Hummingbird Resources PLC Exercise of Warrants (3949Q)

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RNS Number : 3949Q

Hummingbird Resources PLC

11 September 2017

Hummingbird Resources plc / Ticker: HUM / Index: AIM / Sector: Mining

Hummingbird Resources plc ("Hummingbird Resources" or "Hummingbird" or "the Company")

Exercise of Warrants

Hummingbird Resources (AIM: HUM) announces that, pursuant to the receipt of a notice of exercise in respect of 750,000 warrants, it has today issued 750,000 ordinary shares in the Company at the exercise price of 22p per share (the "New Ordinary Shares"). The Company has received GBP165,000 in cash as consideration for the New Ordinary Shares.

Application has been made for the New Ordinary Shares, which will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM and it is expected that this will take place on or around 14 September 2017 ("Admission").

Following Admission, the Company will have 343,991,250 ordinary shares in issue with each share carrying the right to one vote. There are no shares currently held in treasury. The total number of voting rights in the Company therefore will be 343,991,250 and this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure Rules and Transparency Rules.

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For further information, please visit www.hummingbirdresources.co.uk or contact:

 
 Daniel Betts          Hummingbird Resources    Tel: +44 (0)20 
  Thomas Hill           plc                      3416 3560 
  Robert Monro 
 
 James Spinney         Strand Hanson Limited    Tel: +44 (0) 20 
  Ritchie Balmer        Nominated & Financial    7409 3494 
  James Bellman         Adviser 
 
 Jon Belliss           Beaufort Securities      Tel: +44 (0) 20 
                        Limited                  7382 8300 
                        Broker 
 
 Lottie Brocklehurst   St Brides Partners       Tel: +44 (0) 20 
  Susie Geliher         Ltd                      7236 1177 
                        Financial PR/IR 
 

The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014.

About Hummingbird Resources Plc

Notes to Editors

Hummingbird Resources (AIM: HUM) is building a leading gold production, development and exploration company. The Company has two core gold projects, the near-term production Yanfolila Gold Project in Mali and the Dugbe Gold Project in Liberia. It is currently building Yanfolila targeting first production by end of 2017, which has a Probable Reserve of 709,800oz @ 3.14g/t and total Resources of 1.8Moz of gold and an additional 390,700oz of non-compliant exploration potential. The high-grade gold project has low operating costs of US$695/oz AISC with 132,000oz of first full year's production.

The 4.2Moz Dugbe Gold Project in Liberia provides Hummingbird with excellent development upside. An optimisation of the DFS is on-going whilst Yanfolila is brought to production in the near-term. Additionally, the Company has 4,000km(2) highly prospective exploration ground in Mali and Liberia and is constantly evaluating new quality assets.

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