary shares of no par value in the Company, following the exercise of options by certain Russian employees of the Company.

The new ordinary shares will rank pari passu with existing ordinary shares in the Group and application will be made for these new ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on AIM, which is expected to occur on or around [19 August 2015].

Following this exercise of options, there are a total of 38,896,100 share options over Ordinary Shares outstanding held by certain Directors, Senior Management and Employees.

As a consequence of the exercise of share options as detailed above, the Group's issued capital now comprises 437,522,889 ordinary shares of no par value. There are no ordinary shares held in Treasury. Therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company is now 437,522,889.

The above figure of 437,522,889 may be used by shareholders in the Group as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Group under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Robin Young, CEO of Amur Minerals Corporation, commented:

"As the parent of our ZAO Kun-Manie subsidiary, the management of Amur view the exercise of these options by our Russian staff as a positive. These staff are fully dedicated to the success of Amur and have consistently performed to a high professional standard and have been key in the success of obtaining our production licence."

Enquiries:

 
     Company          Nomad and Broker      Public Relations 
   Amur Minerals     S.P. Angel Corporate     Yellow Jersey 
       Corp.             Finance LLP               PR 
 Robin Young CEO                            Dominic Barretto 
                          Ewan Leggat        Kelsey Traynor 
                          Katy Birkin 
 [phone]      [phone]       +44 (0) 77 99 
        818                  0470                003 220 
 

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