Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number:2086D
Melrose Resources PLC
03 September 2007



Immediate Release                                             3 September 2007


                              MELROSE RESOURCES PLC
                                        
                           DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING

Melrose Resources plc (LSE: MRS) ("the Company") announces that it has received
notification that Mr. Robert F. M. Adair, Executive Chairman, Mr David H.
Thomas, Chief Executive Officer and Mr Alasdair N. Robinson, Company Secretary
have purchased ordinary shares in the Company, further details of which are set
out below.

Director/PDMR                                R F M         D H         A N
                                             Adair,        Thomas      Robinson
Holding as at 30 August   
2007                            Number:      57, 237,623   30,000      Nil               

                                Percentage:  52.05         0.03        Nil

Purchased 30 August 2007 (1)                 Nil           33,000      Nil

Purchased 31 August 2007 (2)                 487,889       Nil         Nil

Purchased 3 September 2007 (3)               93,001        19,000      3,000

Holding as at 3 September   
2007                            Number:      57,818,513    82,000      3,000

                                Percentage:  52.58         0.075       0.001

Notes:
(1)  The shares were acquired at #3.088 per ordinary share.
(2)  The shares were acquired at #3.14 per ordinary share.
(3)  The shares were acquired at #3.15 per ordinary share.
(4)  The interests of R F M Adair as at 3 September 2007 include 57,058,007 
     ordinary shares held by Skye Investments Limited, a company in which
     he has a controlling interest;
(5)  The Company received notification in respect of the share purchases on 
     31 August 2007 in respect of the shares bought on 30 August 2007, and 
     on 3 September 2007 in respect of the shares purchased on 31 August 2007
     and 3 September 2007.
(6)  The Company has 109,972,891 ordinary shares in issue.


For further information please contact:

Melrose Resources plc                                     0131 221 3360
Robert Adair, Executive Chairman
David Thomas, Chief Executive
Munro Sutherland, Finance Director
Alasdair Robinson, Company Secretary

Buchanan Communications                                   0207 466 5000
Tim Thompson
Ben Willey

or visit www.melroseresources.com



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