Hummingbird Resources PLC Block Listing Six Monthly Return (8743L)

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RNS Number : 8743L

Hummingbird Resources PLC

11 September 2019

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

Hummingbird Resources plc

("Hummingbird" or the "Company")

Block Listing Six Monthly Return

Hummingbird Resources plc (AIM: HUM), announces the following update relating to its block admission of shares to be issued to certain option holders upon the exercise by such option holders of options granted pursuant to the Company's share option schemes.

 
 Name of company:                             Hummingbird Resources plc 
 Name of schemes:                             The Hummingbird Resources 
                                               plc - Unapproved Share Option 
                                               Scheme, the Hummingbird Resources 
                                               Limited EMI Share Option 
                                               Plan 2010, and other share 
                                               options 
 Period of return:                            From: 12 March 2019 
                                               To: 11 September 2019 
 Balance under the schemes of securities      10,857,033 ordinary shares 
  not issued at the beginning of the 
  period subject to the block admission: 
 Number of securities issued under            Nil ordinary shares 
  the schemes during the period: 
 Number of securities lapsed under            545,499 ordinary shares 
  the schemes during the period: 
 Balance under the schemes of securities      10,311,534 ordinary shares 
  not yet issued at the end of the 
  period subject to the block admission: 
 Number and class of securities originally    4,385,000 ordinary shares 
  admitted and the date of admission:          were admitted on 21 March 
                                               2012. A further: 2,349,000 
                                               ordinary shares were admitted 
                                               on 21 March 2014, 250,000 
                                               ordinary shares were admitted 
                                               on 12 March 2015, 7,772,568 
                                               ordinary shares were admitted 
                                               on 13 March 2017, 363,636 
                                               ordinary shares were admitted 
                                               on 13 March 2018, 156,250 
                                               ordinary shares were admitted 
                                               on 13 September 2018, and 
                                               595,177 ordinary shares were 
                                               admitted on 12 March 2019. 
                                               The total number of ordinary 
                                               shares admitted to date in 
                                               respect to its block admission 
                                               as detailed above is therefore 
                                               15,871,631. 
 Name of contact:                             Thomas Hill, Company Secretary 
 Telephone number of contact:                 [phone] 
 

**ENDS**

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

 
 Daniel Betts,     Hummingbird Resources plc   Tel: [phone] 
  CEO                                           6660 
  Thomas Hill, 
  FD 
  Robert Monro, 
  IR 
 
 James Spinney     Strand Hanson Limited       Tel: [phone] 
  Ritchie Balmer    Nominated Adviser           3494 
  James Bellman 
 
 Martin Davison    Canaccord Genuity Limited   Tel: [phone] 
  James Asensio     Broker                      8000 
 
 Gordon Poole      Camarco                     Tel: [phone] 
  Owen Roberts      Financial PR/IR             4997 
  Ollie Head 
 

About Hummingbird Resources Plc

Notes to Editors

Hummingbird Resources (AIM: HUM) is a leading gold production, development and exploration company. The Company has two core gold projects, the Yanfolila Gold Mine in Mali and the Dugbe Gold Project in Liberia. Yanfolila produced its first gold pour on time and budget in December 2017. Yanfolila held pre-production Probable Reserves of 710,535ozs @ 3.14g/t, total Resources of 1.8Mozs of gold and an additional 390,700ozs of non-compliant exploration potential. The Dugbe Gold Project has Resources currently totalling 4.2Mozs of gold and a completed NI 43-101 compliant PEA on the project showing a 29% IRR and US$186m NPV at a US$1,300 gold price.

In addition to Hummingbird's production and development assets, the Company also has an exploration footprint of 4,000km2 and is a shareholder in AIM listed Cora Gold, which is advancing a portfolio of prospects in Mali and Senegal.

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