Greatland Gold PLC Exercise of Options (8127N)

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RNS Number : 8127N

Greatland Gold PLC

26 September 2019

26 September 2019

Dissemination of a Regulatory Announcement that contains inside information according to REGULATION (EU) No 596/2014 (MAR).

Greatland Gold plc

("Greatland" or "the Company")

Exercise of Options

Greatland Gold plc (AIM:GGP), the precious and base metals exploration and development company, announces the exercise of options by a director.

The Company has received a binding option exercise notice from Gervaise Heddle for 28,000,000 options at 0.28p exercise price for a total consideration of GBP78,400. As a result of this option conversion, 28,000,000 new ordinary shares are expected to be admitted to trading on or around 3 October 2019 ("Admission").

Following Admission the total issued share capital of the Company will consist of 3,577,233,658 ordinary shares. As such the total number of voting rights in the Company will be 3,577,233,658 ordinary shares. This number may be used by shareholders 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 Company under the FCA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.

Following the exercise, Gervaise Heddle holds 53,750,000 shares and options over a further 63,500,000 shares.

The notification below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provides further detail.

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated with them.

 
 1.   Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person 
       closely associated 
 a)                                     Company directors/officers: 
        Name                             Gervaise Heddle   Chief Executive Officer 
                                                          ------------------------ 
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 2.   Reason for the notification 
     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Position/status                  See 1(a) above for all positions 
                                        - all classified as PDMRs of the 
                                        Company 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 b)   Initial notification/Amendment   Initial Notification 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 3.   Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, 
       auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor 
     --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 a)   Name                             Greatland Gold plc 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 b)   LEI                              213800KMN7LDF4VRPQ10 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 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     Ordinary Shares of 0.1 pence each 
       instrument 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 b)   Identification code              GB00B15XDH89 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 c)   Nature of the transactions       Exercise of options over Ordinary 
                                        Shares 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 d)   Price(s) and volume(s)           Gervaise Heddle Date      Transaction    Amount       Price 
                                                    Type 
                                         26 Sep    Exercise of 
                                          19        options       28,000,000   0.28p 
                                                  -------------  -----------  ------ 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 e)   Aggregated information           Nil, grant of options only 
       - Aggregated volume 
       - Price 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 f)   Date of the transactions         26 September 2019 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 f)   Place of the transactions        Off-market 
     -------------------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------ 
 

Enquiries:

Greatland Gold PLC

Gervaise Heddle/Callum Baxter

Tel: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

www.greatlandgold.com

SPARK Advisory Partners Limited (Nominated Adviser)

Andrew Emmott/James Keeshan

Tel: [phone]

SI Capital Limited (Joint Broker)

Nick Emerson/Alan Gunn

Tel: [phone]

Numis Securities Limited (Joint Broker)

Matthew Hasson/John Prior/Alamgir Ahmed

Tel: [phone]

Luther Pendragon (Media and Investor Relations)

Harry Chathli/Alexis Gore/Joe Quinlan

Tel: [phone]

Notes for Editors:

Greatland Gold plc is a London-listed (LON:GGP) natural resource exploration and development company with a current focus on gold, copper and nickel exploration projects.

The Company has six main projects; four situated in Western Australia and two in Tasmania. All projects are 100% owned by Greatland.

In March 2019, Greatland signed a Farm-in Agreement with Newcrest Operations Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Newcrest Mining Limited (ASX:NCM), to explore and develop Greatland's Havieron gold-copper project in the Paterson region of Western Australia. Newcrest has the right to acquire up to a 70% interest in a 12-block area within E45/4701 that covers the Havieron target by spending up to US$65m.

Greatland is seeking to identify large mineral deposits in areas that have not been subject to extensive exploration previously. It is widely recognised that the next generation of large deposits will come from such under-explored areas and Greatland is applying advanced exploration techniques to investigate a number of carefully selected targets within its focused licence portfolio.

The Company is also actively investigating a range of new opportunities in precious and strategic metals and will update the market on new opportunities as and when appropriate.

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